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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, …

FOUR artists from Clare have been shortlisted for The Zurich Young Portrait Prize this year. The Zurich Portrait and Young Portrait Prize exhibitions 2022 opened on Saturday November 26 at the National Gallery of Ireland. The four young artists from Clare shortlisted for the Zurich Young Portrait Prize are Katie Cashin, Viktoria Kroejeva, Cathal Ryan and Aoife Sweeney. Their work has been shortlisted for the prize from hundreds of entries, and alongside 16 others is on display in the gallery. The Zurich Young Portrait Prize returned for its fourth year in 2022. Five winners (one from each respective age category and an overall winner) will be selected from a shortlist of hundreds of entries from young people aged four to 18 from across the island of Ireland. Winners will receive a bespoke art box and a cash prize. The overall competition winner will be awarded a wooden box of high-quality art materials, and a cash prize of €500. All 20 …