Cristín Leach

Writer, Art Critic, Broadcaster

Events

Upcoming Events

TitleDateLocation
Hinterland Festival25 Jun 2023To Be Announced
Lodestar Summer School16 Aug 2023To Be Announced

Past Events

TitleDateLocation
MoLi First Fridays06 Jan 2023MoLi Museum of Literature Ireland
Dingle Literary Festival20 Nov 2022An Diseart, Chapel, Dingle, Kerry, Ireland
Greywood Arts Bookclub18 Oct 2022Greywood Arts, Main Street, Killeagh, County Cork, Ireland
ISLA Literary Festival14 Oct 2022Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, Trinity College Dublin
West Cork Literary Festival10 Jul 2022The Maritime Hotel, Bantry, West Cork, Ireland
Belfast Book Festival12 Jun 2022The Crescent Arts Centre, 2-4 University Rd, Belfast
Negative Space Dublin launch26 May 2022The Gutter Bookshop, Cow's Ln, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, D08 DK27
Negative Space Cork launch19 May 2022Dubray Books, 83-85 Patrick's Street, Cork, Ireland

About

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Art Critic (The Sunday Times Ireland, 2003-date). Writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, journalist, essayist, and broadcaster.

Debut non-fiction book, Negative Space, a memoir about art, writing and marital breakdown published by Merrion Press 2022.

Short fiction and non-fiction published in Winter Papers 3, 5, 7. Contributor to Irish Arts Review, RTE Radio 1, RTE Lyric FM and RTE.ie.

Photo credit: Clare Keogh


Reviews & Recommendations

 

As art critic for the Sunday Times for almost 20 years, Cristín has combined expert knowledge of the visual arts with an ability to write about them in a clear and engaging way - an almost unique blend in the Irish media. As a columnist Cristín is adept at analysing topical and controversial issues, using her superb writing skills to inform, explain but also entertain. An extract from her book Negative Space was one of the most read articles on the Sunday Times website in 2022.

John Burns
The Sunday Times, Commissioning Editor
 

Cristín’s wonderfully crafted artists’ interview was a festival highlight at Light Moves Festival 2021. Her communication, research and delivery was authentic and engaging and conveyed genuine curiosity for the artist and their work. Cristín seamlessly engaged both the live audience and those experiencing the event via live-steaming. I would work with Cristín again in a heartbeat.

Mary Wycherley
Co-founder and Curator Light Moves Festival, Choreographer and Film Director
 

She is uncommonly good at writing about being embodied... Negative Space is the record of a writer remaking life and language, knowing they will always be strangely matched.

Brian Dillon
The Irish Times
 

There are few books that capture so gracefully and so truthfully the way in which art and life weave and bleed together. Negative Space is a beautiful, profound, unique book.

Sara Baume
Artist and Author
 

Leach is, with apologies to all others ploughing a similar furrow, the leading Irish fine art critic. She knows her onions,... No surprise then that this memoir is a work of art in and of itself.

Pat Carty
Hot Press
 

In this extraordinary book, Cristín Leach sketches a vivid sequence of vignettes that build towards a meditative portrait of art, voice, loss and growth.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Poet and Author
 

I adored Negative Space. It is a personal Ways of Seeing for twenty-first-century women... a compelling personal story steeped in art... essential reading.

Edel Coffey
Author and Journalist
 

An unflinching self-exploration of a woman at various major life stages, not to mention a refreshing portrait of a very modern Irish marriage breakdown, divorce and family break-up.

Tanya Sweeney
Irish Independent
 
 

Contact

  • Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

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