Irish Art & Artists

The renowned and highly influential architect, furniture-maker, interior designer and photographer Eileen Gray was born in Ireland and remained throughout her life an Irishwoman at heart.

The paintings of John Noel Smith can be seen as autonomous realities, but surely they also inhabit the world beyond, their style being means rather than end.

In About Beckett Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible volume that explains why Beckett's work is so significant and enduring.

This book documents 'Croon', a cross-disciplinary project produced jointly by Meridian Theatre Company and the National Sculpture Factory in February 2004.

"From the mid-1940's until his death in 1975, Séamus Murphy held a unique position in the Irish art world. While his portraits are an iconic, and occasionally ironic, record of the people who shaped modern Ireland, he excelled as a letterer, stonecarver and designer of monuments. Murphy has never been fully appreciated or evaluated until

This monograph on one of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists, who works mainly in the fields of video and installation, was published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Model & Niland Gallery in Sligo.

As well as labouring in his own personal realm as a sculptor, Henry Flanagan taught at Newbridge College in Co Kildare.

A book of surreal drawings by artist Tom Fitzgerald, best known as a hard edge sculptor.

Essays by artist Eileen Casey, Colm Keegan, Sarah Searson.