Lee Welch is an artist who works in painting, drawing, and installation, but his true medium is the space between knowing and not knowing—the familiar made strange. His paintings are fragments of a dream you can’t quite place: figures and objects pared to their essence, hovering in a world both intimate and alien. Emerging from the shadows of art history, architecture, literature, and tennis, as well as his own private archive, Welch’s work distills, abstracts, and rebuilds, creating a visual language entirely his own. Figures appear in domestic scenes or leisure, their mundane actions charged with eerie resonance. They feel close yet distant, their flattened forms and muted textures like memories just out of reach. Welch’s paintings are not just seen; they are felt—a faint ache, a distant hum, lingering long after you’ve looked away.

Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1975 and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Welch creates gestural, atmospheric paintings that attest to the psychical and emotional depths of his chosen subjects and map out delicate negotiations between beauty, desire, and the painted image. Depicting figures from his own milieu, as well as from history, literature, music, and tennis, Welch finds feeling in that which he depicts, always rendered with the intensity of his particular humanism; a close looking akin to love. In each subject’s specificity, the artist reveals the universal feelings that connect us to each other, and that stretch from our present moment back through time.

Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011. Currently based at the dlr Baths Artist Studios, he has previously held residencies at NCAD, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Banff Centre for Arts, the latter supported by the Arts Council.

Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011. He has since been widely exhibited internationally and received numerous awards. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. His paintings are in private and public collections such as the MB Art Foundation, the Arts Council, Hugh Lane Gallery, and the OPW - State Art Collection.

Lee Welch is part of the duo Hallahan & Welch, a curatorial partnership founded by Paul Hallahan and Lee Welch, two artists with a deep-rooted commitment to the Irish arts scene. Having established influential artist-led spaces in the late 2000s, Hallahan with SOMA (Waterford) and Welch with FOUR (Dublin), the duo has spent over a decade fostering platforms for contemporary art through economic and social shifts.

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Matthew Coll is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He graduated from NCAD’s Fine Art Painting BA in 2022 and works predominantly in painting, sculpture and installation.

His work is part of several private and public collections, including the Office of Public Works, St Vincent’s University Hospital and Teeling Whiskey Distillery. He has received several awards, including NCAD's Clancy Quay Studio Graduate Residency Award 2023/2024, the Arts Council’s Agility Award 2023 and Fingal County Council's Artists’ Support Scheme Bursaries 2023 & 2025.

His current work focuses on the subject matter of crowds, exploring the influence between the collective and the individual, how shared energies of bliss or discontent become channelled into constructive and destructive forces. Utilising found imagery and photography from daily life as a starting point for source imagery.

Painting actual and imagined gatherings, ranging from joyous raves to turbulent riots, aiming to depict a reality slipping away, where Real and Unreal become indistinguishable. Distorting the origin of the image through the painting process, often dragging, sanding, scraping and pouring paint across the surface and occasionally deconstructing structural components, pursuing a simultaneous harmony and conflict between points of representation and abstraction. Whilst frequently working on found or discarded materials as the painting surface.

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Leah Hewson has a First-Class BA(Hons) degree in Fine Art from IADT, Dublin Ireland.

Solo exhibitions include 'Kin Connection', The Royal Hibernian Academy (2024), ‘Blowout’ Stoney Road Press, INK Miami(2022), 'Ammo Veil' ,Hillsboro Fine Art gallery (2018) and ‘Scintilla’, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2017) which was the culmination of work produced during a six-month residency at The RHA School. Other residencies include Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, New York (2018), SIM Residency, Berlin (2019) and Wilton Park Studios Residency, Dublin in (2019 -20), Facebook AIR program (2020).

Hewson won the Whyte's Award for painting at the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Craig Biennial Award in 2019 and is accredited with the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary Award 2018.

Hewson's work continues to be collected internationally, including being auctioned at Sotheby's, while public collections include The Trinity College Dublin History of Art collection, The Office of Public Works, Dublin, The Law Society of Ireland, the Microsoft Collection, Fidelity Investments and The Cleveland Clinic.  

Hewson recently created an installation for Art on Paper in New York in 2022, and more recently Beyond the Pale Festival and has painted murals at Stoney Road Press and Kicky's restaurant in Dublin.

Artist Statement;

"“Beneath the threshold of conscious awareness lies the unconscious mind. Accounting for approximately 95% of total brain activity, this domain governs much of human cognition through automatic and affective mechanisms. It serves as a dynamic archive of experiences, memories, and associative patterns that shape our perception, decision-making, and behaviour. These shared unconscious processes also connects us as humans on a deeper level across cultures through our collective unconscious.

