Valuing Artistic Legacy
JOANNE LAWS REPORTS ON IVARO’S ARTISTS’ ESTATES CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 2017.
The Permeable Institution – A Response to Andrew Kearney’s ‘Mechanism’
“Power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction[i]
Joanne Laws – Speculations on a Raft
“She referred to the high-rise as if it were some kind of huge animate presence, brooding over them and keeping a magisterial eye on events taking place”
– JG Ballard High Rise (1975)
Preserving Fragments
“I confess that, in order to envisage the Ireland of my best years, I throw my mind back for half a century. There were many “disadvantages” – few bicycles, no motor-cars on the roads, no domestic electricity, no tarmac, no jazz (or worse), but there was less rush, time to think about things, and time to hold communion with nature, which is much the same as communion with God.”
Robert Lloyd Praeger, Irish Landscape: Cnéithe na hEireann, (1953) [i]
Biographical Landscapes
JOANNE LAWS INTERVIEWS ELIZABETH MAGILL ABOUT HER PAINTING PRACTICE.
JOANNE LAWS INTERVIEWS THREE ARTISTS AT VARIOUS STAGES OF THEIR CAREERS ABOUT MAINTAINING A PAINTING PRACTICE IN IRELAND.
