For Peace Comes Dropping Slow
Essay, Megan Johnson, 2015
The distance between place and people; land and memory; the physical and the conceptual are spaces in which magic can occur. The Irish poet…
Isle of the Living, Isle of the Dead
Essay, Christian Bjone, 2015
In 1888, W.B. Yeats wrote a poem that has become part of the cultural myths of Ireland. The three-stanza verse titled: The Lake Isle…
Ambivalence Review – Irish Times
Critical Review, Aidan Dunne, May 2013
Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan once said that he’d rather feel slightly uneasy than content. In her compelling, ever-changing work, Cléa van der Grijn makes something…
Ambivalence
Essay, Dónall Curtin, 2013
Dear Matthew, I decided to write this letter to you, my Godson, to introduce you to a world I am passionate about, in these…
Hurt – Irish Times
Critical Review, Arminta Wallace, November 26th, 2012
This painting is taken from a bigger series called Bruise and Dishonour which Van der Grijn created in the early 1990s. It looks at…
A Golden Thread
Essay, Nick Miller, 2010
In this era, we sometimes fear that it is not ‘cool’ to concern ourselves with biography and authorship in relation to an artist’s work.…
Moment(ous) – Irish Times
Critical Review, Aidan Dunne , July 2008
“Tackling the taboo subject of death with clarity and precision” CLEA VAN DER GRIJN’S Moment(ous) , currently showing at the Cross Gallery, originated at…
Moment(ous) – Circa Magazine
Critical Review, Maurice O’Connell , 2008
Momentous is a thought provoking project exploring love and , loss of a child and what is to witness , and be part of…
The Leftover Madonna
Essay, Dr. Medb Ruane, 2006
In 1381, the statue of the Madonna at Tir Briúin began miraculously to speak. The words transformed all the horrors lingering after a black…
