Barrie Cooke – A survey show marking the painter’s 80th birthday

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham Tues-Sat 10am-5.30pm (Wed 10.30am-5.30pm), Sun Noon-5.30pm Until Sep 18 01-6129900

Born in Cheshire, raised partly in Bermuda, educated in the US, Barrie Cooke arrived in Ireland in 1955 and immediately felt at home. He lived in Co Clare, then in the Thomastown region of Co Kilkenny and on Lough Arrow in Co Sligo, always adjacent to water, often in a fairly remote setting. He became the pre-eminent painter of, as Seamus Heaney put it, “the dark, wet, rural thing”. His paintings and sculptures are alive with process, with the restless, relentless progress of natural cycles and, more recently, with the soured, invasive progress of pollutants. Besides Ireland, Borneo, New Zealand and parts of the US and other locations have featured in his work, but his concerns remain consistent: the business of living in and as part of the natural world. He has produced a body of work that is outstanding in its range, intensity, integrity and ambition.

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she would argue a crow is white, Cross Gallery, 59 Francis St, Dublin Until July 2 01-4738978