National Art School - Postgrad show 25

I wasn't there unfortunatley I had too much occupying my mind but some friends went along and took photos on my behalf, so thanks espcially to Mark for his shutterwork.

Some of the textual apparatus for Fergus Berney-Gibson's photographic work is a bit opaque but you sort of expect no tto be able to understand public gallery labels these days. I find it a bit hard but other people might have a different opinion. I liked this artist's use of photos from personal archives, images from his family past.

Above just a shot of people in one of the staircases in the odd shaped buildings that make up the school. I liked the camera angle.

The following two shots show works I cannot find attrabutive material for apologies, I just liked them. Funny how we have here two black and white images that caught my attention.

Below- another great camera angle from Mark, very inventive use of the window as a frame.

Below - works by Aislinn Connolly, lovely soft focus and minimal colour rage. But despite the evanescent nature of the paintings they r still powerful and have remarkable presence.

Below - Beth Perry works (left on wall) using natural materials are quite haunting when you think about production and the natural world. Well that is what occurred to me it might be completely wrong to think this. I guess all art is subjective in the end, the artist can only do so much. Total control impossible.

Erin Murphy's paintings are really nice too, greaet simplicity and forces, nothing wrenched out of place. It all just sits so magnificently.