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CIRCA 1, November / December, 1981

Editorial
Christopher Coppock
Anne Carlisle

News

Feature articles

Felim Egam interview
Micky Donnelly

Mother Ireland and the troubles: artist, model, reality
Belinda Loftus

Death in the Head
Alistair MacLennon

Where are the images?
Tom Paulin

Mona Lisa's sister: some thoughts on art history
Louis A. Muinzer

Reviews

Irish living art
Deirdre O'Connell

Felim Egan
Anne Carlisle

Hibernian inscape

Karel Dudesek

Alistair Wilson
Micky Donnelly


Ian Robertson
Jack Pakenham


Tony Hill
Julian Watson

Royal Ulster Academy
Ann Davey Orr

John Carson


William Conor
Cathal Tohill


CIRCA 2, January / February, 1982

Editorial
Anne Davey Orr

News

Feature articles

The Polish link
Roland Miller
Jeroslava Sverakova

Aspects of drawing
Exhibition Statement

The invisible artist
Louis A. Muinzer

The city repealed
Stephen Conlin

John Aiken interview
Micky Donnelly

Reviews


Jack Pakenham


Nevill Johnson
Anne Davey Orr

Paul O'Keefe
Jean Duncan


Kathleen Bower
Ann Davey Orr

Alistair MacLennan
Micky Donnelly


Carol Graham
Basil Blackshaw
Stefan Klima


New works of contemporary art and music - part I
Anne Carlisle


Aspects of drawing
Martyn Anglesea

Fergus Delargy
Deirdre O'Connell


Conrad Atkinson Picturing the System
Christopher Coppock


CIRCA 3, March / April, 1982

Editorial
David Boyd

News

Feature articles

A pluralist approach to school art
Anne Carlisle


Christopher Coppock

Newcastle diary
Viv Burnside

Reviews

British Sculpture in the 20th Century Part II: Symbol and Imagination 1951-1980
Deirdre O'Connell


Tim Goulding
Jean Duncan


Willie Heron
Micky Donnelly


Brian Kennedy
Samuel Walsh


John Aiken
Micky Donnelly


Sean Scully
Roy Johnston


Alistair MacLennan
Jack Pakenham


Roy Johnston
Liam Kelly

Tony Rickaby
Ann Davey Orr


Live Performance

Micky Donnelly


CIRCA 4, May / June, 1982

Editorial
Micky Donnelly

News

Feature articles

Violence and painting in Northern Ireland
Joseph McWilliams


William Kidd
David Speir
Robert McKinstry

Janet Pierce interview
Anne Davey Orr

Reviews

Janet Pierce
Anne Carlisle


Kent Jones and Caroline Fellowes
Jack Pakenham

Nick Stewart
Deirdre O'Connell


Paul Sample
Cahill Tohill

Young Printmarkers
Peter Brooke


Cleveland Drawing Biennale
Louis A. Muinzer



Tony Knox


Bob Sloan
Deirdre O'Connell

Lynn Davis-Jones and Vivien Burnside
Dr. Slavka Sverakova


The Teaching of Art - The Roots of Self-Deception?

Anne Davey Orr


CIRCA 5, July / August, 1982

Editorial
Deirdre O'Connell

News

Feature articles

Lofting it
Micky Donnelly


Brian Kennedy

Craigavon - the heart is missing
Victor Sloan
Gerry Burns

Reviews

Stephen Conlin
Anne Davey Orr


Contemporary Relief Prints
Anne Davey Orr

Deborah Brown
Anne Davey Orr


Jannis Kounellis
Gerald V. Gleason


Mary P. O'Connor
Jill Nunn


James Coleman
Anne Carlisle


Patrick Collins
Louis A. Muinzer



CIRCA 6, September / October, 1982

Editorial

News

Feature articles

Michael Martin - a personal account
Ross Wilson


Anne Davey Orr

Reviews

Limerick Diploma Shows 1982
Anne Carlisle


Fine Art Degree Shows Belfast 1982
Jack Pakenham


Cork Diploma Shows 1982
Hilary Pyle


Samuel Walsh
Paul M. O'Reilly


Hayward Annual 1982 - British Drawing
Deirdre O'Connell


Guinness Peat Aviation Exibition 1982
Aidan Dunne


Limerick Artists '82
Jill Nunn


Agam
Gerald V. Gleason


David Nash
Jill Nunn


Kit Edwardes
Simon Blanchard


M.A. Degree Shows Belfast 1982
Brian J. Kennedy

Book: Burne-Jones Talking
Louis A. Muinzer


Book: Kjarval A Painter of Iceland
Louis A. Muinzer


CIRCA 7, November / December, 1982

News

Feature articles

12th International Sculpture Conference
Christopher Coppock

34th World Congress: International Association of Art Critics
Dr Slavka Sverakova

After a conversation with Danny McCarthy
Hilary Pyle

Reviews

Seamus Heaney: A Personal Selection
Louis A. Muinzer


Cy Twombly
Stephen Snoddy


6th Exhibition of Visual Art
Jill Nunn


Phyllis Mahon
Anne Carlisle

Charles Harper
Hilary Pyle


Performance Art Platform
Nick Stewart


Aileen Mackeogh
Anne Carlisle


Steve Willats
Deirdre O'Connell



CIRCA 8, January / February, 1983

Editorial
Christopher Coppock

News

Feature articles

Brightening the place up?
Julian Watson


Belinda Loftus

The open air gallery of political art
Noel McGuigan

The painted message
Des Wilson

No murals here
Jackie Redpath

Reviews

14th International Festival of Painting
Dr. Slavka Sverakova


8 Weeks/8 Works, A Season of Installations
Dr. Slavka Sverakova


Artist/Computers/Art
Brian J. Kennedy


Belltable Foursight
Samuel Walsh


Barry Flanagan
Deirdre O'Connell


Contemporary Irish Art Book Review
Anne Carlisle



CIRCA 9, March / April, 1983

News

Feature articles

China visits 1981 & 1982
David Barker

Images of Poland 1982
Roland Miller

Annaghmakerrig
Vivien Burnside

Reviews

Zeitgeist
Breda Kennedy


Making Sense - Ten Painters 1963 - 1983
John Meany

Michael Cullen and Michael Mulcahy
Hilary Pyle


An Artistic Conversation 1931 - 1982: Poland/USA
Micky Donnelly


Nigel Rolfe
Sean McCrum


Brendan Ellis
Belinda Loftus


Anthony Davies
David Brett


New Works - New Artists
Jill Nunn


Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1982

Deirdre O'Connell


CIRCA 10, May / June, 1983

Editorial
Anne Carlisle

News

Feature articles

Expressionism Revamped
John Meany

Looking for the new Expressionists
Jill Nunn

Expression or communication
Anne Carlisle

Reviews

Anne Carlisle
Roy Johnson

Roberta Graham
Micky Donnelly

Four Voices
Silvano Levy

Prophecy and Vision David Brett
Brian Bourke and Cristine Dean

Samuel Walsh

Tom Phillips
Belinda Loftus

CIRCA 11, July / August, 1983

Introduction
Christopher Coppock

News

Feature articles

Nancy Holt interview
Micky Donnelly


Deirdre O'Connell

Independent?
Anne Carlisle

Reviews

Sibeal Foyle
Julian Watson

Maud Cotter
Hilary Pyle

Steve Barraclough and Pierre Degen
Dr Slavka Sverakova


Felim Egan

John Meany

David Dummigan and Tony Corey
David Brett

Dermot Seymour
Christopher Coppock

Kathe Kollwitz
Belinda Loftus

Richard Deacon
Micky Donnelly

Alistair Wilson
Deirdre O'Connell

CIRCA 12, September / October, 1983

Editorial

News

Feature articles

Studios and workshops in the Republic of Ireland
John Meany


Nicholas Stewart

Exhibiting opportunities in Northern Ireland
Deirdre O'Connell

Gallery and exhibition spaces in the Republic of Ireland
Nicola White

Open-submission exhibitions
Anne Carlisle

Directory

Reviews

Robert Janz
Aileen MacKeogh

The Sculpture Show
Jill Nunn

Cat on the Bru
Julian Watson

M.A. Fine Art Exhibition John Meany

CIRCA 13, November / December, 1983

News

Feature articles

Alistair MacLennan interview
Nicholas Stewart


Belinda Loftus

On the possibility of social realism
David Brett

Reviews

G.P.A. 1983
Joan Fowler

Paul Finnegan
Brian McAvera

E.V.A. 1983 - Limerick
Julian Watson

E.V.A. 1983 - Belfast
Micky Donnelly
Figurative Image

John Meany

Lynne Davies-Jones
Anne Carlisle

Aileen McKeogh and Helen Comerford
Jill Nunn

CIRCA 14, January / February, 1984

Editorial
Christopher Coppock

News

Feature articles

Art and independence - An aspect of twentieth century Irish art
Joan Fowler


Dorothy Walker

The morning after the night before
Jill Nunn and Dorothy Walker

The invention of tradition
David Brett

Alanna O'Kelly, Barry Cooke and Cecily Brennan
In conversation with John Meany

R.H.A., Modernism and living art
Brian Kennedy

Two points of view
John Carson and Paddy Graham

Reviews

Helen Chadwick
Micky Donnelly

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Roland Miller

Vivienne Bogan
Aileen McKeogh


Three Days of Live Art

Joan Fowler

Four Artists
Aidan Dunne

Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton
Belinda Loftus

CIRCA 15, March / April, 1984

Editorial
John Meany

News

Feature articles

Nationalism, history and interpretation of art
Joan Fowler


Extracts from a lecture by Professor Denis Donoghue

Reviews

David Crone
David Brett

Cover Story: Book Covers by the Women's Press
Deirdre O'Connell

Contemporary German Prints
Joan Fowler


Bridget Flannery

Jill Nunn

Micky Donnelly, Alfonso Monreal, Carolyn Mulholland
Belinda Loftus

Joan Miro
Anne Carlisle

Paul Funge
John Meany

Jo Baer and Bruce Robbins
Micky Donnelly

CIRCA 16, May / June, 1984

News

Feature articles

Hot air, cold rooms, skeletons in the cupboard
Micky Donnelly


Deirdre O'Connell

From the horse's mouth
Statements from 12 sculptors

Reviews

Make Your Mark
Anne Carlisle

Sophie Aghajanian
Joan Fowler

4 Artists
Aidan Dunne


Ian Sutherland and Julie Kelleher

Jill Nunn

Peter and Andrew Lanyon
Jo Kelley

CIRCA 17, May / June, 1984

News

The condition of sculpture in Northern Ireland
Steve Hurst

Feature articles

International exhibitions - Quality or prestige?
Roland Miller


Lucy R. Lippard

So different... and yet - Language and theatre in the work of James Coleman
Joan Fowler

Reviews

Vivien Burnside
Anne Carlisle

Michael Cullen
Joan Fowler

Dorothy Cross
Aidan Dunne


Views from Ulster

Deirdre O'Connell

CIRCA 18, September / October, 1984

News

Feature articles

The making of Rosc '84 (or the struggle to succeed)
Joan Fowler


Jill Nunn

International art and national identity
Roland Miller

Reviews

NOVA
John Meany

Martin Parr - A Fair Day
Christopher Coppock

Irish Exhibition of living Art 1984
Aidan Dunne


Patrick Graham & Brian Maguire

Micky Donnelly

Recession Pictures
Nick Stewart

Claremorris Open 1984
Deirdre O'Connell

CIRCA 19,, 1984

Editorial
Joan Fowler

News

Feature articles

Richard Long - Lines of thought
In conversation with Nick Stewart


A Report by John Meany

Reviews

Independent artists
Joan Fowler

TSWA
Roy Johnston

Hockney's Photographs

John Meany

Francesco Clemente in Belfast
Micky Donnelly

CIRCA 20, January / February, 1985

News

Feature articles

The aesthetic dimension reconsidered
Peter Fuller

Considering photography and other matters
David Brett

The object of sculpture
Don Prince

Reviews


Joan Fowler


Micky Donnelly

10 Limerick Artists
Aidan Dunne

Roy GraysonAnne Carlisle
Martin Folan

Deirdre O'Connell

Martin Wedge
Peter Jordan

Colin Harrison
Joan Fowler

CIRCA 21, March / April, 1985

News

Feature articles

Beyond ethnic arts
Eddie Chambers

Patrick Ireland and the one way line of emigration
Joan Fowler

Style wars
David Craven

Creating a model?
Deirdre O'Connell

Some notes on hungarian and yugoslavian art activity
David Brett

Reviews

Jo Kelley and Leo McCann
John Meany

New Artists New Works 2
Deirdre O'Connell

Jim Buckley
Seamus Dunbar


John Kelly

Luke Dodd

CIRCA 22, May / June, 1985

Feature articles

Language and criticism
Gerry Walker

Crisis in the arts and the artists: (illusion and reality)
Margaretta D'Arcy

Who is afraid of Aphra Behn? Women, arts, politics
Claire Hackett and Rose Anne McGreevy

