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Hennessy Portrait Prize 2014 - Shortlisted Artists In Addition To Winner

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I've simply discovered that if you lot are inwards the U.K. you lot tin access RTE - as well as thence you lot tin sentry a brusque preview on RTE of the inaugural Hennessy Portrait Prize 2014.  Here's the link to the programme. It should start at iv minutes 42 second.

Hennessy Portrait Prize 


This is a novel prize opened upwards to artists resident on the isle of Republic of Ireland or an Irish Gaelic citizen living abroad
The Hennessy Portrait Prize was launched inwards March 2014. Open to artists inwards all disciplines, the competition’s aim is to showcase as well as encourage involvement inwards contemporary portraiture, as well as to heighten the profile of the long-standing as well as constantly evolving National Portrait Collection at the National Gallery of Ireland.
These were the Rules of the Hennessy Portrait Prize 2014. (pdf). Entry was digital. The alone status on media is that

The portrait must hold out of a size as well as medium that could reasonably hold out exhibited. 

Shortlisted artists


Educator Dr Declan Long, artist Donald Teskey RHA, fine art critic Cristín Leach Hughes and fine art author Janet McLean selected the shortlist of twelve finalists

Photograph courtesy RTÉ Presspack

The short-listed artworks as well as artists for the Hennessy Portrait Prize 2014 - according the official website - are listed below. You tin reckon all shortlisted plant inwards an exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland until Feb 8th, 2015

Note that the artworks chosen are a mix of crude paintings, photographs as well as videos.  I rather similar the thought that paintings are supposed to await similar paintings as well as photos await similar photos!

What gain YOU intend of the notion that a portrait contest should include photography as well as video?

Shortlisted artists - highlighting the winner


  • Links to the artist's website (if discoverable) are inwards the artist's name. 
  • Links to the artwork are besides provided - as well as you'll discovery these besides render to a greater extent than details virtually the artist.

The winner was announced before this month. Nick Miller won a prize of €15,000 summation a committee worth €5,000 to create a portrait of an Irish Gaelic sitter for inclusion inwards the National Portrait Collection. 

Since 2006, John has had a publish of fine art residencies inwards Dublin at the Fire Station Artists’ Studio, the Royal Hibernian Academy, Temple Bar Gallery & studios as well as IMMA.
Since graduating inwards 1998 from Belfast School of Art, Comhghall has been epitome total fourth dimension amongst numerous solo shows. His run has been shown inwards the RHA, RUA as well as RA annual exhibitions. Comhghall was besides selected for the BP Portrait Award 2014 ans the RA Summer Show (2011-2013).
Gavan is a self-taught creative mortal as well as afterwards completing his degree, spent ii years inwards Italia during which he was drawn dorsum to artistic occupation through photography as well as sculpture.
A graduate of architecture, Cian went on to consummate a Masters inwards Film studies inwards UCD before dedicating himself full-time to painting.
Hugh studied drama at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin as well as cinema at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He has besides exhibited at the RHA, Dublin as well as RUA, Belfast.
Geraldine has received a publish of awards including the Henry Higgins Travel Scholarship, an Arts Council Bursary as well as the Gerry Tornsey Prize for Portraiture. Her run is represented inwards many collections including IMMA, the ECB, OPW as well as Glucksman UCC collection.
A visual artist, Mandy’s run has been shortlisted for the 2012 Julia Margaret Cameron Award as well as included inwards the publication New Irish Gaelic Works inwards 2013. Her principal practises comprise of investigations into the local as well as the everyday, amongst a rigid emphasis on portraiture.
Helen studied epitome at ane of the Flemish fine art academies, Beeldende Kunst Overijse, as well as right away paints from her studio inwards Brussels.
  • Erin Quinn originally from Canada (permanent resident inwards Ireland); Adam (from the serial 'Breaking Point'), 2013, photograph, archival pigment on fine fine art paper, 128 x xc cm. 
In 2011, Erin was an invited creative mortal at the 181st Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Exhibition, where she was awarded the prestigious Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Prize.
  • Una Sealy from Dublin; Hibiscus Blues (Portrait of Douglas), 2014, crude on sheet 120 x 100 cm. 
Una has held viii solo exhibitions as well as has been selected for curated grouping shows inwards San Francisco, New York as well as Britain, every bit good every bit many inwards Ireland, as well as inwards 2011 was awarded the Republic of Ireland – U.S Council/Irish Arts Review Awards for outstanding portraiture.
  • Saoirse Wall living as well as working betwixt Dublin as well as Mayo; Gesture 2, 2014, hard disk video. 
Saoirse of late graduated amongst a start class honours BA inwards Fine Art Media at NCAD as well as has exhibited internationally, including at ‘setup, a devise’, Dublin, The Wrong Digital Art Biennale as well as the National #Selfie portrait gallery, London.


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