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The website of Irish art critic Cristín Leach Hughes

Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh talk about Disco Pigs, 1996

He is Pig, she is Runt and they live in Pork Sity…

Audio: Interview with Olafur Eliasson, 2000

listen to ‘Interview with Olafur Eliasson, 2000’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “//d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Cristín Leach interviews artist Olafur Eliasson about his exhibition The Curious Garden at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2000.

Audio: Turner watercolours at NGI, 2000

listen to ‘Audio: Turner watercolours at the National Gallery’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “//d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Cristín Leach interviews Fionnuala Croake, Curator of Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Ireland, in January 2000, on the 100th anniversary of [...]

Audio: Interview with Clare Langan, 2001

listen to ‘Interview with Clare Langan, 2001’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “//d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Cristín Leach interviews artist Clare Langan about her film Too Dark For Night, the second in a planned trilogy, in The Green on Red [...]

Audio: Interview with Nigel Rolfe, 1999

listen to ‘Interview with Nigel Rolfe, 1999’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “//d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Cristín Leach interviews artist Nigel Rolfe in the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin in July 1999 about his exhibition Life Without Life.

Audio: Interview with Paul Seawright, 1999

listen to ‘Interview with Paul Seawright, 1999’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “//d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Cristín Leach interviews photographer Paul Seawright in the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin in 1999 about his new body of work, Margins.

200 words & audio: Hans Josephsohn at Lismore Castle Arts

This summer-long show focuses on the work of an “elder statesman” of the international art world, whose work is not particularly well known in Ireland.

200 words & video: EVA International – After the Future

Forty artists from seventy six countries feature in this year’s biennale, united by three key themes. Review + report for RTE, The Works.

Video: RTE The Works, report on Van Gogh The Life

For the second episode of RTE Television’s new arts show The Works, I travelled to Amsterdam to report on a major new biography of Vincent Van Gogh

VIDEO: Talking Art, Books, Films etc on The View in 2011

Online video links to my appearances on RTE Television’s arts discussion show The View in 2011, including a special show on the Role of the Critic broadcast in June:

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