RDS Visual Art Awards 2023

RDS Taylor Art Award Winner 2023: Taïm Haimet

Taïm graduated with a BA Honors Degree in Contemporary Art, from ATU Galway in 2023. Her work is about the migrants crossing of the sea to the shores of Europe. It is based on the haunting stories she heard as an Arabic interpreter for asylum seekers in Galway, as well as the conversations with her Syrian family members who have experienced this journey.

R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award Winner 2023: Oisín Tozer

Oisín graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art, from the Technological University Dublin, in 2023. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice draws upon materials, media and mechanisms to investigate our understanding of and relationship with ecology.

RDS Members' Art Fund Award Winner 2023: Cian Handschuh

Cian graduated from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in 2023. He is a visual artist primarily working in sculpture and installation art. His current practice aims to examine links between body and land using the dwelling as a mutual space and as such an analysis point for their interaction.

RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award Winner 2023: Christopher Mc Mullan

Christopher graduated from National College of Art and Design in 2023, with a BA Honours in Fine Art, specialising in sculpture. Christopher’s practice draws from his decade-long career in avant-garde kitchens, where he learned to extract perfumes for luxurious plates and sommelier training. He saw potential in the ‘de-luxification’ of aroma, recognising its capacity to incite articulation through uncodified, highly creative and, oftentimes, visually referential means.

RHA Graduate Studio Award Winner 2023: Asha Murray

Asha graduated from BA Fine Art in Limerick School of Art and Design in 2023. She is a multidisciplinary artist who creates experimental films in tandem with textile work of tufted collages.