Fionn Timmins

Fionn Timmins is a sculptor from Waterford, Ireland. He graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design in 2024 and completed an Erasmus exchange at the Universitatea de Artă și Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2023.

His practice centres on large-scale sculpture, supported by video and sound. His work considers our relationship with the landscape by addressing and reinterpreting references to Irish folklore and ancient Irish megalithic forms, such as stone circles and dolmens. Working primarily with ancient bog oak — a material that would have been alive in the landscape during the construction of these ancient sites — his sculptures draw on the symbolism of the circle and the Sacred Oak Tree, often referenced in Irish mythology.

Following his degree show, Timmins was awarded a residency at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, where he produced new work for an exhibition at GOMA in Waterford. He was selected for the RDS Visual Arts Awards at the RHA Gallery, Dublin, receiving the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award in Paris and later the RDS Dean Group Commission Award for a large-scale sculptural commission in Dublin.

His work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally. Recent and upcoming public commissions include large-scale sculptural works for Eli Lilly Kinsale, the Dean Hotel Group in Dublin, and private sites in Waterford.