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Current online reviews:

Let'go, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, 4 - 15 April 2008 (uploaded 16 April 2008)

Brendan Early, The Curated Visual Arts Award (Part 2), Douglas Hyde Gallery, March - April 2008 (uploaded 11 April 2008)

Better is something you build, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, February - March 2008 (uploaded 11 April 2008)

The Garden of digital lies, The Lab, Dublin, 3 April - 26 April 2008 (uploaded 11 April 2008)

Ben Readman: Emanate, Stone Gallery, Dublin 2, January - March 2008 (uploaded 2 April 2008)

Big foot, Monster Truck Gallery and Studio, Dublin, February 2008 (uploaded 7 March 2008)

Miroslaw Balka: Tristes tropiques, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, November 2007 - January 2008 (uploaded 5 March 2008)

Ann Quinn, Autumn in Middle East, Summer in West, Cross Gallery, Francis Street, Dublin, January - February 2008 (uploaded 22 February 2008)

Conor McFeely, The Case of the Midwife Toad (the unrepeatable experiment), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, December 2007 - January 2008 (uploaded 19 February 2008)

Bill Doyle: Bill Doyle's Ireland - A Retrospective, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 6 December 2007 - 31 January 2008 (uploaded 30 January 2008)

18 happenings in 6 parts, Deitch Studio, New York, 5 - 11 November 2007 (uploaded 8 January 2008)

Felicity Clear, Place(s) without place, The LAB, Foley St., Dublin 1, October - November 2007 (uploaded 21 December 2007)

Thomas Brezing: Seven miles above the earth, The Lab, Foley St., Dublin 1, 15 November - 8 December (uploaded 11 December 2007)

Hugh McCarthy and Danny Greaney: Pink noise: Hugh McCarthy and Danny Greaney, The Stone Gallery offsite at Cow's Lane, Temple Bar, 23 November - 1 December 2007 (uploaded 10 December 2007)

Martin Creed: Martin Creed, Dougles Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 19 October - 1 December [review 2] (uploaded 6 December 2007)

Miroslaw Balka: Tristes tropiques, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 14 November 2007 - 27 January 2008 (uploaded 4 December 2007)

Martin Creed: Martin Creed, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 19 October - 1 December 2007 (uploaded 26 November 2007)

Ellen Gallagher: Coral cities, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin 1, 28 September 2007 - 20 January 2008 (uploaded 21 November 2007)

Overtake: the reinterpretation of modern art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 3 July - 7 October 2007 (uploaded 4 October 2007)

Robert Peters and Angela Darby: Social Security, Ards Arts Centre, June 2007 (uploaded 11 September 2007)

Brian Fay:  Some time now, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1, April - June 2007 (uploaded 5 September 2007)

Cyprien Gaillard: Desniansky Raion, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, January - March 2007 (uploaded 18 July 2007)

Some kinda monster, Galway Arts Centre, May - June 2007 (uploaded 6 July 2007)

Séamus Nolan: Hotel Ballymun, Ballymun, Dublin, March - April 2007 (uploaded 4 July 2007)

Dylan Tighe: Mise Éire, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 31 October 2006 (uploaded 3 July 2007)

A Seed of zero, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, December 2006 - January 2007 (uploaded 3 July 2007)

LAUNCH / Making do, curated by Paul O'Neill, The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1, December 2006 - January 2007 (uploaded 20 April 2007)

Finola Jones: It's why [blue] birds sing, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, November 2006 - January 2007 (uploaded 2 April 2007)

Sonia Shiel and David Beattie, Broadstone XL, January, 2007 (uploaded 16 March 2007)

The Last blue sky, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, January - February 2007 (uploaded 12 March 2007)

Gavin Murphy: Sketches for a light/ heavy monument, Four Gallery, November - December 2006 (uploaded 8 March 2007)

Welcome to the neighbourhood, Askeaton, 21-28 August 2006 (uploaded 26 January 2007)

Tulca 2005, Galway city, October - November 2005 (uploaded 22 December 2006)

Jill McKeown: (ath)bhailiúchán::(re)collection, An Gailearaí, Fal Carrach, May - June 2006 (uploaded 24 October 2006)

Albert Oehlen: I will always champion good painting, Whitechapel Gallery, London, July - September (uploaded 27 September 2006)

This is serious: reflecting on John Byrne’s exhibition at the Fenton Gallery in Cork, June 2005 (uploaded 21 June 2006)

Catherine Delaney: Fill, Ballymun (permanent installation) (uploaded 20 June 2006)

Roderick Buchanan and Aisling O'Beirn, Ards Arts Centre, Newtownards, May 2006 (uploaded 6 June 2006)

Sinéad Aldridge: Penumbra, The Dock, Carrick–on–Shannon, February – March 2006 (uploaded 5 May 2006)

Brian Duggan: More often than most, Pallas Heights, Dublin, November 2005 - February 2006 (uploaded 5 April 2006)

Seydou Keïta: Gallery 2, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, February - April 2006 (uploaded 30 March 2006)

Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki: self.life.death, Barbican Gallery, London, October 2005 - January 2006 (uploaded 27 March 2006)

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset: The Welfare Show, Serpentine Gallery, London, January - February 2006 (uploaded 9 March 2006)

Samantha McKee: The Preserves of the Mind's Larder, Lagan Lookout Tunnel, Belfast, August 2005 (uploaded 19 January 2006)

Carl Dreyer: The passion of Joan of Arc (La passion de Jeanne d'Arc), 1928, Kilkenny Castle, 20 August 2005 (uploaded 23 December 2005)

Nicholas Keogh and Patrick Bloomer at the Fifty-first Venice Biennale, October 2005 (uploaded 21 December 2005)

Lindsay Seers: Eyes of others, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 28 October - 27 November 2005 (uploaded 9 December 2005)

The September Exposition to mark by Ceremony the Expansion of the Great Defastenist Empire, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 14 - 19 September 2005 (uploaded 18 November 2005)

Mary-Ruth Walsh: White Goods and White Goods 2 at The Return, Dublin, and Sligo Art Gallery, 5 May - 10 June 2005 and 1 June - 25 June 2005 (uploaded 10 November 2005)

Patrick Graham, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 20 May - 4 June 2005 (uploaded 27 October 2005)

Niamh O'Malley: Window, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, May 2005 - 2006 (uploaded 14 October 2005)

Theo Sims: Splace, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 6 August - 3 September 2005 (uploaded 13 October 2005)

Franz Ackermann, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 20 July - 23 October, 2005 (uploaded 15 September 2005)

Ethics of Scale: Brian Walsh at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, 3 September - 1 October 2004 (uploaded 9 August 2005)

Flow, Lagan Weir, Belfast, 28 April - 7 May 2005 (uploaded 5 August 2005)

Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 16 March to 29 May 2005 (uploaded 21 July 2005)

George Bolster: Eye of the Needle, May 6 to June 4 2005, Pallas Heights, Dublin (uploaded 30 June 2005)

Pierre Huyghe, Streamside Day, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 23 February to 15 May; review #2 (uploaded 11 May 2005)

Bernard Frize: Faces et Profils, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, 2 April - 28 May 28, 2005 (uploaded 10 May 2005)

Monika Sosnowska: Untitled 2004, Serpentine Gallery, London, 5 December 2004 - 16 January 2005 (uploaded 20 April 2005)

Roger Andersson, Letters from Mayhem, with text by Albert Mobilio (Cabinet Books, New York, 2005) (uploaded 8 April 2005)

Pierre Huyghe, Streamside Day, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 23 February to 15 May (uploaded 7 April 2005)

Trish Morrissey, Seven Years, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 4 March to 3 April 2005 (uploaded 22 March 2005)

The Royal Art Lodge: Serpentine Musings, 25 February to 9 April, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (uploaded 10 March 2005)

Michael Landy: Welcome to my world built with you in mind, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 1 December 2004 - 22 January 2005 (uploaded 9 March 2005)

Brian Duggan, During the Meanwhile, Hugh Lane Gallery off-site project, Mayor Square, IFSC, Dublin, 3 February to 3 March, 2005 (uploaded 8 March 2005)

Abigail O'Brien, The Seven Sacraments, 20 January to 27 February, RHA, Dublin (uploaded 18 February 2005)

Gillian Kenny: New Work, Phatory Gallery, New York, 9 September - 2 October 2004 (uploaded 4 February 2005)

Communism, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 21 January to 27 February (uploaded 4 February 2005)

Thomas Brezing, Remember When We Were Older? Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, 7 - 27 January 2005 (uploaded 3 February 2005)

Bernie Masterson: Landscape and Memory, Draíocht, Blanchardstown, 2 December 2004 - 30 January 2005 (uploaded 27 January 2004)

David Godbold, Once it was a Lie, Now it's the Truth ... 14 January to 12 February, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (uploaded 27 January 2005)

Press Play, 8 January to 12 February 2005, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (uploaded 20 January 2005)

Eurojet Futures 04, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 17 November 2004 - 9 January 2005 (uploaded 23 December 2004)

A Angles Vifs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, 10 June - 26 September 2004 (uploaded 23 December 2004)

Margaret O'Brien: No Man's Land, West Cork Arts Centre, 6 - 27 November, 2004 (uploaded 21 December 2004)

El Día de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead, Naughton Gallery at Queen's, Belfast, 28 October - 11 December 2004 (uploaded 20 December 2004)

Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation: Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 27 October 2004 - 6 February 2005 (uploaded 3 December 2004)

Patricia Jorgensen, Irish Botanical Art, Dublin, October 2004 (uploaded 3 December 2004)

Mark O'Kelly, Old Holland, New Amsterdam, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 4 November to 3 December 2004 (uploaded 26 November 2004)

Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 23 October - 1 December 2004 (second review; uploaded 5 November 2004)

Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 23 October - 1 December 2004 (first review; uploaded 5 November 2004)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Failaka, in Streets of Desire at Jump Ship Rat, the Blade Factory, 3rd Liverpool Biennial Independent, 18 September to 24 November 2004 (uploaded 5 November 2004)

