Golden Fleece shortlist / NSF discriminatory? (Monday 3 March 2008)
Long shortlist for one of Ireland's most valuable art prizes
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| Caoline Madden: Lyrical light, detail, Times Union Center for the Performing Arts, Florida; 100ft long 8ft diameter; courtesy Golden Fleece |
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| Adeline Dolan: hand-spun, vegetable-dyed yarn with various shades of gorse and indigo; courtesy Golden Fleece |
The judges for this year's Golden Fleece Award face an unenviable task. Not only is the shortlist long, but the media are diverse - in line with benefactor Helen Lillias Mitchell's wishes - and the quality is high.
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| Sharon Lindsay Ferguson: Cinderella's Cage Costume; courtesy Golden Fleece |
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| Sylvia Hemmingway: Tradition; courtesy Golden Fleece |
The shortlisted artists are Keith Wilson, Adeline Dolan, Muriel Beckett, Eoin MacLochlainn, Caroline Madden, Bob Johnston, Sharon Lindsay Ferguson and Sylvia Hemmingway.
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| Keith Wilson: Keeping time; courtesy Golden Fleece |
The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 11 March. More on the Award here.
National Sculpture Factory 'discrimination'
No doubt the NSF was only trying to help, but a new sculpture-commissioning initiative has thrown up suspicions of a three-tier categorisation of artists, with Cork artists at the bottom of the heap - at least that is what artist John Kelly fears in his open letter reprinted here.
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