EXHIBITION REVIEW
Laura Buckley, Painting With Light at the Galway Arts Centre.
The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, March-April 2024 issue, p.22.
PUBLICATION REVIEW
TEXT, Small Night Project issue 3,
Enclave Review issue 18, to be published early 2024.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Siobhán Hapaska, Medici Lion at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin,
Art Monthly issue 473, February 2024, p.32
ARTISTS’ ESSAY
The Breadth and Depth of Things that were and Things to Come
Essay for Brigit 1500 exhibition by artists Frances Bermingham and Mary Fahy, January 2024.
ESSAY
Un-immersed?
Mirror Lamp Press issue 8, launched in August 2023
ARTISTS’ ESSAY
May I be counted?
An introduction to Myriad, a poetry video by artists Philip Kenny and Day Magee. May 2023.
ESSAY
Plant Matters
Art Monthly, issue 466, May 2023, pp. 5-9.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Siobhan McGibbon’s Making Oddkin with Japanese Knotweed at the Galway Arts Centre.
The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, March-April 2023 issue, pp. 28-29.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Katherine Waugh and Fergus Daly, I See a Darkness at the Photo Museum Ireland,
Art Monthly, issue 463, February 2023, pp.37-38.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To Bruno Latour
Art Monthly, issue 462, Dec 22-Jan 23, p.16.
PRESENTATION
The Two Surfaces of Painting
Study Morning Patrick Graham at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin 8 July 2022 (from 8’30” to 35’35”)
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Kerry Guinan, The Red Thread at The Complex Dublin,
Art Monthly, issue 457, June 2022, p.35-36.
ESSAY
The Stream Will Rise
VISUAL Carlow, response to Benjamin de Búrca and Bárbara Wagner film installation One Hundred Steps (2020).
ESSAY
On the Surface
Art Monthly, issue 454, March 2022, pp.7-10.
COLUMN
Plan C: Whereabouts
Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Nov-Dec issue, p.11
ESSAY
The Undisposed Viewer
Irish Artists’ Film Index Symposium Catalytic Intersections, Exploring the Index Vol.1, 2021, pp.30-40
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Art Monthly 447, June 2021, p.15.
POLEMIC
Lottery Lives
Art Monthly No.442, Dec-Jan 2020-21, pp. 39-40.
ESSAY
For A Post-Human Order
For the 126 publication Unset in Stone (2019), pp. 42-47.
BOOK ESSAY
DADA-DATA-DADA
Four-parts essay for IRLDADA 201916 (September 2019) pp. 8-35.
CATALOGUE ESSAY
Memory of the Surface
For Fiona O’Dwyer LCGA exhibition I went Up the Mountain (2019), pp. 13-19
ESSAY
How Did Books Become Clutter?
The Stinging Fly, issue 39/Vol 2, Winter 2018-19, pp. 145-151.
CONFERENCE REPORT
Critical Thinking in art and Education
Report on exhibition and discussion, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Nov-Dec 2018, p. 15.
EXHIBITION ARTICLE
They Call Us The Screamers
Review of Tulca, Enclave Review, Issue 16, pp.1-2.
CONFERENCE REPORT
Measuring Change – Changing Measurements
Report on Create Networking Day, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, March-April, p.19.
EVENT REPORT
Springtime in Marseille
Art Routes, CIRCA Art Magazine, 2 October.
PDF | LINK
CATALOGUE ESSAY
For a Monumentality of Desire
Essay for Susan Giles’ exhibition catalogue ‘Interiors’ for the Burren Annual for the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, county Clare.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Nuala Ní Fhlathúin, ‘Dathú/Dyeing’ and ‘Anam Teanga’
An Ait Eile, 4 June.
EXHIBITION ARTICLE
Cecilia Danell, ‘the Last Wilderness’
Irish Arts Review, Spring 2017 (March-May): 68-69.
INTERVIEW
Daniel Jewesbury curator of ‘The Headless City’ Tulca 2016.
Visual Artists’ News Sheet Nov-Dec 2016: 25
CIRCA ART MAGAZINES COLUMN
Once More With Feeling: What is the Purpose of (Art) Criticism? After Maurice Blanchot.
