Wunderkammer: A place where a collection of curiosities and rarities is exhibited

Alan Keane and Katrina Maguire, 2017

The initial concept of Virtù evolved while co-ordinating the annual student Painting Department exhibition. This active collaboration interacts and responds to the Hunt Museum and has been instrumental in …

Katrina Maguire, Viewpoint

Sarah Greavu, 2007

Katrina Maguire’s Viewpoint in Prehen House explores various perspectives on life in the Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. It is work which can be read not just against its immediate surroundings in an Irish ‘big house’ but, moving out, in the wider local and national sociopolitical context …

Katrina Maguire, Bedding Out

Sarah Glennie, 2001

Katrina Maguire’s response to the scale of the Concourse Space was the installation Bedding Out - a dramatic large-scale floor piece that took its inspiration from the traditional designs of formal gardens. In particular the piece took the form of a ‘Parterre’ …

Separation and Restoration

Gill Addison, 2007

It is a very precious experience to witness the growth of an artist, to see their practice evolve, develop and finally engage with the way in which life and ideas are navigated and made sense of in the exhibitions that mark a continual commitment. My experience of Katrina Maguire’s work spans …

Extract from Anois, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios

Declan Long, 2001

Like many artists now working, Katrina Maguire has avoided pressure to develop a specific, signature style and has instead over several years explored an ambitious range of techniques and ideas. Hers is a capacious, imaginatively heterogeneous practice …

Extract from Away a lone a last a loved a long the,

Katrina Maguire, draw’ing-room

Leonida Kovač, 2001

In the text This is not pipe, motivated by the reading of Magritte’s painting, Foucault wrote: “A calligram is therefore tautology. But contrary to the rhetoric which plays with the redundancy of language. It makes use of the possibility …