{"id":601934,"date":"2026-08-23T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601934\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:54:20","slug":"kerry-artist-shortlisted-for-prestigious-national-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601934\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry artist shortlisted for prestigious national prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kerry artist has been shortlisted for the prestigious AIB Portrait Prize this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Woods from Rathmore, has been shortlisted for the prize along with 25 other artists from across the country for her piece in acrylic on canvas, Generation Game.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgallery.ie\/art-and-artists\/exhibitions\/upcoming-exhibitions\/aib-portrait-prize-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AIB Portrait Prize<\/a> and the AIB Young Portrait Prize will both be announced at a ceremony held in the National Gallery of Ireland on 2nd December.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the main competition will receive a cash prize of \u20ac15,000 and will be commissioned to create work for the National Portrait Collection, for which they\u2019ll earn a further \u20ac5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The shortlisted portraits are on display in the National Gallery of Ireland from 14th November this year until 14th March next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kerry artist has been shortlisted for the prestigious AIB Portrait Prize this year. Mary Woods from Rathmore,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,255074],"class_list":["post-601934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry-artist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}