Neil Shawcross
In conversation with Anne Carlisle

Bread and the rose
Robert Ballagh

Reviews

Rita Duffy
Belinda Loftus

Lys Hansen
Anne Carlisle

Roy Johnson
David Brett


Kerry Trengrove

Nick Stewart

Louis Le Brocquy
Conor Joyce

Ben Hennessy
Peter Jordan

Nine New York Artists
Dr Slavka Sverakova

News

CIRCA 23, July / August, 1985

Front cover

News

Feature articles

Bob Janz
in conversation with Joan Fowler

A sense of Australia
Mark Robinson

High and low, close and far, crude and refined, comic and serious.
James Thompson

Two streams of Jamaican art
Liz Waugh

Reviews

Per Kirkeby
Jill Nunn

Alfred Cohen and Anthony Davies
Belinda Loftus

Micky Donnelly
Joan Fowler

Munch and the Workers
Louis A. Muinzer

Ross Wilson
Deirdre O'Connell

Images of God by Peter Fuller
Joan Fowler

Feminist Aesthetics ed. Gisela Ecker
Jennifer Fitzgerald

CIRCA 24, September / October, 1985

News

Feature articles

Performance art now
Gunther Berkus

The wall
Krystof Wodiczko

Bacon, Deleuze and the way of all flesh
Conor Joyce

Frankie says...
Frank Stella in conversation with Joan Fowler

Reviews

Stephen Buckley
Roy Johnson

Kathy Prendergast and Richard Gorman
Micky Donnelly

Michael Mulcany
Joan Fowler

Of Desire
Molly McAnailly Burke

Victor Sloan
Belinda Loftus


Nick Stewart

CIRCA 25, November / December, 1985

Feature articles

Slow theatre/fast sculpture
In two minds about Robert Wilson's solo performance during the Dublin Theatre Festival

Noel Sheridan

Jack Crabtree
In conversation with Christopher Coppock

Reports

A Green Part of the World:
Royal Ulster Academy Lecture by Anthony Green

Stefana McClure

British Airways Lecture Number I
by Nigel Greenwood

John Hutchinson

The sound of pictures
Dr Slavka Sverakova

Reviews

Jim Manley and Ronan Walsh
Belinda Loftus

Jasper McKinney and Ann McCormick
Deirdre O'Connell

Independent Artist

Deirdre O'Connell

Liam Magee
Belinda Loftus

CAN '85
Joan Fowler

Elaine Thomas
Louis A. Muinzer

News

CIRCA 26, January / February, 1986

Editorial

Feature articles

On the bewilderment and absurdity of things
extracts from a conversation with Dermot Seymour

Matters of life and death:
Protestant and Catholic ways of seeing death in Northern Ireland

Belinda Loftus

Fragments of a conversation overheard
Between Fergus Delargy, Diarmuid Delargy, Martin Duane and others

The reformation and the practice of art
David Brett

Graham Gingles
In conversation with David Brett

God, Freud and crossed wires
Sean McCrum

Reflections
Gordon Woods

Reviews

Arnott's Portrait Award
Jill Nunn

EVA 85
Molly McAnailly Burke

The Poetic Object
Deirdre O'Connell

New Works by Roger Ackling, Hamish Fulton, David Tremlett and Thomas J. Cooper
Nick Stewart

Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Withney Chadwick
Fionna Barber

Reports

British Airways Lecture Number 2
by Richard Francis

John Hutchinson

British Airways Lecture Number 3
by Michael Newman

John Hutchinson

News

CIRCA 27, March / April, 1986

Feature articles

Winter in the Arts Council's garden
Joan Fowler

Art pages
Chris Wilsom

Polite oppression
Problems of cultural democracy

Owen Kelly

Gene Lambert
Talking to Patrick Murphy

Art pages
Susan Hiller

Communising community art
Mo Bates

The business of art
Nick Stewart

Reviews

Stephen Snoddy and Sam Fleming
Molly McAnailly Burke

Michael Creaney, James Fearon, Gerry Gleason and Roxy Walsh
Belinda Loftus

Jer O'Leary
Fintan O'Toole

Willie Doherty
Belinda Loftus

Aileen Mackeogh
John Hutchinson

Komar and Melamid
David Brett

Theories of Contemporary Art
Joan Fowler

News

CIRCA 28, May / June, 1986

Art Notes

Feature articles

Some problems with printmaking
Jill Nunn


An investigation of the works of Roberta Graham

Interview by Andre' Stitt

Inside imaginary Ireland
Brian Torode

Reviews

Mark Pepper
Stefana McClure

Una Walker
Jill Nunn

Mary Clint
David Brett

Terry Atkinson
Joan Fowler

Henry Moore: Shelter Sketchbook
Belinda Loftus

News

Forty questions about Annaghmakerrig
Mairead Byrne

CIRCA 29, July / August, 1986

Feature articles

The place of place in art
Declan McGonagle in conversation with Christopher Coppock

From the local to the global
David Brett

Art and society: myths & experience
Geoff Evans

Images into words, young writers competition
Pat Long
Robert Grace
Caroline Hurley
Eamon Dillon


How should they be educated?

John A. Walker

Reviews

Andrew Coobes
Deirdre O'Connell

Michael O'Dea
Joan Fowler

Sweeney Astray
Molly McAnailly Burke

Pauline Bewick
James Thompson

Anita Groener
John Hutchinson

Brian Eno
Nick Stewart

News

 

CIRCA 30, September / October, 1986

Art notes

Feature articles

Graduated tobacco filters and heavy skies
A discussion of 'Ireland, a Week in the Life of a Nation' with Brian Trench, Tanya Kiang, Mick O'Kelly, Derek Speirs and Luke Gibbons

Nobuo Nakamura
interviewed by Joan Fowler

Place by place

Cultural goals in the Mid-West
Anne Carlisle

Roundabout Craigavon area
Belinda Loftus

Down your way
Deirdre O'Connell

Place by place directory
The Mid-West Craigavon, Lurgan and Portadown Down

Art Pages
Elaine Thomas

Art and marginality
John Roberts

Book Reviews

Andrey Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time
Nick Steward

The New Image: Painting in the 1980's by Tony Godfrey
Joan Fowler

Reviews

William Scott
Anne Carlisle

Victor Burgin
Joan Fowler

Simon Reilly
John Hutchinson

1986 Claremorris Open
Jill Nunn

News

 

CIRCA 31, November / December, 1986

Art notes

Feature articles

Presenters, artists & heroes
Television and the visual arts

Martin McLoone

Scratch Video
Lyell Davies

New technology and the privatisation of broadcast information
Gerry Walker

The sunny South-East
Jill Nunn

Wild Frontiers
Deirdre O'Connell

Place by place directory
The South-East
The North-West

Art pages
Ian Breakwell

Reviews

M.A. Fine Art Exhibition
Joan Fowler

Alan Graham and Chris Wilson
Joan Fowler

EVA 86
John Hutchinson

Four Views
Peter Jordan

Michael Farrell
Molly McAnailly Burke

News

 

CIRCA 32, January / February, 1987

Art notes

Feature articles

Image making, image breaking
A discussion on images of gender stereotyping with Ailbhe Smyth, Pauline Cummins, Beverly Jones and Pat Murphy.

Changing the context
The availability of Women's Art

a discussion with Fionna Barber, Alice Maher, Anne Tallentire and Elaine Thomas.

Artworks as commodities
John A. Walker

Open space
Sacred Hearts, Scripture Texts and Fancy Goods...
Bernard Loughlin

Reviews

Six in the Sticks
Joan Fowler

Alistair Wilson
John Hutchinson

Pacific: Heart of the Ocean
Jill Nunn

Clifford Rainey
Deirdre O'Connell

Book Review

The Last Resort by Martin Parr
Tanya Kiang

News

 

CIRCA 33, March / April, 1987

Art notes

Feature articles

N.A.A. women's conference
Fionna Barber

Donald Kuspit
Interviewed by Joan Fowler

Practical solutions
Space for sculpture making art 'work': the artist and the enterprise allowance scheme

Anne Carlisle

Open space
The art in the country
Jim Manley

Reviews

Eilis O'Connell
Deirdre O'Connell

Colin McCullough
Kent Dur Russell

Jack Pakenham and Rodney Dickson
John Hutchinson

Cathy Carman
Peter Jordan

Brian Ballard
Louis A. Muinzer

Elisabeth Magill
John Hutchinson

News

 

CIRCA 34, May / June, 1987

Art notes

Feature articles

Beyond illustration
Anthony Davies talking to David Brett

Out of the Plaza
Some strategies for placing art in public

Deirdre O'Connell

Fellowships
Micky Donnelly
Martin Folan

Art pages
Jasper McKinney

Open space
Disability, differentness, and identity

Mary Duffy

Place by place
On the trail to Killarney

Joan Fowler

Reviews

Clement McAleer
Anne Carlisle

Irish Exhibition of Living Art
John Hutchinson

Sonia Boyce
Fionna Barber

Andrew Robarts
Kent Dur Russell

Peter Wilson
Peter Jordan

News

 

CIRCA 35, July / August, 1987

Circa notes

Feature articles

Peripheral Vision
Luke Gibbons
Guest Editor

Irish art criticism
A provincialism of the right?

Tom Duddy

A mortuary of disused mottoes overheard: on Cecil King
Bill McCormick

Picturing a name
Word and image in 'The Name of the Rose'

Tanya Kiang

Gender and the art of masquerade
Luke Dodd

Dear Luke, Dear Circa
Pat Murphy

Reviews

Antony Gormley &Locky Morris
Deirdre O'Connell

Mary P. O'Connor
Roy Wallis

Jacinta Feeney
Fionna Barber

Henry Morgan
Peter Jordan

Joe Hanley
John Hutchinson

Contemporary Irish Photography
Tanya Kaing

Jeremy Henderson; Neil Speers & Nick Stewart
David Brett

Kevin MacMahon
Gerry Walker

John Shinnors
Peter Jordan

 

CIRCA 36, September / October, 1987

Circa notes

Feature articles

On the reproduction of the corporate image
Phyllida Shaw
Joan Fowler
Declan McGonagle

Dublin's fair city
A round table discussion
Aine Farrell
Joan Fowler
Paul Keogh
Aileen MacKeogh
Frank McDonald

The way forward
A landscape architecht's perspective

Mansil Miller

Nancy Spero
Leon Golub

in conversation with John Hutchinson

Art pages
Pauline Cummins

Place by place
North by North East

Fionna Barber

Reviews

Michael Fitzpatrick
Joan Fowler

SADE '87
Peter Jordan

Michael Cummins
Gerry Walker

Dan O'Neill
Brian Kennedy

John Bellany
Peter Jordan

Douglas Holmes
Kieran Walsh

All Plus Three
David Brett

Books Reviews

Modernism, Post Modernism, Realism

John Hutchinson

Making Ways
John Kindness

 

CIRCA 37, November / December, 1987

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

Putting art on the agenda
Brian McGuire talking to Declan McGonagle

Open space
Whittling the Yardstick

Samuel Walsh

Dublin here today
Artists on the boards
Lyell Davies

Here and there
Andrew Robarts
Peter Prendergast
Gwen O'Down

Place by place
The stark situation of Westmeath, Louth and Meath

Margaret MacNamidhe

Reviews

Kathleen Furey
Tom Duddy

Fergus Delargy & Diarmuid Delargy
Roy Wallis

Royden Rabinowitch
John Hutchinson

Comic Iconoclasm
Tanya Kiang

Philip McFadden
Gerry Walker

Pat Connor
Peter Jordan

Mick O'Kelly
Kieran Walsh

Book Review

Cinema and Ireland
Tony Fitzmaurice

 

CIRCA 38, January / February, 1988

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

Artangel
Between God and Rambo

Anne Carlisle talking to John Carson

Bridging the gulf
Christopher Coppock talking to Belinda Loftus

Open space
Inside & out
Barbara Freeman

The camera & the peep-hole
Kiaran Walsh talking to Niki Ktori

Art pages
Joe Butler

Reviews

David Barker
Brian Kennedy

Jock McFadyen
Roy Wallis

Helen Hanse
Paul Little

Dominic Snyder
David Brett

Edge
Liam Kelly

Brian Connolly
Anne Carlisle

Kevin O'Farrell
Tanya Kiang

Book Reviews

Cross-Overs: Art into Pop/Pop into Art & Art into Pop
John Hutchinson


David Brett

 

