Church Times - Art review: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)

My latest exhibition review for Church Times is on “Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship” at the National Gallery of Ireland:

'Jellett and Hone are significant as pioneering Irish modernists, as women artists undertaking that mission at that time, and as artists allowing their understanding of the ways in which faith and art intertwine to shape the work they produced. As a result, they are important counterpoints to the narrative that treats modernism as a primarily secular endeavour, and abstraction, through its lack of content, as a primary example of art that was principally for art’s sake alone.'

For more on Jellett and Hone see here, here, here, here, and here.

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here, those for Seen & Unseen are here, and those for Art+Christianity are here.

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