‘A TOTAL TRANSFORMATION IS NEEDED’ illuminates Ireland’s topographical significance within the Black Atlantic by framing the country as a place of creative convergence between America and Europe. Through her exhibition of these transnational cultural offshoots, curator Beulah Ezeugo interrogates our …
In Conversation with Roddy Doyle
Maisie Greener sits down with Roddy Doyle to discuss his latest release.
By any measure, Roddy Doyle is more than a player in Ireland’s literary landscape. It would be no exaggeration to say he is to national literature what The Pogues are to Irish music, Yeats is to Irish painting. Doyle’s recurring …
Thorny Girlhood
Maisie Greener sits down with Arann McCormack to discuss her latest project I Never Promised you a Rose Garden and the art of photographing young women’s coming of age stories.
Within the realm of visual art, the bedroom has become a motif of the relationship between interiority and exteriority. Psychologically the bedroom is an intimate and complex space, while structurally it’s incredibly mundane and orthodox. It’s at once individual and …
In conversation with Rupture Cinema
Maisie Greener sits down with Rupture Cinema to discuss their place in the contemporary Dublin art scene
Rupture Cinema is a guerilla, radical cinema collective championing liberation in all its iterations. Having recently emerged onto the Dublin streetscape, the collective’s screenings tackle national and international issues, with their recent curation ranging from archival footage of anti-war uprisings …
A labour of literary love
Maisie Greener talks to Viv Sweet and Joe Prendergast about their recently launched Queer Book Club
Boasting a Whatsapp group with over sixty members and being a fortnightly topic of discussion among students in between lectures since it launched last term, Viv Sweet and Joe Prendergast’s Queer Book Club has joined an ensemble of exciting student-run …
Decades of memory at the Eponymous Gallery
Maisie Greener reviews: 2012–2022, a decade of exhibitions at the Olivier Cornet Gallery at the Eponymous Gallery
Running until February 22 at the Eponymous gallery, Olivier Cornet’s recent exhibition entitled 2012–2022, a decade of exhibitions at the Olivier Cornet Gallery — although a self-effacing celebration of his gallery’s success — triumphantly platformed the individual and collective achievements …
Coburn Gray is highlighting the Wrongs
Maisie Greener reviews Dylan Coburn Gray’s latest production Absent the Wrong and its depiction of queerness, race and adoption in Ireland
With queerness, race, adoption and eviction all appearing in Absent the Wrong’s promotional material, I was slightly apprehensive that Dylan Coburn Gray and Once Off Productions’ collaboration would only skim over these serious subject matters. I expected that the play …