Zurich Portrait Prize | National Gallery of Ireland

Zurich Portrait Prize 2021
National Gallery of Ireland

An exhibition of shortlisted portraits will go on display in the Gallery from 13 November 2021 to 3 April 2022. The exhibition will then travel to Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, where it will be displayed between 23 April and 17 July 2022.

PortraitOfPatrickHall-Painting-2021
Portrait of Patrick Hall – painting | Nick Miller | 2021 | Oil pastel and paint on linen | 102 x 92 cm
Shortlisted artists
  • Serena Caulfield (Wexford), Dad, 5/10/2020, Oil on wood panel
  • Carey Clarke (Dublin), Portrait of David Somerville, Oil on canvas
  • Mollie Douthit (Cork), Life in lockdown part IV: Laying on my kitchen floor with lavender eye mask to stave off a migraine, Oil on linen panel
  • Lizzie Downes (Dublin), Inside, Archival photographic print
  • Sarah Doyle (Dublin), Portrait of Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins, Photograph
  • Gabhann Dunne (Dublin), I love ya boy, Oil on board
  • Beverley Healy (Belfast), Looking for Gold, Egg tempera on true gesso board
  • Vanessa Jones (Dublin), Cabbage Baby (self-portrait), Oil on linen
  • Dragana Jurišić (Wicklow), Daithi sleeps, Archival pigment print
  • Paul MacCormaic (Dublin), Portrait of Catherine Corless, Historian and Human Rights Activist, Oil and acrylic on canvas
  • Jonathan Mayhew (Dublin), All I could do was sit and collect dust, Sculpture made from the artist’s hair, dust & detritus
  • Tom McLean (Galway), Note to Self, Oil on aluminium
  • Cian McLoughlin (Dublin), Lockdown Three, Oil on canvas
  • Poot Mendes (Dublin), Bobby + Isaac, Photograph
  • Nick Miller (Sligo), Portrait of Patrick Hall – painting, Oil pastel and paint on linen
  • Julia Mitchell (Tipperary), Knight of Kilcooley Abbey, Oil on canvas
  • Gráinne Moloney (Clare), Girl with Hen, Oil on canvas
  • Emily O’Flynn (Cork), Portrait of a Girl Through a Pandemic, Video on plasma screen
  • Conor O’Leary (Surbiton, England), Fiona and Woody, Evening Light., Photograph
  • Liz Purtill (Kerry), Paulus, Egg tempera, heavy paper mounted on wood
  • Emma Roche (Wexford), Shower Painting 2 (Self-portrait), Knitted acrylic paint on wood panel
  • Salvatore of Lucan (Dublin), Me Ma Healing Me, Oil on canvas
  • Brian Teeling (Dublin), Declan Flynn in Dublin, Photograph
  • Riley Waite (Oregan, USA), Ian Was Here, Oil on canvas