spoken-word reviews and articles

as art critic

prosody16: Dominic thorpe (July, 2025)

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant: Mohammed Sami at Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin (2025)

prosody16: dorje de burgh (2025)

the long pauses of dorota borowa (2025)

prosody16: nikki foster (2025)

paint dries (2025)

the anatomy lesson: susan connolly at WGOA (2025)

enda bowe at source arts centre (2025)

whirligig waltz: fergus feehily at TBGS (2025)

the photograph as fetish: skin-deep: perspectives on the body: photomuseum, dublin (2025)

archive fever (2025)

why are painters thinking again? because they think it's a good joke (2024)

we need to talk about expanded painting and metamodernism (2024)

painting by proxy (2024)

andrea fraser's venn-detta (2024)

corporate mentality: ciara roche at butler gallery (2024)

mother's tankstation limited dublin (2024)

enter empire: alan phelan & mark swords at the casino marino dublin (2024)

painters don't dream (2024)

eleanor mccaughey at the ashford gallery dublin (2024)

work, warhol, work (2024)

dear escape artists: reenactment of live performance (2024)

evan dando at the ambassador dublin (2024)

the mid-life crisis art memoir: enter dean kissick (2024)

quasi-person paintings (2023)

when the revolution becomes the regime: callum innes (2023)

forever now kitsch painting (2023)

we need to talk about painting (2022)

generation painting (2022)

to be: a painter (2022)

painter, painter (2021)

oisin o'brien at visual carlow (2020)

the unknown artist (2020)

liliane puthod at pallas projects dublin (2020)

school's out (2020)

the art collector's never love (2020)

paul doran's all night (2020)

on isabelle graw's the love of painting (2018)

against speed curating; for generosity (2017)

towards manhood: forrest bess (2017)

breaking painting: paul doran at hillsboro fine art dublin (2015)

chris martin at douglas hyde gallery dublin (2015)

black sheep, golden calf (2014)

of girly paintings and phizmongers (2013)

provisional painting (2012)

a deflated hooray for painting (2012)

as narrator

david lynch was a pre-raphaelite [excerpt] by slavoj zizek (2025)

the value of painting by Isabelle graw (2012)

mapplethorpe by gary indiana (1985)

arbus' freaks by adam phillips (2006)

the painter of modern life by melanie gilligan (2004)