Fingal County Council and The RHA School Studio Award Recipient 2022

Fingal Arts Office in partnership with the Royal Hibernian Academy School (RHA) are delighted to announce Eleanor McCaughey as the recipient of the 2022 Fingal County Council and RHA School Studio Award. 

Eleanor McCaughey, a visual artist working in mixed media installations, commenced her residency in October 2022. The award provides a funded studio space for the period of one year and offers the recipient an opportunity to develop their practice within the institutional framework of the RHA. 

Eleanor McCaughey said on being awarded, “The Fingal County Council and RHA Studio Award will be crucial and instrumental to the planning, research and development of future projects. The support from Fingal County Council and the RHA will be invaluable to me in pushing a multi-faceted and experimental practice.”

Eleanor is a visual artist with multidisciplinary practice including painting, sculpture, video and sound. Her work is tactile, handmade with an importance on its shifting materiality. Both painting and sculpture reveal traces of performance and activity via the brush stroke, mark making and molding. It is important to McCaughey that these qualities lend a semiotic dimension to the work, emitting a certain presence when the author isn't in the room.

Born in Dublin, Ireland. Eleanor McCaughey studied at TU, Dublin. Selected exhibitions include Forget your cares, sow your wild oats, sin is a wonderful disease, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, 2023, 'Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain'  The Complex, 2022 ,Bones in the attic, Hugh Lane Gallery,2022, Woman in the machine, Visual Carlow, 2021, Super Market Art Fair, Stockholm, 2021,  2020, Vignettes, Richard Heller Gallery, LA USA, 2019 . Eleanor McCaughey is a recipient of the Fingal County Council Bursary 20,21,22, Arts Council Ireland Bursary Award 20,21,22, The Temple Bar Project Award 2021, and the Next Generation Award 2018.

Image: Learning to smell the smoke 2022 Mixed media Installation

As part of Bones in the attic, curated by Victoria Evans at The Hugh Lane Gallery

Kindly funded by Fingal County Council and Arts Council Ireland