Mick O’Dea’s study of fellow academician Stephen McKenna, this year’s recipient of the Ireland-US Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award, embodies the artistic ideals of both sitter and creator, writes Angela Griffith
On the topic of his new work Mick O’Dea tells Brian McAvera “The Black and Tans were the Bogeyman and I am looking at what the Bogeyman looked like.”