Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards

Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program.Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while Wilkes is receiving the Francis Bacon Mid-Career Artist Award, nodding to her multihyphenated practice of sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. The €