The National Gallery of Ireland has just announced the shortlists for Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize competitions …
From hundreds of entries, the shortlists of this year’s Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize have just been announced. Twenty six artists, working across a variety of media, have made it through to the final stage of the Zurich Portrait Prize, while 20 young artists aged between four and 18-years-old have been shortlisted for the Zurich Young Portrait Prize.
“The Zurich Portrait Prize is now firmly established as an annual opportunity for artists of all ages to submit work for assessment by an independent panel of judges,” explains Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland. “The adjudicators are appointed each year, bringing new insights to the process of selecting the winning and commended artists. The Gallery is delighted that this exhibition gives many new and returning artists the opportunity to show their work in the National Gallery of Ireland.”
The winner of the Zurich Portrait Prize 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. This year, the judges are artist Diana Copperwhite, Anna O’Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and artist Nick Miller.
Some of the shortlisted artists for the Zurich Portrait Prize 2022 at the National Gallery of Ireland are as follows:
Rachel Ballagh (Cork), Back Garden, 2021, Photograph
Mick O’Dea (Dublin), At Dysert O’Dea, 2020, Oil on canvas
Sorcha Frances Ryder (Dublin), My Bedroom As A Depressed College Graduate (Self-portrait), 2022, Photograph
Cara Rose (Dublin), Double Self Portrait, 2021, Coloured pencil on paper
Vanessa Jones (Dublin), HoMi Hand Plow (self-portrait), 2020, Oil on canvas
Shane Blount (Wicklow), Lately I’ve Been Seeing Rainbows, 2022, Oil on canvas
Vera Klute (Kilkenny), Self-Portrait, 2020, Oil on plywood
Fiach McGuinne (Dublin), MacDara, 2022, Oil and acrylic on canvas
Ian Cumberland (Down), 14314 days, 2022, Oil on linen
Marie Smith (Cavan), Stephanie, 2022, Fired clay on wooden stand
Need to Know: Exhibitions of shortlisted works in both competitions run at the National Gallery of Ireland between November 26 2022 to April 2, 2023. The exhibition will then travel to the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co Donegal, where it will be displayed between June 3 to September 2, 2023; Find out more at www.nationalgallery.ie.
Main featured image: Enda Burke (Galway), Deirdre by the Window, 2021, Photograph
