Early Career Artists Awards 2024 - 2025

The Photo Museum Ireland Early Career Artist Awards is a mentorship residency programme providing essential curatorial guidance and resources for the most promising photography graduates as they embark on their artistic careers. Over the course of this year-long programme the recipients will have an opportunity to create new work with ongoing support from our expert curatorial team and selected guest mentors.

Throughout the Early Career Artist  Residencies, the participants are offered:

• Free use of our high-spec artists’ digital studio and unique high-spec production facilities
• Continuous Professional Development training bespoke to their needs. 
• Mentoring on workflow and management of artworks.
• Regular critical feedback sessions with Photo Museum Ireland curators. 
• Mentoring from our panel of leading international photo experts.
• Promotion across all our platforms.
• Advice on sustainable approaches and photo ethics.
• Advice on creative writing and photobook production from writers, specialist photobook publishers and designers.
• Fees and production costs paid.

Graduating with a First-Class Honours degree in Photography from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). Evanna Devine is a young Irish artist from Belfast. Her work is driven by a keen focus on socially engaged projects. She holds an important and natural talent for documenting stories within the North. After working for two years with a total of twenty-five women who lost children in tragic circumstances during The Conflict, Evanna determined early in her career that she had a talent for working with people and telling important stories that often remain forgotten. Currently working with the youth centres of Newry town, Evanna Devine’s portraiture continues to offer a contemplation of the inherited complexities of class, Irish heritage, and identity.

Roisin Lambert is a photographic artist from Co. Wicklow. Through the camera she examines the relationship between human and land. She seeks to find meaning in the ancient inheritance of place within a contemporary state of being. With both intuitive and considered frames, her work is occupied by a landscape layered in myth and narrative, to know that which is sequestered within the ever-shifting soil. Her work explores the tensions between light and dark, real and surreal, that which is conjured by dark and found by light.

Conn McCarrick is an emerging Irish artist and recent graduate of Griffith College Dublin. His work focuses on the experience of queer young people in Ireland and draws from his background in campaigning for social and political rights. Conn is a former Chairperson of the National Youth Parliament and recently served as the Irish Youth Delegate to the United Nations. To date, Conn has exhibited his work in Ireland, the UK and the USA. During his time at university, Conn developed a unique style that blends analogue, fine-art and documentary photography. Conn is a member of the Douglas Hyde Gallery Student Forum and MART studios in Harold’s Cross.