Róisín Kennedy speaks with this year’s winner of the Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Daniel Nelis
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
Gareth Reid’s portrait is an experiment in colour, writes Angela Griffith of this year’s recipient of the Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award
Donal Maguire reflects on Aches’ award-winning portrait, painted in the artist’s distinctive graffiti style, which references subtractive colour-mixing theory
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