PVA is a publisher of art criticism and literature. We aim to create a forum for the publication of engaged, clear, and accessible writing.
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12 Feb 2025
๐ฅ Just landed! ๐๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ด, the third in our series of essay collection, has just arrived! Available in bookshops soon. Pre-order via our shiny new website: pva-books.com
Thanks ๐๐ผ to @artscouncil_ie and to Daly & Lyon for the fab design.
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9 Aug 2025
A really interesting, often moving set of essays on film and cinema published by @PaperVisualArt - captured the deeply personal connection that we have with film, with some very raw memory wrapped up in screens and circumstances.
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12 Apr 2025
๐ New on the website: John Graham reviews Eva Richardson McCrea's ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ / ๐๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐รก at Project Arts Centre.
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ALT Installation view of Eva Richardson McCrea's ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ/๐๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐รก at Project Arts Centre. Three figures slouch across a set of beanbags, gazing up at a party scene projected across a blank white wall.
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12 Apr 2025
Image: Eva Richardson McCrea, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ/๐๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐รก, installation view, Project Arts Centre, 2025. Single-channel 4K video, sound, 01:06:34. Photo: Louis Haugh. Courtesy the artist and Project Arts Centre.
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27 Mar 2025
Reviews of Robert Seethaler's The Cafe With No Name, PVA's In the Good Seats, Carmel Harrington's The Stolen Child, Garrett Carr's The Stolen Child & Elaine Garvey's The Wardrobe Department in this wk's papers. @GillHessLtd @canongatebooks @Peterocmedia @ElaineEgan_ @headlinepg
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PVA Books retweeted
25 Feb 2025
wrote an essay about watching The Wizard of Oz in my bedroom when I was 6 and the connection between writing and dreams and how listening to Judy Garland singing 'somewhere over the rainbow' makes me want to cry
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28 Dec 2024
Delighted to see ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ featured in @hotpress's Best Books of 2024 alongside some other brilliant reads!๐
Thanks @Pat_Carty!
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21 Dec 2024
The books that floated my boat in 2024 as selected for the estimable @hotpress magazine. Read on, Macduff. hotpress.com/opinion/the-besโฆ
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27 Nov 2024
Wrote a reflection on Luke Kellyโs head for the always stylish and smart @PaperVisualArt journal. You can order from papervisualart.com or pick it up in Temple Bar Gallery at Dublin Art Book Fair until 01 Dec.
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10 Nov 2024
Catch @kingofpain666 speaking to PVA editor @adrian_duncan_ at our #zeitgeistirland24 event this Tuesday!
๐12โ5 p.m.
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๐Kino Krokodil, Berlin
๐๏ธRegister here: shorturl.at/57fx3
@ZeitgeistIrland @culture_ireland @irlembberlin
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7 Nov 2024
Just a few tickets remaining for our @DublinBookFest event!
Catch @missflannery, @declanlong, and @WednesdayErskin in conversation with @TonyClaytonLea, with Gavin Corbett on the decks!
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๐Dublin Liberties Distillery
๐6.00 p.m.
dublinbookfestival.com/eventโฆ
6 Nov 2024
Tomorrow!
Tickets (โฌ10 - a snip!) are in short supply, so get 'em while you can.
As part of the @DublinBookFest, I'll be chatting with:
@missflannery
@declanlong
@WednesdayErskin
about their respective essays in 'You Spin Me Round' (@PaperVisualArt)
dublinbookfestival.com/eventโฆ
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31 Oct 2024
๐ปNew on the website: @SuzanneWalsh_'s chilling essay about communing with the spirits of Ballyhealy House.
'I took caution in preparations, not wanting to disturb anything unduly.'
Originally published in ๐๐๐ 15, guest-edited by Emma Dwyer.
papervisualart.com/2024/10/3โฆ
ALT Image description: A close-up detail from Serena Caulfield's 'Hope in the Dark', 2022.
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31 Oct 2024
Image: @SerenaCaulfield, ๐๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ, 2022. Oil on panel, 50 x 60 cm. Courtesy of Wexford Arts Centre. Photo: Lar O'Toole.
