Ursula Burke’s work explores abuses of power in the social and political realms of the West, often taking a Northern Irish context as a critical point of departure from which to generalise her approach to international concerns. Formally, her work appropriates tropes deeply invested in the classical and re-inserts them in the contemporary, aiming to […]

Riin Kaljurand is a painter who celebrates the material qualities of paint by eliminating the traditional canvas support to create paintings without restrictions. There is a sculptural element to her works, but it is far more about form, materiality and the versatility of paint. Gender politics and its paradoxical relationship to medicine, is one of the concerns the artist […]

Jacqueline Stanley HRHA sees landscape as containing a parallel to our present-day life, in forms and resonances, and not as a ‘misty’, obscure or pastoral subject matter. Stanley’s large drawings, from rugged Wicklow to the wetlands of Cork reveal a vital response into how her environment influences her work. Her dynamic approach to drawing is continued in her […]

Becoming Christine is an exhibition based on the lived experience of Christine Beynon. It is a continually developing body of work involving re-presented “selfies”, sound installation and video portraiture. The “selfies” follow Christine Beynon’s journey and transition over the past 12 years. These self-portraits range in tone from the painful, to the playful, from the mundane to the contemplative to the joyful. […]