Contrapposto

The website of Irish art critic Cristín Leach Hughes

Anita Groener – State

Dutch-born, Dublin-based artist Anita Groener has flooded the lobby of the Royal Hibernian Academy with pink light by placing rose tinted film over the windows.

Tadhg McSweeney – Edifice Complex

A makeshift arrow sends visitors left, trapping them briefly…

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.

Bea McMahon – Root

The gallery has been darkened and blinds drawn for McMahon’s enigmatic exhibition.

The Line Between

These four artists completed a ten week residency at Wexford’s Cow House Studios last year, working together in a rural Irish farm setting.

200 words: Brendan Earley – A Place Between

A floor to ceiling plasterboard wall cuts across the gallery like a big, blunt comment on the grand but useless presence of too many of our boom time buildings.

200 words: Mary FitzGerald – HALFLIFE

The viewer moves like a ghost through FitzGerald’s follow-up to her remarkable comeback show at Cork’s Fenton Gallery in 2009.

200 words: on Difference Engine; Manifestation V

This evolving, touring art project features Irish artists Mark Cullen, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler and Jessica Foley as well as the British-born Chinese artist Gordon Cheung.