Congratulations Fionn Timmins who won one of the 6 major awards at last Fridays evenings RDS Visual Arts Awards, hosted at the RHA Gallery Dublin last Friday.

Fionn won the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award (value €8,000).

Which will see him spend 3 months at the wonderful @centreculturelirlandais in the heart of Paris Latin quarter, this prestigious award comes with the support of full travel costs to and from Paris, accommodation, studio facilities at @centreculturelirlandais, and include cash stipend.

Also huge congratulations to all @mtu_crawford graduates who were also longlisted for the RDS awards:
Hannah Roberts, Fine Art (BA Honours), Lisa O'Sullivan, Fine Art (BA Honours), Murrough O'Donovan, Fine Art (BA Honours), Leslie Allen Spillane, Fine Art (BA Honours), Lara Quinn, Fine Art (BA Honours), Adam O'Lomasney, Fine Art (BA Honours), Holly Halligan, Fine Art (BA Honours), Christina Loughlin, Contemporary Applied Art (BA Honours), Aron O'Connell, Fine Art (BA Honours), Isobel McCarthy, Fine Art (BA Honours), Christina Flynn, BA (Hons) Contemporary Applied Art, Camilla Corti, Fine Art (BA Honours), Kathy Cronin, Fine Art (BA Honours)

Fionn bet tough competition to make it to this year final ten exhibiting graduates with his very impressive large scale sculptural installation work 'Ciorcal na nDéise',

Irish Arts Review — Fionn Timmins

There was 114 students longlisted for this years RDS awards from Arts Schools and Universities from both undertgradaute and postgradaute visual art programs from Ireland & Northern Ireland...

Fionn is currently undertaking his residency award at the @nationalsculpturefactory in Cork , developing new works and commissions.