Róisín Kennedy discusses Carey Clarke’s Portrait of My Daughter, Michelle, the winner of the Ireland-US Council Portrait Prize at the 178th RHA Annual Exhibition

This is the third year in which the Irish Arts Review and the Ireland-US Council have co-sponsored an award for portraiture at the RHA Annual Exhibition. This year the award has been made to one of the country’s most acclaimed portrait painters, Carey Clarke RHA, for his Portrait of My Daughter, Michelle
Riann Coulter finds a personal compendium collated with daring and vigour, in Basil Blackshaw’s work