CIRCA 39, April / May, 1988

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

Acni culture
A blurred vision

Martin McLoone

Sonia Boyce
in conversation with John Roberts

Open space
Gun law
Nigel Rolfe


Joan Fowler and David Brett

Full Circle
A conference report

Kieran Walsh

Reviews

Four Artists Many Wednesdays
Gerry Walker

Colin McGookin & Gerard Devlin
David Brett

Kilkenny 9
John Hutchinson

Alice Maher
Jack Pakenham

Debbie Coombes
Lyell Davies

Brian Maguire
Roy Wallis

Celebration of the Bog
Peter Jordan

Triality
Kieran Walsh

Collaboration Prints
Gerry Walker

 

CIRCA 40, June / July, 1988

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

In search of a useful theory
Belinda Loftus

Artpages
Moira McIvor

Colouring the black & white
Willie Doherty in conversation with Christopher Coppock

The critic's prodigal daughter
Feminist writings and art practice
Fionna Barber

Brave new world
Seminar report

Nick Stewart

Reviews

Elaine Callen
Paul Little

Theresa McKenna, Gwen O'Down and Marc Reilly
Peter Jordan

Tony Bevan
Micky Donnelly

James Fearon
Jack Pakenham

Myriad
Tom Duffy

Charles Harper
Gerry Walker

Sound moves
Lyell Davies

CIRCA 41, August / September, 1988

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

A week of British art
Tanya Kiang

Art in the open
The Anna Livia Fountain & the city centre mural, Dublin

Gerry Walker
Mo Bates

May Stevens
in conversation with Fionna Barber

W.A.A.G. seminar report
Joan Fowler

Reviews

Viking Adventure
Tanya Kiang

Dublin Time Capsule
Tanya Kiang

Martin Nangle
Roy Wallis

Lorrayne Murphy
Tom Duddy

Fred Williams
Elaine Hogg

Una Walker
Kieran Walsh

John Aiken
Peter Jordan

Jim Savage & Jim Sheehy
Tom Duddy

Jasper McKinney
James Odling-Smee

CIRCA 42, October / November, 1988

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

8 0n '88
8 views of ROSC '88

Patrick T. Murphy, Fintan O'Toole, Lynne Parker, Pat Murphy, Dorothy Walker, Tony Fitzmaurice, Micky Donnelly, Gerald Barry

Eduardo Chillida
in conversation with David Brett

Sculpture, admin & money
Discussion with Ciaran Benson, Colm Brennan, John Meagher, Aileen MacKeogh, Medb Ruane

Reviews

Phil Nalty/Debi O'Hehir
Tom Duddy

Brendan Kelly
Paul Little

Eithne Jordan
Peter Jordan

Prints & Drawings of the Weimar Republic
Fionna Barber

Cork Sculpture
Tom Duddy

Liadin Cooke
John Hutchinson

Lance Smith
David Brett

The Costakis Collection
Fionna Barber

Felim Egan
John Hutchinson

 

CIRCA 43, December / January, 1989

Circa notes

Preview

Editorial

Feature articles

The land and the landscape
David Brett

Classic ground
A confrontation with the military sublime

Patrick Eyres

Irish postcards and mood photography
Tanya Kiang

Landscape & bord failte eireann films
Mia Gallagher

Reviews

Stephen McKenna
John Hutchinson

Reefer and the Model
Mick Hannigan

Padraic O'Flaithearta
Tom Duddy

Exchange-Germany/Ireland
Peter Jordan

Mary Fitzgerald
John Hutchinson

Lorraine Wall
Peter Jordan

Joyriders
Stephanie McBride

Geraldine O'Reilly
kieran Walsh

Tim Rollins and KOS
Stephanie McBride

 

CIRCA 44, March / April, 1988

Preview

Circa notes

Editorial

Feature articles

Art and technology
Paul O'Brien

The female gaze?
Looking at women in popular imagery

Stephanie McBride

Them and them; us and us
Regional and national stereotypes in British comics

Mike Catto

The avant-garde & popular culture
Discussion with:
Luke Gibbons
John Hutchinson
Nigel Rolfe

Reviews

EV + A
Tom Duddy

Paul Neagu
David Brett


Peter Jordan

Manessier
James Odling-Smee

Our Words Jump to Life
Mark Robinson

Jenny Holzer
James Odling-Smee

Chris Drury
David Brett

CIRCA 45, May / June, 1989

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

The possibilities for a public art
David Brett

Beyond the aesthetic adventure
Public art & education

Sally Morgan

Collaboration
Impossible dream - or achievable reality?

Margaret Robinette

Art in public places
Pages from a continuing logbook

Tony Hill

Artpages
with the assistance of Derry City Council

Anthony Davies

The place of the public in public sculpture
Response to F.E. McWilliams's Princess Macha

Roy Wilkinson

Phototrail
Mick O'Kelly

Reviews

Television Arts Magazines
Martin McLoone

Cork Prison education Unit
Kieran Walsh

Michael Warren
Tom Duddy

Rory Donaldson
James Odling-Smee

Basil Blackshaw, Barry Callaghan and John Kindness
James Odling-Smee

Power in the Blood
Roy Wallis

Patricia Hurl
Kieran Walsh

Bill Viola
Paul O'Brien

Cristina Rubalcava
James Odling-Smee

 

CIRCA 46, July / August, 1989

Circa notes

Editorial

Feature articles

Inside the last great American whale
The politicys of Modernism

Francis Frascina

The English look of the Irish map
Mary Hamer

Putting public art on the agenda
James Odling-Smee
Kieran Walsh

Poor people's films
a conversation with Lelia Doolan

Reviews

Diarmuid Delargy
James Odling-Smee

Michael Beirne
Peter Jordan

Neil Shawcross
James Odling-Smee

Sue Coe
Fionna Barber

Sam Walsh
Hugh Maxton

Michael Cummins
Peter Jordan

A State of Siege
Derry's Walls

Mia Gallagher

Michael Mulcahy
John Hutchinson

 

CIRCA 47, September / October, 1989

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

The notion of craft
David Brett

Dancing in the dark
Craft and composition

Kevin Volans

My butcher sells onions
A plea for creative action
Gordon Woods

Ceramics
The jammed gatling

Sean McCrum

Feminism and craftwork
Gillian Elinor

Makers and questions about others
Annie Fatet

Reviews

Archive Films
Stephanie McBride

Sculpture in Context
Margaret MacNaimidhe

Patrick Hall
Fintan Cullen

Patrick Ireland
David Brett

George Braque and Martin Wedge
James Odling-Smee

T.J. Maher
Robert O'Byrne

Ferenc Martyn
Hugh Maxton

Book Review
John Hutchinson

 

CIRCA 48, November / December, 1989

Circa notes

Preview

Editorial

Feature articles

Modernism, Postmodernism and beyond
Paul O'Brien

Postmodernism in Ireland
Notes and proposition

John Hutchinson

A possibility of hope
An interview with Rene Castro

Fionna Barber

The floozie in the Jacuzzi
The title is not one, but many

Ailbhe Smyth

Reviews

Philip Guston
Kevin Volans

Gwen O'Dowd
D.C. Rose

Basil Blackshaw and Cherith McKinstry
James Odling-Smee

Orchard Installations
David Brett

Alicia Boyle
Robert O'Byrne

John Burke
Samuel Walsh

Elizabeth Magill
Brian Hand

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Peter Jordan

Claremorris Open
Tom Duddy

 

CIRCA 49, January / February, 1989

Preview

Circa notes

Letters

Feature articles

Portrait of the Nation as a young Gallery
Hugh Maxton

Disguising dependence
Separatism and foreign mass culture

Kevin Rockett

Dialogue
Artists and schools

Niamh O'Sullivan

The electonic craftsman
A conversation with John Frazer

David Brett

Reviews

Richard Livingstone
Paul Little

'Masks' and 'Muppets'
Monica Frawley

Vivienne Roche
Aidan Dunne

Joan Jameson
Fionna Barber

Alice Maher
Peter Jordan

EV&A 89
Tom Duddy

Dermot Seymour
Mike Catto

Book Review
David Brett

 

CIRCA 50, March / April, 1990

Circa notes

Editorial

Preview

Feature articles

Regionalism reconsidered
Joan Fowler

Artpages
Anne Tallentire

Shifting the goalposts
Anne Carlisle & Christopher Coppock

Artpages
Alistair Wilson

Sense, direction and selected images
Irish art in the 1980s

John Hutchinson

Review
A special supplement

Sculpture
Liam Kelly

Photography
A selection

Public Art
Declan McGonagle

Two Artists
Micky Donnelly
John Meany

Performance
Alistair MacLennon
Nigel Rolfe

Crafts
Nicola Gordon Bowe

Painting
Aidan Dunne


Artpages
Liam Frinse

Lear's fool and Goya's dilemma
Irish film and peripheral culture

Martin McLoone


 

 

CIRCA 51, May / June, 1990

Circa notes

Preview

Editorial

Feature articles

The experience of modernity
at the centre and the periphery
Martin Gaughan

Mother Ireland & loyalist ladies
Belinda Loftus

Artpages
Danny McCarthy

Ireland in the news
Questions of responsability

Lewis Johnson

Artpages
Jaki Irvine

Going round in circles
The Celtic revival and graphic arts

Pat Donlon

Reviews

Tom Fitzgerald
Peter Jordan

Jill Dennis
Vera Ryan

Marie Foley
Mary FitzGerald

Tim Goulding
Robert O'Byrne

Anne Madden
Aidan Dunne

John Kindness
Mike Catto

Peter Morgan
Luke Verling

Janet Mullarney
Kieran Walsh

Books

Art for Public Places
Declan McGonagle

Art, Politics and Ireland
Roy Wallis

Still war
Gerry Burns

CIRCA 52, July / August, 1990

Circa notes

Preview

Feature articles

Irishness and art criticism
Mary Stinson Cosgrove

Further questions of responsability
Lewis Johnson

Making space for sculpture
A conversation

Aileen McKeogh & Deirdre O'Connell

Stirring pools that might stink
A conference report

Jonathan Harris

Reviews

Alistair MacLennon
David Brett

Kathy Prendergast
Aidan Dunne

Amelia Stein
Peter Jordan

Aidan Linehan
Luke Verling

Pat Looby & Ann O'Reagan
Emer McNamara

Alistair Wilson
Aidan Dunne

Brian Maguire
Hugh Maxton

Clement McAleer
Damien Coyle

Cork Artists Collective
Kieran Walsh

Jack Pakenham
Slavka Sverakova

Books

Women, Art and Society
Fionna Barber

19th Century Realist Art
Slavka Sverakova

Comment

CIRCA 53, July / August, 1990

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

The construction of heritage
David Brett

Looking beyond regionalism
Declan McGonagle

The new brutalism
Frampton reconsidered

Linda Krause

Aspiring to the condition of language
Poetry and Irish cinema

Kathleen McCracken

Reviews

Charles Tyrell
Vera Ryan

Robert Ballagh
Mary FitzGerald

Willie Doherty
Jaki Irvine

David Crone
Robert O'Byrne

Micky Donnelly
Joan Fowler

Dorothy Cross
Aidan Dunne

Anselm Kiefer
Fionna Barber

Six Romanian Artists
David Brett

Pamela Hardesty
Sarah Finlay

CIRCA 54, November / December, 1990

Preview

Circa notes

Feature articles

Of markts, fairs and biennales
Slavka Sverakova

Over the bridge
The rise of Irish art

Ian Kirk-Smith

Politics, patronage and public art
David Baggaley

Aspiring to the condition of language 2
Poetry and Irish cinema

Kathleen McCracken

Reviews

Brian Kennedy
Kieran Walsh

If Stones Could Speak
David Brett

Art from the Frontline
Noel McGuigan

William Crozier
Vera Ryan

Mosaic
Joan Fowler

Nature and Culture
Mike Catto

The Field
Mia Gallagher

CIRCA 55, January / February, 1991

Circa notes

Editorial

Feature articles

Home and away
Contemporary markets
Robert O'Byrne
Sean McCrum
John Hutchinson

TSWA in Derry
Fionna Barber
Moira McIver
Melanie Counsell

Utopia - a picture story
Sean McCrum

Between categories
Morton Feldman

Review

John Noel Smith
Aidan Dunne

Alfonso Monreal
Damien Coyle

Barbara Freeman
Peter Jordan

Derek Speirs
Tanya Kiang

Sexuality and Gender
Mike Catto

Grace Weir
Fionna Barber

Irish Short Films
Brian Guckian

Books

Mirrors
Noel McGuigan

CIRCA 56, March / April, 1991

Circa notes

Preview

Editorial

Feature articles

More heat than light
Glasgow's year of culture
Hilary Robinson

The real thing
Archeology and popular culture

Pat Cook

Historicism and modernity
New building in Belfast

David Brett

Spirit of the festival
Martin McLoone

Review

Cathy Carman
Fionna Barber

GPA Awards
Joan Fowler

Mary Duffy
Tom Duddy

Michael Kane
Fintan Cullen

Myth and Mystification
Mike Catto

Martin Parr
Tanya Kiang

Poesis Line Object
David Brett


The last word

Off the beaten track
Mairead Byrne

CIRCA 57, May / June, 1991

Editorial

Circa notes


John Hutchinson

Feature articles

Eminent Fomorians
Irish art in Liverpool

Sean Cubitt

Children's art
A new perspective

Gordon Woods

The possibility of portraiture
David Brett

Hidden agenda
Politics and the thriller

John Hill

The tip of the iceberg
Katie Donovan
Deirdre O'Connell

Review

Nuala Gregory
Fionna Barber

Modernism and Abstraction
Mike Catto

Chris Doris
Felicity Woolf

Philip Napier
Damian Coyle

Austin McQuinn
Peter Jordan

Politics and Polemics
Mike Catto

Jack B Yeats
Martin Gaughan

EV + A 91
Tom Duddy

 

CIRCA 58, July / August, 1991

Front cover

Preview

Editorial

Circa notes


Elaine Thomas

Feature articles

The Douglas Hyde
A short history

Kieran Walsh

The making of a new tradition
Mark Robinson

On palimpsests
The art of curation

Mike Catto

Could do better...
The Hyde and women's art

Fionna Barber
Mary FitzGerald

Books

Interpreting Contemporary Art
Jamshid Mirfenderesky

Review

John Keane
Mark Robinson with Fionna Barber

Tom Bevan
Damien Coyle

Karl Grimes
Donald Sheehan

New Contemporaries
Chris Bailey

In a State
Hugh Maxton

Ciaran Lennon
Aidan Dunne

CIRCA 59, September / October, 1991

Front cover

Circa notes

Preview

Editorial

Feature articles

Displays of Power
With Foucault in the Museum
Brandon Taylor

Sleeping with the Past
Collecting and Ireland

Luke Dodd

Inheritance and Transformation
Old Grounds, New Contexts?

