The current retrospective exhibition on the paintings of Charles Harper serves to highlight not only the accomplished and potent nature of the artist's work, but also his position as a something of a maverick who does not fit readily into any easily defined categorisation within contemporary Irish visual art.

Harper is perhaps best known for his graphically-oriented "grid" paintings, in which works are made up of a series of small units combining into a greater whole. The repetition within the sub-units makes for a dynamic treatment, as in the bold and energetic work Protecting Angel.

This work finds earlier echoes in the likes of Citizens, a series of heads bandaged into obscurity - a powerful commentary on the individual within society - and in cooler, more abstract large scale compositional works such as Malcontention.

A broad, bright palette has also found its way into a recent series of initially unexpected landscape paintings, which again take on a compositional reduction that transcends the subject matter, while in other works a repeated rowboat motif manifests itself as both a compositional and metaphorical device.

A fascinating exhibition by a singular artist.