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.

2025 Shortlist

Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy primarily works with green wood, using basic hand tools and ancient techniques to make heavily textured, idiosyncratic pieces from storm-felled and dangerous trees.

2025 Shortlist

Jennifer Hickey

Jennifer Hickey makes incredibly delicate organic sculptural forms that capture the beauty and fragility of nature through porcelain.

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Sorcha McNamara

Sorcha McNamara’s practice engages with deconstructive methods of painting, language and image-making.

2025 Shortlist

Sarah Browne

Sarah Browne works through sculpture, film and performance to make artworks that generate sensitive, challenging and curious encounters.

2025 Shortlist

Rhona Byrne

Rhona Byrne makes context-specific sculptures, installations, events, drawings, videos and photographs that investigate physical and social space.

2025 Shortlist

Sasha Sykes

Sasha Sykes works with plants and polymers to make sculptural objects and design pieces that explore notions of history and usefulness in contemporary contexts.

2025 Shortlist

Rosemary Kavanagh

Rosemary Kavanagh’s work uses home-grown heritage varieties of willow to create uniquely patterned and colourful baskets and woven objects.

2025 Shortlist

Jan McCullough

Jan McCullough’s sculptural installations, interventions and photographs explore the human acts of construction, fabrication and DIY, as well as their communities of interest and place.