Joan Fowler

Men of the West
An interview with Paul O'Reilly

Collections

The Arts Councils
Chris Bailey

The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
Peter Jordan

The Ulster Museum
Mike Catto

The Crawford Municipal Gallery
Kieran Walsh

Glebe House
David Brett

The Irish Film Archive
Mia Gallagher

On the Record
Breeda Mooney

 

CIRCA 60, November / December, 1991

Front cover

Circa notes

Editorial

Feature articles

Art and ecology
A new orthodoxy
Paul O'Brien

Centre of gravity
Declan McGonagle
In conversation

Snapshot photography
Sean McCrum

Review

Intermedia
Vera Ryan

Blue Funk
Paul O'Brien

Sean Og McAteer
Damien Coyle

Alan Ladak
Martin Gaughan

EspaCe
Aidan Dunne

Sculpture Park Proposals
David Brett

Bringing it All Back Home
Fintan Vallely

On the record
Oliver Dowling

CIRCA 61, January / February, 1992

Front cover

Circa notes

Editorial

Feature articles

Modernism and Ireland's selves
Ciaran Benson

Available resources
Brian Kennedy
Brian Connolly
Paul Little

A modern disease
Art and heritage management

Pat Cooke

The art of death
Aileen MacKeogh's 'house'
Felicity Woolf

The art of managing the arts
First conference responses

Patricia Quinn
Martin Drury
Tom Weir
Pat Cooke
Belinda Loftus

Review

Eiji Okubo
Gordon Woods

Graham Gingles
Damien Coyle

John Aiken
Anthony Bartley

Cecil King
Aidan Dunne

Per Barclay
David Brett

Gerhard Richter
Fionna Barber

Marion Urch
Fionna Barber

Books

The Myth of Primitivism
John Hutchinson

On the record
Brian Ferran

CIRCA 62, Autumn, 1992

Front cover

Editorial

News

Gallery

Feature articles

Material evidence
The cultural traditions debate
David Brett

The struggle of humanity
John Heartfield reconsidered

Martin Gaughan

Postcard from the hedge
The art of promotion

Marion Fitzgibbon

Work in process
David Crone & David Brett

The CIRCA interview
Clive Priestley

Mark Robinson

Unity and diversity
The Dublin arts report

Critical mass
The art of promotion

Sven–Claude Bettinger

G is for Greenaway
Stephanie McBride

Review

Sebastiao Salgado
Tanya Kiang

Terry Atkinson
Paul O'Brien

Dorothy Cross
Siraj Izhar

Moira Mclver
Joan Fowler

Shane Cullen
Paul O'Brien

Wolfgang Laib
Mary FitzGerald

Sounding the Depths
Jaki Irvine

Donald Teskey
Peter Jordan

Tina O'Connell
Nora Broderick

Cecily Brennan
Paul O'Brien

Sean Rothery
David Brett

Update

On the record
Jan Ashdown

CIRCA 63, Spring, 1993

Front cover

Gallery

Editorial

News

Feature articles

Telling tales
The Irish storyteller in the information age
Desmond Bell

End of an empire?
Art in the former soviet union

Susan Reid

Afterthoughts on random access


Dinosaurs alive!
at the Ulster museum
Sean McCrum

Re–imaging Belfast
William Neill

The final frontier
A visit to Flaxart Studios

Slavka Sverakova

The CIRCA interview
Gene Lambert

Anne Kelly

Responses to John Heartfield
William Neill

Review

David Godbold
Aidan Dunne

FergusDelargy
Damien Coyle

Charlie Whisker
Paul O'Brien

Blue Funk
Michael Wilson

Mark Pepper
Tony Bartley

Ann–Marie Robinson
Gerda Spence

Annette Messager
Hilary Robinson

Mike Fitzpatrick
Samuel Walsh

The Anatomy Lesson
Barbara Freeman

Four Installations
Slavka Sverakova

The Crying Game
Roddy Flynn

Book Reviews

Update

On the record
Aileen MacKeogh

CIRCA 64, Summer, 1993

Front cover

Editorial

News & letters

Gallery

Feature articles

Irish art in New York
Anna O'Sullivan

Another island
Japanese art in Ireland

Caoimhin Mac Giolla Léith

Art for a new Scotland?
Angus Calder

The CIRCA interview
Sir Charles Brett

David Brett

Work in process
Aidan Dunne & Nigel Rolfe

Cork works
Studio spaces in Cork

William Gallagher

All about EV+ A

Review

Mary McIntyre
Slavka Sverakova

Patricia Hurl / Therry Rudin
Anna Maria Dowdican

Brian Fielding / Mark Ainsworth
David Brett

Ida Applebroog
Hilary Robinson

I am history now
Tony Bartley

Clifford Collie
Paddy Johnson

Catherine Harper
Gemma Tipton

Ken Hardy
Eamonn Crudden

Cork / Cracow
Jo Allen

Unspoken Truths

Roisin Kennedy

The Bargain Shop
Stephanie McBride

The Visit
Evelyn Conlon

Into The West
Donal Dineen

Moving statues
Frank McGayley

Update

On the record
Christine Redmond

CIRCA 65, Autumn, 1993

Front cover

Editorial

News & letters

Gallery

Feature articles

Back projection
John Hinde and the New Nostalgia
Luke Gibbons

Metal and meat
The human in the age of non–biological reproduction

Paul O'Brien

The CIRCA interview
Bernard Loughlin

David Brett

Face value
Commemoration and its discontents
Sighle Bhreathnach–Lynch

Tír Sáile
Tom Duddy

Post post–modernism?
Urban Design in Belfast

Malachy McEldowney

Trick or treat?
Perspective on John Hinde

Review

Cork city artists
Jo Allen

Belfast Young Contemporaries
Damien Coyle

Venice Biennale
Dorothy Walker

Ian Joyce
Eamonn Crudden

Lynne Connolly
Terry Loane

Martin Mullin
James Scarborough

Karl Grimes
Paddy Johnson

Re–Locating History
Sarah Edge

Alistair MacLennan
Gavin Murphy

Video Positive '93
Sean Olsen

Elaine Reichek
Desmond Bell

Victor Treacy Award Show
Aidan Dunne

Horse
Anthony O'Keeffe

Tourism in Ireland
Tom Duddy

The Mediation of Ornament
David Brett

Update

On the record
Maurna Crozier

CIRCA 66, Winter, 1993

Front cover

Editorial

News & letters

Gallery

Feature articles

Image banks
Zoo TV and the music industry spectacle
Gary Phelan

Edge in the centre
Irish artists in London

Siraj Izhar

Silent no more
Rex Ingram and the silent cinema

Kevin Rochett

The CIRCA interview
The Film Institute of Ireland
Mark Robinson

Art al fresco
An open air contemporary art museum

Brian Kennedy

Artist run
Artist–initiated projects

Hilary Robinson

The deep end
Perspective on the Arts Council Gallery, Belfast

Review

Michael McCaughan
Linda McClelland

Naked Formed
Jonathan Cassidy

Rachel Joynt
John Farrell

Morgan Doyle
Marry Anne Francis

Backwater Artists
Michael Wilson

The Exploding Cinema
Roddy Flynn

Jack Donovan
Gemma Tipton

X Marks
John Farrell

Celebrating Difference
Kathleen Delaney

Interiors
Paddy Johnson

Ronnie Hughes
Colin Darke

Terence Gravett
Eilís O Baoill

Willie Doherty
Martin McCabe

See Through Art
Eamonn Crudden

Black Wind, White Land
John O'Farrell

After '68
Roddy Flynn

The Post–Modern Reader
Paul O'Brien

Update

On the record
Sandy Fitzgerald

CIRCA 67, Spring, 1994

Front cover

Editorial

News

Gallery

Feature articles

Protestant culture
Damien Coyle

In a Spin
Michael Cronin

The politics of creativity
Tom Duddy

The CIRCA interview
Jan Hoet
Tanya Kiang

The tuning of the world
Mark McLoughlin

The rare new times
Simon Walker

IMMA three years on

Get out of it
Jason Oakley

Art event
Vivien Burnside

Review

Ger Sweeney
Colin Darke

Jeff Wall
Paul O'Brien

Nicola Russell
Colin Darke

Philip McFadden
Damien Coyle

Martina Galvin
Ellen Beardsley

Evelyn Montague
David Rose

Seán Hillen
Brian McAvera

Deirdre McLoughlin
David Brett

Peter Rice
David Brett

Quadrant
Brian Coates

Mary McIntyre
Terry Loane

12 x 16
Gemma Tipton

Biba
Deirdre Campion

Shiraz Houshiary
Hilary Robinson

Film
Orla Walsh

Books
David Brett

Update

On the record
The Head Gallery

CIRCA 68, Summer, 1994

Front cover

Editorial


Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

The politics of location
The creation of a 'cultural quarter' at Temple Bar

Catherine Cleary

Hungry Grass
The new famine museum at Strokestown house
Niall O'Ciosáin

Windows on a world
David Brett and Jill McKeown re–interpret
Belfast's domestic stained–glass

Yellow pack workers unite
Eamon Crudden on the situation facing
Scheme workers in the arts

Art, class and the sectarian divide
Colin Darke analyses Protestant culture from a Marxist perspective

Terminal art
Tanya Kiang talks to the makers and organisers of three art projects in Heathrow airport

Art of participation
Community arts workers respond

Review

Elizabeth Magill
Mic Moroney

Living Quarters
Sam Walsh

Kalachakra Sand Mandala
Gerry Byrne & Ronan McCrea

Vivien Burnside
Gavin Weston

Dorothy Cross
Hilary Robinson

Esmond Bingham
Anthony Bartley

Jimmie Durham
Mick Wilson & Martin McCabe

Finbar Kelly
Peter Jordan

Ev +A "94
Hilary Robinson

Locky Morris
Elaine Hogg

Eilis O'Connell
Martin Gaughan

Nick Miller
Aidan Dunne

The Trouble with Art
Damien Coyle

The Bishop's Story
Roddy Flynn

Fundraising: the artist's guide
Valerie Connor

Update

Rory Donaldson
Colin Darke

Liadin Cooke
Eamonn Crudden

Anthony Gormley
Paul O'Brien

On the record
Micky Donnelly on Queen street Studios

CIRCA 69, Autumn, 1994

Front cover

Editorial

News

Feature articles

Time–based art
Mick Wilson & Martin McCabe clear the ground for a history of time–based work

Making notes : nothing making
David Brett on lan Joyce's recent preformance / installation

Cuchulainn lives on
John Turpin explores the contradictory afterlife of the hero of the Ulster saga

Muti–Media Multi–Hype
Gemma Tipton explores artists' involvement in the new technologies

Work in process
Babel Bitmap – a colloaboration

Michael Cunningham (text), Jerome Doran (design) and Roger Doyle (music)

Diaspora
Ken Hardy assesses the Diaspora project at its mid-term point

The CIRCA interview
Joan Fowler asks Declan McGonagle and Anne Davern about IMMA's forthcoming season, From Beyond the pale

