The Awards provide a platform for graduating artists as they transition from student into early professional career. It does this by curating an exhibition of some Ireland’s best visual art graduates each October and offering a prize fund of €30,000. Irish performance artist Amanda Coogan, will curate the 2018 exhibition. Amanda will also provide tours of the exhibition at 1.00pm each day from October23 to October 26. Attending the tours is free but booking is essential.

There is free entry to the exhibition and it is open daily from 10.30am to 5.30pm October 23 – 26 and from 11.30am to 5.30pm over the bank holiday weekend, October 27 – 29. To book a place on a curator’s tour or for more information about the Awards and the artists displaying work please visit – www.rds.ie/visualart