Highlights Arts and Culture

Interview: Evan Roth

Published May 16, 2013

Draw a triangle with the co-ordinates hacktivism, interactive art and gif mashups, and the zone created is where Evan Roth calls home. Having recently coloured Dublin’s streets with the Science Gallery’s Propulsion Paintings workshop, Roth returns for a collaborative show with found material artist Constant Dullaart for GLITCH.

Exhibition Previews

April Exhibitions: Aleana Egan, Ben Rivers + Simone Kappeler, Seamus Nolan

Published April 11, 2013

Aleana Egan Kerlin Gallery, South Anne Street, D2 Aleana Egan is difficult to pin down. Her installations, conjured out of seemingly unassuming materials like plaster, cardboard and concrete, possess quietly beguiling qualities; a meditative charm born out of restraint. They are minimal, but not quite Minimalist (though Post-Minimalist, maybe): Egan rejects grand arcs of narrative in favour of a more pared down and subjective experience, but eschews the machine-made for the human. The talism...read more

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Our Union Only In Truth: Garrett Phelan on Dublin’s newest landmark

Published March 28, 2013

Thirty years is a veritable age for an art institution as innovative as Temple Bar Gallery & Studios. So they’re choosing to celebrate their anniversary in typically daring style: with a large-scale public artwork commission funded entirely by public donations. If its Fund:It campaign reaches its target of €14,000, artist Garrett Phelan will install an arcing mantra in industrial steel that will peek out from the roof of Temple Bar Gallery and beam down onto the square below. Cutting his...read more

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Offset 2013 Interview: Kate Moross

Published March 20, 2013

At the age of just 26, London illustrator and typographer Kate Moross has already racked up commissions from the likes of the Guardian, Cadbury’s and Nike, but still manages to squeeze in projects for her pals Jessie Ware and Simian Mobile Disco. Her colourful, exuberant scrawls can be instantly recognised - and we’ll probably be seeing a lot more of them. You’re part of a digital generation of designers that grew up using the internet and computer-based design, but a lot of your typo...read more

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Artsdesk: 10 Exhibitions to go to during Women’s Week

Published March 7, 2013

It’s strange to think that it’s only in the past hundred years that female artists have become anything but an anomaly. Even more so that it’s perhaps only the last twenty or thirty that they’ve become a frequent occurrence in exhibitions and permanent collections. Female artists are probably still underrepresented, read more…

200 Reasons Not To Leave Dublin

Published April 25, 2012

The Irish are a nation of emigrants. After a brief respite, we're back to boats and planes as vehicles for careers and lives. But Dublin's still a great place to live, regardless of how small it m...read more