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.

Laura Quinn

2022 Golden Fleece Award

Laura Quinn

Laura Quinn makes modular glass forms that encourage close human engagement and challenge the perceived restraints of the medium.

Locky Morris

2022 Golden Fleece Award

Locky Morris

Locky Morris’ work reflects on the complexities and intricacies of his immediate environment across photography, found objects, installation, text, sound and video.

Michelle Malone

2022 Golden Fleece Award

Michelle Malone

Michelle Malone’s multidisciplinary practice seeks to give material voice to working-class histories from the perspective of lived experience.

Lauren Gault

2022 Shortlist

Lauren Gault

Lauren Gault’s work considers the political, ethical and emotional implications of our changing interactions with matter and the environment.

Rajinder Singh

2022 Shortlist

Rajinder Singh

Rajinder Singh’s paintings, installation, photography, video and performance work is focused on the power of ritual action in the construction of the social body.

Cathy Burke

2022 Shortlist

Cathy Burke

Cathy Burke makes abstract hand-built clay forms informed by nature’s ongoing cycle of decay and renewal.

Chloë Dowds

2022 Shortlist

Chloë Dowds

Chloë Dowds’s practice encompasses functional porcelain tableware and experimental, colourful unglazed vessels.

Genevieve Howard

2022 Shortlist

Genevieve Howard

Genevieve Howard works at the intersection of craft, fashion, science and technology, making contemporary art jewellery and sculptural objects.

Margaret O’Brien

2022 Shortlist

Margaret O’Brien

Margaret O’Brien explores concepts of failure through installation using a combination of sculpture, live sound, light, moving image and kinetics.

Róisín Pierce

2022 Shortlist

Róisín Pierce

Róisín Pierce’s collections explore the traditions of craftsmanship and its symbiosis with Irish women’s history through white work and handcrafted surfaces.