The Need for Close Looking

Tim Stott

18 April 2024

11 Minutes

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TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023

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Maslow’s Hammer

How can we de-intellectualise visual art? If asked this a year ago, I think I’d have pushed back at the very premise.

Sara Damaris M.

9 April 2024

9 Minutes

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    • TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023

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    TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023

    A mysterious artist hovers around the programme for honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise.

    Rosa Abbott

    19 March 2024

    11 Minutes

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    • TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023

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    Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, Léann Herlihy, Reflex Blue, TBG+S, 28 July–24 September, 2023

    There is a navel at the centre of Reflex Blue, a portal between inner and outer worlds.

    Rachel Donnelly

    29 February 2024

    7 Minutes

  • Review
    • TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023

    Review

    Tom dePaor, i see Earth, VISUAL Carlow, 26 February–22 May, 2022

    Writing about the colour blue, Rebecca Solnit describes the inaccessible beauty of the distant horizon, ‘the colour of where you are not’.

    John Graham

    18 January 2024

    9 Minutes

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