Roadmap: No Mames
Photographer Mayan Toledano shares stories of the queer creative community in Mexico City, blending reportage, portraiture, and fashion work in the monograph No Mames.
Roadmap: Repair, Renovate, Improve
We instagrammed upon the work of Jan Vormann and his colourful and ingenious interventions with Lego.
Unfathomable Realities
Erin Quinn is incorporating herself and AI into images addressing our climate crisis.
Roadmap: Swift Justice
Swift Justice is a New Yorker documentary exploring the courts and justice system of the now Taliban occupied Afghanistan directed by Irish filmmaker and photographer Ross McDonnell.
Roadmap: Don’t Forget To Remember
Started out as an unconventional show by Asbestos in Atelier Now in August concerning the slow decay of his mother, Helena as her memories disintegrate from her advancing Alzheimers.
Roadmap: Pym and Improper
Whilst reading the ‘Makeshift’ issue of the tremendous Sociotype Journal (see Magnified, pg 58), we happened upon the wonderful work of mender Celia Pym.
Roadmap: Knot It
“I took a year off college to travel around Japan, WWOOFing,” says Westport-based Ed Forristal.
Wish You Were Here
We asked a number of illustrators who live in Dublin to respond the theme of ‘Wish You Were Here’ from their own perspective. Here is what they came up with.
Last Few Days to Catch PhotoIreland Festival 2023!
The PhotoIreland festival delves into the Africa of everywhere.
Roadmap: Contempt
“It’s very much about having the freedom to be the artist you want to be.” - Jean Curran
Look Up – PhotoIreland Festival 2023
"In an introduction to African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other, the cultural historian Mark Sealy writes that, “we can begin to realize that Africa is everywhere, especially if we…
Artsdesk: Creative Contradictions – Dan Leo
Dan Leo wears many hats. A graphic artist, muralist, illustrator and painter, he is known best for his bold use of colour and commitment to a clean aesthetic in his…
Roadmap: Zodiac
Irish designer Mia de Las Casas got in touch to tell us about her collection of Zodiac and Moon Phase silk scarves which “illustrate the signs in golden crescent moons,…
Street Strife
“There’s a style in it all, even if you don’t understand that.” With legal wranglings, political uproar and a Public Art Mural Bill wending its way through the Dáil, we…
Artsdesk: Dampity Damp – Avril Corroon
Her last exhibition had her creating cheese from mould found in apartments, now Avril Corroon is investigating damp and, yet again, entwining her work with the on-going housing crisis.
Roadmap: Boules
We’re glad to hear of a new boules court, open to all ages, has just opened in Marley Park
Roadmap: Aoife Lifestyle
We’re always partial to a cool and practical bag and Aoife Lifestyle is delivering on both fronts with her sustainable line.
Roadmap: Hephee
"Getting the opportunity to live and work out of London has been a dream but it's bittersweet as Dublin is becoming increasingly hard to be able to afford to come…