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Irish Author, Art Critic cristinleach.com | Memoir NEGATIVE SPACE (2022); FROM TEN TILL DUSK (RHA 1823-2023) | Journalism: Irish Times, Sunday Times, RTÉ, Irish Arts Review | Essays, fiction: Winter Papers, Keywords | linktr.ee/cristinleach

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And this, by sound artist Danny McCarthy, with David Toop, Sarah Hayden, John Godfrey, Stephen Vitiello, Helen Frosi, EL Putnam and more, and an early, alternative version of a story you’ll find in Negative Space by me. Buy from Farpoint Recordings here www.farpointrecordings.com/product-page...

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Books and monographs with shorter essays / art writing by me are available in various places, including this one by artist John Busher which takes its title, It Woke Me From My Sleep, from my opening essay. Buy from The Library Project, online and in person www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/it-...

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Do you know you can buy both of my books from the Irish Museum of Modern Art shop, in person in Dublin and online👇 📚 #art #irishart #memoir #arthistory #artwriting #irishwriter

Negative Space www.theimmashop.com/products/neg...

From Ten Till Dusk www.theimmashop.com/products/fro...

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I’ve been writing about the work of the Shell/ter Artist Collective: Diana Copperwhite, Geraldine O’Neill, Sharon Murphy, Niamh McGuinne & Allyson Keehan. Join us for thoughts on domestic punk, chats with the artists & launch of the In a Dream in a Happy House commissioned text at LCGA 2pm 18 July.

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I applied through the open application process @lindzmcleod.bsky.social set up to find the last four collaborators. Over the moon to be selected. If you’d like to know more about what this book will be, take a look here - www.stanchionzine.com/post/an-hono...

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Thank you Paula. What a fascinating project it’s going to be!

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Dazzling! I am delighted to be part of this remarkable collaborative writing project with a bunch of very exciting writers based all over the world. Big thanks to Lindz for selecting me. The resulting craft book will be published by @stanchion.bsky.social in 2025 🤩

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If there’s anything in my ST online archive you’d like to read, now’s your chance. All Sunday Times articles are free to read this weekend, 8th & 9th June. Just pop my name and the artist’s name into the search engine. Or browse backwards through 464 articles here www.thetimes.com/profile/cris...

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Ahhhhh! Been holding this news in! I am beyond stoked to be a part of this! Huge thanks to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for including me in this lineup! 🙌 🎉 ✨

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I'm thrilled to announce that our first finalist for 'An Honour and a Privilege' is the effervescent
@melisfluous.bsky.social!
Melissa Ren is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine's

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I am wicked honored to say that I’ll be working with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social on this wonderful project! 🌟
What will we write together? I don’t know! I’m definitely a little scared but mostly excited — both to work with Lindz and to be among such amazing company!

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Tune in tonight 11.20pm RTÉ Radio 1 for another extract from Negative Space for the Book on One, read by me and couched in the ever brilliant Late Date musical choices and dulcet tones of Cathal Murray. #RTEbookonone #LateDateRTE

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Quite possibly the pinnacle of my publishing career but two years on Negative Space is the book that keeps on giving. It’s the @RTERadio1 Book on One this week! 🙌🎧🎤📖 It kicks off on Monday at 11.20pm weeknights during Late Date, or you can listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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No1 on RTÉ Culture most-read today!

Clancy’s dad Tom, actor and founding member of The Clancy Brothers, travelled constantly for work. She remembers landing for refueling in Iceland aged 12, a first encounter with a landscape that’s influenced these paintings…

Read on:

www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

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Oh yes 🤍. When I first read it, mine were 8 and 9 and it still hit hard.

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I adore this 2015 essay by Claire Kilroy, F For Phone, and although my kids are 17 and 16 now, I still sometimes read it to remind myself of how it was to be a new mother and a writer, and how far we have all come. (From Winter Papers, then Winter Pages, Vol. 1) winterpapers.com/selected-con...

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Thank you! Sorry it’s not all collected in an easy to link to podcast place. It’s disappeared from platforms it used to be on. Four episodes in total. 📻

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For the day that’s in it, #IrelandPortrayed 🇮🇪 “Art critic Cristín Leach explores how ideas of Ireland and Irish identity have been visually represented, over 300 years.” Written & produced by @MaryBroph @IWRMedia for @RTElyricfm. #podcast 🎧 Episode 1: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

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For the day that’s in it, #IrelandPortrayed 🇮🇪 “Art critic Cristín Leach explores how ideas of Ireland and Irish identity have been visually represented, over 300 years.” Written & produced by @MaryBroph @IWRMedia for @RTElyricfm. #podcast 🎧 Episode 1: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

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Join us at Maynooth University on Thursday 📚👇

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“This publication is a remarkable book… Lucid insights, formal courage and striking turns of phrase consistently demonstrate why Leach is one of the best art critics writing in Ireland today.”

🤩🙏 @emilymfg.bsky.social for this stunning review of my #RHA200 book! In Spring Irish Arts Review.

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Looking forward to taking part in the Spring visiting writers series with Maynooth University Writers-in-Residence. New series starts today - Lisa Harding in conversation with Michèle Forbes. I’ll be in conversation with Francesca Bratton on 14 March 👇 All events are free and open to the public.

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Thank you!!! to the 116 people who borrowed Negative Space from Irish libraries from May-Dec 2022. This is the first time I’ve received a PLR (public lending rights) statement and even though it’s a grand total of €8.15 it’s a thrill to know my memoir is read through libraries 🥰.

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It means a lot to see Negative Space making some people’s best of and 2023 reading lists a year and a half after its publication 🤩. Thank you, thank you Julie Corcoran, Mia Döring, Minx Marple aka Isabella Streffen, and Jennifer Lynn ☺️. Rest of Julie’s Art Picks here www.anglocelt.ie/2024/01/02/a...

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The RHA has joined Soundcloud with an audio series I made to go with From Ten Till Dusk. Ten episodes (intro + 9 extracts/new essays) ft the voice talents of Lorcan Mac Muiris, Oonagh Montague & Rachel Andrews. Narrated by me. Not a full book, but an audio taster 🎧 on.soundcloud.com/5MgxhktcHHr5...

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From Ten till Dusk, A Portrait of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts @RHAGallery in Twelve Stories - read an extract from the new book via RTÉ Culture. This is a shortened version of Chapter 7 - There is a Man (1985) t.co/uTz9PrvZD7

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Feck. I feel an inevitable slide coming on…

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Now in gallery shops in Ireland too at IMMA, NGI and Crawford Art Gallery. And RHA Gallery of course 📖✨

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Currently of the opinion I’m not going to bother, but that might change of course… (I don’t look at FB any more and haven’t in years and I’m entirely happy without it. Sorry to people tagging me and trying to communicate with me there 😶)

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If you’re in Dublin and looking for From Ten till Dusk, it’s on a table in Hodges Figgis with a whole pile of Dublin books 🤩

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