‘I loved her from the day she died’.
Essay, Catherine Marshall, August 2016
Film, painting and installation work by Cléa van der Grijn, 2016. In Cléa van der Grijn’s short film ‘Re-constructing Memory’, a child, wanders along…
Revealing the Ritual in the Exhibitionary Form
Essay, Dr Michael Birchall , August 2016
Within the canon of western art, artists are often asked to perform civic duties, by acting as ethnographers or observers of specific moments. In…
VISUAL ART PROJECT: Six Artists + A Designer + A Town Planner
Essay, Megan Johnston & Cléa Van der Grijn, 2015
Van der Grijn initiated the visual art project and has developed the initiative, exhibition and catalogue with the curatorial team. Seeking an artistic response…
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.…