Two shows sum up a difficult year

Culture review 2016: The 1916 Commemorations featured a welcome alternative historical narrative

Mother’s Tankstation and the Oliver Sears Gallery have designs on the international art fairs

Photographer Dragana Jurisic picked up a camera after her father's entire archive was destroyed. And that's not the only mystery in her family history

As the art market becomes increasingly polarised, Art $ummit looks at the changing relationship between art and money

Artist and architect Sasha Sykes designed her own home on her family’s estate in Carlow using a traditional farmhouse design, though she added her own touches inside and out

A talented trio focus on plants, backwoods scenes and crumbling facades

Gorman’s work on kozo paper is quite something to behold – but don’t ask him how much it cost a sheet

‘I liaise with specialists across a broad range of disciplines, many of whom are leaders in their fields of expertise’

This Dublin gallery owner describes his style as contemporary with strong classical influences, but for all his eclectic interests he favours painting over other art forms

Three exhibitions showcase different aspects of modern painting to great effect

No selfie or Instagram picture can capture the essence of a person the way a painting can. Here, experienced portraitists give some pointers so you can have a go yourself

The Belfast painter's work has aged very well

Gary Coyle’s exhibition is superb, and three other Dublin shows also have plenty to explore

Michael Coleman puts on an almost perfect show; a piece of Birmingham moves to Temple Bar; and Amelia Stein goes close to the edge

Sam Keogh’s fine new exhibition explores our treatment of human remains and what it reveals about us

This week’s shows feature a mythologised car and superstition, emerging artists, and beautiful woodturning

At 81, the British artist is gaining recognition by avoiding artifice and artiness

Artist Sarah Walker has used her sons’ boxing as the inspiration for her latest exhibition

The German-born artist’s exceptional show is disturbing and even slightly creepy

Carmel Walsh has carved out a glamorous career as a stylist in Florence’s luxury goods market

The Belfast-born painter went to Israel to portray the plurality that a divided city needs

It isn’t just grown-ups painting like kids or gallery-goers admiring the emperor’s new clothes: good abstract art, such as Samuel Walsh’s, tackles the ideas behind things

Artist John Kelly is having a close brush with an inhospitable environment for the next three months

Much of the work in ‘Five into Four’ inhabits an in-between zone where craft becomes artistic

Patrick O’Reilly’s wild eclecticism can be perplexing, but his latest work, a giant haystack in a church, is a thrilling success