Following my review of ‘Glow’ at the Catherine Hammond, I caught up with one of the artists, Conor Walton, via social media. We began a conversation which grew into the following fascinating dialogue – James Waller     JW: I wrote in the review of ‘Glow’ about what I perceived as a humorous aspect in your…

If you missed Mark Beatty’s recent exhibition at the Clonakilty Community Art Centre, then you missed an absolute gem. Beatty’s work has a rare, living vibration: raw yet refined, open-ended, yet delineated, infinitesimal yet whole, genuine yet subtly ironic. Stepping into the gallery I immediately felt a quiver of visual delight, an instantaneous flood of…

A band of stainless steel is wrapped tightly, like a fist, around a shaft of burnt larch, the ‘body’ from which the steel band comes, a semi-circular disc of the same, finely incised, drilled and cut – three segments of burnt larch sit snugly within the disc, juxtaposing starkly against the bright metal. Its title…

From the frenzied pastorals of Greig to the crisp modernist melodies of Climent, the latest show at the Catherine Hammond Gallery, offers a plethora of creative approaches and artistic energies. Curated under the thematic umbrella of ‘Glow’ the works of nine artists from the gallery’s stable are held together in a sensitive and intriguing balance…