Shortlisted for the £15,000 Glen Dimplex Artists' Award 1997 are sculptors Stephen Craig and Dorothy Cross; the painter Willie McKeown; the multimedia artist Maurice O'Connell; Gary Phelan and Mark McLoughlin who work together in "time based art forms", and the photographer Paul Seawright.
The prestigious award, now in its fourth year, is open to Irish artists who have exhibited in Ireland or elsewhere from October 1st, 1995 to October 31st, 1996, and to non Irish artists who have exhibited in Ireland in the same period.