Feeney Fellow 2020
Trustees are delighted to announce that the 2020 Feeney Fellowship has been awarded to
Nuala Clooney
Photo credit: David Rowan
Nuala Clooney is a practicing artist with 6 years’ experience in the visual arts. Since graduating from The School of Jewellery, Birmingham with a MA Jewellery, silversmithing and Related Objects in 2014, Clooney has exhibited internationally and extensively across the UK. Including 2018 where she was included in the Arts Council exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Women, Protest Power exhibiting alongside Louise Bourgeois and Mary Kelly. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the John Ruskin Master of All Trades Prize, Sheffield.
For her Feeney Fellowship, Nuala will develop new immersive ways of presenting her crafted objects, alongside performative videos. To achieve this, she will explore an underused heritage craft and undertake a course in upholstery and furniture working with a local Birmingham craftsman based in Jewellery Quarter.
The acquisition of new skills will run alongside a period of research into arts and heritage properties to study display methodologies as well as further research into the social history of domestic gendered objects.
Parallel to this, mentoring sessions have been factored in with a number of esteemed
artists and thinkers to guide and support Nuala as she embarks in a new direction in her work.