Dressing up
Sheila Gorman on the conservatism of Irish dress

Vox pop
Initial responses to the Arts Counil's draft strategy report

Review

Corban Walker
Paul O'Neill

Conor Kelly
John Seth

Labour in Art / art at work
Michael Kissane

Fionnuala Ní Chiosáin
Aidan Dunne

Katherine Beug
Hilary O'Kelly

Michael Canning
Louise Masterson

Beyond the Partitions
Terry Loane

Hit & run
Brian Kennedy

Gavin Hogg / Robert Baker
Marion Lovett

Una Bryce
Gavin Weston

Eilis O'Baoill
Elaine Hogg

Íontas
Damien Coyle

Working on the Bypass
Jules Maxwell

Mirrors: Orange & Green
Oona Woods

Beyond the Partitions
David Brett

Update

Andrew Kearney
Marion Lovett

Felim Egan
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Finola Jones
Damien Coyle

On the record
Kate Rivers on art sponsorship

CIRCA 70, Winter, 1994

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Seminal Art
Aidan Dunne re–appraises the Irish 'New Expressionists'

Celto–Kitsch and the Sublime
David Brett analyses the construction of popular history at the Navan Visitors Centre

The CIRCA interview
Luke Gibbons talks to the Minister for arts, culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D Higgins

Light matters
John Hutchinson reflects on 'Turrell in Cork'

Work in process
An innovative collaboration between Cindy Cummings, Nuala Ní Dhomnail and Amelia Stein

Beyond borders
Colin Darke assesses the Donegal / Derry arts project

Art in context
Jackie Ryan reports on site–specific installations at the National Maternity Hospital

Irish Days
Irish artists report from Irish Days ll in Poland

 

Review

Bill Woodrow
Damien Coyle

Susan MacWilliam
Gavin Weston

Fibre art
Alyce Mahon

Kathy Herbert
Elaine Hogg

Bill Penney
Siobhan White

Nick Stewart
Eamonn Crudden

Nhan Duc Nguyen
Colin McGookin

Site–actions
Martin Gaughan

Picasso to Koons
Paul O'Brien

Selected works and projects
Jason Phipps

Michael Boran
Ali Corcoran


James Coleman
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Annabel König and Donal Hurley
Michael Cunningham

What She Wants
Elaine Sisson

Update

Sean Scully
Samuel Walsh

Richard Wilson
Tanya Kiang

Deirdre O'Connell
David Brett

On the record
Robert Agnew on Visual arts at the Belfast Festival

 

CIRCA 71, Spring, 1995

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Peacelines
Artists and artsworkers on 'the ceasefire'

Translations
Eamonn Crudden considers how artists have approached the issue of colonialism in Ireland

Art unlimited
Luke Verling looks at a major exhibition in France


Rita Duffy and Gavin Weston

Sport on the sidelines
Eamon O hOisin argues the benefits of partnerships between corporate sponsors and arts organisations


Mark Carruthers talks to Donnell Deeny, Chair of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Showing abroad
Alice Maher and Philip Napier on the Sao Paolo Bienal

Safety zone
Gemma Tipton explores the role of public art galleries

 

Review

Janet Pierce
Alison Pilkington

Ursula Murray
Marion Lovett

Anne Tallentire and John Seth
Daniel Jewesbury

Forecast
Louise Masterson

Michael Coleman
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Daphne Wright
Rob Stone

Quadrant
Emer McNamara

Malin Starrett
Terry Loane

Roxy Walsh
Heidi Reitmeier

Rodney Dickson
Libby Anson

Alice Maher
Aidan Dunne


Alisling O'Beirn
Mic Moroney

Books

Nano Reid
Declan Mallon

Irish Art 1830–1990
Brian Fallon

Ireland: Art into History
Brian P. Kennedy & R. Gillespie

Update

John Kindness
Stephanie McBride

Mary FitzGerald
Kate Robinson

Brian Kennedy
Damien Coyle

John Behan
Hilary Pyle

On the record
Michael Morgan on the Disability Arts movement

CIRCA 72, Summer, 1995

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Reframing women
Hilary Robinson discusses concepts of essentialism in contemporary art theory and practice

Widening the web
Ivan Pope explores new narrative structures and the resources available to artists on the Internet

Far pavilions
Kate Rivers gives an overview of 100 years of the Venice Biennale and looks at Irish participation at the event


Stephanie McBride talks to film maker Pat Murphy

Curate's Egg
Curators describe their role and their relationship to artists

The art of work
Ali Corcoran reports on a programme which brings together art and industry

Review

O'Hehir, O'Hehir and Gillan
Alyce Mahon

Poetic Land–Political Territory
Hilary Robinson

Symbols
Fintan Brady

Maurice O'Connell
Derval FitzGerald

Intermedia '95
Emer McNamara

Rita Donagh
Bernadette Buckley & Jamie Stapleton

Jonnie Wilkes and Jim Lambie
Richard Wright

Cléa van der Grijn
Hilary Pyle

Marry Duffy
Mo White

Theo Sims
Paul Robinson

EV+A '95
Aidan Dunne


Mick Wilson
Luke Clancy

PSI Museum Studio Artists
Anna O'Sullivan

Mirja Tuomi
Aidan Dunne

Seán Shanahan
Marian Lovett

Korea
Roddy Flynn

Update

Martin Mullin
Patricia Isaza

Clifford Collie
Jane Humphries

IMMA Glen Dimplex
Medb Ruane

On the record
Marian Lovett on Public Art

CIRCA 73, Autumn, 1995

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Interactive Art
Digital technologies are no longer confined to the computer screen. Anne Carlisle charts the terrain

This is not an advert
Alyce Mahon explores the two–way traffic between advertising and the Surrealists

Pooling resources
Gemma Tipton looks at the issues raised with the establishment of Belfast's new Ormeau Baths Gallery


Paul Dunne talks to artist Paul O'Neill

Body of work
Liam Kelly assesses the highlights of the Venice Biennale

Degree showdown
Artists, teachers and gallerists give their views

Review

Suzanna Chan
Jo Slade

Subterraneans
Damien Coyle

Linda Brunker
Paddy Johnson

Irish Steel
Angela Mehegan

Axel Miret
Tom Duddy

1st Wexford Artist's Book Exhibition
Kathleen Delaney

Barrage
Paul Robinson

Barbara Freeman
Hilary Pyle

Fergus Feehily and Jason Roche
Sam Walsh

Collaborate
Paul Robinson

Belfast Young Contemporaries
Andrew Gooding


Kerlin Group Show
Martin McCabe

Feargal Fitzpatrick
Brian Coates

Íontas
Marian Lovett

Corban Walker
Marian Lovett

Memories in Focus and Irish Cinema
Martin McCabe

History of the NCAD
David Brett

Update

Patrick Hall
Gemma Tipton

Count the Cost
Brian Kennedy

On the record
Julie Parsons on Black Box

CIRCA 74, Winter, 1995

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

The photographic fix
Tanya Kiang assesses new developments in Irish photography

Alien city
A new multi–media collaboration

Spectacle of the body
Mark Dawes explores Marina Abramovic's performance work and transitional sculptures

Structures & arrangements ll
Mark Robinson looks at the opportunities and challenges in To the Millennium

Work in process
Alastair MacLennan / David Brett (Photography: Erroll Forbes)


Andy Goldsworthy talks to Marian Lovett

Cultural re–mix
Elspeth Sage discusses new frameworks for developing international art exchange

Processing the peace
A visual essay by Mary Fitzpatrick

Review

Colin Darke
Colin Darke

Camac
Con Power

Tom Fitzgerald
Action Dunne

Art as the Object of Desire
Andrew Gooding

James Mathers
Malcolm Mac Clancy

Compulsive Objects
Martin McCabe

Nepotism
Gavin Murphy

I love you
Jane Humphries

Seven Northern Artists
Angela Mehegan

Simon Reily
Elaine Coyle

Patrick Ireland
Jo Allen


Jack Pakenham
Gemma Tipton

Evening Echoes
Michael Cunningham

Live
Conor Kostik

Feminist art criticism
Elaine Sisson

Irish Art Masterpieces
Niamh O'Sullivan

Taken down in evidence
Tanya Kiang

Update

Rita Duffy
Chris Wilson

Patrick Heron
Samuel Walsh

Michael Kane
Aidan Dunne

On the record
Gemma Tipton on North–south Co–operation

CIRCA 75, Spring, 1996

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Better to stammer the truth ...
Declan McGonagle looks into the current state of art writing in Ireland

Confronting multiculturalism
Fintan Cullen explores the Irish–Mexican–Chicano touring show Distant Relations

Exchange resources
Hilary Robinson on the latest series of international events in Belfast

Seen and not herded
Niamh O'Sullivan reports on developments at The Ark, Temple Bar's new centre for children's arts


Tanya Kiang talks to Guy Tortosa, curator of EV+A 96

Work in process
Dorothy Cross / Jo Anna Isaak

Journey into the artworld
Views from Derry and London on the BBC's Art Marathon

A picture taken the year before the abuse began
A project by Daniel Jewesbury

Review

Cork Artists' Collective
Conor Kostik

Spiderland

Karen Vaughan

Breaking the Silence on Violence
Bernie Casey

Catherine Owens
Paddy Johnson

By the By
Vera Ryan

Beyond Borders Plus
Colin Darke

North West '95
Alison Pilkington

Diana Copperwhite
Marian Lovett

Quadrant
Samuel walsh

Seven Go
Jane Humphries

Are You Mad?
Lorraine Whelan


Guiltrip
Roddy Flynn

Still Irish
Stephanie McBride

Update

Michael Warren
Aidan Dunne

Basil Blackshaw
Karen Vaughan

Charles Tyrrell
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Felim Egan
Hilary Pyle

On the record
Una Walker on the International Association Artists

CIRCA 76, Summer, 1996

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Carnal knowledge
David Brett on the invisibility of painting in the age of mechanical reproduction

Swerved in naught
How is photography being taken up in fine art practice? Brian Hand compares the approaches of Willie Doherty and Tim Maul

Public under statement
Marian Lovett assesses the public art content and the implications of the Invited Section at this year's EV+A

Cultural confidence
Arguing that a true internationalism would look beyond established centres, Gemma Tipton draws out the parallels between Scotland and Ireland

Work in process
Bridge – a sculpture / architecture / graphic design collaboration between Corban Walker, Simon Walker and Peter Maybury

Open channel
Tanya Kiang introduces the Irish Art Channel, a new space for Irish art on the World Wide Web

Art pages
Acceptible Sites for Violence, an art project by Maria Fusco

Review

Showing Off

Gill McKnight

Ronnie Hughes
Peter Jordan

Susan Hiller
Fionna Barber

Martin Finnin
Mark Ewart

Kathlyn O'Brien
Aidan Dunne

Lawrence Cassidy
Nicholas Allen

Daphne Wright
Shirley MacWilliam

Gleigh Gaughan & Sean Cotter
Rod Stoneman

Philip Napier & Phelan / McLoughlin
Tanya Kiang

Katharine West
Medb Ruane

Deirdre O'Connell
Gavin Weston

Deirdre Behan
Vona Groarke

Seán Hillen
John M. Farrell

Críos
Jane Tynan

A.B.B.A.C.U.S.
Eoghan McTigue

Shaping a City
Chris Wilson

Update

Chris Wilson
Ian Hill

Abel Badheart
Medb Ruane

Maurice O'Connell
Gemma Tipton

On the record
Fiona Kearney on the question of artistic value

CIRCA 77, Autumn, 1996

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Intimate spaces
Alanna O'Kelly talks about her work with Medb Ruane

Louise Bourgeois
A preview of the veteran's sculptural and graphic works

Measured words
Shane Cullen's current project assessed by Peter Suchin

Seeing sound
Andrea Phillips discusses sound theatre in the work of Conor Kelly

Fly by night
Simon Roche explores the graphic language of nightclub flyers

Work in process
Table – a print–making project by Andrew Folan with text by Tanya Kiang

Irish free state
Peter FitzGerald literally looks at language

Art pages
Clarity isn't everything – an art project by Carol Murphy

Review

Mike Fitzpatrick
Aoife McNamara

Grace Weir
Michael Cunningham

David Shrigley
Mike Wilson

Mark Dale
Robert Bertoia

Jaki Irvine
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Language, Mapping & Power
Ian Sutherland

