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Golden Fleece Award 2027
The Golden Fleece Award (Lillias Mitchell Trust) · Dublin, Ireland
Ireland's largest award open to both visual artists and craft makers. Free to apply; for practitioners living and working on the island of Ireland or Irish-born artists abroad, at any career stage. Roughly €30,000 distributed annually.
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Who can enter
- Location
- Ireland, United Kingdom (by residence or nationality)
- Age
- No age limit
- Career stage
- Emerging, Mid-career, Established
- Mediums
- Ceramics & glass, Textile & fibre, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed media, Design & craft
- Submission
- Online submission
- Also
- Craft and visual artists residing and working on the island of Ireland (incl. Northern Ireland), or Irish-born practitioners working abroad; no full-time students; one entry per cycle; previous main winners ineligible.
About
The Golden Fleece Award is an annual award for practising craft and visual artists at any career stage who live and work on the island of Ireland, or who are Irish-born and working internationally. Full-time students and previous main award winners are not eligible. Applicants must demonstrate artistic merit and a specific financial need, explaining how the funds would advance their work over one to two years. One application per cycle.
There is no application fee and applications are made online. The next open call, for the 2027 award, opens in autumn 2026; the call is usually announced in early autumn and remains open until the end of November, with results announced the following spring. The fund structure for 2027 is not yet confirmed; the 2026 cycle distributed about €30,000, with €10,000 awards in each category and two €5,000 Special Merit Awards.