Angela Griffith appraises Paul MacCormaic’s painting of Lucky Khambule, this year’s winner of the Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award
Darragh O’Connell’s portrait of his son Mick – winner of this year’s Ireland-U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award at the RHA annual exhibition – is a painting of quiet, confident masculinity and a remarkable artistic achievement, writes Angela Griffith
Using traditional materials and methods that link her to earlier portrait artists, Emma Stroude has become this year’s Ireland-U.S. Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award winner, writes Angela Griffith
Painter and printmaker Ailbhe Barrett’s engagement with making, or ‘sculpting’ the copperplate to her will, results in work of transcendental emotional intensity, writes Angela Griffith