Initially the Golden Fleece Awards stipulated craft and figurative art, which is interesting as it suggests that Helen Lillias Mitchell, whose bequest established the scheme, felt that traditional ...

Golden Fleece awards are made in two categories: visual art, and craft and applied art; previous winners have included Locky Morris, Richard Malone, Cathy Burke, Aideen Barry and Bassam Al-Sabah.

An avowed opponent of government waste, he famously created the “Golden Fleece Award” to draw attention to whatever he deemed to be frivolous Federal spending. Some of the awards still hold as ...

Jason and the Argonauts’ mythic quest for the Golden Fleece took inspiration from an actual voyage sometime between 3,300 and 3,500 years ago, scientists say. Jason went from Greece to a kingdom ...