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Viktoria Kroejeva, 15, from Clare has been announced as a winner in the Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2022.
Victoria’s piece entitled ‘Day Out, 2022’, a painting in oil and acrylic on canvas, won the category for ages 12-15.
Viktoria said, “This is a portrait of my father. It was a day when we went out to a café in Limerick and I asked him to pose for a photo. It was a very enjoyable day and we explored the city.”
From hundreds of entries, the shortlists of this year’s Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize are on display in the Portrait Gallery.
Twenty-six artists, working across a variety of media, made it through to the final stage of the Zurich Portrait Prize, while 20 young artists aged between four and eighteen years old were shortlisted for the Zurich Young Portrait Prize.
Viktoria is one of four young artists from Clare who made the shortlist, along with Katie Cashin, Cathal Ryan and Aoife Sweeney.
The Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize exhibitions opened on Saturday November 26 at the National Gallery of Ireland.
David Booth, from Dublin, has been revealed as the winner of the National Gallery of Ireland’s Zurich Portrait Prize 2022.
His work Salvatore, 2021, a portrait in oil on board, of artist Salvatore of Lucan, was revealed as the winning portrait on the evening of this Tuesday at a prize-giving ceremony in the Gallery.
Salvatore, the sitter, was winner of the Zurich Portrait Prize 2021. As well as a prize of €15,000, David will receive a commission worth €5,000 to produce a new work for the National Portrait Collection.
Cara Rose and Gavin Leane, both from Dublin, received highly commended prizes to the sum of €1,500 for their respective portraits, Double Self Portrait, 2021, in coloured pencil on paper; and Several Days Hence, 2022, a photograph. Cara was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize in 2018.
