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.

2021 Golden Fleece Award

Laura Fitzgerald

Laura Fitzgerald makes work that explores the contemporary world with a wry sense of humour.

2021 Golden Fleece Award

Sinéad O'Dwyer

Sinéad O'Dwyer is a designer whose work explores female-identifying/femme bodies and operates at the intersection of fashion and art.

2021 Golden Fleece Award

Maria McKinney

Maria McKinney makes context-responsive work in a variety of media about agriculture, genomics and cattle breeding.

2021 Golden Fleece Award

Lorna Donlon

Lorna Donlon’s idiosyncratic practice combines tapestry, collage, science and storytelling.

2021 Golden Fleece Award

Aideen Barry

Aideen Barry’s multidisciplinary practice attempts to deal with persistent feelings of anxiety and being out of place in the world.

2021 Golden Fleece Award

Bassam Al-Sabah

Bassam Al-Sabah’s multimedia works reference feelings of displacement, nostalgia, war and 1980s Arabic-dubbed Japanese animé.

2021 Shortlist

Fiona Byrne

Fiona Byrne makes exquisite glass objects that are embedded with tacit knowledge during the process of their creation.

2021 Shortlist

Tamsin Snow

Tamsin Snow’s CGI films, sculptures and immersive installations investigate the legacies of modernist architecture.

2021 Shortlist

Izzy O'Reilly

Izzy O’Reilly’s work uses both established tailoring techniques and a sculptural approach to garment design.

2021 Shortlist

Jennifer Hickey

Jennifer Hickey is a ceramic sculptor who makes ethereal and delicate works of porcelain.