MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Shattering preconceptions
JOSEPHINE BARTOSCH reports on a unique pottery exhibition which challenges the myths surrounding female prostitution
UNFLINCHING: Christine Keeler pot by Claudia Clare
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
AN “OPEN studio goes on the road,” is how artist Claudia Clare describes the exhibition And the Door Opened (AtDO).
The large ceramic pots she creates for it are not hidden away in exclusive galleries. They are proudly on view in venues such as a shopping centre, a library and a church.
Arts Council-funded, it is a vibrant exhibition that invites the public to watch the creation, ritualistic smashing and reconstruction of art works.
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