PRIZES
139th Annual Exhibition Prize Winners 2020
251 Colin Watson RUA “Spring”
192 Laurence O’Toole “Bringing Flowers to my Mom”
258 Adrian Wojtas “Seven Seas”
The Drawing Prize sponsored by Bradbury Art
145 Heather McAteer “The Daze of Youth (self-portrait No 4)
042 Dominique Crowley “Capitalocene”
115 Janet Keith “Listening for Curlews”
Portrait Prize sponsored by Ross’s Fine Art Auctioneers
186 Cora O’Brien “Kate”
245 Jennifer Trouton RUA “Mater Natura”
019 Maeve Brennan “September”
Sculpture Prize sponsored by Hamilton Architects
157 Catherine McWilliams SRUA “Goddess Danu”
231 Hannah Smith “Sunrise”
202 Mantas Poderys “Self Portrait at the age of 28”
138th Annual Exhibition Prize Winners 2019
RUA perpetual gold medal (RUA Members) NIAVAC
Angela Hackett ARUA, Nature Mort, Cat no: 149
Cara Dunne, Paris (Second Evening), Cat no: 105
Katherine Lockett–Clark, A Bird in the Hand, Cat no: 213
Mark Shields RUA, Epitaph, Cat no: 346
Michael Geddis, Stump of Jesse III, Cat no: 133
John Tinneny, Field, Cat no: 367
Janet Hoy, Memento Mori 3 – Plastic Ocean, Cat no: 180
Peter Neill VPRUA, Deep End, Cat no: 287
Brian Gallagher, Monkey Puzzle, Cat no: 128
Adele Chapman, Portrait of Louise, Cat no: 051
Aimée Nelson, Lens Structure 2, Cat no: 290
Joy Gerard, Protest Crowd (the North is Next), Cat no: 136
Mickey Rooney, Green, Cat no: 331
Gillian Cullen, Healing, Cat no: 076
Joanne Davidson, Geography of Fear – N22ii03.19, Cat no: 086
137th Annual Exhibition Prize Winners 2017
Last of Blackheath (7) for Mark Boyle by Jeffrey Morgan ARUA (297)
Untitled by Daniel Nelis (316)
Triple Bar by Amy Whittle (417)
Summer’s Evening Emma Spence (385)
Token by Trina Hobson (187)
Tina by Heidi Wickham (418)
Feeling Awkward by Bernadette Doolan (111)
Full Stop by Carolyn Mullholland (306)
Bandits by Cróna Gallagher (147)
The Bay by Colin Watson (412)
Eoghan by Brendan Fitzpatrick (135)
Joy Gerard, Protest Crowd (the North is Next), Cat no: 136
Curio by Sarah Cathers (60)
Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award for an artist from Northern Ireland working in any medium
Jennifer by Stephen Johnston (195)
Tinaby Heidi Wickham (418)
2017 Prizes
Recipient: Elizabeth Magill RUA for Goat Song
Recipient: James Murphy for Everyday – video
Recipient: Natasza Cetner for The Three Tales from Alexandria – Animation
Recipient: Sorca O’Farrell for Repose
Recipient: Cara Gordon for Fix you
Recipient: Dave Madigan for on the beach (2)
Recipient: John Coll for Seamus Heaney’s Spade
Recipient: Grace Press for Boxing Hares
Recipient: Catherine Greene for Remnant
Recipient: Margaret Irwin West for Famine Soup Cauldron Revisited
Recipient: Ian Cumberland for Daydreaming
Recipient: Alberto Balletti for Over Confidence
Recipient: John Cooney for Furtive
Recipient: Zoe Murdoch for Revelation
Over £7,000 in prize money was awarded to exhibiting artists of merit at the Academy’s 135th Annual Exhibition. Independent adjudicator
CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN PRA, selected recipients of the Academy’s gold, silver and bronze medal prizes while all other prizes were awarded by the prize sponsors.
Le Brun is a painter, sculptor and printmaker and was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011. He is the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds and the youngest to be elected since Lord Leighton in 1878.
2016 Prizes
Recipient: Colin Watson ARUA, Boys Playing on a Cliff Top
Recipient: Alison Kay, Heeled Pale Green Wedge Form with Side Opening
Recipient: Tara Johnston, Powder Bombs Series I
Recipient: Stephen Johnston, Cake in Jar
Recipient: Francis O Toole, One for Sorrow
Recipient: Gillian Cullen, Bound
Recipient: Laurence O Toole, A Prayer to Saint Apprehension
Recipient: Deborah Brown, The Visitor
Recipient: Margaret Mannion Kallen, Not a Walk in the Park
Recipient: Simon McWilliams, Botanical Gardens, Dublin
Recipient: Jackie Edwards, The Heart that Asks
Recipient: Christine Campbell, Escape
Recipient: Daniel Dowling ARUA, Bagáiste
Recipient: Jennifer Trouton RUA
Recipient: Gillian Cullen, Bound
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