195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald Took place on Saturday 24 May, RHA Gallery
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 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. On Saturday 24 May, exhibiting artists were awarded a prize fund, across various medium, of over €50,000.
The 2025 Awards:
The Irish Arts Review / Ireland U.S Council Portraiture Award €5000: Awarded to Francis O'Toole for his work With Tomorrow
The Anita Young Bursary for a Mid-Career Painter in Association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the RHA: Awarded to Peter Bradley for his work Street Fighter, but make it fashion
Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Award: Awarded to Dorothy Cross RHA for her work Searchlight
Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Emerging Photographic Artist Award: Awarded to Patryk Gizicki for his work Reflection
The Adam’s Award: Awarded to Jason Ellis for his work Consolation 2
The De Veres Art Award - For a work of distinction - €1500: Awarded to Eddie Kennedy for his work Lines of Engagement – Splendor.
The ESB Keating Award for Outstanding Art Work: A Silver Medal and a cash prize of €3000: Jack Hickey for his work Not a Banana
The K + M Evans Painting Prize - €1500: Awarded to Maya Brezing for her work Junkyard
The Whyte’s Award - €1500: Awarded to Niall Lynam for his work Hybridity
The ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture: A Silver Medal and cash prize of €3000: Awarded to James Casey for his work On the Third Day
The Friends of the RHA Award for a Senior Artist - €1500: Awarded to Tony G Murray for his work Silent Forest I
The Alex Bradley Award for a Mid-Career Artist in any medium - €2000: Awarded to Antonio Carty for Palestinian Angel: Sister
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 Julie Ann Haines for her work Early Evening, Fitzgibbon Street
The Solomon Fine Art Award for Sculpture in Any Medium - €1500: Katherine Sankey for her work Loxodrome.
The Morgan O’Driscoll Sculpture Award - €2000: Awarded to Jessica Checkley for her work The Morrigan
The Hanley Energy Sustainability Excellence Award - (For a landscape of distinction) €2500: Awarded to Martin Gale RHA for his work The Return (Re-wilding)
Contemporary Irish Art Society Award for a Work of Distinction by an emerging artist - €1000. Awarded to Ciana Fitzgerald for her work Synaptic Pruning
The P N O’Gorman Auctioneers award for a work on paper €1500: Awarded to Eoin McHugh for his work Valley of the Deaf
The Arthur Gibney Award for Architectural Content in any medium: Awarded to Metropolitan Workshop – Model by Jonny Allams for Annesley Gardens – A new street form in the heart of South Dublin.
New Awards 2025:
McCann FitzGerald Portraiture Award: Awarded to Eamonn Farrell for I Am Human!
Shota Kotake Drawing Award: Awarded to Sioban Piercy for Drawing Breath (Book One)
The RHA Art of Architecture Pavilion
This is a new initiative to celebrate the art of architecture. The winning design emerged from an open competitive process where 38 teams of architects submitted designs. The winning design, The Fall, was created by the team of Ben Mullen, Peter Maybury, and Tom De Paor.
RHA School Graduates 2025
This year marks the second year of the 60 credit Diploma in Painting and Drawing offered at the RHA School accredited by TU Dublin. Students can opt to graduate with 30 credits or proceed to the full 60 credit award. This year we are delighted to announce 4 students are graduating from the programme.
Separately 31 students will exhibit work made on the Resolution strand of the programme opening to the public in an exhibition entitled Resolve 25 in the RHA School from the 26th June. We would like to acknowledge the commitment and dedication shown by each student in their studies and congratulate them on their achievement.
There are two students graduating with the 30 credit certificate in Painting and Drawing. They are: Jennifer Rylands and Sara Hakim.
There are two students who have achieved the full 60 credit diploma in Painting and Drawing. They are: Maria Ginnity and Yana Korestska.
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 195th RHA Annual Exhibition who will join 5 artists shortlisted from the 194th RHA Annual Exhibition, 2024. 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.
2025 Shortlist
Mantas Poderys
Owen de Forge
Salvatore of Lucan
Maya Brezing
Conor O’Connell
RCSI Art Award - €5000 plus €10,000 commission
5 artists shortlisted, winner announced in June:
Taffina Flood for her work Bedlam
Bernadette Kiely for her work No Promised Land
Vera Klute for her work Slope
Francis O’Toole for his work With Tomorrow
Ally Nolan for her work The Men / Na Fir
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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
