Reviews, etc
Reviews
2016
Brian McAvera, ‘The Medium is the Message’, Irish Arts Review, Summer 2016
Slavka Sverakova, ‘Colin Darke at Suki Tea 2015 Art Prize at Golden Thread Gallery’, https://slavkasverakova.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/colin-darke-at-suki-tea-2015-art-prize-at-golden-thread-gallery-belfast-25th-february-26th-march-2016/
2015
Cristin Leach Hughes, ‘Art for Art’s Sake, Money for God’s Sake’, Sunday Times (Irish edition), 10 January 2015
2014
Slavka Sverakova, ‘Grotesque Mediocrity’, http://slavkasverakova.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/colin-darke-grotesque-mediocrity-mac-belfast-8-august-19-october-2014/
2013
John P O’Sullivan, ‘Imagined Communities’, Sunday Times (Irish edition), 17 March 2013
Charles Donelan, ‘Labour and Wait’, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, September/October 2013
Joanne Laws, ‘Momentous Times’, Art Monthly Issue 370, October 2013
Dominic Kearney, ‘Momentous Times’, Culture Northern Ireland website, 18 October 2013 http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/6050/art-review-m
Eamonn McCann, ‘Let’s Get Visual – A View of Turner and Beyond’, Derry Journal, 17 December, 2013 http://www.derryjournal.com/news/columnists/let-s-get-visual-a-view-of-turner-and-beyond-1-5755702
2012
Allesandra Poggianti, ‘Le parole di Gramsci incise su 500 mele La sfida di Darke’, Il Tirreno, 1 November 2012
Allesandra Poggianti, ‘L’arte di Colin Darke tra Gramsci e Courbet’, Il Tirreno, 2 November 2012
Chiara Calcagno, ‘Gramsci, Trotsky e Il tappeto di mele’, Pubblico Giornale, 10 November 2012
2009
Lucy Chapman, ‘4×4: Four Galleries, Four Exhibitions’, Textile Journal, Volume 7, Number 3, November 2009
2008
Tim Stott, ‘The Capital Paintings’, Circa, Issue 124, Summer 2008
Sarah Browne, ‘Creativity & Commodity – Good & Evil’, Visual Arts News Sheet, Ireland, May/June 2008 http://selfinterestandsympathy.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/creativity-commodity-good-evil/#more-273
Kate Butler, ‘Colin Darke: The Capital Paintings’, Sunday Times, 27 January 2008
Brian Fay, ‘The Capital Paintings’, The Arts Show, RTE Radio 1, 22 January 2008
Gemma Tipton, ‘Colin Darke: The Capital Paintings’, AN, March 2008. http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/407800
2005
Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, ‘Creating Capital’, Contexts, Volume 4, Issue 3
Viewable online: http://www.shiftyparadigms.org/colin_darke.htm
2004
Philip Auslander, ‘The Biennale and Its Discontents’, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Volume 26, Number 1, January 2004
Christopher Wood, ‘The Art Attacks Heat Up in War on Propaganda’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 November 2004
2002
Lars Saari, ‘Derrystä – Ilman Kompromisseja’, Turun Sanomat, Turku, 15 October 2002
Riikka Heikkonen, ‘Lusikoimalla Voi Tehdä Kommunistisen Manifestin’, Turun Ylioppilaslehti, Turku, 11 October 2002
2001
Marianne O’Kane, ‘Elementary Forms/AAI’, Circa, Issue 95, Spring 2001
2000
Allan Hughes, ‘Belfast review (1)’, Circa, Issue 94, Winter 2000
Annie Fletcher, ‘Manifesta 3’, Circa, Issue 93, Autumn 2000
Emily Kimball, ‘Nine Irish Artists Featured at Bell Gallery’, Brown Daily Herald, Rhode Island, 14 February 2000
1999
Anna Hammond, ‘New York review’, Circa Issue 89, Autumn 1999
Kathy Dobie, ‘Making His Marx’, Notorious Magazine, New York, September 1999
Roberta Smith, ‘The Irish Struggle for a Visual Poetry to Call Their Own’, New York Times, 25 June 1999
Brendan Landers, Through a Glass Darkely’, The Celtic Connection, Issue 74, March 1999, Canada
Diane Hart, ‘Art as Communication’, Oakville Beaver, Canada, 19 February 1999
‘Shane Cullen & Colin Darke’, Globe & Mail, Canada, 6 February 1999
1998
Kyo Maclear, ‘Colin Darke’, Toronto Life, February 1998
Aidan Dunne, ‘Grand-Scale Exhibition in Limerick’, Irish Times, 14 October 1998
Angeline Morrison, ‘More Than Meets the Eye’, Sunday Tribune, 11 October 1998
Kathryn Hayes, ‘City Gets Ready for its Annual Explosion of Art’, Limerick Leader, 3 October 1998
Mark Swartz, ‘Tracings’, Circa, Issue 84, Summer 1998
David Musgrave, ‘North and South – Belfast to Dublin via Derry’, Art Monthly, June 1998
Elizabeth Baird, ‘Off the Walls in Pursuit of Avant Garde’, Belfast Telegraph, 18 April 1998
Ian Hill, ‘Tracings’, Irish Times, 13 April 1998
Gavin Weston, ‘Tracings’, Sunday Times, 5 April 1998
1995
Colin Darke, ‘Colin Darke’, Circa, Issue 74, Winter 1995
Gavin Weston, ‘Colin Darke’, Sunday Times, 30 July 1995
Ian Hill, ‘Colin Darke Installation’, Irish Times, 28 July 1995
1994
Eamonn McCann, ‘Kicking Against the Bricks’, Hot Press, Vol 18, No 15, 10 August 1994
(Reprinted in Eamonn McCann, War & Peace in Northern Ireland, Hot Press Books, 1998)
1987
Mark Currah, ‘Colin Darke’, City Limits, Issue 310, 10-17 September 1987
1985
Nigel Pollitt, ‘Targets/Shields’, City Limits, Issue 189, 17-23 May 1985