News: Announcing the FSAS 2025 Residential and Day Studio Award Recipients

We are delighted to announce the 6 FSAS Residential Award and 2 FSAS Day Studio Award recipients for 2025! Selected by a panel from our Open Call application process at the beginning of the year, the opportunity attracted a large number of applicants with ambitious submissions of high quality and range.

The FSAS 2025 Residential Award artists are: Lucy Andrews, Mark Buckeridge, Aideen Farrell, Day Magee, Sorcha McNamara and Cóilín O’Connell

The FSAS 2025 Day Studio artists are: Michelle Browne and Ann Maria Healy

About the artists:

Lucy Andrews makes sculptures and site-specific installations. She is interested in the meeting of natural and human – made systems, and the places where those categories break down. Her work proposes a dynamic materiality which moves between the organic and inorganic, architectural and geological, grown and made.

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Michelle Browne is an artist and educator based in Dublin Ireland. Her work looks at what it means to live together: how society organises itself socially, politically and spatially. Performance and participation are core parts of her practice. Browne’s recent work ‘Cycles’ (2024) for Carlow Arts Festival took the form of an audio experience while cycling through the countryside, considering our relationship with the land, history and our increasingly precarious future as climate change takes hold. Other recent projects include: Fringe Was Here a curated project with a group of artists to look at the history of site responsive works in the Dublin Fringe Festival over the past 30 years; Listening to the City II a series of commissioned fictional texts looking at the experience of young children and their carers in the city; the development of a new board game about work with accompanying video work commissioned by Heart of Glass, St. Helens UK.

Recent exhibitions and events include: Mná na hÉireann, NCAD Gallery, 2024; Twist, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania (2023); The Midnight Run with Inua Ellams for The Abbey Theatre (2022). She is a lecturer in the Department of Sculpture and Expanded Practice at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

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Mark Buckeridge is an artist working in performance, sculpture, installation, video and sound. Rooted in collaboration, his work incorporates a rolling cast of individuals, artists and friends, resulting in temporary communities and shared experiences. He holds an MFA from Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and is the co-founder of artist-run organisation Muine Bheag Arts in Carlow.

Past exhibitions and projects include: performances at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019), Fylkingen, Stockholm (2023); solo shows at CCA, Derry (2022); PS², Belfast, (2022), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2019); Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam (2019); Pallas Projects, Dublin (2016), two-person show with Vivienne Dick, The Complex, Dublin (2024) and group shows at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, (2024), Agriculture Palace, Kaunas, (2022) and Outpost, Norwich (2019).

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Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based artist. She works with found materials, clay, drawing, and photography. Farrell gathers materials and detritus while following routes of canals and disused railways. She focuses on these sites’ relations to ideas of ruin, extraction, and transformation.

Aideen completed her BA in Fine Art at NCAD in 2017 and MA from TU Dublin in 2024. Exhibitions include solo shows; Brittle to Look Back at Custom House Gallery (2023), A Weight of Windows at Pallas Projects/Studios (2019) and Showroom Linenhall Arts Centre (2018), and recent group shows; Waystation at the Complex (2024), Gaffer Tape in Phibsborough Tower (2023), The Stars are in the Earth at A4 Sounds (2022). She was awarded the Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme (2018-2022), the Arts Council’s Agility Award (2021), the Visual Arts Bursary (2021, 2023), and the Fire Station Artists’ Studios Sculpture Award in 2021.

Lucy Andrews was born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and studied at NCAD, Dublin and The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. She has exhibited at The Complex, IMMA, The RHA, and The Leitrim Sculpture Centre. In 2025 she will present a solo exhibition at Pallas Projects, Dublin and her work will also be shown as part of the Hear Here festival, by STUK, Leuven.

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Ann Maria Healy‘s work is concerned with methods of healing and the practice of holding opposing ideas within the same space. Expressing itself through moving image, sculptural and textual form, it thinks through recurrence, dream states and narratives embedded within the human psyche. It looks toward the tools we employ to both overcome and submerge these narratives. She is interested in the embodied meaning of material and attempt to unpack and subvert it, often playing with notions of taste as a way to speak toward a socio-political sphere. Sometimes acting in an absurd manner, the work employs spirituality as a device to reconsider our present moment. The stories that Healy tells are usually fragmented in nature and look for potential spaces where healing might occur. She is interested in the narratives that we tell, about ourselves and our world as a way to excavate and transform our lived experience.

Selected exhibitions include Portals, Luan Gallery, 2023, Hypnagogia, The Lab Gallery, 2021, Desire – A Revision, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2020. Previous residencies include Fire Station Artist Studios Dublin, 2017 – 2020, Cow House Studios, Wexford, 2015 and The Banff Centre, Canada, 2014. I am an MFA graduate of The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and a recipient of the Irish Arts Council, Visual Artist Bursary Award. Her work is part of the Irish Arts Council Collection and she has held a project studio at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios. Healy is currently a member of Richmond Road Studios and a part-time lecturer at the National College of Art and Design.

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Day Magee is an artist, performer, and writer based in Dublin. Exploring the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the intersections of queerness, illness, and religiosity, their work engages phenomenology as an enactive creative material via performance-centred multimedia and workshops. Their work has been commissioned by and appeared in TULCA Festival (2019); Arts & Disability Ireland (2021); Pallas Projects/Studios (2022); Limerick City Gallery of Art (2022); 126 Gallery (2023); Rua Red (2023); the Hugh Lane Gallery (2023) and Mirror Lamp Press (2024). Their transdisciplinary practice is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

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Sorcha McNamara is a visual artist based in Mayo, Ireland, and sometimes elsewhere. Her practice engages with deconstructive methods of painting, framing, language, and image-making, often expressing these methods through the means of site-responsive installation and a sense of material resourcefulness.