I aim to explore this hidden space through an introspective painting practice. My goal is to find freedom in expression—free from social expectations or aesthetic rules. Inspired by Jung’s theory of Individuation, I access the unconscious through practices that create a state of flow, such as meditation, automatic writing, and movement. In the studio, I adopt an impulsive and instinctive relationship to colour, materials, and techniques, remaining open to any possibility. I listen to hypnotic repetitive music through headphones and work on multiple pieces at once in order to let go of control and create the optimal environment for flow state to emerge. 

The work begins with pure abstract movement and evolves into a dialogue between unconscious gestures and conscious symbols. Through this process, a visual language of layered patterns and grids emerges that is complex yet playful and invites a contemplative platform between individual and collective experience.

The dance between elements and layers in the paintings signals the impossibility of remaining solely in the realm of the unconscious. Taking these elements from my abstract lexicon, I extend my artistic expression into supplementary forms such as installation, sculpture, and murals. This is an attempt to hold the unconscious experiences that feature in the present reality and offer them a space of their own to exist as symbols and beacons of the unconscious.”

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Mia Shattock is a painter from Dublin, Ireland, interested in how film narratives permeate our understanding of reality and how media imagery moulds our sense of self in the digital age. Her large scale oil paintings capture the unseen elements of media portrayal. She uses a monochrome palette, building some up in full colour glazes to exude a dreamlike quality, or leaving the underpainting as its final form. The work dismantles ideas of hyperreality, prompting viewers to acknowledge the pervasive presence of media constructs, initiating a dialogue between film and philosophy and unravelling the intricacies of human emotion and perception as they intersect with cinema.

Education

2023          MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.

2022          CFA Introduction to the Creative Use of Archives, IADT, Dublin, Ireland

2022-23     London Fine Art Studios Representational Art Course series, Online, London Fine Art Studios

2018-22    Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Studio Plus), National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland, awarded first class honours

2017-18     QQI Level 5 in Art, Graphics and Print-making, Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin, Ireland

Selected Exhibitions

2024           Artworks 2024: Behind the Curtain, group show, VISUAL Carlow, Old Dublin Road, Carlow.

2024          NCAD MFA Graduate Showcase, NCAD, Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland

2024           Cracks in the mirror, workshop and display, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland

2023          Art Riddler Exhibition, group show, 10 Wicklow Street, Dublin, Ireland

2023          Dublin Modular: SUSTAIN, group show, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

2023           Bigger Than Us, group show, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

2022          Art Riddler Exhibition, group show, 10 Wicklow Street, Dublin, Ireland

2022           NCAD Degree show, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland

2022           Painting as an Expression of Humanity, group show, National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland

2022           Narrative Structures of Anticipation, NCAD Margaret Clarke Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2021           Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual, Collective Zine, Temple bar gallery and studios, Dublin, Ireland

2021            Positives: Painting in the Pandemic 2021, Online group show, National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland

2020           Ballyfermot College 30 year anniversary exhibition, Group show, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (postponed)

Awards, Residencies and Publications

2022          Clancy Quay Superprojects Professional Development Programme

2022          Awarded Arts Council Visual Arts Agility Award

2022          Shortlisted for Ormond Art Studios Graduate Residency Award

2021           Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual, Collective Zine, Temple bar gallery and studios, Dublin, Ireland

Collections

2024          Private collections

2023          Private collections

2022         National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland

2022          Private Collections

2018          Ballyfermot College of Further Education Art Collection, Dublin, Ireland

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Maeve Brennan is a painter working in oils. Her work is detail oriented, precise and time consuming.

It is realist and utilises photography as source material. It moves between the current and the past making connections between both, often merging these via multiple images of the same object or place.

She is interested in the symbolism of the seemingly mundane-the everyday in objects and spaces, and the emotions they provoke. Light plays an integral role, particularly in my interior paintings. Feelings of vulnerability, fragility and sentimentality are her typical starting points which can provoke a sense of painful nostalgia.

The resulting work strives to draw attention to the details of the human condition, and to catalogue a sense of her own place in the world.

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Alexa Müen is a synesthetic European conceptual artist and curator, She is based between Spain and the UK. Her art is a junction of interconnecting layers of emotion, spirituality, materiality, technology and traditional craft.