Art of the State
Jo Allen

L'Imaginaire Irlandais
Hilary Pyle

Fix 96
Kevin Henderson

Helena Gorey
Catherine Heaney

Gavin Weston
Eoin O'Broin

Caroline McCarthy
Lorraine Whelan

Pride in Diversity
Jane Tynan

Margaret Tuffy
Gemma Tipton

Film: 81
Martin McCabe

Book: Contextual Media
Jobst Graeve

Update

Cecily Brennan
Aidan Dunne

Cóilín Murray
Fiona Kearney

Ed & Nancy Reddin–Kienholz
Louise Curham

On the record
Nikki Diana Marquardt gives her account of The Bridge

CIRCA 78, Autumn, 1996

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Intimate spaces
Alanna O'Kelly talks about her work with Medb Ruane

Louise bourgeois
A preview of the veteran's sculptural and graphic works

Measured words
Shane Cullen's current project assessed by Peter Suchin

Seeing sound
Andrea Phillips discusses sound theatre in the work of Conor Kelly

Fly by night
Simon Roche explores the graphic language of nightclub flyers

Work in process
Table – a print–making project by Andrew Folan with text by Tanya Kiang

Irish free state
Peter FitzGerald literally looks at language

Art pages
Clarity isn't everything – an art project by Carol Murphy

Review

Mike Fitzpatrick
Aoife McNamara

Grace Weir
Michael Cunningham

David Shrigley
Mike Wilson

Mark Dale
Robert Bertoia

Jaki Irvine
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Language, Mapping & Power
Ian Sutherland

Art of the State
Jo Allen

L'Imaginaire Irlandais
Hilary Pyle

Fix 96
Kevin Henderson

Helena Gorey
Catherine Heaney

Gavin Weston
Eoin O'Broin

Caroline McCarthy
Lorraine Whelan

Pride in Diversity
Jane Tynan

Margaret Tuffy
Gemma Tipton

Film: 81
Martin McCabe

Book: Contextual Media
Jobst Graeve

Update

Cecily Brennan
Adian Dunne

Cóilín Murray
Fiona Kearney

Ed & Nancy Reddin–Kienholz
Louise Curham

On the record
Nikki Diana Marquardt gives her account of The Bridge

CIRCA 79, Spring, 1997

Front cover

Editorial

News

Feature articles

Body of work
The debate over painting's power continues

Working it out
Mark Orange analyses models of public art practice

The living dead
An essay by Raymond Bellour on the work of James Coleman

Art pages
Urban gaps by Oliver Godow

The CIRCA interview
Tanya Greenfield, Lottery Officer talks to Derval FitzGerald

Work in process
Harpers & Quinn – Catherine Harper & Billy Quinn

Neither visionary nor porpoise
Tricia Cusack questions the modernist mythology surrounding Jack B.Yeats

Art pages
Recent work by Kevin McCutcheon

Review

Scream and Scream Again
Timothy Martin

Lorraine Whelan
Vona Groarke

Janet Mullarney
Gemma Tipton

Waiting Spaces
Marian Lovett

Louise Bourgeois
Gill Tipton

Hegarty / Kearney / Napier
Bernadette Buckley & Jaime Stapleton

Deirdre O'Mahony
Emer Williams

Art in Time

Peter Jordan

The Art Trail
Conor Kostik

Marcella Reardon
Mark Ewart

Jeanette Doyle
Angeline Morrison

8th Mostyn Open
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Directors Show
Eilís O'Baoill

Proposition
Eoin O'Broin

Book: The Return of the Real
Angeline Morrison

CD–Rom: Pluperfect
Peter FitzGerald

Update

The Black Room
Maurice O'Connell

Peter Morgan
Fiona Kearney

Finola Jones
Paddy Johnson

On the record
Grainne Mac Lochlainn discusses the planned National Photographic Archive

CIRCA 80, Summer, 1997

Front cover

Editorial

News

Feature articles

Art Pages
Jaki Irvine presents Losing Doris and extracts from Another Difficult Sunset

Trusting inter–relations
Mark Dawes discusses art, the real world and Alastair MacLennan

The CIRCA interview
Sam Walsh asks Stephen McKenna about The Pursuit of Painting

On the waterfront
John Stephenson looks at Belfast's new Waterfront Hall for lessons for Dublin's Docklands redevelopment

Being Seen
Marian Lovett analyses recent developments in the imaging of Ireland and of Irish art

Image, drama, history
Heritage presentations owe as much to the circus tent as to the lecture hall argues Pat Cooke

Art pages
Fiona and Me by Ronan McCrea and Eva

Publications update
Tanya Kiang assesses recent art publications

Review

Ann O'Regan
Jo Slade

Hughie O'Donoghue
Sam Walsh

Elizabeth Byrne
Angela Mehegan

How I Learned to Love Photography
Jo Allen

John Brady
Ian Wieczorek

Philip Napier
Colin Darke

Dympna Molloy
Lorraine Whelan

Intermedia '97
Mark Ewart

Alice McCartney
James Kerr

Danielle Kraay
Emer Williams

Clubhouse
Luke Clancy

Kathy Prendergast
Helen Swords

Video Cats
Gavin Weston

Heather Fleming
Mo White

Symposium: Infusion '97
Sean Taylor

Sensing the Future
Paul O'Brien

Update

Charles Cullen
Hilary Pyle

Nigel Rolfe
Marian Lovett

Dorothy Cross
Angela Mehegan

On the record
Tanya Kiang discusses a recent bid for Millennium funding

CIRCA 81, Autumn, 1997

Front cover

Editorial

News

Feature articles

The CIRCA interview
Aidan Dunne talks to Sean Scully

A man with guts
Seán Hillen's PhotoShop work on John Byrne's performance

Punch drunk
Colin Graham looks beyond Punch magazine and presents alternative material for a renewed analysis of Irish cultural history

From buzz to bash via ping
An off–centre tour of the National Gallery with Peter FitzGerald

Work in Process
Photoworks by Karl Grimes. Text by Stephanie McBride

Documenta discipline
Annie Fletcher reports from documenta X in Kassel

Art pages
A selection from Seán Taylor's Notes and Observations on the Cultural Revolution

Review

Waterfront
James Kerr

Bandits–Mages
Paul O'Neill

Limits of Silence
Daniel Jewesbury

Clare Langan
Gwen McCarthy

Susan MacWilliam
Mick Wilson

Lingua Oculorum
Dougal McKenzie

Munster Scukpture Projects
Alan Phelan

Side Effects
Martina Corry

Venice Biennale
Tanya Kiang

Aran McMahon
Mark Ewart

Response
Alice Lyons

Book: Visual Politics
Mick Wilson

Book: Thinking Long
Fionna Barber

Update

Micky Donnelly
Aidan Dunne

James Hanley
Jo Allen

Digital Dimensions
Luke Clancy

On the record
Barbara Dawson sets out the plans for a massive extension to the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery

CIRCA 82, Winter, 1997

Front cover

Editorial

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

Open minds
Máirín Grant assesses a new departure in curation

The CIRCA interview
Dermot Seymour talks about cows, helicopters and the surreal at the heart of the obvious. By Ian Wieczorek

New image, old junk
John Brown finds that painting in Northern Ireland still holds its own

Opium of the masses?
Gemma Tipton reports on the Inner Art project

Work in Process
Since the Accident by Maurice O'Connell

Frameworks
Raymund Ryan reports on major architectural projects in Cork, Limerick and Sligo

Art pages
Opportunity Opportunism by Maurice Doherty

Review

Susan Philipsz
Jane Tynan

Projects at IMMA
Maria Walsh

Rita Duffy
Mary Cosgrove

Residue
Aidan Dunne

Kevin Ryan
Mark Ewart

Catherina Hearne
Vona Groarke

Temple Bar Street Art
Lorraine Whelan

Sensation
Helen Swords

Cleá van der Grijn
Ian Hill

Mary McIntyre
Slavka Sverakova

Rachel Ballagh
Joanne Hayden

Breda Lynch
Mark Ewart

Fotofeis 97
Caroline Rye

Banquet show
Elaine Hartigan, Peter FitzGerald, Mary Kelly

Objects of Desire

Stephanie McBride

Cultural Baggage
Brian Kennedy

Update

Eilís O'Connell
Sam Walsh

Martin Wedge
Daniel Jewesbury

Brian Maguire
Vona Groarke

On the record
Dorothy Walker on the oppurtunities offered by AICA

CIRCA 83, Spring, 1998

Front cover

News
Letters, reports and our regular columnists

Feature articles

The CIRCA interview
Angeline Morrison interviews Alice Maher

Fetched in from the wild
Angeline Morrison analyses Alice Maher's practice

Race isn't an Irish issue
Daniel Jewesbury on hybridity

Art pages
Marc van Zanten's UNIT 981-3571-1

Sound, sense and sensibilities
Shirley MacWilliam on sound

s
Babara Freeman in collaboration

The music of chance
Katalin Timár on representations of cultural identity

Response
Liam Kelly replies to a Circa review of Thinking Long

Books

Re–dressing Cathleen
Sighle Bhreathnach–Lynch

Modern Art in Ireland
Ciarán Bennett

Public Art
Angeline Morrison

Review

Louise Walsh
Eileen Coates

Art Trail '97
Jo Allen

Telling Stories
Phillip Mussen

Paul Henry
Mary Cosgrove

Hans Peter Kuhn / Robert Wilson & Hans Peter Kuhn
Heather McCracken

Printed Matter
Mark Ewart

Passport Exchange; (Ex)change
Luke Clancy

Maeve Connolly
Colin Darke

New Found Land Scape
Jacqueline Stanley

Kiki Smith
Claire Schneider

Oliver Whelan
Aidan Dunne

Once is too Much
Mary Kelly

Bill Viola
Mark Granier

CIRCA 84, Summer, 1998

Front cover

News

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

Feature articles

Speaking Bones and Singing Limbs
Shirley MacWilliam

Where do you want to go today?
Daniel Jewesbury

Painting: A Minute's Silence?
Dougal McKenzie

Art on the Line
Derval FitzGerald, Gemma Tipton

Timecode, Glitch, and Noise
Martin McCabe

Art pages

Montezuma's (Montecuma's) Revenge
David Godbold

Kathlyn O'Brien
John Brown

Review

Mick Wilson at Triskel
Lorna Healy

Return to Sender at Hugh Lane
Noel Sheridan

Play & Record at Catalyst
Daniel Jewesbury

Irish Public Sculpture
Aisling Prior

Maud Cotter at Rubicon
Hilary Pyle

Simon R. English at Triskel
Mark Swartz

Michael Minnis at Orchard
Colin Darke

Amanda Ralph / No Opening Just Closing at Project
Ciarán Bennett

Lorna Healy / Hilary Gilligan at ARTHOUSE
Elaine Sisson

Barrie Cooke at Tig Filí / West Cork / Claremorris
Mark Ewart

Éamon Colman at RHA / Geraldine O'Neill at Jo Rain
Angeline Morrison

Collette Nolan at Triskel
Jo Allen

Michael Durand at Gallery of Photography
Justin Carville


Joseph Grigely at Douglas Hyde
Maria Scott


Lorraine Burrell at Context
Colin Darke


Deirdre Carr / Shankill Young Women's Project at City Arts Centre
Conor Kostick

Eithne Jordan at Rubicon
Aidan Dunne


Finola Jones at Green on Red
Japonica Sheridan


Tracings at Ormeau Baths
Mark Swartz


Patricia McKenna at Dún Laoghaire Co. Hall / Aisling O'Beirn at Temple Bar
Ruairi' O' Cuiv


Sheila Gorman on Soil

CIRCA 85, Autumn, 1998

Front cover

Regular columns:

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

News bits

Feature articles

The sound of bells and bellies: acoustic authority and sound effects
Shirley MacWilliam

Think Architecture: the work of Niall McLaughlin
Raymund Ryan

C is for...
Daniel Jewesbury

Lightness of being: the Integrated Artworks Project
Susanne O'Shea

Art pages

Crosstown Productions

Review

Infusion / Skin–Up / Fix
Lukasz Guzek

Catherine Owens at Triskel
Jools Gilson-Ellis

Scóip 98 at Siamsa Tíre
Claire Schneider

Brendon Deacy at Graphic Studio & Mayo
Angeline Morrison

Vital Presence at Belltable
Eileen Coates

Glen Dimplex / Excellent Dynamite
Aidan Dunne

Summer in Lithuania at Tig Filí
Suzy O'Mullane

Culture and Conflict at Puffin Room
Lyell Davies

Reverend Todd's Full House
Marian Lovett

Patrick Ireland at Orchard
Sean Windsor

Ciarán Ó Cearnaigh at Temple Bar
Mark Swartz

Manifesta 2, Luxemburg
Annie Fletcher

Aidan Dunne at Temple Bar
Noel Sheridan


William Scott at IMMA
Sam Walsh


Dark Field at Boiler House
Acushla Bastible


CIRCA 86, Winter, 1998

Front cover

Update

Regular columns:

