Hamad Butt: Charm and HarmDeclan LongArtReview28 March 2025‘Apprehensions’ at IMMA, Dublin captures how the late artist laced aesthetic elegance and refinement with lethal danger
The Musical Bodies of Justin FitzpatrickDeclan LongArtReview05 February 2025In his gothic-surrealistic works, the artist casts his characters not as autonomous artistic agents but as acquiescent, adaptable instruments
Ulla von Brandenburg: The Play’s the ThingDeclan LongArtReview21 October 2024The artist’s staged scenes and constructed environments at VISUAL, Carlow map the past to find alternative paths to the future
Lisa Freeman’s States of Everyday LongingDeclan LongArtReview24 June 2024The artist’s film at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin finds the human condition forever caught between the actual and the imagined
Siobhán Hapaska’s Ambiguous AvatarsDeclan LongArtReview17 April 2024‘Medici Lion’ at Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin is a statement of sustained sculptural tension and suspended meaning
The Case for Artists’ Basic IncomeDeclan Longartreview.com05 January 2022If the pandemic has been a period of ‘global humbling’, one limited effect – let’s risk an optimistic view – might be political openness to new ideas
