Aleana Egan: Second Hand Lismore Castle Arts Waterford 23 March to 19 May
Eilis O’Connell: In the Roundness of Being VISUAL Carlow 17 February to 12 May
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JOANNE LAWS INTERVIEWS EIMEAR WALSHE AND SARA GREAVU ABOUT THE REPRESENTATION OF IRELAND AT THE 60TH VENICE BIENNALE.
JOANNE LAWS OUTLINES THE CONVERSATION SURROUNDING GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUNS.
To my surprise, the general public suddenly seems to care intensely about grammar. As an editor, I can confirm that the average person is not especially committed to the nuances and particularities of the English language; yet these things are currently being hotly debated in the media.
The language we use is important, particularly in relation to identity, since language is fundamental in shaping cultural expectations and perceptions of ourselves. The growing recognition of gender diversity1 is increasingly framing the usage of gendered pronouns(such as ‘he’ or ‘she’) as exclusionary, in certain contexts.2
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“I hope that my readings of particular terrains, although naturally couched in terms of human scales, those of my own limbs, eyes, breath etc., are suffused by an awareness of almost inconceivably greater and unimaginably smaller physical dimensions, not to mention those of the flowery fields and terrible cliffs of dreams.” – Tim Robinsoni
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Since the Renaissance, no other painting technique has been subject to such zealous and detailed attempts to explain its methods, materials, and utensils as the encaustic technique of antiquity [i]
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Winter Papers, Volume 8 can be purchased at: https://winterpapers.com
Featured Image: Kian Benson Bailes, Kian Sa Leaba, 2022, oil on wood; photograph courtesy of the artist and Bog Cottage.
Imagine a soundless vignette of rolling waves. An anonymous and horizonless expanse of grey-blue water. For many, the ocean exists conceptually as some kind of frontier – the site of empire, borders, or countless perilous journeys. Indeed, no greater metaphor exists for British-Irish relations than the Irish Sea, a body of water historically traversed by those – including pregnant women, gay men and emigrant labourers – forced by legislative or socioeconomic deficits to ‘take the boat to England’.
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Deep Mapping: Unseen Landscapes
We need more fluid ways of perceiving the layers that are everywhere, and new ways of calling attention to the passages between old and new, of weaving the old place into the new place – Lucy Lippard i
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With Other Matter
Joanne Laws
The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end. A time that does not cleave the day with rush hours, lunch breaks, the last bus home. As you walk in the garden, you pass into this time – the moment of entering can never be remembered. Around you the landscape lies transfigured. Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.[i]
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Living Archive: Landscape and The Rural Imagination
Joanne Laws
The long summer days spent in the Limestone Plain, where the gentle undulations of the ground only occasionally hid the distant rim of brown and blue hills; the marshy meadows, heavy with the scent of flowers; the great brown bogs, where the curlews alone relieved the loneliness… the savage cliffs of the Mayo coast; the flower-filled sand-dunes which fringe the Irish Sea.. all have left memories that can never be effaced.[i]
– Robert Lloyd Praeger, 1901
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Joanne Laws 