Colin Davidson’s portrait of Duke Special queries the notion of image, writes Medb Ruane of this year’s winner of the Ireland-US Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award

Cathy Carman dreamworks ‘Sculpture is always about solving a problem’, Cathy Carman tells Brian McAvera

The elegance of choice Catherine Marshall investigates the benefits of Arts Council bursaries as seen in the practice of a number of contemporary artists

Maritime Painting in Ireland As an island community we are surrounded by the sea; in the first of two essays on maritime painting, Peter Murray (Navigator and Voyages) looks at
contemporary interpretations of this genre; while Denise Ferran (From Belfast Harbour to the open seas) recalls the glory days of Belfast’s expansion of its port and its heroic ships’ portraits as seen in the collection of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners