Junxi Yi’s ‘Me in Chinese Traditional Dress,’ was created with oil pastel, nail polish, and gem stickers on canvas. 11 year old Junxi Yi is from Drogheda.
Three local artists have been shortlisted for Young Portrait Prize competitions at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Harriet Casey from Navan, Hugo Cashell (5) from Mornington Junxi Yi (11) from Drogheda, Co Meath are among the 26 shortlisted artists selected.
Harriet Casey was successful in being shortlisted with her oil on canvas titled Are You Sitting Comfortably? Meanwhile, Hugo Cashell’s offering was acrylic ink on paper entitled ‘Gill in the Garden’ and ‘the Sun is Setting,’ and Junxi Yi’s ‘Me in Chinese Traditional Dress,’ was created with oil pastel, nail polish, and gem stickers on canvas. They have been shortlisted for the AIB Young Portrait Prize alongside 19 other artists from across the country.
Harriet Casey from Navan was successful in being shortlisted with her oil on canvas titled Are You Sitting Comfortably?
The AIB Portrait Prize shortlist includes painting, drawing, sculpture, video and photography demonstrating the breadth of contemporary Irish art. The winner of the AIB 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. Judges for the AIB Portrait Prize are: Hughie O’Donoghue, artist, painter and writer. Emer McGarry, Director of The Model, Sligo and Simon O’Connor, Director of the Museum of Literature Ireland.
The AIB Young Portrait Prize returns for its sixth year in 2024 as a showcase for the artistic talent of young people from across the island of Ireland. Five winners (one from each respective age category and an overall winner) will be selected from a shortlist of hundreds of entries from young people aged three to eighteen. Winners will receive a bespoke art box and a cash prize.
Hugo Cashell’s (5) offering was acrylic ink on paper entitled ‘Gill in the Garden’ and ‘the Sun is Setting,’
The overall competition winner will be awarded a personalised wooden box of high-quality art materials and a cash prize of €500. All twenty shortlisted entrants will have their artwork professionally framed/prepared. This year’s AIB Young Portrait Prize judges are: Ashwin Chacko, author-illustrator and motivational speaker, Emmalene Blake, a visual street artist, renowned for their large-scale portraits and Sheena Barrett, Head of Research and Learning at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibitions of the shortlisted works in both competitions run at the National Gallery of Ireland from 9 November 2024 – 9 March 2025. The winners of the Prizes will be announced at a ceremony held in the National Gallery of Ireland on 27 November 2024.
