Art resists tidy answers

Colin Davidson is one of Ireland’s great artists.

In a raw and powerful conversation, he joins us on Free State today to talk about a childhood that saw him find an escape into art.

He speaks of how he approaches his subjects and what he is trying to find when he paints people as diverse as Martin McGuinness and the Queen.

And he considers the question, is there anyone he wouldn’t paint?

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