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

News bits

Feature articles

Yes, Kid
Noel Sheridan

Time and Tide
Gavin Murphy & Daniel Jewesbury

Mise Éire(plus ca change...?)
Victor Merriman

Art pages

Collapsing Here
Brigid McLeer

Metabolic Guts for B. Fuller
Garrett Phelan

Collaboration
Harry Thuillier Jnr. and Gabriel Rosenstock

Reviews

Northern Ireland... GULP!, Winnipeg
Blair Marten

EV+A 98, Limerick City
Annie Fletcher

[Confrontations] at Triskel & RHA
Suzy O'Mullane

Ian Breakwell at Temple Bar
Noel Sheridan

Laura Gannon at Jo Rain
Elaine Sisson

Talking about Artists' Sketchbooks
Jo Allen

Remco de Fouw at Model Arts
Ian Wieczorek

Maolíosa Boyle at Context
Orla Ryan

Mary Lohan at Taylor
Lorna Healy

Brian Fay at Belltable
Samuel Walsh

Daphne Wright at Frith Street
Sue Hubbard

Willie Doherty at Tate, Liverpool
Fionna Barber

Claremorris Open
Mary Avril Gillian


Perspective 98 at Ormeau Baths
Derval FitzGerald


Art@Science
Paul O'Brien


CIRCA 87, Spring, 1999

Front cover

Update

Regular columns:

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

News bits

Feature articles

Brazilian Beat
Georgia Lobacheff

Alternative, Mainstream, Mainstream Alternatives
Niamh Ann Kelly

interviews: Colin Martin / Róisín Lewis
Jason Oakley / Gemma Tipton

Projects

Station
John Gerrard

How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb
Mary Kelly / Abigail O'Brien

Elsewhere
Marielle Nylander

Reviews

Dublin
Robert Armstrong

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at IMMA, Dublin
Rita Duffy

Connacht
Ian Wieczorek

Belfast
Slavka Sverakova

Quadrant at Belltable, Limerick
Sean Taylor

Derry
Martina Corry

Cork
Jo Allen

Glasgow
Mark Dawes

New York / Boston
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith

Helen O'Leary at Michael Gold, New York
Lyell Davies

London
Bernadette Buckley and Jaime Stapleton


CIRCA 88, Summer, 1999

Front cover

Update

Regular columns:

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

News bits

Feature articles

EV+A has a little lamb...: interview with Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Gemma Tipton

International code?: Peter Murray interviewed on P.S. I show
Jo Allen

When art becomes life: socially engaged German art
Emma Mahony

Cheques and balances: Irish art and the welcome on the U.S. mat
Patrick Murphy

Tales of the city: on urban cinema
Debbie Ging

Eventing space: the audience merges with the art
Eoghan McTigue

Public art indoors: sound and art in public spaces
Brian Hand

Sounds teasing: Susan Philipsz interviewed
Annie Fletcher

Projects

The Burlington Cartoon
James Kerr

Reviews

Belfast
Maeve Connolly

Dundalk / Drogheda
Vona Groarke

Luc Tuymans at the Douglas Hyde
Sarah Durcan

Dublin
Elaine Sisson

Southeast
Peter Jordan

Cork
Alannah Hopkin

West
John Hunt

London (video diary)
Nick Stewart

Scotland
Sarah Tripp

Barcelona
David G. Torres

New York / Boston
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith

Chicago
Mark Swartz

Damn Fine Art
Catherine Harper

www.modernart.ie
John Gerrard

 

CIRCA 89, Autumn, 1999

Front cover

Update

Supplement

Regular columns:

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

News bits

Feature articles

If you can make it there...: tips for New York
Gemma Tipton

Meaningful instances and laguna lacunae: the Venice Biennale
Orla Ryan

A constructive lack of agenda: a 'themeless' art symposium in New York
Maeve Connolly

Time capsule: self–capsule: art, biology and identity in the work of Eduardo Kac
Steve Tomasula

Lest they fade: commemorating tragedy in Omagh and Dublin's inner city
Gemma Tipton

Transgressive events: art and the eeire
Eoghan McTigue

Red roses for the president: the visual language of the Mary Robinson compaign Ciaran Swan

Project

From the series Photogenic Drawings
Martina Corry

Reviews

Cork
Rory Mullins

Limerick: Infusion '99
Dougal McKenzie

Derry
Marianne O'Kane

Belfast
Gavin Murphy

Drogheda / Dundalk
Vona Groarke

Dublin I
Angeline Morrison

Dublin II
Lorna Healy

London
Paul O'Kane

Scotland
Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan

Ghent: SMAK
Alan Phelan

New York
Anna Hammond

Tokyo
Miyako Takeshita

The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century
Nicola Gordon Bowe

SIGGRAPH
Conor McGarrigle


CIRCA 90, Winter, 1999

Front cover

Update

Supplement

Regular columns:

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

News bits

Feature articles

Design's on your life:
Glasgow's feast of architecture and design
Lisa Godson

Horsehead perspective:
in discussion with Philip Dodd and Matt Lennon
Daniel Jewesbury

Taking place:
implicating the viewer in site–specific art
Eoghan McTigue

Playing the green card:
how did those New York shows fare?
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith


Project

Photography and the self
Sarah Edge

Reviews

Belfast
Nora P. Donnelly

Connacht
Ian Wieczorek

Petah Coyne
Paula Murphy

Limerick
Gavin Hogg

Drogheda / Dundalk
Vona Groarke

Cork
Jo Allen

Southeast

Liverpool
Declan Sheehan

Scotland
Alan Michael

Dublin I
Jane Humphries

Dublin II
Noel Sheridan

Art + Technology Supplement

Electronic Art, Genetic Art:
Symbiosis and Contamination
Eduardo Kac

Mediated Encounters
Ken Rinaldo

Culturing Shame
Karen Thornton

Art Electronica 99
Paul O'Brien

On Exhibiting Hybrids
George Gessert

Fables of a Technological Era
Nathalie Houtermans

Alien Space: The Shock of the View
Marcos Novak

Planting Paradox
Fran Dyson

Celebrating / nullifying the Individual
Jason Salavon

A Techno–religious Work of Art
Arjen Mulder

3d ASCII: An Autobiography
Vuk Cosic

Power Walk and the Machine for Moving
Jordan Crandall



CIRCA 91, Spring, 2000

Front cover

Update

Regular columns:

Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts/South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine

News bits

Feature articles

Noise, silence, and the persistence of sound in several cities
Shirley MacWilliam

Enigmatic, eclectic, exotic, fugitive, secretive:
on Aloysius O'Kelly
Kevin Whelan

Public misrecognition:
art and its audience

Brian Hand

Dislocutions: on cultural translation:
Sarat Maharaj in converstion with Annie Fletcher

You shall have a fishy: the Big Fish swims home
Cornelia McCarthy

Private view:
an insight into private patronage in Ireland
Marianne O'Kane

Project

by Peter Richards

Reviews

Belfast
Suzanna Chan

Cork
Mark Ewart

Limerick
Annette Moloney

Dublin I
Sarah Durcan

Dublin II
Amy Jean Porter

Northwest
Declan Sheehan

Books
Conn O'Donovan

Scotland
Gordon Dalton

London
Joshua Sofaer

Paris
Soko Phay-Vakalis

Barcelona (James Coleman)
Maeve Connolly

Cologne
Alan Phelan

Auckland
Robin Stoney

San Francisco (video)
Pauline Cummins



CIRCA 92, Summer, 2000

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Film and Television
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Feature articles

Advertising Ireland: Irish graphic design in the 1950s under the patronage of Aer Lingus
Linda King

A moving Experience:
the Francis Bacon studio comes to Dublin
Mary McGrath


Mick Wilson

When Artists Become Pop Stars:
on the popularity of popular music for many artists
Emma Mahony

Fluid Talk: interview with Matthew Barney
Amy Jean Porter

Audience to Ourselves:
the construction of the audience construct
Brian Hand

Going Dutch:
some thoughts concering exhibiting in Ireland
Daan Bruijel

Corporate Insight:
private–sector sponsorship of the visual arts in Ireland
Marianne O'Kane

Project

Artists at risk
Prof. K. H. Lalor

Reviews

Belfast I
Ruth Jones

Belfast II
Phil Collins

Cork
Jo Allen

Limerick (EV+A)
Sarah Durcan

Dundalk
Vona Groarke

Galway
Jenny Mccarthy

Dublin I
Simon Morse

Dublin II
Maeve Connolly

Southeast
Bernadette Kiely

Whitney Biennial 2000
Orla Ryan

Scotland
Caroline Woodley

North of England
Rachel Clarke

Castellón (Zona F)
Cherry Smyth

Portland
Brian Kennedy



CIRCA 93, Autumn, 2000

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Chinese whispers: a portfolio of residencies
Niamh Ann Kelly

Blurred vision: artists and Laganside developments
Daniel Jewesbury


Noel Sheridan

Looking for attention: the free market of spectatorship
Brian Hand

The French young generation: on fait quoi lá–bas?
Robert Fleck

Rebel with a cause: on Leon Golub
Jo Anna Isaak

The ABC of modern art museums / Tate Modern
Fiona Kearney

Tuning the visual Geiger counter: how to look right
Joe Wilson

On the question of art and technology
Mick Wilson

Project

El Gallito / Studio Notes
John Brown

Reviews

Cork
Mark Ewart

Northwest
Marianne O'Kane

not i
Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

Dublin
Sarah Durcan

Limerick
Samuel Walsh

Belfast
Suzanna Chan

Southeast
Gemma Tipton

Scotland
Leigh French

Paris / Nice
Soko Phay-Vakalis

Ljubljana / Manifesta 3
Annie Fletcher

The Lowry
Gillian Tipton



CIRCA 94, Winter, 2000

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Welcome to the bleeding edge
Gemma Tipton, John Gerrard

Made in Quebec
John Grande


Eoghan McTigue

Open to criticism
Margaret Corcoran

Borderline case
Brian Kennedy

The audience as producers
Brian Hand

Centre Pompidou
Fiona Kearney

A little Life
Margaret Corcoran

There but for...?
Marianne O'Kane

But will it work?
Alan Phelan

Project

the freud and epi stories

Reviews

Cork
Jo Allen

Northwest
Declan Sheehan

Dublin I
Jane Humphries

Dublin II
Alan Phelan

Drogheda / Dundalk
Gemma Tipton

Limerick
Eoin McCarthy

Belfast I
Allan Hughes

Belfast II
Peter Richards

West
Ian Wieczorek

London
Mary McCaughey

George Moore
Terry Eagleton

Locus Solus
Mo White

Ars Electronica
Paul O'Brien



CIRCA 95, Spring, 2001

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Looking over its shoulder: 10 years at IMMA
Niamh Ann Kelly

Researching the margins
Peter Haining


Simon Cocking

Art you can cycle to
Brian Kennedy

The mirror in the art of the twentieth century
Soko Phay-Valkalis

Distorting (for) the truth
Rory Campbell

Artz 4 cripz: arts and disability
Dave Thomas

Transform / Function / Fusion: Derry Women's Centre
Declan Sheehan

A new Model
Sheila Dickinson

MUHKA
Fiona Kearney

Project

Shredders

Reviews

Belfast I
Aaron Kelly

Belfast II
Daniel Jewesbury

Midlands
Noelle Harrison

Northwest
Marianne O'Kane

Cork
Alannah Hopkin

Dublin I
Gemma Tipton

Dublin II
Peter FitzGerald

Limerick
Paul O'Reilly

Scotland
John Beagles

Sources in Irish Art
Niamh O'Sullivan





CIRCA 96, Summer, 2001

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ART and SCIENCE
Convened by Stephanie McBride

Uncertainty principles
Stephanie McBride

Self and others
Peter FitzGerald

Dark wonder
Tania Kiang

Shadows of time
Tom Lawlor

Science and the eclipse of the earth
Catherine Fitzgerald

R Block and Future Nature
Stephanie McBride

Two rooms on location
Patrick T. Murphy

The event space
Gemma Tipton

 

Project

John Graham: Magazine Drawing, 2001,
ink on paper, four pages

 

Feature articles

MoMA
Fiona Kearney

Reviews

Belfast
Suzanna Chan

Northwest
Declan Sheehan

Northeast
Janet Naclia

Dublin l
Sarah Durcan

Dublin ll
Orla Ryan

West
Claire McLaughlin

Limerick
Dr. Nora Donnelly

Cork
Mark Ewart

Southeast
Gemma Tipton

Scotland
Mark Dawes

England
Maria Walsh





CIRCA 97, Autumn, 2001

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ART and ARCHITECTURE
Convened by Oliver Whelan

