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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Emma O’Kane, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig, October 2017

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Max @mhalty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The very reason why AI needs to be taxed heavily to fund a Universal Basic Income for all citizens.

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RHA Gallery @rha-arts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join designer Edwyn James Hickey, engineer Peter Flynn and geologist Dr Aidan Forde here next Wednesday to discuss the concept and design process of the Valentia Bench. It’s currently exhibited as part of Deconstructing the Mountain by artist Fionn McCann at the RHA Ashford Gallery.

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Making Space: group show opens tonight 18h in Fumbally Exchange, Malpas St. D8

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m about to move into a shared studio space, so need something to mark which of the milks in the fridge is my one

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am very grateful indeed to be awarded an affordable studio in O'Connell Street Studios, a new community of 21 visual artists in a premises overlooking the city's main thoroughfare. Many thanks to Visual Artists Ireland and Dublin City Council Arts Office.

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is “Night Face 1”, part of a project I started near Piccadilly in London a couple of years ago. I’m very happy it’s been included in the Iova Collective exhibition “Human Touch” in Reds Gallery Dublin for Culture Night on Friday September 18th. See you there!

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Fumbally Exchange @fumballyexchange.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Coming soon - FEXA Fumbally Contemporary Arts Festival at Fumbally Exchange and other locations in the Liberties from 1st - 18th October 2026 Also come visit us for Open House Dublin on the 17th October - more details soon. @thelibertiescp.bsky.social @conorhorgan.bsky.social

A poster for the exhibition entitled Making Space: A dialogue between 7 contemporary artists.

Featured artists:
Caroline McCambridge
Stephen Dunne
Conor Horgan
Frances Donnelly Jung
Natasha Conway
David Newton
Patrick Chapman

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do I know anyone here with a subscription to the Times Literary Supplement I could ask to make a screenshot, please and thank you?

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Does this include people who wake up with a jolt at 4:30 a.m., wondering how they're going to earn enough to cover the overhead?

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Studio Michael Kane have been posting images of his studio to honour the great artist on their Instagram (@studio_michael_kane). Here are some I made when I was working with him a few years ago. My portrait of him was acquired by the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social in December 2024.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Delighted to see my portrait of Madeleine Madden and Christopher Eccleston on the poster for upcoming comedy thriller 💵 CHASING MILLIONS 💵 Dir: Stephen Burke (Maze) Art Direction & Design: Demi Hopkins for Carnival Studio. Many thanks to producers Jane Doolan and Michael Wrenn

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just got sent a Polaroid and print from a 3 a.m. shoot in the 80’s when I was still just an assistant. Fintan and Niamh.

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The full-length version of my piece in yesterday's Irish Times - link in comments.

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 08/08/2026

In Dunboyne for brunch and spotted this ace mural

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Very happy to be asked to contribute to Gemma Tipton's @irishtimes.com feature on Irish photographers picking their favourite of their own photographs. Link to article in comments.

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Glad to be in such august company

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I took this many years ago in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, while on the lam from the worst break-up of my life. Years later, a friend bought a print for his soon-to-be wife. He told me it was because “these are the best ways to enter into a marriage, or indeed any kind of relationship “

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST TO FIND A WAY TO BE VERY TENDER

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

To mark Maeve Binchy's anniversary today, here's "Remembering Maeve", a short film I made with Sarah Binchy and Sam Horgan for the Dalkey Book Festival. Link in comments.

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Originally written by Sarah Harrison and published in the magazine “Slightly Foxed” in Autumn 2010…

From the Editors
Autumn. Season of mists... Chudleigh the office dog is getting his winter coat and were thinking of turning on the heating.
Traditionally autumn is also one of the busiest publishing seasons when firms launch their 'big' books in time for the Christmas market, and review pages and bookshop displays expand. The novelist Sarah Harrison (whose piece on Teresa de Kerpely appeared in Issue 26) feels all those reviews and publishers blurbs need some decoding. Her brief guide tickled us, so we thought we’d pass it on:
Enchanting: there's a dog in it
Heart-warming: a dog and a child
Heart-rending: they die
Thoughtful: tedious
Thought-provoking: tedious and hectoring
Haunting: set in the past
Exotic: set abroad
Prize-winning: set in India
Perceptive: set in NW3
Epic: editor cowed by writer's reputation
From the pen of a master: same old same old
In the tradition of: shamelessly derivative
Provocative: irritating
Spare and taut: under-researched
Richly detailed: over-researched

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My author portrait of Djamel White, whose first novel "All Them Dogs" has just been added to the Booker Prize longlist - congratulations!

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Portrait of Photographer and Taylor Wessing Prize winner Salem Anowe Chukwuezi

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Now understand that creativity requires a space of your own to think and work in, freedom from financial worry, your time being your own and not devoted to caregiving, and the ability to roll naked in morning dew while calling on the Greek muses for guidance WITHOUT being reported to the cops, JOAN

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Hope Workers Cafe, Holloway Road

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Kapoor at the Hayward / Kroispoint at the Hayward

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Great to meet niece no.1 for dinner in Dalston

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I know we’re all very busy, but I do think the Minister for Justice passing a law to invent a carve out for the police’s requirement to have Judicial oversight of their use of Facial Recognition of public places was worth a bit of attention. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-hum...

The part of the legislation we are discussing here is called the carrying out of biometric analysis by members of the Garda Siochána. What is clear from a plain reading of this legislation, if enacted, is that it establishes a distinction between "biometric analysis" and "biometric identification".
Irrespective of what the Al Act says, here we are establishing a distinction between the two and only biometric analysis is permitted in this legislation."
Irrespective of what the Al Act says?
That is the wall Humpty Dumpty has decided to balance on. He will pass his law irrespective of the actual terms of the Al Act, and if it falls later he doesn't intend to be there to see it.
The mad yoke.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Aw! Beautiful message from my daughters on my Father’s Day card: ‘We have come to accept that you are probably doing your best.’

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

At this time of year, morning and evening sunlight shines in the north-facing windows of my studio (bonus picture of Amy, the studio cat)

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Eilís 'pidge' Ní Fhlannagáin @dirtycitybird.trann.ie · 19/06/2026

Anyone who says "Data centres create jobs" has never been in an actual data centre. I've been in ones where the only people working was the security guard. They're computers, not children, they generally don't need baby sitting.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We just moved our newsbox from George's Arcade down to The Saint in Inchicore, so now you can get your pints, your tacos (from Tacos Lupillo) and your local news all in one spot.

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Tim Riley @timriley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What turned out to be a final piece of advice from DH. Taken on my phone 🤦🏻

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have managed to get a big picture of Crass into the Financial Times magazine which is probably a first? Here is my Experts in a Dying Field-adjacent essay on bands as "utopian projects" www.ft.com/content/c902...

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The beautiful Utopian madness of being in a band

‘An interest in music can be helpful if you’re in a band but it is, actually, beside the point’

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Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, June 2022

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