The 2008 edition of Artefact is now available. Contributors include:

Lucy Dawe-Lane: Staring into space: the performance of process in two portraits by Goya

Simon Knowles: Two-way traffic: James McNeill Whistler and the Sister Arts tradition

Fiona Loughnane: Materialism and idealism: the influence of Salvador Dalí on Colin Middleton

Reidin McSweeney: RE: Performance – the role of the audience in the documentation of Marina Abramovic’s performances

Una Walker: Ballrooms to barber shops: visual art venues in operation in Northern Ireland in the latter half of the twentieth-century

Fiona Woods: Ilya Kabakov and the shadows of modernism

For details on how to obtain copies of the Winter 2008 edition of Artefact, please email the editorial committee.

Contributors to the inaugural edition of the journal include:

JP McMahon – Structures of Signification: Vito Acconci & 1970s artistic production

Ruth Starr – Eileen Gray, a child of Japonisme?

Elmarie Nagle - Patron(s), Saints and the Politics of Display

Aidan O’Boyle – The Earls of Moira as Collectors

Ann Wilson – Seamus Murphy: a sculptor’s dilemma in mid-20th c. Cork

Eileen Kane - John Henry Newman’s Catholic University Church revisited

For details on how to obtain copies of the Autumn 2007 edition of Artefact, please email the editorial committee.