Edel Traynor
Fashion designer Edel Traynor shared the Future Maker of the Year Award of €5,000 with furniture designer Simon Doyle, each received €2,500 →
Future Makers Awards & Supports 2016 →
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30 emerging designer-makers were announced as this year’s Future Makers Awards & Supports Programme 2016 winners during a presentation ceremony at Dean Dublin.
With a total prize fund of €24,500 for 2016, Future Makers Awards & Supports is one of the biggest award programmes in Europe for students and emerging makers and is one of a number of Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) initiatives supporting emerging talent. Divided into student and practitioner categories, the annual programme rewards the next generation of Irish creatives at a critical stage in their career, helping them develop an exciting future in Ireland’s vibrant craft and design industry. Last night, DCCoI announced 30 emerging designer-makers as this year’s winners during a presentation ceremony at Dean Dublin.
Read the press release here →
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Recent Graduates / Emerging Practitioners Category
Simon Doyle
Furniture designer Simon Doyle shared the Future Maker of the Year Award of €5,000 with fashion designer Edel Traynor, each received €2,500 →
Zsiri Melinda Dempsey
The Innovation Award of €2,000 was presented to ceramic artist Zsiri Melinda Dempsey who is originally from Hungary but is now based in Co. Clare →
James Delaney
Visual Communications graduate James Delaney from Dublin was the recipient of the Imagined Futures Award of €1,000, a new category introduced for 2016 →
Ruth Duignan
Ruth Duignan, a fashion designer from Leitrim, was awarded Studio Support of €1,000 →
Kate O’Kelly
Kate O’Kelly, a ceramicist based in Limerick, was awarded Studio Support of €1,000 →
Cathy Burke
Cathy Burke, a ceramicist based in Wicklow, was awarded Studio Support of €1,000 →
Aoife Mullane
Residencies Support of €1,000 was awarded to Aoife Mullane, a textiles artist based in Wicklow →
Luisa Verling
Exhibition Support of €500 went to Luisa Verling, a jeweller based in Clontarf, Dublin →
Ryan Connolly
A Judges Spotlight Prize of €500 was awarded to Ryan Connolly, a furniture designer in Monaghan →
Fiona Mulholland
A Judges Spotlight Prize of €500 was awarded to Fiona Mulholland, a jeweller based in Leitrim →
Student Category
Jack Roche
Jack Roche from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford who is studying fashion at LSAD received the overall Future Makers Student of the Year Award of €2,000 →
Maureen Laverty
The Innovation Award of €1,000 was presented to Maureen Laverty from Toomebridge, Co. Antrim, who is studying Product Design Engineering (PDE) at the Glasgow School of Art and has formerly studied fashion design at NCAD →
Ciana Keating
Ciana Keating from Dublin who is studying fashion design at NCAD was announced as the winner of the Design Award of €1,000 →
Conaill O’Dwyer
NCAD student Conaill O’Dwyer who is studying fashion at NCAD received Residency Support of €1,000 →
Annemarie Reinhold
Annemarie Reinhold who is studying jewellery at NCAD received Residency Support of €1,000 →
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The Fixperts Creative Award of €500 was awarded to five NCAD students →
Róisín Pierce
The Push the Limits Award of €500 went to NCAD student Róisín Pierce from Dublin →
Robert Gorman
Robert Gorman, a GMIT Letterfrack student of Furniture Design and Manufacture was awarded Materials Support of €500 →
Rachael Finlay
Rachael Finlay, an Ulster University student of Textile Art, Design and Fashion was awarded Materials Support of €500 →
Kate McGuane
Kate McGuane, a student at DCCoI’s Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny was awarded Materials Support of €500 →
Holly O’Hanlon
Holly O’Hanlon who is studying jewellery design at Central St. Martins, University of Arts London was awarded Materials Support of €500 →
Siofra Caherty
Siofra Caherty, an Ulster University student of MFA Multidisciplinary Design was awarded Materials Support of €500 →
Fiona White
Fiona White who is studying Textile Surface Design at NCAD was awarded Materials Support of €500. →
Aoife Duncan
The Judges Spotlight Prize of €500 was awarded to Aoife Duncan who is studying Fine Art (Ceramics) at GMIT →
Tom Healy
Exhibition Support of €500 was awarded to Tom Healy, a student of Furniture Making and Design at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa →