12 Emerging Artists. One Landmark Exhibition. Curated by Paul McAree.
RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition 2026
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CATALOGUE
Exhibition kindly supported by: Family of Mr Robin Lewis-Crosby
The RDS presents an exhibition curated Paul McAree.
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The exhibition will run from Friday 6 November 2026 to Friday 15 January 2027.
CONTENTS Special Thanks Exhibition Floorplan Katharine Maurer – Welcome from the RDS Patrick T. Murphy – An Introduction Paul McAree- Curator’s Essay
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2026 Exhibiting Artists Aoife Dunne Ava Bowden Beth Gaule Caoimhe Kelly Hannah Forde Harrison Connally Jennifer O’Brien Jools Reilly Kodjo (Isac) Kossivi Nikol Ochichenko Róisín Ní Chonaill Sarah VanDermeer
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The RDS would like to thank each of the artists for their vision and creativity. The exhibition is curated by invited curator Paul McAree, supported by Karen Phillips, RDS Head of Arts and Eliza McCormack, RDS Arts Programme Executive.
2026 Exhibiting Artists
2026 Judging Panel
2026 College Curators
Aoife Dunne
Patrick T. Murphy (Chair)
Teresa Crowley
Ava Bowden
Christina Kennedy, Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Noémie Cursoux
Beth Gaule Caoimhe Kelly Hannah Forde Harrison Connally Jennifer O’Brien Jools Reilly Kodjo (Isac) Kossivi Nikol Ochichenko
Rachel Joynt, artist and RHA representative Sarah McAuliffe, Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland
Rachael Gilbourne Davey Moor Aoife Ruane Georgie Thompson
Paul McAree, Curator, Director at Lismore Castle Arts
Róisín Ní Chonaill
SPECIAL THANKS
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Sarah VanDermeer
Floor 1 Zone 4
Zone 3
Zone 2
Zone 1
Ground Floor Jools Reilly
Sarah VanDermeer
Zone 4 Education Room
Aoife Dunne
Beth Gaule
Caoimhe Kelly
Zone 2 Nikol Ochichenko
Hannah Forde
Floorplan Róisín Ní Chonaill
Zone 3 Jennifer O’Brien
Reception Area
Harrison Connally
Ava Bowden
Entrance
Kodjo (Isac) Kossivi
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Welcome from the RDS Katharine Maurer
Welcome to the 2026 Royal Dublin Society Visual Arts Award (RDS VAA) exhibition. We are delighted to be back at the RDS Ballsbridge campus after a hiatus of four years, and in such spectacular fashion: a dedicated venue, Gallery at RDS, an extended campus show, and our extraordinary Awards. This is the eleventh exhibition of the VAA shortlisted artists, a flagship event in our programme supporting young artists in a focused and meaningful way. It is specifically designed to offer them the opportunity to experience the wider Artworld at this early stage in their prospective career. For the RDS, it is also critical that these exhibitions are reflective of the current concerns and practices of these emerging artists. This accords with the recognition by the RDS since its foundation almost 300 years ago that contemporary culture can be used as a medium for the provision of wider societal development. This is amply demonstrated historically by the institutions founded by the RDS which include NCAD, the National College for Art and Design which developed from the RDS Drawing Schools, the Botanical Gardens, the National Museum, the National Library, and the National Gallery of Ireland. The documenting of the VAA exhibition series, of the selection processes, and of the zeitgeist captured by each, are invaluable parts of the remarkable islandwide social record in the Archives of the Society. Through the Awards themselves, generously funded by our sponsors and partners, we nurture talent and promote excellence in contemporary practice: supporting residencies, funding further education, creative exploration, materials, and access, as well as providing opportunities for international exchange.