Traditionally trained in Andalucía and Florence, Alexa was called to the materiality oil painting. "I loved how oil paint could be applied in transparent or opaque layers, in particular how glazing and colour interacted with light, how a poppy oil glaze could reflect light so strongly you couldn't see the colour it was glazing, hiding the truth under a veil of reflected light”.

Moving from oil painting to light based work in 2017/18 was a natural progression, mixing both the craft of oil painting with programable LED lights and projection .

The choice of materials add conceptual layers to the pieces, conveying a tension implicit in the interconnection of technology and nature, which is key in modern life.

Her multimedia techniques and materials, range from painting in inks, encaustic wax, oil or acrylic paint,. Tapestry using organic hand woven wool yarn from a Welsh women's cooperative, referencing the historical hidden female artist who worked in embroidery on jute sacking cloth or linen canvas.. 

In contrast she also uses contemporary technological and industrial materials such as, acrylic panels, clear vinyl, aluminium, copper, insulation materials, motors, bike batteries, projectors, and the key material, the programmable colour changeable LED lights, which also have variable intensity of emission.

Her installations are based around anthropological questions, delving into the psychology of personal relations versus society, what was valued, when and how, what is reviled or worshipped, what is hidden or revealed, rather then exploration of a particular medium.

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Born in 1987 in São Paulo, Felipe Ikehara is a visual artist who develops paintings on canvas, murals, and drawings, these being the processes manifested as his main artistic vehicles.

The technical development of drawing and painting is combined with research into visual references from the nature of the world and the human being. Within a decidedly figurative work, particular and universal symbolisms structure the thematic pillars of the works. Simultaneously, rigidity and organicity are exalted through pastel tones to compose images that translate the sensation that emerges from a lapse in daily life and results in a moment of introspection.

Selected recent works and shows include; commission work for @meta São Paulo @hon_magurobr show @diasporagalleria projects with @muraissp

Artist Statement;

“The choice of palette manifests itself in pastel tones and more muted colors as a counterpoint to the exacerbated saturation of daily life.

In urban life, we become accustomed to surviving surrounded by glaring information in every synesthetic sense of the word. Sounds and noises exceed humanly acceptable decibel levels, people express themselves in an imposing and aggressive manner to be noticed, colors and movements explode in all the amplitude that the eye can reach.

The saturation of everything around us is an indication of the anesthesia of the reception of being in addition to the uncontrolled need for recognition and manifestation.

The way I present the colors and themes of my work is a desaturated manifesto, because I believe that, starting from the most static state, the smallest movements are highlighted.

In a daily life where saturation prevails, I seek to illustrate a place of refuge where subtleties have value and strength. I present my work, for myself and whoever may receive it, as a reminder that there is a place where energy is not spent unnecessarily and its smallest manifestation can be recognized and contemplated.

In our daily lives we do not lack colors, we lack perceiving the subtleties that exist between them.”

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Kat Lalor is a Queer Visual Artist, generating performative lens-based work concerned with the multi-facets of Queer intelligibility. Through drag, fiction, and language, they explore a navigation of the world as other. Drawing from subjective experience laced with threads of Queer theory and fiction, Lalor’s work is interested in moments of tension, choice and slippage.

SHOWS

2024 WAYSTATION, The Complex Gallery

2023 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery

2023 Gaffer-Tape, Phizzfest, Phibsboro Tower

2022 RDS Visual Arts Award Exhibition, RDS

2022 Graduate Exhibition, Technological University Dublin

2021 Éalú, Virtual Exhibition and Printed Publication

2020 (C)overt, Virtual Exhibition

2020 Metamorphosis, Virtual Exhibition

2019 Evocation of Entities, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

AWARDS

2025 WOWTE Residency Award, A4 Sounds

2022 Fire Station Artist Studio’s Graduate Award

2022 RDS Visual Art Award

2022 Arts Council Agility Award

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Logan Sisley is currently Head of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, which includes a fine collection of British

art, particularly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is from Aotearoa, New Zealand, where he studied art history at the universities of Otago and Auckland.

He previously worked at the National Library of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and Edinburgh College of Art. He has published widely on modern and contemporary art and architecture, including on Francis Bacon and John Lavery, and has a particular interest in artistic relations between Britain and Ireland.

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Nuala O'Donovan is an Irish Artist, living and working in Cork City on the south coast. She is a graduate of Middlesex University, U.K. and MTU, (Crawford College of Art and Design), Cork, Ireland.

O'Donovan worked in design in the U.K., U.S.A. and Australia. She returned to Ireland where she taught design at MTU before returning to education to undertake an MA by research in the Ceramics Department at the Crawford college of Art and Design in Cork, completed in 2008.

