Contrapposto

The website of Irish art critic Cristín Leach Hughes

Art Criticism Now at The LAB

On 26 May 2011 I took part in a panel discussion as part of the Art Criticism Now event at The LAB in Dublin.

All about me? Where next for Ireland’s ‘Futures’ artists?

In 1999 the Royal Hibernian Academy devised a three year project to highlight the work of emerging artists in Ireland. It was sponsored by a private jet and helicopter charter airline operating out of Dublin Airport. A more pointed example of the way in which the Celtic Tiger buoyed up the arts in this country during the first decade of the shiny new millennium could scarcely be found.