The prizes this year amount to €32,500: the €10,000 RDS Taylor Art Award for the most outstanding emerging visual artist of the year, the €5,000 R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award for excellence and promise in visual art practice, the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award with a support package valued at €10,000, and the RDS Members’ Fund Artist Studio Award valued at €7,500. Without these awards, there would be no programme and no exhibition. We thank all our sponsors and partners, the Taylor Art Trust, the family of R.C. Lewis-Crosby, the RDS Members Art Fund and Mason Hayes & Curran LLP, the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, and the RHA, for their generosity and enabling both. The twelve shortlisted artists in the VAA exhibition were chosen from amongst all the 2026 graduates of Art Institutions on the island of Ireland. They are Ava Bowden, Harrison Connally, Aoife Dunne, Hannah Forde, Beth Gaule, Caoimhe Kelly, Kodjo (Isac) Kossivi, Róisin Ní Chonaill, Jennifer O’Brien, Nikol Ochichenko, Jools Reilly and Sarah Vandermeer. We congratulate them on being chosen: no matter what the outcome of the awards’ presentation is, they have each achieved something exceptional in being part of this exhibition. And we wish them all great success in the future.
The artists on show were then selected by the 2026 judging panel, comprising Rachel Joynt, Christina Kennedy, Paul McAree (Curator and Head Judge), Sarah McAuliffe and Patrick Murphy. They are the final shortlist from whom the winners of the RDS Visual Art Awards will be chosen. We thank the panel for their deliberations on such consequential decisions for these artists: being shortlisted and, for some, receiving an Award. All twelve have been given an extraordinary and completely invaluable opportunity and experience at this nascent stage in their careers: being part of an exhibition curated by one of our foremost curator/directors, with professional technical advice and support, at a prestigious dedicated venue. For this we thank Paul McAree, the curator/ director of Lismore Castle, for his outstanding curation of this exhibition and concomitant mentoring of the exhibitors, as well as acting as a judge on the panel.
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The process of selection started at the graduate shows in April, May and June which were each visited by one of six independent curators - Teresa Crowley, Noémie Cursoux, Rachael Gilbourne, Davey Moor, Aoife Ruane and Georgie Thompson – who undertook to provide a longlist of graduates for consideration by the judging panel. This task is considerable and we thank them all for their work, which also comprises an important part of collating the record of the VAAs for the RDS Archives.
Welcome from the RDS
The 2026 VAA exhibition is the first to open at the new space for contemporary visual art on the RDS campus, Gallery at RDS in The Sandymount Building. The venue provides an accessible flexible two-storey exhibition space, including open-plan galleries, group workshop areas, and demonstration zones, which allow an extensive programme of talks, curator’s tours and workshops to run concurrent with the exhibition. On our return to the RDS Campus, we would like to acknowledge the considerable debt of gratitude to the Institutions which held the VAA exhibitions during our period off campus. IMMA held the 2023 exhibition and the RHA held the 2024 and 2025 shows. Both galleries and their staff afforded the shortlisted artists an extraordinary opportunity to show their work at two great institutions of contemporary Irish art and to understand the complex processes involved in mounting such an exhibition. The Sandymount Building has been transformed by the dedicated work of the RDS Arts Team and their colleagues at the RDS. The RDS Arts programme is delivered in exemplary fashion by the RDS Arts Team, Karen Phillips, Head of Arts, and Eliza McCormack, Arts Executive. This is done with the support and help from the rest of the staff at the RDS and we wish to acknowledge their input and thank them for all their efforts. Further to this I thank my colleagues on the Arts Committee, the President of the RDS, Mr. Hilary Hough, the CEO, Mr. Paul Kelly, the Chair of Foundation, Mr. Andrew Power, the acting Director of Foundation, Mr. Michael Ryan, the RDS Voluntary Officers on the Councils, Committees, and Standing Committees, all subscribing RDS members and the RDS executive, teams and staff. We hope you enjoy the exhibition, can attend some of the concomitant programme of events and explore the potential at our new Gallery at RDS! Katharine Maurer Chair, Committee of Arts RDS
An Introduction Patrick T. Murphy
The RDS Visual Arts Awards provide one of the most comprehensive annual assessments of graduate work at bachelor’s and master’s levels across all thirty-two counties. Six curators were assigned to colleges across the country and carefully reviewed the degree exhibitions at their respective institutions. We gratefully acknowledge Teresa Crowley, Noémie Cursoux, Rachael Gilbourne, Davey Moor, Aoife Ruane and Georgie Thompson. Drawing on their considerable curatorial experience, they identified students who demonstrated genuine promise and the potential to pursue the demanding career of a professional artist. We are indebted to them for their diligence and commitment. The longlisted proposals were subsequently reviewed by a final panel comprising nominees from the National Gallery of Ireland, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the RDS. A fifth panellist is appointed independently and has been typically a practising artist. Each panel member independently reviewed all 125 selected submissions and undertook the challenging task of refining the field. The RDS team then co-ordinated our findings and presented a final list of more than 75 artists. Through considered discussion and advocacy, we selected 12 artists for inclusion in this year’s exhibition.