Her research area: Irregularities in Patterns in Nature & The Geometry of Natural Forms. Her artwork has been exhibited and published internationally, and she has been an invited speaker and teacher at workshops and International Conferences in Museums, Galleries and Universities.

“My starting points are detailed drawings of plants, shells and seeds. In order that the form of the finished work is consistent with the qualities of the source material, I use a set of constraints based on a combination of regular and irregular geometric principles which are found in nature. I am interested in the history of the use of the geometry of natural forms in European art – in particular classical Greek art and architecture. I use these principles of Classical geometry when making decisions about the proportions of my work, and combine them with fractal or irregular geometry by using the principles of fractal geometry in the creation of the pattern. The form of the individual pattern is repeated in the outcome of the overall work – the “inherent design carried within itself”, so that each outcome is unique even if the starting point is similar. Each sculptural piece carries, within itself, its own narrative from the time during which it was made". __Nuala O'Donovan

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Carl Hickey graduated with a BA in Fine Art specialising in Painting from NCAD in 2022, where he received The Dean Residency Award for his graduate show.

Since graduating he has gone on to have two solo shows “In-Between Stops” in Liberty Ink (2022) and “Everything and Nothing” with gallery, Atelier Now (2023). He has published a book From the Top Deck of the Bus with Driftwood Editions (2023) and has featured in multiple group shows including “In the Press” with Hypha Studios in London (2025).

He completed a residency with Cill Rialaig Arts in Co. Kerry, Ireland in 2025 and had his third show in The Horse Gallery in October 2025.

Hickey’s work is almost a compilation of everyday situations and events – the chaotic and the organised.

His work is an ode to the on-going rambles of life and he uses oil paint as his main tool to portray the city and suburbs and to convey his subjects – Dublin’s civilians and spaces – in a different context. Hickey also uses video and written work juxtaposed.

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Mark Maher is CEO, Founder and Creative Director at Odyssey Studios, a State of the Art model making studio based in Limerick, Ireland and one of the largest permanent model making studios in Europe.

The studio supplies blockbuster film and TV productions with miniature models, weapons, armour, props and prosthetic makeup.

He has brought 17 years of international experience in the industry as a Concept, Lead or Head Model Maker to Odyssey Studios which he started to bring world class model making to the world.

His credits include The Hobbit (The Battle of the Five Armies, The Desolation of Smaug and An Unexpected Journey), Alice Through the Looking Glass, Penny Dreadful, Into the Badlands, Wednesday series on Netflix to name a few.

He can be seen building miniature cities, spaceships, Apes, Aliens, Zombies, Dinosaurs and more.

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Rachael Gilkey is a Director, Programming & Education at Irish Arts Center based in New York City, New York.

Previously, Rachael was a Director, Communication, Education & Outreach at Irish Arts Center and also held positions at The Battery.

Rachael received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College and a Master from University of Galway. She is also Committee Member at Bronx Book Festival.

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Office For Joint Administrative Intelligence O.J.A.I. is the co-authored practice of artists Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly.

It functions since 2015 as a hyperbolic bureaucratic para-intelligence agency operating between Brussels and Berlin. Drawing on obsessive research in the fields of corporate architecture, urban peripheries, tunnels, institutional power, and magic. Public manifestations of O.J.A.I. are performances, installations, publications, artefacts, and a radio show.

Work by O.J.A.I. has been presented at Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht), Damien and the Love Guru (Brussels), Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin), Contemporary Art Centre (Cincinnati), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), De Garage (Mechelen), Complex Arts Centre (Dublin), among many others.

Recent projects;

Administrative Embrace, an one-hour audio work commissioned by @radiophreniaglasgow. The transmission moves through tunnels, flyovers, debris fields, and rustbelt landscapes -encountering states of decline, delirium, and heroic obedience through modular sound, spoken word, sonic residue, and bureaucratic fiction (April 2025).

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Maurice Leoni-Osion is a Multidisciplinary Artist and Program Director based in Berlin, DE, and Richmond, VA in US. His multicultural approach to Hip-Hop, combined with a deep love for Sci-Fi Thrillers, Afrofuturism, and Record-Artchiving, informs his artistic practice that spans across various mediums: poetry, literature, sound art, music production, film, art programs, exhibitions, and immersive performances—driven by a desire to celebrate and preserve the powerful, untold stories that lie at the intersection of the eyemaginariums of his youth and ancient “tecknowledgey” of his ancestors.

