Julianne Guinee is an Irish figurative and landscape painter based in Buttevant, County Cork. Working primarily in oils, she explores the complexities of the human form and the quiet magic of everyday life. Her work balances tender intimacy with a subtle narrative depth. Best known for her evocative depictions of childhood, she exhibits throughout Ireland, and in 2024, her work was selected for the 194th RHA Annual Exhibition. In 2025 she appeared on Sky Arts ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’.
Gerry Davis was born in Cahir, Co. Tipperary, in 1985 and studied painting at LSAD from 2005 to 2009. He is based in Limerick, where he was involved in the founding of Wickham St Studios. His work focuses on figurative painting, often drawing from autobiographical elements, imagined landscapes, and aspects of contemporary life.
In 2016, Gerry was awarded the Hennessy Portrait Prize, which led to working full-time on commissions and exhibitions. The following year, his portrait of Henry Shefflin was unveiled at the National Gallery of Ireland. He has had solo exhibitions at The Source Arts Centre, Galway Arts Centre, Pallas Projects, the Bourne Vincent Gallery, Limerick City Gallery of Art, and, most recently, the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Cork.
His work is in the collections of The Arts Council of Ireland, the OPW, and the University of Limerick, and he has exhibited internationally in China, the UK, and New York.
Vera Klute is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her work spans from painting to sculpture and public art. She was born in Germany but is based in Ireland since 2001.
She is particularly well known for her portraiture and has received many high profile commissions for paintings as well as busts. She has two portraits in the National Gallery’s portrait collection and is represented in the National Self-portrait Collection, the Kings Inns, as well as the Royal Irish Academy, the Office of Public Works and the Arts Council. She has undertaken numerous portrait commissions for Universities including the RCSI, UCC, DCU, UCD and UL.
She has received a number of awards for her portraits including the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery and the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the RHA (both 2015), the K+M Evans Award (2013) and was shortlisted for the RCSI award.
She has had solo exhibitions at the RHA, the Butler Gallery, Limerick City Gallery, the Molesworth Gallery, QSS Gallery and the LAB. She has received several Arts Council Bursary Awards and was elected member of the RHA in 2018.
Born in Tennessee, Vanessa Jones is a visual artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland. She received her BA in Fine Arts in 2003 from the George Washington University in Washington DC. Since completing her MFA in 2021 at NCAD, her paintings have received multiple including the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award, the Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency in Paris as well as the Arts Council Ireland 2022 Next Generation Artists Award. She is also the winner of the inaugural self-portrait Sequested Prize, 2021 based in London, UK.
Her portraits have been shortlisted from 2021-2023 in the Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery Ireland, and she has exhibited in solo and group shows at the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Kerlin and Molesworth galleries in Dublin as well as the ISA Gallery in Indonesia at BIRAMA 3/4 at Art Jakarta Gardens 2024 and Tutur Bentuk 2023. Her works are in multiple private and national collections across Europe, America and Asia, and she is currently a part-time lecturer in the Painting Department at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.
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