Michelle Malone – Winner of the 2020 RDS Whyte’s Award

Michelle Malone is the winner RDS Whyte’s Award (€5,000 cash prize). Michelle graduated from TU Dublin School of Creative Arts with a first-class honour’s BA degree in Fine Art. She is currently undertaking an MA there and has won several awards including the Fire Station Artist Studio Development Award, the John Creagh Student of Excellence Award as well as awards for achieving the highest studio grade and most original thesis.  Michelle’s practice is informed by her experience of growing up in a working-class area in Dublin’s inner city. Through sculpture, installation, audio and photography she investigates issues about class, taste, belonging, identity and community. Her final year work Summer Project 1997 is a scene setting installation accompanied by an audio piece that tell the story of a memory of a trip to Clara Lara Fun Park in Wicklow.

Link to the audio piece which accompanies the installation https://www.michellemalone.net/listen