05/07/2022 Awards

The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Business to Arts Awards, taking place at the National Concert Hall on Tuesday 20 September. A total of €25,000 will be presented to successful artists and arts organisations through bursaries and awards on the night.

Arthur Cox sponsors the “Best Large Sponsorship” category and the award winners on the night will be presented with a limited edition award sculpture created by sculptor John Rainey, who uses both old and new methods of object-making, such as ceramic casting and 3D printing.

The Judging Panel featured representatives from Accenture, The Irish Times, ESB, Mermaid Arts Centre, daa, Irish Life, the Arts Council, TileStyle and Ailish Finnerty, Partner, Arthur Cox. The panel was chaired by Clare Duignan, a board member of Business to Arts and The Chester Beatty Library, The Irish Times, IMRO and Fáilte Ireland.

Pictured L – R at the Judging Day at Accenture’s global Innovation Hub, The Dock is Etain Seymour (Accenture), Ailish Finnerty (Arthur Cox), Mark O’Kelly (Arts Council/NCAD), Gerard McNaughton (TileStyle), Clare Duignan (Chair), Louise O’Reilly (CEO, Business to Arts), Cathy Burke (daa), Bevin Cody (ESB), Julie Kelleher (Mermaid Arts Centre), and Laura Slattery (The Irish Times). Not pictured is Tony Lawless (Irish Life/Canada Life).

2022 Business to Arts Awards shortlist:

Best Large Sponsorship supported by Arthur Cox

  • St. Patrick’s Festival & TikTok for ‘Solas’
  • Dublin Port Company, ANU Productions & Landmark Productions for ‘The Book of Names’
  • Zurich & the National Gallery of Ireland with the Crawford Art Gallery for the Zurich Portrait Prize & Zurich Young Portrait Prize
  • KPMG & Children’s Books Ireland for ‘Free To Be Me’ and KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards

Best Small Sponsorship

  • Henry J Lyons & Dublin Art Book Fair for ‘Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual’
  • Gurranabraher Credit Union & Sample-Studios for ‘Photogo’
  • Arthur Cox & National Concert Hall for ‘Notes from a Quiet Land’
  • ESB Energy for Generations Fund & Cork International Film Festival for ‘Illuminate’ and ‘Intinn’

Best Long-Term Partnership supported by The Irish Times

  • Accenture’s Women on Walls
  • Zurich & the National Gallery of Ireland with the Crawford Art Gallery for the Zurich Portrait Prize & Zurich Young Portrait Prize
  • KPMG & Children’s Books Ireland for ‘Free To Be Me’ and KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards
  • National University of Ireland, Galway & Galway International Arts Festival

Best Use of Creativity in the Community supported by Irish Life

  • An Post & Dublin Pride for ‘PRIDE/BRÓD’ Stamps
  • The Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation & Poetry Ireland for Catherine Ann Cullen, Poet in Residence
  • Northern Trust & ESB Energy For Generations Fund & Bounce Club Night
  • Press Up & The Dean Arts Studio

Best Use of Creativity in the Workplace supported by ESB

  • An Post & Dublin Pride for ‘PRIDE/BRÓD’ Stamps
  • John Sisk & Sons & Emmet Kane
  • Bank of America & The Abbey Theatre

Jim McNaughton Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice supported by TileStyle

  • Arthur Cox & Alva Gallagher for ‘Soar’
  • ESB & Fishamble for ‘Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future’
  • Behaviour & Attitudes & Graphic Studio Dublin
  • BioMarin & Rachel Doolin for ‘The Giving Tree’

Best Philanthropic Support to the Arts Award supported by the Arts Council

  • Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund
  • Community Foundation for Ireland and Children’s Books Ireland
  • The Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation & Poetry Ireland for Catherine Ann Cullen, Poet in Residence
  • Ballinglen Arts Foundation & Museum

Judges’ Special Recognition Award supported by Accenture

  • Wexford Festival Opera and Danone, Arachas Insurance, Datapac, and PwC
  • Arthur Cox & National Concert Hall & Alva Gallagher
  • Cork International Film Festival & Murphy’s, Gate Cinemas, and ESB Energy for Generations Fund
  • ESB & Fishamble, Cork International Film Festival & Bounce Club Night