St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) is inviting service users, visitors and staff to vote in our 2024 Favourite Painting exhibition and competition.
Favourite Painting is an annual initiative from our Art Committee. In 2024, for the first time, the initiative is expanding beyond paintings only to include other art forms.
A number of Ireland’s well-known art galleries are welcomed to submit an artwork to an exhibition which is shown in the Arts Space of St Patrick’s University Hospital (SPUH) and also shared online. Service users, visitors and staff can view the exhibition and vote for their favourite artwork, either at a ballot box in the Arts Space or through the online form below. The artwork with the highest number of votes is then added to our permanent art collection and displayed on our campus.
This year’s exhibition includes the 16 artworks below:
- Bosch Bird | Mixed media on linen by Clea van der Grijn
- Enfolded | Etching by Robert Russell
- Holiday Home | Watercolour by Martin Gale
- Making Smoke | Carborundum by Hughie O’Donoghue
- Monolith | Oil and acrylics on canvas by Cecilia Danell
- North Expanse Behind Mountains | Oil on Fabriano paper by Ann Quinn
- Orwell's Roses | Oil on canvas by Serena Caulfield
- Phalaenopsis Hybrid | Etching by Cliona Doyle
- Portal, Loop Head | Oil on canvas by Ivan Daly
- Salthill Bathers Study, Co Galway | Watercolour, inks and collage by John Shortt
- Still Life with Yellow Chrysanthemums | Oil on canvas by Lucy Doyle
- Theatre of Cruelties | Oil gouache and glitter on Fabriano by Eleanor McCaughy
- The Rosscarbery Couple | Five plate intaglio print by John Doherty
- Untitled (Alu Grid VI) | Sanded aluminimum sculpture by Corban Walker
- Where Dreams are Made | Oil on canvas by Padraig McCaul
- Wicklow Street, Dublin | Oil on canvas by Leonard Sexton.
The artworks were submitted by the Doorway Gallery, Graphic Studio, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Solomon Fine Art and Taylor Galleries.
Voting for Favourite Painting closed on 22 September 2024. The winner will be announced shortly.
See the exhibition
You can see the Favourite Painting exhibition below. Simply click on an image to open the full gallery, or use the icons underneath the gallery to move through the different artworks.
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