Talk: Daniel Nelis, winner of the AIB Portrait Prize 2025

Join us for a free public talk with artist Daniel Nelis. 

The talk will place special emphasis on his work Late Spring, 2025 — an intimate portrait of his wife, Andrea, created in the months leading up to their marriage. This remarkable piece was awarded the overall winner of the AIB Portrait Prize 2025.

Daniel Nelis is a visual artist, curator and art educator from County Donegal. Rooted in the desolate boglands of his home, his paintings capture moments of stillness and contemplation, and through the intimacy of the mark-making, register Nelis’s heightened awareness of the incursions of time. Nelis studied Fine Art Painting at Ulster University, later completing an MA in Art History, Collections and Curating at University College Dublin. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts.