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.

2015 Golden Fleece Award

Seliena Coyle

Seliena Coyle makes jewellery inspired by Bronze Age artefacts and indigenous materials that blends new and old technologies.

2015 Merit Prize

Kate O’Kelly

Kate O'Kelly's playful earthenware pieces are inspired by the Irish countryside and her grandmother’s eclectic Georgian house in Wicklow.

2015 Merit Prize

David Eager Maher

David Eager Maher's paintings and works on paper delicately consider 'possibility' and function as quasi-descriptions of time.

2015 Commendation

Rachel Joynt

Rachel Joynt's sculptural practice metaphorically and physically explores mankind's relationship with nature, in particular the sea.

2015 Commendation

Bridget O’Gorman

Bridget O'Gorman is interested in the meaning of objects and materials, and makes sculptural forms using a range of media.