DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

Barry White gave a talk on American artist Dana Schutz.  Her work Tourette's Paintings were on exhibition.  White showed the artist's work in the context of art history and the work of her contemporaries such as Damien Hirst and the Chapman brothers focuising on themes of distorted body parts, monsters, and cannibalism.  Dana Schutz's work has been described as ‘teetering on the edge of tradition and innovation'. 'My paintings are loosely based on metanarratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still lifes become personified, portraits become events and landscapes become constructions."  The exhibition at the Douglas Hyde is a must see. The paintings are technically superb, beautifully painted, brilliant clean clear colours, and the content thought provoking with a black humour edge.