Ag Tochailt | Paul McKinley at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

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Exhibition continues from 02/06/26.

The slowness and precision Paul McKinley evokes in his exquisite paintings belies the anger at the injustice that motivated their production. For the last 15 years he has depicted landscapes in his meticulous, figurative style that are suffused with trauma and human suffering.

For ‘Ag Tochailt’ (digging) he moves his focus away from previous places including Afghanistan, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Greece to The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The title is an allusion to the Casement Report (1904) written by Irish nationalist and activist Roger Casement to describe abuses in the Congo Free State, then privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium.

Accompanying Text written by Francis Halsall.