More famous for his work as a portrait painter, whose sitters included Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett and Brendan Behan, Dublin-born artist Reginald Gray had other exceptional talents.
A growing number of artists in recent decades have been working hard to drag taxidermy back from near-obscurity, using traditional techniques, combining a fresh attitude with a healthy dose of subversion. The work challenges our perceptions of life, death and that intrinsic link to nature.
Running this week at Gallery X on Dublin’s South William Street is a collective exhibition of Italian modern masters whose work embraces and celebrates the eroticism and the aesthetics of bondage through a variety of styles.
Photographer Kenneth O’Halloran has just published a book documenting a month long study of the powerful and often visceral reaction of Americans who visit the Donald Trump Star at the renowned Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Seán Hillen is best-known for his socio-political, photo montages of Irish landscapes featuring nostalgic and, at times, kitsch imagery juxtaposed with international landmarks.
Photographer Alec Soth at The Douglas Hyde Gallery: Hypnagogia is a hallucinatory mental state between wakefulness and sleep, a blurring of consciousness, which is often associated with heightened creativity.
Alan O’Connor is an Irish photographer living in South Africa: “I arrived back to Dublin a few days before the anniversary weekend. Living in Cape Town has kept me isolated from the build up of documentaries and dramas, news stories and opinion pieces … “
Dragana Jurisic was born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). She is currently based in Dublin, Ireland. “The story of me as a photographer starts in 1991 during the war in former Yugoslavia when our family apartment was burned down together with thousands of prints and negatives my father, an ardent amateur photographer, had accumulated.