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A particular strength of the RDS Visual Arts Awards is the appointment of a curator to develop the exhibition’s presentation and work closely with the selected artists to achieve the strongest possible outcome. Previous artists/curators form an esteemed group that includes Nick Miller, Alice Maher, Aideen Barry, Elaine Hoey, Vera Klute, Colin Martin and Niamh O’Malley. This year, the RDS has appointed the highly knowledgeable and respected Paul McAree to the role, opening new avenues for the exhibition. Paul is currently Curator/Director at Lismore Castle Arts and, over the course of his career, has worked with distinguished
An Introduction
artists including Gerard Byrne, Anne Collier, Dorothy Cross, Camille Henrot, Rashid Johnson and Wilhelm Sasnal. His role encompasses mentoring the artists and designing and installing the exhibition, as well as the exciting prospect of inaugurating a new home for the Awards in The Sandymount Building on the grounds of the RDS itself - a development we are all anticipating with high expectations. While participation is itself a significant honour, the awards programme also offers substantial financial and professional development support. This includes the premier RDS Taylor Art Award (€10,000) and the R.C. Lewis Crosby Award (€5,000), alongside the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award, a residency and support package valued at €10,000, and the RDS Members’ Fund Artist Studio Award, valued at €7,500. Together, these awards recognise artistic excellence while providing emerging artists with opportunities for international exchange, dedicated studio space, mentoring, and professional development. In addition, each artist selected for the exhibition receives an exhibition fee of €500 for participating in the awards exhibition. I would like to thank my fellow members of the judging panel: Christina Kennedy, Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Rachel Joynt, artist and RHA representative; Sarah McAuliffe, Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland; and Paul McAree, the exhibition’s curator. We also extend our collective gratitude to the RDS team—particularly Karen Phillips and Eliza McCormack—whose professionalism makes the process both seamless and enjoyable. Finally, I offer my sincere thanks to all the artists whose work has been featured, to my fellow panellists, and to the dedicated staff, officers and members of the RDS. Patrick T. Murphy Chair of the Selection Panel
Curator’s Note Paul McAree
Leaving art college can be daunting for new graduates navigating their first steps into the art world. Without a definitive handbook, emerging artists must learn through trial, error, and the occasional guidance of mentors or peers. While initial opportunities can seem sparse, a robust network of studios, residencies, and awards exists across Ireland to support and uplift each new generation of artists. Alongside these established avenues, the power of artists selforganising to stage their own independent exhibitions and projects also remains vital. The RDS Visual Art Awards is the largest platform for graduates in Ireland. A cornerstone of the programme is the range of awards that accompany the exhibition, providing both financial support and career development opportunities for emerging artists. With a combined value of €32,500, these awards reflect the RDS’s longstanding commitment to nurturing artistic talent and supporting graduates as they move into professional practice. I have, in recent years, worked as a regional college curator for the RDS. Each year the RDS invites a panel of curators to each make a longlist from two or three colleges, which is then passed to a separate panel who select the final exhibition of 12 artists. This year, the college curator panel included Teresa Crowley, Noémie Cursoux, Rachael Gilbourne, Davey Moor, Aoife Ruane and Georgie Thompson, with the final judges being Rachel Joynt, Christina Kennedy, Sarah McAuliffe, Patrick Murphy, and myself.
