Colin Davidson was educated at the University of Ulster, and has won several awards, including the Ireland-US Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award in 2010, and the Keating/McLoughlin Medal (ESB) at the RHA in 2009. He has held solo exhibitions in Dublin, Belfast and New York, has contributed to many group shows, and is represented in private and public collections throughout Ireland and the UK. He was elected president of the Royal Ulster Academy in 2012. This work is one of a series of oversized portrait busts by the artist of private individuals and public figures. Each portrait has been executed with painterly vigour, but also a sensitivity that belies its monumental scale.
Colin Davidson was educated at the University of Ulster, and has won several awards, including the Ireland-US Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award in 2010, and the Keating/McLoughlin Medal (ESB) at the RHA in 2009. He has held solo exhibitions in Dublin, Belfast and New York, has contributed to many group shows, and is represented in private and public collections throughout Ireland and the UK. He was elected president of the Royal Ulster Academy in 2012. This work is one of a series of oversized portrait busts by the artist of private individuals and public figures. Each portrait has been executed with painterly vigour, but also a sensitivity that belies its monumental scale.