Graduate Awards

Each year, Lavit Gallery awards a student or students of MTU Crawford College of Art & Design the Student of the Year Award. This award consists of an exhibition at Lavit Gallery and a cash prize kindly provided by our sponsor Roberts Advisory. This award was established in 1967 and we are delighted to continue to offer these emerging artists this prize and are proud to see many go on to have careers as artists.

Year	Sponsor	Winner
2025	Baker Tilly	Announced June 2025
2024	Baker Tilly	Lara Quinn
2023	Roberts Nathan Business Advisors, Audit & Tax	Andrea Newman
2022	Roberts Nathan Business Advisors, Audit & Tax	Helen Cantwell, Bernie Hennessy
2021	Roberts Nathan Business Advisors, Audit & Tax	Lorraine Parker, Lorraine Poulter, Luna Torresel Rave, Fionn van der Noll
2020	Roberts Nathan Business Advisors, Audit & Tax	Deirdre Frost
2019	Roberts Nathan Business Advisors, Audit & Tax	Padraic Barrett, Orla O’Byrne
2018	Roberts Nathan Business Advisors, Audit & Tax	Sue Dolan
2017	Parfrey Murphy	Stephen Doyle
2016	Parfrey Murphy	Holly Walsh
2015	Parfrey Murphy	Dearbhla Coffey, Pauline Gibbons, Angela Gilmour
2014	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Joseph Keating, Yestin Reboul
2011	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Sinéad Fagan, Raphael Llewellyn
2010	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Pam Carroll, Aine Maher
2009	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Susan O’Regan
2008	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Elayne O’Connor
2007	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Roisín Kinsella
2006	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Elizabeth Charleson
2005	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Sam Curtin
2004	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Tonia Kehoe
2003	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Sheenagh Geoghegan, Frances Kelly
2002	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Sinéad Rice, Kathleen Kelly
2001	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Suzanne O’Sullivan
2000	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Paul White
1999	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Lorraine Mullins
1998	Parfrey Murphy & CO	Mary Gregarly
1997	Descon Ltd	Karin Smyth, Katie Sweeny
1996	Cork Art Supplies	Sinéad De hÓra
1995	Imperial Hotel	Alex Pentek
1994	Cork Arts Society	Brian Smyth, Claire Dunne
1993	Cork Arts Supplies	Margaret Barron
1992	NE Murphy	Mark Ewart
1991	Joseph Woodward & Sons	Ann Whitty
1990	Cork Arts Society & AIB Bank	Catherine Kenny, Paul Larocque
1989	CMP Dairy	Carin MacCana
1988	Michael White/Salon 33	Eileen Healy
1987	Dyno-rod	Padraigh O’Flaherty
1986	Murphy Brewing Irl Ltd.	Assumpta Harnett
1985	Cork Arts Society	Antjopia Gottschalk, Dave McCormick
1984	Guinness Group Sales Ire.	Eileen McCarthy
1983	Suttons Ltd.	Micheal Kelly, Ann McCormick
1982	Pfizer Chemical Corporation	Donal O’Carroll
1981	Youghal Carpets	Bernice Corcoran, Bridget Flannery
1980	Irish Dunlop CO.	Pat Looby, Bridget O’Connell
1979	Algemene Bank Nederland	Terry Sheehy, Áine Walsh
1977	Kelly & Barry (Architects)	Eilis O’Connell, Eadaoín Harding
1976	Bank of Ireland	James Scanlon, Eilis O’Connell, Theresa McCarthy, Siobhán Piercy
1975	Allied Irish Bank	Maud Cotter, Jennifer O’Sullivan
1974	Douglas Shopping Centre & Pfizer Chemical Corporation	Maud Cotter & Jennifer O’Sullivan
1973	John A. Wood Ltd.	Rachel Stretton, Vivienne Roche, Eilis O’Connell
1972	Youghal Carpets	Dierdre O’Donovan, Patricia Foley, Gerard Casey, Marie Magee, Ann Lodge
1971	Roofchrome	Gerard Casey
1970	St. Patrick’s Woollen Mills	Frank Clayton
1969	St. Patrick’s Woollen Mills	Anne Scally
1968	St. Patrick’s Woollen Mills	Len de la Cour, Pam O’Sullivan
1967	St. Patrick’s Woollen Mills	John Burke