Róisín Kennedy examines Amelia Stein’s photographic portraits capturing the artists of the RHA
Stein: Photographs RHA 2009 features photographs of fifty artists, all members and associate members of the Royal Hibernian Academy. The striking black and white portraits were taken in the artists’ studios, and are accompanied by images of the studio chair, a central, if inconspicuous feature of the space, where the artist works or rests and from which he or she surveys the work in progress. Other photographs focus on intriguing details of the tools, props and other ephemera of the workspace.
On the eve of his show at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, in Winter 2009 Joseph McBrinn considered the unique aesthetic Rudolf Heltzel has brought to jewellery design.