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This makes for quite a democratic selection process, ensuring, through different curatorial interests, that a broad spectrum of practice is represented. Though I was under no obligation to see the graduate shows myself, I was keen to see as many as possible in person. We selected 12 artists for the final show, which will return to the RDS in Ballsbridge for the first time in several years. Although it was not planned, we have artists from right across the country,
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with a good representation of different colleges. The multidisciplinary work of Aoife Dunne (Limerick School of Art & Design) spans sculpture, installation, publication, drawing, cartography, walking, photography and sound. Her practice explores relationships between the body, the self, and the lived environment. The work of Ava Bowden (IADT) explores her experience with chronic fatigue syndrome through a practice which is accessible to her: knitting. Her diptych of hand-knit self-portraits, titled dis/comfort, portrays a figure lying in bed. Beth Gaule (Crawford College of Art & Design) investigates the disconnect between one’s identity and the body that acts as visual representation, with their work sitting in an imagined narrative of creating one’s own body. Caoimhe Kelly (NCAD) uses obsolete CRT televisions, early digital screens, looping performance footage, metronomic sound, and still imagery, to explore the cyclical reality of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) through repetition, surveillance, and ritualised behaviour. Hannah Forde (ATU Sligo) utilises aluminium, copper and masking tape alongside iron ore and ferric chloride to translate the tension, wonder and monumentality of coastal rockface erosion. The paintings are sculpturally hung at a slight angle off the wall to loom over the viewer, fostering deeper material conversations across the space. Harrison Connally (Crawford College of Art & Design) is a sculptor who works with botanical materials and digital media to inspire personal intimacy or kinship with nature. His work reflects the dualities of kinship through installation and hand-made objects. Jennifer O’Brien (NCAD) works across installation, film, sculpture, and text. Her practice examines historical and personal traces embedded within Irish infrastructure, exploring the ways in which the state’s pursuit of modernity, speed, and efficiency continues to shape our contemporary landscape and lived experience. Jools Reilly (TU Dublin) uses photography, found objects, print, collage,
and sound as socially engaged modes to tell the stories of the elders in his community of Rialto in Dublin 8. In documenting these inhabitants, Jools has developed ethical methods, such as anonymising and obscuring faces, emphasising body language, and allowing the elements of each person’s home to speak for them. Kodjo (Isac) Kossivi (Limerick School of Art & Design) explores immigrant identity, cultural heritage and his own position as an artist in the community. Threshold of Belonging explores the reality of the immigrant who occupies a fragile space between visibility and acceptance, portrayed through a series of handmade masks, constructed with repurposed materials, such as fabrics, jewellery and paint. Nikol Ochichenko (IADT) is a visual artist from Ukraine who explores themes of community, social engagement, and displaced identity. Still Tied is a film and installation accompanied by a booklet that present the craft of camouflage net-making through the narrated realities of Ukrainian communities. Roisin O’Connell (TU Dublin Sherkin) is an artist and mother based on a West Cork island. Her practice spans film, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance, with each work emerging from a sustained engagement with the body as both material and site of inquiry. Sarah VanDermeer (Burren College of Art) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, and video. Her practice explores the entanglements between humans and their environments amid anthropogenic environmental change. With these 12 artists I believe we have shown a flavour of the breath, diversity and energy of what this generation of artists are interested in. It has been a huge honour to work with them and the future for art practice is exciting. page 15
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EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Aoife Dunne Aoife Dunne is a multidisciplinary artist from Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, based between Laois, Dublin, and Limerick. A recent graduate of Sculpture & Combined Media at the Limerick School of Art and Design, her practice spans sculpture, installation, publication, drawing, cartography, walking, photography, and sound. She creates objects, installations, and narratives which interrogate conventions of identity and embodiment, and is interested in the relationships between the body, the self, and the lived environment. Guided by embodied and practice-based research, Dunne’s work draws on her lived experience as an autistic woman in a disabled body and is informed by ongoing research into crip theory, phenomenology, and public space.
