AIB Portrait Prize

9 November 2024  - 9 March 2025
Portrait Gallery | Admission free

The Gallery’s annual AIB Portrait Prize exhibition features the shortlist of works chosen from hundreds of entries each year. Running in tandem, the AIB Young Portrait Prize is an inclusive art competition for young people of all abilities which aims to support creativity, originality and self-expression. The AIB Portrait Prize and AIB Young Portrait Prize run from 9 November 2024 to 9 March 2025 in the Portrait Gallery. The winners will be announced at a ceremony held in the Gallery on 27 November 2024.  

Shortlist announced

We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for this year's AIB Portrait Prize. 26 artists, working across a variety of media, have made it through to the final stage of the competition.

Shortlisted artists for the AIB Portrait Prize 2024 at the National Gallery of Ireland are:

• Caolán Barron (Wexford), Isabella Gerbola, Circus Gerbola, Tramore, 2023, photograph
• Harriet Casey (Meath), Are You Sitting Comfortably?, oil on canvas
• Shane Coughlan (Dublin), Róisín Dubh, photograph on photo rag paper
• David Creedon (Cork), Miss Evans in her Sweetshop, photograph
• Philip Thomas Crean (Dublin), 64, photograph
• Lorraine Dunne (Westmeath), Aoife on Dollymount, oil on canvas
• Amanda Dunsmore (Clare), Lydia, Dr Lydia Foy, 2022, filmed video portrait, silent, 18 mins
• Ellius Grace (Dublin), Shane MacGowan At Home, 2021, photograph
• David Hamilton (Armagh), The Family Bowles and The Fiscal Black Hole, acrylic on canvas
• Neil-Jack (Alphonsus) Hamilton (Donegal), Jennifer McShane, oil on canvas
• Gearóid Arthur Hayes (Limerick), Kwena Chokoe, oil on board
• Beverley Healy (Antrim), Sibling Travellers, mixed media (egg tempera, oil and acrylic) on panel
• Markela Iacovou (Dublin), 10.07.1980, photograph edited in photoshop and illustrator, digital printing on canvas and manual work with hagiography pigments and caustic liquid
• Robert Jackson (Dublin), Beth in Low Light, oil on roughened brass plate
• Joy Kavanagh (Cork), Self-subject; In bloom, acrylic on wooden boards
• Martin Maguire (Louth), GameBoy, oil on canvas
• Arann McCormack (Wicklow), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, photograph
• Emily McGardle (Monaghan), The Pox, coloured pencil and pen on paper
• Laurence J McMahon (Dublin), Mary Lou McDonald President of Sinn Féin, photograph
• Conor O’Connell (Roscommon), Ómra, oil on copper panel
• Darragh O’Connell (Wexford), John and Fionnán, oil on canvas
• Mick O’Dea (Clare), Fergus Martin, oil on canvas
• Cara Rose (Dublin), Ailbhe and Michelle, coloured pencil on mounted paper
• Kevin Sharkey (Dublin), Robyn, photograph
• Robert Stothard (Leitrim), Carl in the Box Room, photograph
• Michael Wann (Sligo), Camille, charcoal on paper