Venice, historically a city where East meets West is home to the eponymous Biennale Arts Exhibition. Named this year “In Minor Keys” it was curated by Koyo Kouoh who died last year of cancer at the age of 57. The first African born woman to be appointed to curate the…
Textiles are everywhere, our homes are full of them and we wear them constantly, they have a place in most aspects of our lives and since pre-historic times economies have depended on them. Textiles were such an important part of the economy of the Sumerians that the women and girls…
Although Alison Lowry’s exhibition overtly addresses the harrowing plight of women and children consigned to state sponsored religious institutions of Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in effect it addresses the impact of a perverse religious ideology on every aspect of our society. In her introduction to the publication…
Passing the Solomon Fine Arts Gallery (http://www.solomonfineart.ie/exhibition/a-fine-figure-ceramics/ recently I was enticed in by a new exhibition by three Irish Ceramic artists and was so capitated by what I saw that when one of the gallery assistant’s asked me if I needed anything my immediate…