Work(s) on show: Connective Tissues/Cognitive Mapping
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Ava Bowden Ava Bowden is a textiles artist based in Kildare. Her focus is on handmaking, rather than machine-based production, while her concepts are based on her personal life experiences. Her practice centres around hand knitting and primarily deals with themes of chronic illness and slow, intentional creation. Her imagery varies from self-portraits to medical objects, incorporating text to accompany visuals of everyday items and experiences. Bowden has exhibited in The Place Project, IMMA Studios (2023), Eleventh Hour, IADT (2024), Better Than Ambrosia, The Orangery in Marlay Park (2025), the RUA 144th Annual Exhibition (2025), Down the Road, Around the Corner, Pallas Projects/Studios (2026), and the RUA 145th Annual Exhibition (2026).
Work(s) on show: dis/comfort
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Beth Gaule Originally from Waterford and now based in Cork, Beth Gaule is an artist whose practice is informed by questions of identity, queerness, and self-recognition. Working primarily through installation, she explores the complexities and contradictions inherent within these themes. Following research into the ways queer artists employ abjection, Gaule began examining her own work through this lens, developing an imagined cyclical process of desire, collection, assembly, and rejection that continues to shape her practice.
Work(s) on show: ‘Collection from the Established Vessels’, ‘Overflow’, ‘Imitation of the Possible Self’, ‘Refused and Renounced’ and ‘Off cut’
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Caoimhe Kelly Caoimhe Kelly is an artist and educator from Kildare working primarily with photography and videography. Her practice seeks to raise awareness of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) while offering comfort and recognition to those who share the experience. Drawing from her own encounters with OCD and the ways the condition is often misrepresented in the media, Kelly creates work informed by the visual language of avant-garde film. She is particularly interested in the parallels between avant-garde cinema and OCD thought cycles, including their fragmented, repetitive, and often unsettling imagery. Kelly uses analogue CRT televisions to reflect the thought process of OCD through analog malfunction, static interference, distorted imagery, repeated frames and cycles.
Work(s) on show: Pixelated Compulsions, Pixelated Compulsions (Reversed), Facial Static (Eyes), ‘Flattening the Compulsive Image’ (2:25), ‘Seeing the Intrusive Voice’ (0:52), ‘Writing and Concealing My Thoughts’, (5:45), Facial Static (Mouth)
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Hannah Forde Hannah Forde is a visual artist based along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Coast. Her practice centres on Streedagh Beach, where she creates ephemeral, site-specific drawings using collected iron ore. Translating these observations into the studio, Forde employs OSB as a material analogue for sedimentary rock, combining iron ore, constructed materials, and metal tapes. Through processes of weathering, sanding, and the application of ferric chloride, she creates surfaces that evoke natural erosion and geological strata. A recent Fine Art BA (Hons) graduate and recipient of a Fine Art Medal Award.
Work(s) on show: Boards XIII &XIV (Diptych), Boards VIII, IX & X (Triptych), Stack I, Stack II, Boards XI &XII (Diptych)
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Harrison Connally Harrison Connally is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Texas and currently based in West Cork. His practice is rooted in an enduring relationship with the natural world, shaped by formative experiences living off-grid in the forest of his childhood. This period of immersion fostered a renewed connection with nature that continues to inform his work. Through close engagement with site-specific environments, local botany, and the landscapes surrounding his home, Connally explores new relationships with the Irish landscape and ecological experience.
