{"id":13706,"date":"2025-08-21T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13706\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:03:09","slug":"kerry-artist-shortlisted-for-aib-portrait-prize-at-the-national-gallery-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13706\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry artist shortlisted for AIB Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kerry artist has been shortlisted for this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/aib\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AIB<\/a> Portrait Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Clodagh O\u2019Leary is among 26 artists nominated for her photograph \u2018Never Be Without Your Horse\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>All shortlisted artworks will go on display at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin running from November 8th to March 15th 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced on November 25th receiving a cash prize of \u20ac15,000 along with a \u20ac5,000 commission to create a new piece for the National Portrait collection.<\/p>\n<p>Two highly commended art pieces will also receive \u20ac1,500 each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgallery.ie\/art-and-artists\/exhibitions\/upcoming-exhibitions\/aib-portrait-prize-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The competition<\/a> is to run in partnership with Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny and Waterford Gallery of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Judges for the competition are artist Gareth Reid, Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Professor in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy in UCD and Dr Barbara Dawson, Director of the Hugh Lane Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The AIB Young Portrait Prize returns for its seventh year and will showcase artists eighteen and younger.<\/p>\n<p>Five winners one from each age category will receive a bespoke art box and a cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>The overall winner will be awarded a personalised wooden box of high-quality art materials and a cash prize of \u20ac500.<\/p>\n<p>Judges for the AIB Young Portrait Prize include Cian O\u2019Brien of COBA: Arts, artist Neil-Jack Alphonsus Hamilton and artist Alice Rekab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kerry artist has been shortlisted for this year\u2019s AIB Portrait Prize. Clodagh O\u2019Leary is among 26 artists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,12817],"class_list":{"0":"post-13706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-portrait"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}