by Eamonn Boylan | Nov 6, 2018 | Essays
My essay on the art of Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) introduces the catalogue of a retrospective exhibition at his gallery, Waterhouse & Dodd, 47 Albermarle Street, London. “He drew himself as Nelson, he pitched himself into the sea-storms inhabited by...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 8, 2018 | Essays
In The Cowper and Newton Journal, special issue on ‘William Cowper At Home and Away’, vol 8: June 2018. This essay asks what happened when the poet famous for his acute feelings about home left his familiar surroundings in 1792 to spend six weeks at Eartham in the...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2018 | Essays
In Tacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, Royal Academy of Arts, 2018. https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/tacita-dean-landscape-portrait-still-life “…Dean’s interest in superstition is often the prompt for days and weeks of looking, and it may be that...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2018 | Essays
In Ground Work: Writings on People and Places, ed. Tim Dee, Jonathan Cape, 2018. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/432863/ground-work-by-tim-dee/978178470346 “As an adult, then, I became a visitor to this part of Sussex where the Arun cuts through the chalk. What...
by Eamonn Boylan | Apr 1, 2018 | Essays
Programme essay for Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre, London, 2018. “In a series of frankly compassionate plays and two brave, expansive novels, Barney Norris has asked ‘who’s here?’ and ‘what do they feel about it?’ An ageing husband and wife in Visitors (2014)...
by Eamonn Boylan | Sep 1, 2017 | Essays
Tate Etc., September 2017. From laden apple trees to yellowing leaves, autumn – ‘the painter’s season’ – has inspired generations of aritsts and writers.