Work(s) on show: HC1-59 (mixed media)
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Jennifer O’Brien Jennifer O’Brien (b.1996) is a Meath-born artist working across installation, film, sculpture, and text. Her work explores the Irish state’s pursuit of modernity, speed, and efficiency, examining how these ambitions continue to shape both the landscape and lived experience of contemporary Ireland. Operating at the intersection of documentation, speculation, and material intervention, O’Brien’s practice is an exploration of place. Mapping the afterlives of industrial, architectural and infrastructural developments, she focuses on the overlooked spaces beneath, between, and beside these systems of perceived progress. Rather than reproducing narratives of progress, O’Brien is interested in moments of stasis, failure, absurdity and the personal that emerge within them, revealing unexpected poetics between the banal and the spectacular.
Work(s) on show: Essay 1, I Call This One IKEA Sunset, Essay 2, JIT, Apply Handbrake in the Moments Prior (10 min), Essay 3, New Car Smell
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Jools Reilly Jools Reilly is a Dublin-based artist working across photography, sound, and collage. Their practice is centred on place and community, explored through both direct engagement and observation at a distance. Influenced by an early background in graphic design, Reilly’s work reflects a strong sensitivity to composition, narrative, and visual structure. Key influences include the photography of Tony O’Shea alongside the work of John Stezaker and Agnès Varda.
Work(s) on show: Chrissy, The Home of Recorded Music, Motor of a Reel-to-Reel, Tony, Joan, Rose, Anne, A Look at the Avenue
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Kodjo (Isac) Kossivi Kodjo (Isaac) Kossivi is a socially engaged multidisciplinary artist working across performance and mask-making. His practice explores immigrant identity, cultural heritage, and his role as an artist within community contexts. Rooted in acts of care, awareness, and collective exchange, Kossivi’s work seeks to create welcoming spaces where people can gather, share experiences, and foster mutual understanding.
Work(s) on show: Threshold of Belonging
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Nikol Ochichenko Nikol Ochichenko is a Ukrainian visual artist based in Ireland. Having relocated following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, her practice reflects processes of displacement, adaptation, and human relationship to the land. Through photography, film, and installation, Ochichenko explores themes of community, migration, and identity, drawing on both collective and personal experiences. Her work encourages vulnerability and reflection, searching for an outlet through which those affected by conflict can process grief, loss, and belonging.
Work(s) on show: Still Tied
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Róisín Ní Chonaill Róisín Ní Chonaill is an artist based on a West Cork island, working across film, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance. A graduate of BA (Hons) Visual Arts, Sherkin Island, and TU Dublin, her practice explores the intersections of body, landscape, mythology, and ecology. Drawing on experimental and endurance-based approaches, she creates immersive works that investigate presence, transformation, belonging, and the shifting relationship between human and more-than-human worlds.
Work(s) on show: Marts Mothers Madness
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Sarah VanDermeer Sarah VanDermeer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ireland. She holds a BA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute (2012) and an MFA in Art and Ecology from Burren College of Art (2026). Her practice is rooted in narrative-driven and immersive forms, informed by a decade-long background in theatre, film set design, and scenic fabrication in New Orleans. Rather than rejecting theatricality, VanDermeer employs it as a critical framework through which to examine romanticised ideas of nature. By combining artistic practice with environmental research, she explores how ecological awareness can simultaneously deepen connection to and heighten the strangeness of the natural world.
