RDS Visual Art Awards Winners 2024

We would like to congratulate the five artists (details below) who have been announced as the winners of the 2024 RDS Visual Art Awards.

We are particularly pleased to announce Fionn Timmins as the winner of the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award.

Waterford artist, Fionn graduated from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design in 2024. He works primarily with sculpture and uses video and sound to support this practice. His work considers our relationship with the landscape by addressing and reinterpreting references to Irish folklore and ancient Irish megalithic forms, such as stone circles. Working primarily with ancient bog oak - a material that would have been alive in the landscape during the construction of these ancient sites - his sculptures draw on the symbolism of the circle and the Sacred Oak Tree, often referred to in Irish mythology.

Winners - 2024 RDS Visual Art Awards

• Fionn Timmins (RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award - €8,000 value)
• Sorcha Browning (The Taylor Art Trust Award - €10,000 value)
• Ava Lowry (R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award - €5,000 value)
• Keara Simonsen (RDS Members' Art Fund Award - €5,000 value)
• Mary Madeleine McCaroll (RHA Graduate Studio Award - €7,500 value)
• Sorcha Browning (RDS Graphic Studio Dublin Emerging Visiting Artist Award - €5,000 value)

The exhibition, curated this year by artist Colin Martin, will take place at the RHA Gallery from 22 November 2024 to 18 January 2025.

Supporting emerging artists is a core pillar of our CSR strategy. Read more about our support of visual arts or find out more about the RDS Visual Art Awards.