We are delighted to share that Clare Ritchie, our 2024/25 graduate bursary recipient, has been selected for the prestigious RDS Visual Art Awards 2024. The exhibition opens on the 22nd of November at the RHA Gallery, Dublin, and runs until 18th January 2025.
The RDS Visual Art Awards is the most important platform for visual art graduates in Ireland. 10 exhibiting artists were meticulously selected to exhibit earlier this year, chosen from some of the best BA & MA visual art graduates from across the island.
Each of the ten exhibiting artists will be in with the chance to win one of the five prizes on offer including: The RDS Taylor Art Award (€10,000); R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award (€5,000); RDS Members’ Art Fund Award (€5,000); the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award, in Paris (€8,000 value); The RHA Graduate Studio Award (€7,500 value); and finally a new Award – the RDS Graphic Studio Dublin Emerging Visiting Artist Award (€5,000 value). Winners will be announced on the opening night of the show (22 November).
Colin Martin RHA , Artist and 2024 RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition Curator said:
“The RDS Visual Arts Awards is an exciting and dynamic exhibition that brings together the innovative and relevant art practices of an emerging generation of visual artists, where platform, practice and audience meet. The alchemy of these interwoven strands has a storied history and has forged the careers of many of the todays leading voices in contemporary visual arts from established artists Dorothy Cross and James Hanley to new voices in contemporary art such as Elaine Hoey and Bassam Al Sabah. This is a rigorous all-Island selection process and I am delighted to act as curator for this year’s iteration to be held at the prestigious RHA.”
Exhibiting artists: Sorcha Browning, Stell de Burca, Kyle Fairbanks, Heather Hughes, Ava Lowry, Cahal O’Connell / Miss Mary Jane, Mary Madeleine Mc Carroll, Claire Ritchie (QSS), Keara Simonsen, Fionn Timmins
