Photography advances centre stage at this year’s 178th Annual RHA Exhibition, with the inaugural Bank of Scotland (Ireland)/Irish Arts Review Portrait Prize awarded to Patrick Donald, writes Stephanie McBride
Aaron Scharf’s seminal work Art and Photography (1968) noted that with the arrival of photography, “Quite optimistically, many artists held the view that it would ‘keep its place’ and function primarily as a factotum to art. But this was both presumptuous and futile”
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
Riann Coulter finds a personal compendium collated with daring and vigour, in Basil Blackshaw’s work