CIRCA Online, 14 October 2016
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Mark Curran ‘The Economy of Appearances’
Enclave Review issue 14: 3
CIRCA ART MAGAZINES COLUMN
Is CIRCA an Artists’ Magazine? Part I
CIRCA Online, 15 July 2016
CIRCA ART MAGAZINES COLUMN
Courting Faillure
CIRCA online, 8 June 2016
CIRCA ART MAGAZINES COLUMN
The Ghost of Artforum or The Promise that Ideas Matter for Art (Still)
CIRCA Online, 23 May 2016
ESSAY
Abundance and Austerity
Critical Bastards issue 12 on Resourcefulness: 25-26
PREVIEW
EVA International ‘Still (the) Barbarians’
Irish Arts Review, Spring 2016 (March-May):76-77.
PROFILE
Tales From a Changing World
Tulca ‘Seachange’
Visual Artists’ News Sheet Jan-Feb 2016:16-17
ESSAY
Tipping Point
126 Quarterly, issue 3: 18-19
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Mel French ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’
Visual Artists News Sheet November-December 2015: 21
CONFERENCE REPORT
Home and Possibilities, Nimble Spaces: Ways of Living Together
Visual Artists News Sheet July-August 2015: 13
BOOK REVIEW
Art-Led Participative Processes, Jay Koh
Create
EVENT PROFILE
Retrieving the West, Wild Screen (7-8 March)
Visual Artists News Sheet March-April 2015: 25
EXHIBITION TEXT
‘On and Around Neutral’ Tulca 2014
Collected
ARTIST ESSAY
The Art of Plaiting Symbols and Mouthing Words
On Deirdre Carr’s ‘Teanga Dhúchais-Talamh Athair, Mothertongue- Fatherland’
GALLERY ESSAY
Michael Warren ‘Those Who Go/Those Who Stay’
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition Text 009 2014 (to be published)
GALLERY ESSAY
‘Upending/Difference Engine: Accumulator III’
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition Text 008 2014 (to be published)
GALLERY ESSAY
‘Labour and Lockout’
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition Text 007 2014 (to be published)
GALLERY ESSAY
‘An Act of Portrayal/Art’s Work’
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition Text 006 2014 (to be published)
REVIEW
Dennis McNulty, ‘Prototypes’, Limerick City Gallery of Art
Enclave Review 11: 14-15
DEGREE SHOW CRITIC PICK
Itsa Collective, CCAM, GMIT 2014
Collected July 2014
CATALOGUE ESSAY
‘In Contradictions’
Language and Information, Michael Canning, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London, May 2014
GALLERY ESSAY
Patrick Jolley ‘All That Fall’
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition Text 005 2013(to be published)
GALLERY ESSAY
‘Strike!’ and Christine Mackey ‘Seeds Matter’
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition text 004 2013 (to be published)
REVIEW
‘Death Drive’, Galway Arts Centre,
The Visual Artists News Sheet Nov-Dec 2013: 20.
EXHIBITION ARTICLE
John Gerrard, Cuban Schools, Galway Arts Festival
Irish Arts Review, Summer 2013: 74-77.
REVIEW
Sarah Browne, ‘Diabolic Loop’, Galway Arts Centre
The Visual Artists News Sheet March-April 2013: 21.
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REVIEW
Fiona Woods, ‘Animal Opera’, Leitrim Sculpture Factory,
Antennae issue 27, winter 2013: 84-89.
CATALOGUE TEXT
‘I would Prefer Not To’
in Louise Manifold ‘In Death and Fiction’, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, February 2013.
EXHIBITION ARTICLE
Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, ‘The Absent Architect’, the Casino at Marino
Irish Arts Review, Spring 2013: 66-69.
GALLERY ESSAY
‘Into the Light’ the Arts Council Collection and Enda O’Donoghue, Limerick City Gallery of Art
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition text 003 2013 (to be published)
ARTICLE
‘Festival and Events and Local partnerships’
Irish Arts Review Spring 2013: 82-84.
GALLERY ESSAY
Alan Phelan, Brian Duggan and ‘Landscape II’, Limerick City Gallery of Art
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition text 002 2012
GALLERY ESSAY
Cleary-Connolly, Occupy Space and ‘Landscape I’, Limerick City Gallery of Art
LCGA Series 1 Exhibition text 001 2012
EXHIBITION REVIEW
James Merrigan, ‘LOW-LIFE DRAMAS (for late-night radio)’ Mermaid Arts Centre,
CIRCA Online May 2012
ESSAY
‘For A discursive Criticism’
Critical Bastards 7, June 2012: 5-6
BLOG
‘Shock Encounter, Brendan Earley’
Fugitive Papers Online, 8 May 2012
ESSAY
‘Friendship As Praxis’
Outrider Artists (Ed) now published in ‘Nida Art Colony’ Lithuania 2012: 132-133.
PDF | Nidocolony publication | LINK
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Cleary and Connolly, ‘On Sight’ and Varvra Shavrova, ‘Opera’, County Mayo
Enclave Review 6: 6-7
ARTISTS’ REVIEW
EVA and LSAD Degree Show, Exit Limerick
The Limerick Leader on June 13th 2012
EXHIBITION REVIEW
‘Korporeal’ MFA show, Burren College of Art
Billion Art Journal May 2012
BLOG
‘Longing for Author-ity’
Fugitive Papers Online 31 March 2012
BLOG
‘Andrea Fraser Activated’,
Fugitive Papers Online, 3 February 2012
ARTICLE
‘Ten Tulca and Counting’
Fugitive Papers # 1 Spring 2012: 4-5.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Ben Reilly, Fiona Woods and jackie Maurer, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
The Visual artist News Sheet, Mars-April 2012: 19.
TEXT FOR ART PROJECT
‘Unpacking the Flat pack’
in Cecilia Danell, ‘Build You Own Scandinavian Loneliness’, December 2011
EXHIBITION REVIEW
‘Feedback’, David Beattie, Karl Burke and Chris Fite-Wassilak, Galway arts Centre
Billion Art Journal September 2011
BOOK REVIEW
Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts, Contemporary visual Art in Ireland 2000-2011, curated/edited by Noel Kelly and Seán Kissane, Printed Project
CIRCA online October 2011,
EXHIBITION REVIEW
‘Hammer and Feather’, Niland Gallery, Galway
Shower of Kunst July 2011
EXHIBITION REVIEW
James Coleman, ‘2004-2011-A Work in Progess’, RHA
written with James Merrigan
CIRCA Online September 2011,
EXHIBITION ARTICLE
‘Decommissioned’ on ‘Terminal Convention’, decommissioned international airport terminal, Cork
Shower of Kunst, May 1 2011
ESSAY
‘Not Utopia, Just its Possibility’
CIRCA online, special issue on Criticism and Criticality, 2011
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Claremorris Open Exhibition 2010
CIRCA Online
DEGREE SHOW CRITIC PICK
Eimhin Hawes, GMIT 2010
CIRCA online
ARTICLE
‘The Iceland (Dis)Connection’
Shower of Kunst, July 1, 2010
EXHIBITION TEXT
Louise Manifold, ‘Unnatural Esoteric’, Galway Arts Centre
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Fiona O’Dwyer, ‘Strange the rooms we’ve all lived in’, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
Circa online 2010
DEGREE SHOW CRITIC PICK
Eimear Twomey, GMIT 2009
CIRCA 129, Autumn 2009: p.72.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Aideen Barry, ‘Of Hypothetical evolutions of [an]other’, Galway Arts Centre
CIRCA 128, Summer 2009: 98-99.
CATALOGUE ESSAY
‘All the way to Hy Brasil, and Back’,
in Maeve Collins (ed) I thought I saw the Tuath Dé Danann, but it was me I was looking at…, 2009: 5-7
ARTICLE
‘Situating Art: For a Rural Context’
CIRCA 127, Spring 2009: 30-35.
ESSAY
‘Searching For a Place in Common’
Deirdre O’Mahony X-PO Kilnaboy cultural Exchange project, 2008
DEGREE SHOW CRITIC PICK
Cecilia Danell, GMIT 2008
CIRCA 125, Autumn 2008: 62
EXHIBITION REVIEW
‘City of Ideas’, Baron Self Storage, Galway
CIRCA 123, Spring 2008: 83-85.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Amanda Dunsmore, ‘Mr and Mrs Krab’s Utopia’, X-PO Kilnaboy
CIRCA 123, Spring 2008: 108-109.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
Vivienne Dick, ‘The True Centre is Always New’, 126, Galway
CIRCA121, Autumn 2007: 90-91.
MASTER THESIS
For a Baroque Aesthetic, A Study of the Films of David Lynch
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 2004.
Michaele Cutaya 