Work(s) on show: Temu© Ana Mendieta, Ceci n’est pas une (This is not a forest), Phantom Limb, If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around you are the tree, man suit, Stump Stool 1, Stump Stool 2
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2026 Colleges ATU Galway ATU Sligo Burren College of Art Griffith College IADT Dún Laoghaire MTU Crawford College of Art NCAD Dublin SETU Waterford SETU Wexford TU Dublin (Grangegorman) TU Dublin (Sherkin Island) TUS, Limerick School of Art Ulster University, Belfast School of Art
Hanin Almasri
Shane Commane
Alanna Hanley
Hope Anderson
Sean Connolly
Ríoghnach Hardiman
Susannah Appleby
Grace Conroy
Darragh Hickey
Juliet Bailey
Léna Couartou
Maeve Holmes
Taryn Barling
Aine Crawford
Holly Hooks
Grace Barnard
Ava Cullen
Louis Hutchinson
Sarah Beatty
Sofia de Rosa
Charles Jacob
Talia Bouzon
Clodagh Dempsey
Rachael Kennedy
Maeve Brady
Claire Dennehy
Muireann Keogh
Amanda Braide
Dion Dennehy
Clodagh Laffan
Grace Brien
Robyn Doherty
Dearbla Lawlor
Alan Brown
Luke Donnelly
Stefanos Leader
Thomas Burke
Angela Duffy
Kitty Leadley
Rachel Cameron Byrne
Millie Dunne
Jesse Lucas
Jean Campbell
Ben Finegan
Anastasiia Lunko
Peter Carrington
Tara Fitzgerald
Evan Lynam
Amelia Caulfield
Loren Frame
Roisin Maher
Tanya Chakálova
Alicja Gajda
Jack Maher
Kate Clancy
Jack Galligan
Mia Mannings
Louise Clark
Seth Geaney
Melanie Maurovic
Claire Clarke
Natalie Gibson
Amy McAndrew
Tansy Clarke
Sam Gleeson
Cuánn McAuley
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2026 Longlisted Artists
2026 Longlisted Artists
Ben McCabe Macari
Faye O’Brien
Nicholas Sidarchuk
Caitlin McCarthy
Steacy O’Donohue
Jane Singleton
Sarah McLarnon
Charles O’Mahoney
Renata Srutkova
Autumn McNamara
Natasha O’Neill
Marrha Still
Margaret Mohally
Ella O’Sullivan
Sandra Streeter
Sara Monteiro
Marta Ortiz González
Moynagh Sullivan
Caoimhe Mooney
Lucy Patterson
Quinn Sweeney
Andrea Moore
Robin Quinn
Jan Szostek
Elana Morchower
Beck Richins
Mickyla Tate
Amy Moynihan
Angel Robinson
Adam Tucker
Karen Moynihan
Sadbh Ryan
Tega Ubogun
Marie Murphy
Aksana Sasnouskaya
Ezra Williams
Laura Nadal
Amy Shanagher
Evan Wilson
Faye Ní Chleirchín
Elisabeth Shaw
Deirdre Wolfe
Rachel Ní Múrchu
Melanie Sheehan
Julia Wolkowyska
Cian Nugent
Mason Shevlin
Acknowledgements The RDS Committee of Arts
Exhibition Team
Members & Patrons
Katharine Maurer (Chair)
Paul McAree, Invited Curator, Director, Lismore Arts
Thank you to the invaluable Members and Patrons of the RDS for their ongoing enthusiasm and support, and to all those who have made this exhibition possible.
Eleanor Collier (Vice Chair) Dr Marie Bourke Philip Carton Feargal Hynes Emmet Kane Ruth Kennelly Bernardine Hurley Ivan McKenna Michael Mulreany Kieran Owens Caroline Phelan
Karen Phillips, Head of Arts Eliza McCormack, Arts Programme Executive A Worthy Cause
Sponsors & Partners
CT Group
The family of Mr Robin Lewis-Crosby; the Taylor Art Trust; the RDS Members’ Arts Fund; Mason Hayes & Curran LLP; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; the Royal Hibernian Academy; and RTÉ Supporting the Arts.
Maurice Ward W Display
Exhibition kindly supported by: Family of Mr Robin Lewis-Crosby
RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition 2026