Tom Lordan
@tomlordan.bsky.social
Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
Llegando a toda prisa desde Irlanda
November 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Llegando a toda prisa desde Irlanda
Sunrise in the Pyrenees
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Sunrise in the Pyrenees
I contributed a catalogue essay to Karen Ebb's exhibition An Outer Reflection Of An Inner Reality, which opened in Dun Laoghaire's #Municipal Gallery last night.
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I contributed a catalogue essay to Karen Ebb's exhibition An Outer Reflection Of An Inner Reality, which opened in Dun Laoghaire's #Municipal Gallery last night.
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
I visited the opening of @helengblake.bsky.social 's phenomenal Let The Rules Be Soft at the #Molesworth Gallery during the week. Exquisite, visually inventive, phenomenologically rich abstract painting. Really looking forward to writing my review - so much to grapple with!
#helenblake
#helenblake
September 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I visited the opening of @helengblake.bsky.social 's phenomenal Let The Rules Be Soft at the #Molesworth Gallery during the week. Exquisite, visually inventive, phenomenologically rich abstract painting. Really looking forward to writing my review - so much to grapple with!
#helenblake
#helenblake
August 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Martin Parr, at random, has so many absolute belters.
April 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Martin Parr, at random, has so many absolute belters.
Further shrine works
March 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Further shrine works
Saw some beautiful work at Dublin Castle last week. 'All Flowers Bend In Time Toward The Sun' is a group exhibition organised by artist-curators Lee Welch and Paul Hallahan, including ppl like Samir Mahmood, Eva Rothschild, and William McKeown.
@paulhallahan.bsky.social
@paulhallahan.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Saw some beautiful work at Dublin Castle last week. 'All Flowers Bend In Time Toward The Sun' is a group exhibition organised by artist-curators Lee Welch and Paul Hallahan, including ppl like Samir Mahmood, Eva Rothschild, and William McKeown.
@paulhallahan.bsky.social
@paulhallahan.bsky.social
Ursula Burke's newest exhibition is called Sirens, currently at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny. Highly recommend!
February 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Ursula Burke's newest exhibition is called Sirens, currently at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny. Highly recommend!
Dublin, a heavy atmosphere.
February 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Dublin, a heavy atmosphere.
"Art judgments of ‘the interesting’... may be seen as the constitutive ground of modern art judgements, within which those of contemporary art comprise a distinctive type.”
- Peter Osborne, Art of the Interesting, New Left Review 2024
- Peter Osborne, Art of the Interesting, New Left Review 2024
January 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"Art judgments of ‘the interesting’... may be seen as the constitutive ground of modern art judgements, within which those of contemporary art comprise a distinctive type.”
- Peter Osborne, Art of the Interesting, New Left Review 2024
- Peter Osborne, Art of the Interesting, New Left Review 2024
New additions to the shrine.
January 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
New additions to the shrine.
Trinity Library, film studies section.
January 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trinity Library, film studies section.
January 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Fergus Feehily 'Fortune House' at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
January 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Fergus Feehily 'Fortune House' at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Claude Romano's #phenomenology is profoundly arresting. Currently reading Event and World (1998).
If change is traditionally understood in terms of the things that undergo this process, are we not compelled to consider "pure change," or what #Bergson called "change without anything that changes".
If change is traditionally understood in terms of the things that undergo this process, are we not compelled to consider "pure change," or what #Bergson called "change without anything that changes".
December 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Claude Romano's #phenomenology is profoundly arresting. Currently reading Event and World (1998).
If change is traditionally understood in terms of the things that undergo this process, are we not compelled to consider "pure change," or what #Bergson called "change without anything that changes".
If change is traditionally understood in terms of the things that undergo this process, are we not compelled to consider "pure change," or what #Bergson called "change without anything that changes".
I left several dozen minced pies out for Santa Kong, and the grizzled winter bear of mulberry mirth gave me everything I wanted! 🎁 #philoxmas
December 26, 2024 at 1:44 PM
I left several dozen minced pies out for Santa Kong, and the grizzled winter bear of mulberry mirth gave me everything I wanted! 🎁 #philoxmas
Hamad Butt Retrospective, IMMA Dublin.
December 16, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Hamad Butt Retrospective, IMMA Dublin.
Wrote a catalogue essay for Cian McLoughlin's incredible 'Zero Is An Even Number' at the Molesworth Gallery. McLoughlin's arresting style is always evolving, though aesthetic and conceptual themes connect each stage of practice.
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
November 21, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Wrote a catalogue essay for Cian McLoughlin's incredible 'Zero Is An Even Number' at the Molesworth Gallery. McLoughlin's arresting style is always evolving, though aesthetic and conceptual themes connect each stage of practice.
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
Cork City, November.
November 18, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Cork City, November.
