The winner of our 2024 Favourite Painting art exhibition and competition has been named as Padraig McCaul.
Favourite Painting is an annual exhibition and competition held by our Art Committee here in St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS), involving artworks submitted by a number of well-known Irish art galleries. Our service users, staff and visitors are invited to view the exhibition in the Arts Space of St Patrick’s University Hospital (SPUH) or online, and to vote for their preferred artwork.
Padraig’s oil on canvas painting, Where Dreams are Made, was submitted to the competition by the Doorway Gallery. He was announced as the winner of Favourite Painting at a ceremony held in the Arts Space of SPUH, having topped both the online and in-person polls.
Our Chief Executive Officer, Paul Gilligan, and Director of Communications, Advocacy and Service User Engagement, Tamara Nolan, both spoke at the ceremony, which was attended by members of our Art Committee, service users, staff and a representative of the Doorway Gallery.
Padraig too spoke a few words about the painting and what winning the competition means to him. His painting will now be put in place on our campus as part of our permanent art collection.
We’d like to congratulate Padraig and the Doorway Gallery, and to thank all the artists and galleries who took part in Favourite Painting 2024, as well as everyone who viewed the exhibition and voted for their favourite artwork.
See more from Favourite Painting 2024 below.
View all 16 entries to our 2024 Favourite Painting exhibition and competition below, which were submitted by the Doorway Gallery, Graphic Studio, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Solomon Fine Art and Taylor Galleries.
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