Architecture into paint
Blaise Drummond, Toby Paterson

Project: Double Bar
Katarina Matiasek

The house on the hill
Emma Mahony

Tracking the urban animal
Aislin O'Beirn

Project: Yikes!
Marjetica Potrc, graphic design Barbara Predan

The challenge of space
Gemma Tipton


Aoife Mac Namara, Andrew Kearney and Paul Antick

Feature articles

Who owns images: science or art?
James Elkins

House style
Orla Ryan

Where prejudices can be dispelled
Joe Wilson

Moderna Museet
Fiona Kearney

Venice reports

On the other side of open
Patrick T. Murphy

Venice Triumph
David Blamey, Paul O'Neill

 

Reviews

Venice
Maeve Connolly

Dublin
Valerie Conner

Belfast I
Janet Naclia

Belfast II
Miriam de Burca

Cork
Don O'Mahony

West
Gemma Tipton

Northwest
Marianne O'Kane

Limerick
Annette Moloney

Scotland
Susannah Thompson

London
Nick Stewart





CIRCA 98, Winter, 2001

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PUBLIC SPACE & 'PUBLIC ART'
Convened by Daniel Jewesbury

Public space and 'public art'
Daniel Jewesbury

Spectre vs. vector
Stephen Hackett

Radio + the mass medium message
Duncan Campbell

reMATERIAL: dialectical histories
Michael Wilson

Project: Karlskrona2

Soundings

Projects


Coordinated by Brian Kennedy

Bogdan Achimescu

Chantal Labinski

Udo Wid

Paolo Grassino

Christian Hasucha

Melissa McDonnell


by Niel Sheridan
(photographer Anthony Hobbes)

Reviews

Belfast I
Brian Kennedy

Belfast II
Slavka Sverakova

Northwest
Declan Sheehan

Limerick
Jim Savage

Dublin I
Niamh Ann Kelly

Dublin II
Jane Humphries

Northeast
Janet Naclia

Cork
Chris Clarke

Scotland
Gemma Tipton

London
Anthony Downey

Ars Electronica
Paul O'Brien

Art Cologne
Ferial Kasmai





CIRCA 99, Spring, 2002

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State of the Art: interview theme

"'Perhaps' is practically a lie"
Willie Doherty, Dave Duggan

State of the artist
Brian Cronin, Form 4'

Letter–opener
Valerie Connor, Hilary Robinson

From the top
Roisín McDonough, Damien Smith

"Yes, this can happen"
Noel Sheridan, Brian O'Doherty


Feature articles

Successful web architecture
Paul Clerkin

Plucking at a popular tune
James Elkins

I read therefore I am
David Blamey, Paul O'Neil


Projects


Reviews

Cork
Alannah Hopkin

Limerick
Annette Maloney

Dublin I
Rachel Ni' Chuinn

Dublin II
Noel Sheridan

Belfast I
Slavka Sverakova

Belfast II
Rita Duffy

West
Sheila Dickinson

Northwest
Dr. Catherine Harper

Southeast
Gemma Tipton

Scotland
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith

London
Cherry Smith

Bucloh's 'Neo–Avant–garde'
Stephen Morton

 

CIRCA 100, Summer, 2002

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New; 5th column

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Artworks for CIRCA


Looking back: 21 years of art in Ireland

The gender gap
Hilary Robinson

Screen and screen again
Shirley MacWiliam

The art of being relevant
Medb Ruane

Bricks and brickbats
Aidan Dunne


See
Compilied by Rita Duffy

Reviews

Limerick: EV+A 2002
Isabel Nolan

Dublin: Phil Collins
Gemma Tipton

Kilkenny: Susan MacWilliam
Chris Clarke

London: American Sublime
Niamh O'Sullivan

Dublin: How things turn out
Maeve Connolly

Belfast: Appropriation
Suzanne O'Shea

Cork: Billy Foley
Dr. Michael Casey

New York: Round–up
Noel Sheridan

Derry: aimnín
Marianne O'Kane

Lisburn: Joel Meyerowitz
Rita Duffy

Belfast: The Integrated Artworks Project
John Brown

Glasgow: Pearl Union
Orla Ryan




CIRCA 101, Autumn, 2002

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Theme: Art and Design

Introduction

Are you someone?
Artists and the art of branding
Declan Long

Makers and takers:
Art and the appropriation of ideas
Henrietta McKervey

Drawing a line
John Wood

Self and others
Jane Austin

What's art got to do with it?
Keith Murray

Same difference?
Luke Clancy

Project

Signs
Eamon O'Kane

Feature articles

'Guys in suits who can't paint'
Gemma Tipton

Reviews

Caroline McCarthy at TBG&S
Alan Phelan

Daylighting the City
Mark Ewart

Ruth Jones at Old Museum
Leontia Flynn

Documenta 11 and Manifesta 4
Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

Outside Visual Art
Siun Hanrahan

Gerard Byrne at LCGA
Treasa O'Brien

Ursula Burke in ROUTES
Cherie Driver

Under your skin at Catalyst
om lekha

Cathy Wilkes at Inverleith House
Sarah Lowndes

Bungalow Blitz at Letterkenny AC
Declan Sheenan

Eva Hesse at SFMOMA
Gemma Tipton

Richard Powers' Plowing the Dark
Dr. Rodney Sharkey




CIRCA 102, Winter, 2002

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Theme: regions and art centres

Getting what we deserve
Damien Coyle

Access all areas
Colm Ó Briain

Bridge over troubled waters
Brian Ferran

Round and round
Liz Donnan

New critical centres for art in Ireland?
Ian Hunter

Vox Pop

Tanya Greenfield

Vivien Burnside

Una Walker

Kathy Herbert

Jean Brennan

Fitting it in
Patricia McBride

Feature article

The best of spaces: the worst of spaces
Gemma Tipton

Project

Slant
David Stephenson,
with introduction by Belinda McKeon

 

Reviews

Limerick: Clodagh Emoe at Belltable
Barbara Dunne

Darklight Film Festival
Leah Hilliard

Katie Holten at Temple Bar
Katie Holten

Perspective 2002 at OBG
Allan Hughes

Barbara Freeman at Old Museum
Alison Walker

Paul McCarthy at Butler
Isabel Nolan

Goshka Macuga, Nick Evans at Transmission
Sorcha Dallas

Ars Electronica
Paul O'Brien

Hughie O'Donoghue at Model Arts
Richard Dwyer

Sarah Lewtas at Context
Ian Joyce

Happy Accidents and Unveiled at Triskel
Mark Ewart

Miwon Kwon book review
Stephen Morton




CIRCA 103, Spring, 2003

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Theme: material culture

Material culture and the object Paul Caffrey

Irish material culture: the shape of the field
Paul Caffrey

'Lasting but a day': printed ephemera as material culture
Linda King

Catholicism and material culture in Ireland 1840–1880
Lisa Godson

The problem of things
Mick Wilson

Technology and material culture:
or the art of work in the age of mechanical dysfunction
Sorcha O'Brien

Feature article


edited by David Blamey

 

Reviews

Gail Ritchie: Pelt
Mic Moroney

Fergus Feehily at Green on Red
Jane Humphries

John Mathews at Ards Arts Centre
om lekha

Chris Cunningham at 5th
Lorraine Whelan

Terry McAllister at Market Place & Queen's Street Studios
Tony Bartley

There's no Accounting for Other People's Relationships
Cian Donnelly

Crawford Open 3
Suzy O'Mullane

Harvey Jackson at Street Level, Belinda Guidi at CCA
Susannah Thompson

Aluminum at Susan Hobbs Gallery
Greg Humeniuk

Brian Maguire, Bayview Project
Katherine Thompson

Sinéad Aldridge at Model Arts and Niland
Denis Farrell

Daniel de Chenu: The Captured Moment
Gemma Tipton

Sinéad O'Donnell at fix02
Helen Sharp

Julie McGowan: Drawing with Light
Regina Gleeson

Stars at Noon
Mark Ewart

Lynne Foster Fitzgerald: The Ties that Bind
Anne Henrichsen

Janet Mullarney: The Bermuda Triangle
Dr Kieran Cashell

Ursula Burke: The Inheritance
Miriam de Burca

Emma Louise Johnston: Scape
Treasa O'Brien

Stephan Weitzel: George in Paradise
Zoe Ellis

Victor Sloan: A Broken Surface
Elaine Murphy

Gemma Brown: Sugar–coated
Alexa Coyne






CIRCA 104, Summer, 2003

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Feature articles

Snapshots from the Armory
Elizabeth Aders

Green screen
Maeve Connolly

"I don't want to be educated; I want to be drowned in beauty"
Gemma Tipton

Theme: word and image

Introduction
Christa–Maria Lerm Hayes

Same difference: Word and image in the contemporary arts
David Scott

Joseph Beuys 'extends' James Joyce's work
Christa–Maria Lerm Hayes

Project
Karin Sander

A labyrinth in a box: Aspen 5+6 Mary Ruth Walsh

Nauman.. Beckett...Beckett . Nauman: the necessity of working in an interdisciplinary way Christa–Maria Lerm Hayes

Willie Doherty: Language, imagery and the real
Paul O'Brien

Words and images most severely distorted
James Elkins

Project
Ecke Bonk

Features

The Armory Show New York 2003- Liz Aders

Green screen
Maeve Connolly

'I don't want to be educated; I want to be drowned in beauty'
Gemma Tipton

Reviews

Limerick: EV+A 2003
Kieran Cashell

Belfast: Alastair MacLennan at Ormeau Baths
David Brett

Dublin: Clare Langan at RHA
Jane Eckett

Dublin: Lorna Simpson at IMMA and Laura Gannon at Hugh Lane
Roisin Kennedy

Venice: Fergus Martin and Anthony Hobbs at Oratorio S. Ludovico
Sonia Rolak

Belfast: Basil Blackshaw at Ulster Museum
Jim Smyth

Valentia: Dorothy Cross and Tom Cross' Medusae
Sheila Dickinson

Sligo: Tjibbe Hooghiemstra at Model Arts and Niland
Marianne O'Kane

Cork: John Shinnors at Crawford and Vangard
Jim Savage

Edinburgh: Inka Essenhigh at Fruitmarket
Dan Norton

London: Live Culture at Tate Modern
Nathalie Weadick

Dublin: Alice Maher in Father Matthew Hall
Isabel Nolan

Dublin: Geraldine O'Neill at Kevin Kavanagh
John Turpin

Derry: Resident at Context
Marianne O'Kane

Cork: Losing it
Alannah Hopkin

Lifford: Felim Egan
Huib Fens

Letterkenny: Jan Voster
Declan Sheehan

Carlow: Finola Jones
Orla Ryan



CIRCA 105, Autumn, 2003

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Superficial art
Paul O'Brien

Ireland complex
Brian Kennedy

Theme: New York

Why NY?
Gemma Tipton

Why NY?: Money for something?
Rob Alexis

Why NY?: Only the exaggerations are true
Sina Najafi

Why NY?: Twinkler
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn

Why NY?: History of a show
Corban Walker

The art market in New York:
some thoughts on venture capitalism
Megan Johnston

Whispering architecture
Gemma Tipton

Behind the eight ball
Allyson Spellacy

Monumental
Paddy Johnson

In print
Keane A. Pepper

In the shadow of the World Trade Center
Elizabeth Aders

Project
Mark Orange

Reviews

New York: The American effect
William Powhida

New York: H2o at Danese
Laurence Hegarty

Venice Biennale: Katie Holten
Fiona Kearney

Venice Biennale: Wales and Scotland
Nathalie Weadick

Venice Biennale: technology
John Gerrard

Belfast: Golden Mile
Ruth Jones

Dublin: Mary Kelly at Royal Hibernian Academy
Catherine Lyons

Belfast: One Place Twice at Golden Thread
Julie Bacon

Dublin, Cork, Sligo: Outsider Art in Ireland
Peter Haining

Limerick: Padraig Cunningham at Beltable
Paul Aherne

Dublin: Dan Shipsides at Temple Bar
Alan Phelan

Belfast: Conor McFeely at Ormeau Baths
Julie Bacon

Dublin: Garrett Phelan at Pallas Heights
Declan Long

Dublin: Gary Hume at Irish Museum of Modern Art
Damien Duffy

Dublin: Spiritus at Douglas Hyde
om lekha

Blanchardstown: Rita Jokiranta at Draíocht
Emma Donaldson

Leeds: Liadin Cooke at Henry Moore Institute
Padraig Timoney

Belfast: Connor Caffrey at Golden Thread
Gregory McCartney

Limerick: Brian Kennedy at Limerick City Gallery
Sean Taylor

Dublin: Bridget Riley
Tanya Kiang

Dublin: Eugenio Percossi
Gemma Tipton

Blanchardstown: Dara McGrath
Justin Carville

Derry: Patrick Bradly and Peter Hughes at Context
Damien Duffy

Cork: Nigel Rolfe at Crawford and St. Finn Barre's
Mark Ewart

Dublin: Axel Boesten at Gallery of Photography
Declan Sheehan



CIRCA 106, Winter, 2003

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Theme: art and film