Irish Art & Artists

This revised and lavishly illustrated paperback edition updates the first full-length biography and is a fitting tribute to one of Ireland's leading artists.

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.

Bacon concealed many important aspects of his life. He described himself as an asthmatic child in Ireland with foxhunting parents and a tyrannical father, but he was also rescued by a series of formidable women - women who in this biography emerge in their own right.

Born in Loughbrickland, Co.Down, in 1831, Helen Mabel Trevor was encouraged in her love of drawing and painting from an early age.

Delving into a hitherto unexplored aspect of Irish art history, Painting Dublin, 1886-1949 examines the depiction of Dublin by artists from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.