Thanks as always to the @artscouncil_ie for their support.
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29 Oct 2024
๐Please join us for an afternoon of conversations, talks, readings, and the launch of ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ, vol. 16 โ the Berlin Edition!
๐12โ5 p.m.
๐Tuesday, 12 November
๐Kino Krokodil, Berlin
๐๏ธTickets: shorturl.at/57fx3
ALT Image description: A flyer advertising Paper Visual Art's upcoming event as part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, PVA Conversations: Berlin Edition.
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29 Oct 2024
Featuring PVA 16 contributors @adrian_duncan_, @kingofpain666, Daniel Seiffert, Sabrina Mandanici, Doireann O'Malley, Andy Fitz, @MarkJCurran, Rory Rowan, and @rebeccaodwyer.
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29 Oct 2024
PVA Conversations: Berlin Edition is part of #zeitgeistirland24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany.
@ZeitgeistIrland @culture_ireland @irlembberlin
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22 Oct 2024
Don't miss out on our @DublinBookFest event!
Featuring ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ contributors @WednesdayErskin, @missflannery, and @declanlong in conversation with @TonyClaytonLea!
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Thursday, 7 November
๐Dublin Liberties Distillery
โฑ๏ธ18.00
dublinbookfestival.com/eventโฆ
ALT Image description: Promotional flyer for Paper Visual Art/Dublin Book Festival event. Image text: YOU SPIN ME ROUND Wendy Erskine, Aingeala Flannery and Declan Long in conversation with Tony Clayton-Lea. DJ Set by Gavin Corbett. Thursday 7 November, 6pm | The Dublin Liberties Distillery Tickets: dublinbookfestival.com
21 Oct 2024
Just over 2 weeks to this!
Features @missflannery @WednesdayErskin @declanlong having a chinwag with yours truly about music (and their essays in You Spin Me Round), while Gavin Corbett spins (yes!) relevant 'discs'.
@PaperVisualArt
@DublinBookFest
dublinbookfestival.com/eventโฆ
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21 Oct 2024
๐New on the website: @rebeccaodwyer reviews ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ค, the first major retrospective of the artist Patricia Hurl, on view at @imma, 10 Februaryโ21 May, 2023.
Rebecca's piece was originally published in ๐๐๐15, our ghost-themed issue!๐ป
papervisualart.com/2024/10/2โฆ
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21 Oct 2024
Image: Patricia Hurl, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ญ, 1987. Oil on canvas, 155 x 109 cm. Drogheda Municipal Art Collection. Photo: Jenny Callanan.
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PVA Books retweeted
16 Oct 2024
Thank you @PaperVisualArt for publishing my essay Where Old Ghosts Meet, a reflection on Vera Kluteโs head of Luke Kelly on the Royal Canal at Sheriff St. Iโll be reading from the essay at The Artist and The City open mic @DCU @DublinBookFest at lunchtime on Wed 6th November ๐
15 Oct 2024
๐ขIt's official: our Berlin-themed edition, ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ท๐ฐ๐ญ. 16, has gone to print!
This is the latest in a series of city-specific editions, following others focused on Dublin, Cork, and Limerick.
Pre-order here: shorturl.at/H8GJe
ALT Image description: A red and off-white magazine cover onto which the title - Paper Visual Art Journal Vol. 16 - is printed in a bold, sans serif font.
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16 Oct 2024
Much thanks to @adrian_duncan_ & #NiamhDunphy @PaperVisualArt for their kind invitation to contribute to edition on #Berlin allowing to reflect on last 21 years, in particular, the last year & what has shifted so radically in this city one calls home.
15 Oct 2024
๐ขIt's official: our Berlin-themed edition, ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ท๐ฐ๐ญ. 16, has gone to print!
This is the latest in a series of city-specific editions, following others focused on Dublin, Cork, and Limerick.
Pre-order here: shorturl.at/H8GJe
ALT Image description: A red and off-white magazine cover onto which the title - Paper Visual Art Journal Vol. 16 - is printed in a bold, sans serif font.
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