Lisdoonvarna’s Tina O’Connell, has been named as the winner of the prestigious 2024 Global Travel Award.
Tina, who is a in sculpture and combined media graduate at the Limerick School of Art and Design, received the award for her breathtaking piece entitled Odysseys of Self.
She was selected as winner by a highly respected panel of artists and curators including artist Laura Fitzgerald, Paul McAree who is the curator at Lismore Castle Arts, Patrick Murphy the Director of the Royal Hibernian Academy and Aoife Ruane.
The Global Travel Award of €5,000, is open to all students graduating from its BA in Fine Art and B.Ed Art and Design Teacher Education in 2024.
The award has been designed to offer the chosen graduate a unique opportunity to develop their future career. This is the second year of granting the award to a new graduate artist.
This generous philanthropic funding has been made available for students with support from The Ireland Funds.
The Limerick School of Art and Design is honoured to be the only Art School in Ireland to offer such a prestigious travel award.
In order to enter for the Award, BA in Fine Art and BEd Art and Design Teacher Education students prepared a submission package with images of their work and most importantly provide a statement outlining what they could achieve with the travel bursary and how this will assist with their future creative development.
More than 300 students from all over Ireland and beyond are expected to attend the Limerick School of Art and Design Graduate Show over the coming week.
Hosted at TUS Clare Street Campus in Limerick City, the show opened to the public on June 1 and will be available to view from 10am to 5pm daily until Sunday, June 9.
The Limerick School of Art and Design is a constituent art college of the Technological University of the Shannon.
The school operates on three of TUS Mid-West’s campuses including Clare Street and George’s Quay in Limerick City as well as at the TUS campus in Clonmel in Tipperary.
The school can trace its origins back to 1852, and has had a number of guises and locations before consolidating into its current format and campuses in the 1980s and 1990s.
LSAD offers courses at level 8 or honours degree, and level 9 or master’s degree, across a range of art and design disciplines.
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