With this pop-art-esque work, artist Mark O Gorman aims to make you feel like “a person stuck behind a screen trolling through happy images on the internet”.
The work of the painter seems to exist in contradiction to accepted concepts of “working” in our contemporary culture, writes artist Eoin Francis McCormack.
Here’s the latest in our series on works by contemporary Dublin artists. If you’d like to see something of yours featured, you can submit it for consideration, at dublininquirer.com/curios-about.
Inspired by the woods, incorporating pine needles, reminiscent of a Turner: here is a detail of the latest in our series of works by Dublin artists. Click through to see the whole painting.
Rebecca Deegan wanted us to look at homelessness differently, so she painted this, about “the vulnerability and isolation felt by those who have nothing”. It’s the latest in our series on works by Dublin artists.
In an age when many artists focus on performance and installation, Alison Tubritt has chosen a more traditional approach: drawing horses, on paper, with pencils.
Artist Sandra Schoene wants us to reawaken the sense of wonder we had as children. She made a giant hare to help us. And to help the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation’s citywide Hares on the March event.
Roundabout is part of a series of abstract paintings inspired by maps of Dublin and the surrounding area from the 1700s and 1800s. This is just a detail – click through to see the full work.
In a series of screenprints resembling newspaper front pages, produced during the election, Emily Mc Gardle sought to highlight “the absurdity of the behaviour of some Irish politicians”.
