Monthly Archives: March 2018

Dan Shipsides / Shipsides and Beggs Projects, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 22 March -20 April, 2018

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

Armscliff; Great Western Oil on Canvas, Dan Shipsides,1994 To meet the word on its own terms,  to meet the world on its own terms is  an art immensely rewarding yet immensely difficult.  The title of this painting  has a letter R … Continue reading →

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Eanna Mac Cana: Och Ochon, Crescent Arts Centre Gallery, Belfast, March 19th – 31st 2018

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

Multitude of caps of tea.  Disposable plastic. Ocean full of plastic and dying whales may not have been in this artist’s intended context – but they are, as the erosion of the  anthropocentric model of life progresses through our consciousness. … Continue reading →

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Ausrine Suratkeviciute at Household Belfast , 2018

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

By a chance this appeared in my inbox: “Being: New Photography 2018,” the latest exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art’s ongoing for up-and-coming photographers. “Being” is a gripping survey of how photographers today are dealing head-on with the knotty things that … Continue reading →

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Mark Shields, at F E McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, March 1 – May 19, 2018

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

I sense that Shields’s  process dominates the image by piercing intention with invention and chance.  Reminiscent of John Cage.  By “herding “creation, principle and belief together. Shields  named this exhibition The Inaccessible Land … quoting Georg Buechner’s ” beyond the endless searching”  … Continue reading →

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‘Four Northern Women’, Engine Room, Belfst , February 1 -24, 2018

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

Art objects by Anya Waterworth, Sarah Falloon, Joanne Jamison and Leanne McClean benefited from the  daylight  in the smaller rooms  of the gallery.   The windows were never far away from the surface of the small formats luxuriating in an imagined … Continue reading →

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THERE and NOT THERE. GTG Belfast. 01.03.- 21.04. 2018

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Sarah McAvera, in a thoughtful display, the small gallery room  elegantly housed four  large images ( The Illusion of Purpose II., IV, V, X. all  110 x 110cm, 2017 All in edition of  5)  by Victoria J Dean … Continue reading →

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