AIB Portrait Prize 2024
The annual 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.
An exhibition featuring a shortlist of portraits chosen by the judging panel will go on display in the Gallery from 9 November 2024 until 9 March 2025.
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
