Exhibition
9 November 2024 - 9 March 2025
Portrait Gallery (Room 23) | Admission free
The Gallery’s annual AIB Portrait Prize exhibition features the shortlist of works chosen from hundreds of entries. This competition, showcasing contemporary portraiture, is open to artists from across the island of Ireland, and Irish artists living abroad. The winner of the competition will receive a cash prize of €15,000 and will be commissioned to create a work for the National Portrait Collection, for which they will be awarded a further €5,000. Two additional awards of €1,500 will be given to highly commended works. The winner will be announced at a ceremony held in the Gallery on 27 November 2024.
Judges
Hughie O’Donoghue is an artist, painter and writer. Born in Manchester, he now lives and works in London and Erris, Mayo. In 2009, he was elected an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in the category of Painting.
Emer McGarry is the Director of The Model, Sligo. The Model is a leading centre for contemporary arts in Ireland and home of The Niland Collection. Recent projects include ‘The Sunset Belongs To You’, an exhibition of commissioned oil portraits of Sligo children.
Simon O’Connor is the Director of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Opened in 2019, MoLI is a focal point for 20th and 21st century Irish writing, located in the heart of Dublin. Previously, Simon O’Connor was the founding curator of the Little Museum of Dublin.
An exhibition sponsored by AIB, organised by the National Gallery of Ireland.
Explore the finalists
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Caolán Barron
Isabella Gerbola, Circus Gerbola, Tramore, 2023
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Harriet Casey
Are You Sitting Comfortably? A Portrait of the Artist as a little
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Shane Coughlan
Róisín Dubh, 2024
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Philip Thomas Crean
64, 2023
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David Creedon
Miss Evans in her Sweetshop, 2024
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Lorraine Dunne
Aoife on Dollymount, 2022
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Amanda Dunsmore
'Lydia' Dr Lydia Foy, 2022
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Ellius Grace
Shane MacGowan at Home, 2021
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David Hamilton
The Family Bowles and the Fiscal Black Hole, 2023
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Neil-Jack (Alphonsus) Hamilton
Jennifer McShane, 2023
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Gearóid Arthur Hayes
Kwena Chokoe, 2023
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Beverley Healy
Sibling Travellers, 2024
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Markela Iacovou
10.07.1980, 2022
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Robert Jackson
Beth in Low Light, 2023
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Joy Kavanagh
Self-subject; in Bloom, 2024
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Martin Maguire
GameBoy, 2023
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Arann McCormack
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, 2024
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Emily Mc Gardle
The Pox, 2023
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Laurence J. McMahon
Mary Lou McDonald, President of Sinn Feinn, 2022
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Conor O'Connell
Ómra, 2024
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Darragh O'Connell
John and Fionnán, 2024
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Mick O'Dea
Fergus Martin, 2022
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Cara Rose
Ailbhe and Michelle, 2024
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Kevin Sharkey
Robyn, 2024
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Robert Stothard
Carl in the Box Room, 2024
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Michael Wann
Camille, 2024