Aidan Dunne on a melancholy maze without a solution

Stephen Brandes combines a sense of the absurd, rootedness and rootlessness, with a keen attention to local detail and oddities

Napoleon, Deirdre and Ken. Schmerzbau by Stephen Brandes at the Model gallery in Sligo.

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Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne is a visual arts critic and contributor to The Irish Times

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