An up-and-coming young artist from Donegal has been shortlisted for this year’s Zurich Young Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Talented Eleanor Margey (aged 11) is the daughter of Letterkenny Chamber President Michael Margey and Edel Griffin, a Business lecturer at Ulster University.
Eleanor’s work, entitled Magnifying Glasses, was created with drawing pencils and white pen on paper, and will be on display at the Gallery later this year.
Magnifying Glasses, Eleanor Margey, 7-11
She is one of 20 young artists aged between five and eighteen years old who have been shortlisted for the Zurich Young Portrait Prize.
From hundreds of entries, another 24 artists have made it through to the final stage of the Zurich Portrait Prize.
This is the third year of the Zurich Young Portrait Prize. ive winners (one from each age category and an overall winner) will be selected from a shortlist of hundreds of entries by children and young people aged up to 18 from across the island of Ireland. Winners will receive a bespoke art box and a cash prize. This year’s Zurich Young Portrait Prize judges are: visual artist Aideen Barry; artist, art teacher and activist Joe Caslin; and Tadhg Crowley, Senior Curator: Education + Community at the Glucksman.
Exhibitions of shortlisted works in both competitions run at the National Gallery of Ireland between 13 November 2021 and 3 April 2022. The exhibition will travel to Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, where it will be displayed between 23 April and 17 July 2022.
