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Issue 121, Autumn 2007

 

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front cover: Kevin Cosgrove: Survey, 2007, oil on canvas, 120 x 145 cm, from National College of Art and Design Degree Show; courtesy the artist

 


Feature articles

Degree shows: Critics’ choices - Circa asked a number of writers to pick out specific artists from this year's round of degree shows | I am a monster: The indefinite and the malleable in contemporary female self-portraiture - on the use of transgressive (self-) images by artists such as Janine Antoni, Jenny Saville and Catherine Opie Loren Erdrich | Not saying no: Perverts, melancholics and Bartleby - How do you protest through art? Tim Stott | Paint and politics: Between Argentina and Northern Ireland - A look at the work of Rita Duffy and Daniel García, two artists who have addressed violence in their own countries Vikki Bell | To the waters and the wild: The Burren College of Art - A look at a remarkable third-level college in an unlikely location Eimear McKeith |

Reviews

Belfast The Birth exchange project Slavka Sverakova | Cork Colin Crotty / Megan Eustace / Sibyl Montague Treasa O’Brien | Derry Cathy Wilkes Pádraig Timoney | Dublin Follow the light Eimear McKeith | Art 2007 Gemma Tipton | The Important thing is that tomorrow is not the same as yesterday Chris Fite-Wassilak | Galway Vivienne Dick: The True centre is always new Michaële Cutaya | Eilís Murphy: Work of the devil / Ciara Healy: Stories of displacement Katherine Waugh | Kilkenny Frances Hegarty and Andrew Stones: Tactically yours Brian Hand | Limerick The Colour of surprise Karen Normoyle-Haugh | Portadown Nick Stewart: no-one’s not from everywhere David Hughes | Venice Willie Doherty / Gerard Byrne Judith Wilkinson | Cinema spaces and structures at the 52nd Venice Biennale Maeve Connolly | Waterford Titled/untitled Gemma Tipton | (Magazine) Sarah Browne: Sweet futures Charlotte Bonham-Carter |

Project

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