19 May ’24: The President and Council of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts are delighted to announce the extensive list of exceptional prizes awarded at the 194th RHA Annual Exhibition. On Saturday 18 May, exhibiting artists were awarded a prize fund, across various medium, of over €50,000.
The 2024 Awards:
The Irish Arts Review / Ireland U.S Council Portraiture Award €5000: Awarded to Daniel Nelis for Boy and a Blanket (Reflection)
The Anita Young Bursary for a Mid-Career Painter in Association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the RHA: Awarded to Ann Quinn RHA for The Byre
Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Award: Awarded to Amelia Stein RHA for LEAVES II / Kyoto
Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Emerging Photographic Artist Award: Awarded to Missy Brinkmeyer for The Bus Home
The Adam’s Award: Awarded to Colin Martin RHA for Unreal Engine – Megacity (The Matrix)
The De Veres Art Award - For a work of distinction - €1500: Awarded to Diarmuid Breen for Things are….Looking Up
The ESB Keating Award for Outstanding Art Work: A Silver Medal and a cash prize of €3000: Awarded to Gabhann Dunne for Morrigan
The K + M Evans Painting Prize - €1500: Awarded to Neil Dunne for Untitled
The Whyte’s Award - €1500: Awarded to William Murray for Figures and Garden Sheds
The ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture: A Silver Medal and cash prize of €3000: Awarded to Anna Macleod for Behold the Wind / A Tuigse na Gaoith
The Friends of the RHA Award for a Senior Artist - €1500: Awarded to Maggie Wright for Ellie
The Alex Bradley Award for a Mid-Career Artist in any medium - €2000: Awarded to Kaye Maahs for Wetlands 1
The Graphic Studio Dublin / Wilkinson Award, sponsored by Ipsos B&A, for a work of distinction in the medium of fine art print: Awarded to Charles Tyrrell ARHA for Stoney Road Pink
The Solomon Fine Art Award for Sculpture in Any Medium - €1500: Awarded to Helen O’Connell for Bolgán
The Morgan O’Driscoll Sculpture Award - €2000: Awarded to Helen O’Connell for Bolgán
The Hanley Energy Sustainability Excellence Award - (For a landscape of distinction) €2500: Awarded to Colin Martin RHA for Co-Workers
The James O’Nolan Graduate Award - €1500. A bi-annual prize to be awarded at the RHA Annual Exhibition to a recent graduate in any media to assist them in developing their practice: Awarded to Conor O’Connell for Veneration
Contemporary Irish Art Society Award for a Work of Distinction by an emerging artist - €1000. Awarded to James Hayes for The page in the interesting book which suddenly disappears
NEW AWARD for 2024
P N O’Gorman Auctioneers award for a work on paper €1500: Awarded to Ida Mitrani for Offerings From The Sea
The Hennessy Craig & Homan Potterton Awards - Bequest of the estate of Patrick Hennessy and Henry Robertson Craig – Prize of €20,000 & Bequest of the estate of Homan Potterton - Prize of €10,000
For this prize, 5 artists have been shortlisted from the 194th RHA Annual Exhibition who will join 5 artists shortlisted from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition, 2025. All 10 artists will show in an exhibition held at the RHA in 2026, from which the recipient of the The Hennessy Craig & Homan Potterton Awards will be selected.
2024 Shortlist
Daniel Coleman
Eileen Leonard Sealy
Manar Mervat Al Shouda
William Murray
Matthew Stickland
RCSI Art Award - €5000 plus €10,000 commission
5 artists shortlisted, winner announced in June:
Donald Teskey RHA, Orchestral II
John Behan RHA, Cubist Bull
Liam Belton RHA, Homage to Paint and Protest
Sadhbh Mowles, The Wait
Eileen Leonard Sealy, At the Starlit Sill I Let Them Draw Near
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Professional photographs of all awards, taken by Paul Sherwood, available upon request. For images or further information please contact Rebecca Gale, RHA Marketing on tel: 01 661 2558 or email rebecca@rhagallery.ie
The 194th RHA Annual Exhibition runs until 4 August. The Gallery is open 6 days a week. Tues - Sat, 11 – 5pm, Wed, 11 – 6.30pm and Sunday 2 – 5pm. Admission is free, suggested donation €5. The exhibition is supported by a full colour catalogue costing €20 available at reception.