Niamh O'Malley, The dene, 'vignette' at Visa for 13, PS1, New York, 24 April - 1 June 2004 (uploaded 3 November 2004)

Gary Coyle, The Wild Wild Wood, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 30 September to 29 October 2004 (uploaded 22 October 2004)

Paddy McCann at the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 29 July - 27 August 2004 (uploaded 12 October 2004)

September, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, 3 September - 2 October, 2004 (uploaded 4 October 2004)

Art of the Garden at Tate Britain, 3 June to 30 August 2004 (uploaded 21 September 2004)

Juan Uslé, Open Rooms, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 8 September 2004 to 3 January 2005 (uploaded 15 September 2004)

Gary Shaw: Art on the Seafront, Bangor, June - August 2004 (uploaded 7 September 2004)

Marc Quinn, Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1 July - 12 September 2004 (uploaded 31 August 2004)

Fred Tomaselli, Monsters of Paradise, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 31 July - 3 October 2004 (uploaded 25 August 2004)

David Stephenson at Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 5 August - 12 September 2004 (uploaded 11 August 2004)

Sophie Calle, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 23 June - 15 August 2004 (uploaded 19 July 2004)

Yoshihiro Suda, one of two artists in Ma, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 21 May - 14 July 2004 (uploaded 8 July 2004)

Luís Meléndez: Still Lifes, National Gallery of Ireland, 16 June- 5 September 2004 (uploaded 21 June 2004)

Yoshihiro Suda and Takehito Koganezawa: Ma, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 21 May - 14 July 2004 (uploaded 16 June 2004)

João Penalva: R, Presentation Convent, Carlow, 12 - 20 June, 2004 (uploaded 14 June 2004)

Ronan Smith: Design for Plate, Signal Art Centre, Bray, 27 May - 3 June 2004 (uploaded 10 June 2004)

Malachi Farrell: Nothing Domestic at Temple Bar Gallery, March / April 2004 (uploaded 31 May 2004)

Via2 : Various locations on Camden Street, Dublin, April 24 - May 22, 2004 (uploaded 12 May 2004)

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer : Vectorial Elevation, O'Connell Street, Dublin, April 22 - May 3, 2004 (uploaded 6 May 2004)

Rita Wobbe: Flight from Reality, Origin Gallery, Dublin, 29 April 29 to 31 May 31 2004 (uploaded 4 May 2004)

Verne Dawson, March 20 to May 13, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (uploaded 30 April 2004)

Nathan Coley, Show Home, City Arts Centre, Dublin, 25 March to 17 April 2004 (uploaded 9 April 2004)

Artists Books at The Workroom, 19 March - 3 April 2004 (uploaded 6 April 2004)

Smirnoff Pure Potential, 'Arthouse', Dublin (uploaded 1 April 2004)

Jon Brunberg and Brendan Earley at Temple Bar Gallery (uploaded March 29, 2004)

Goya by Robert Hughes (uploaded March 11, 2004)

Brendan Earley: Arrival, Pallas Heights Gallery, Dublin, October - December 2003 (uploaded March 10, 2004)

Shahin Afrassiabi, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 27 January to 6 March (uploaded March 5, 2004)

hungryangrysexy: BA Visual Art IADT Dún Laoghaire (uploaded January 26, 2004)

Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (uploaded January 21, 2004)

Langlands and Bell: The House of Osama bin Laden at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (uploaded January 16, 2004)

OUR TRUE INTENT IS ALL FOR YOUR DELIGHT: The John Hinde Butlin's Photographs at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin
(uploaded January 5, 2004)

Tonico Auad at Project December 2003/January 2004 (uploaded December 22, 2003)

Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling at IMMA (uploaded December 16, 2003)

Ivana Panizzi: Reredos, Trinity College Chapel, (uploaded November 26, 2003)

Damien Coyle: Art for dyslexics at OMAC (uploaded June 4, 2003)

Young bloods out in force in Limerick (uploaded March 13, 2003)

The Idea of North at Green on Red Gallery (uploaded January 23, 2003)

Alistair Wilson: Fonte, Oratorio di San Ludovico, Venice (uploaded November 14, 2002)

Margaret Corcoran: An Enquiry, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, September 2002 (uploaded November 6, 2002)

Karen Kilimnik at IMMA (uploaded October 23, 2002)

Bernard Smyth at Draíocht, Blanchardstown (uploaded September 26, 2002)

Online reviews are intended to supplement the limited space we have for reviews in CIRCA Art Magazine.

Reviews here (a) deal with exhibitions or art events in Ireland, or by artists from Ireland, and/or (b) are written by reviewers in Ireland or from Ireland.

We welcome submissions of reviews. They will be placed on our website if they satisfy these criteria, are recent, and are of sufficient quality.

The reviews should not have appeared / be about to appear elsewhere, unless agreed with the editor.

We do not at the moment have funds to pay for online reviews.

Please e-mail any submissions to editor@recirca.com.

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