The modern masters of the family portrait

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Emma Prempeh’s panoramic painting Come see has an arresting, cinematic presence. It is made in oil, acrylic and Schlag metal – an imitation gold leaf that changes as it oxidises. But it’s the central female figure in the scene who commands the attention: seen slightly from below, she is caught
mid-conversation, finger wagging in the direction of an…