Award Recipients

The Golden Fleece Award supports artists and creative practitioners working across all visual art, craft and applied arts disciplines. Since its inception in 2002, over one hundred applicants have been shortlisted for or received a Golden Fleece Award.

Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde

2024 Golden Fleece Award

Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde

Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde's work makes manifest considerations of site and the situated body via staged sculptural arrangements.

Genevieve Howard

2024 Golden Fleece Award

Genevieve Howard

Genevieve Howard makes contemporary art jewellery and sculptural objects that sit at the intersection of art, science, music and technology.

Caoimhe Kilfeather

2024 Shortlist

Caoimhe Kilfeather

Caoimhe Kilfeather makes predominantly sculptural work, often generated through a combination of experimental and intuitive studio processes.

Elinor O'Donovan

2024 Shortlist

Elinor O'Donovan

Elinor O'Donovan makes up playful answers to questions about knowledge and memory, suggesting humorous explanations for what and why the world is.

Frances Crowe

2024 Shortlist

Frances Crowe

Frances Crowe's tapestry works embody age-old gestures of loom and shuttle, warp and weft while naming and reframing important social and cultural issues.

Kian Benson Bailes

2024 Shortlist

Kian Benson Bailes

Kian Benson Bailes' multifaceted practice explores rural Ireland, visual language, embodied experiences in landscape, and identity.

Peter Sheehan

2024 Shortlist

Peter Sheehan

Peter Sheehan makes sculptural and crafted objects as a way to evolve and manifest a set of values as some sort of antidote, perhaps even as atonement.

Sam Gleeson

2024 Shortlist

Sam Gleeson

Sam Gleeson is a bladesmith specialising in knives designed for professional kitchens and home cooking that are functional sources of creative inspiration.