Within the layered entendre of his music youniverse, Maurice sees Hip-Hop as a constant companion and presence likened to a kindred, extended family member, deeply intertwined with a sense of collective memory. His work is often rooted in research from an underground artchivediscovered at a young age, stemming from his grandmother’s beloved record collection, which inspired a love for visual storytelling and ancestral lineage celebrated in album art and liner notes.

These formative experiences would cultivate an environment that fueled Maurice’s unconventional practice as an artist, performer, and director, empowering him to REvolve living narratives that connect the accounts of our experience to the past, present, and future.

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Roibí is a multimedia artist utilising music, video, animation, and digital media to explore ideas of queerness as it exists within Generation Z.

Roibí occupies the space between popstar and fine artist, while referring to their own experiences as a 'Transfemme'.

The work explores ideas of identity through the idea of the self as a digital persona.

Roibi considers digital space as a means of socialisation and the development and expansion of subcultures.

Her latest body of work;

'DIGITRYN: REVo/eLu/aTION' was completed as part or

'Full Stack Feminism in

Digital Humanities' Artist Residency (Jan 23-Jep 23).

'DIGLTR4N: REVo/eLu/aTION'

is a continuation of the Geeter dody hi work

• whicnexplores

transness as it exists in cyberspace. This latest of work refers to

biblical armageddon, acting as a response to 'The Transgender Debate',

Roibí claims the apocalyptic, abominable power that is projected onto the Trans Community by their opposition and used it to imagine a Transgender Supremacist, Post-Apocalyptic , High-Kitsch chaos; a world where trans people have the power to reshape the paradigms of society, force feminisation, hyper sexualisation, bimbofied, Yassified and queer.

Most recent work;

XR Lab: MXNIFESTO Workshop April 2025 Digital Arts Studios

1 Exchange PlaceBelfast, Northern Ireland

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Kate Fahey is an artist and researcher working with print, sculpture, moving image, sound and installation. She received an MA in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art in 2015 and in 2020 she completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London, supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council TECHNE Studentship.

She has exhibited her work widely at galleries and project spaces including Arti et Amiticiae, Amsterdam; Visual, Carlow; Commonage London; Gossamer Fog, London; The Bluecoat, Liverpool and the ICA, London. She has completed numerous residencies including ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin; Leitrim Sculpture Centre; The British School at Rome; Guest Projects, London; Callan Workhouse Union, Kilkenny and the Royal Scottish Academy.

Previously, she has taught and guest lectured at Arts University Bournemouth, London College of Communication, Manchester School of Art, Winchester School of Art and Kingston School of Art. Alongside her role at Falmouth University, she is a lecturer and module leader in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.

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Sadhbh Mowlds is visual artist who was born and raised in Dublin.

After receiving her bachelor in Craft Design (Hons) from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland (2014), she relocated to Germany. There, she worked as a freelance glass blower and instructor out of Berlin Glassworks. In 2019 she moved to the U.S, where she received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2022). 

Mowlds works in a variety of materials to create jarring, bodily sculptures that initiate critical dialogue about the destructive effects of living within pre-determined, often patriarchal, constructs.

Captivated by the susceptibility of consciousness, Sadhbh responds to the absurdity of human beliefs, perceptions and behaviours by questioning what it truly means to be self-aware in an abrasive, modern society.

Recent residencies include the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, STARworks (NC, USA) and WheatonArts (NJ, USA). Mowlds has participated in numerous international exhibitions, regularly showing throughout Europe and the USA. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Kunstsammlungen der Coburg, Germany and the Museum of American Glass, NJ, USA.

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Aaron Alexander Smyth, is an Irish interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates identity and its formation. His work explores how our experience is visually coded within systems of power and how these codings, in turn, shape us, reflecting on the contradictions and truths cradled between our realities and fictions.

His work draws from art historical, cinematic, and archival imagery, weaving these elements together and contrasting them with a dynamic range of materials.

This fusion constructs a world suspended between the real and the subconscious, a reflection on our contradictions and truths, a silhouette of the present and mutual truth that is timeless.

Smyth holds a BA (Hons) with distinction in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design (Ireland) and has recently been awarded an MFA with distinction from the Glasgow School of Art (United Kingdom).

Exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with works held in public and private collections, he has been awarded Artist-in-Residence positions alongside GUM Collective in The National Gallery of Ireland, The Royal Hibernian Academy and Black Church Printmakers. Recent awards include the Leverhulme Master of Fine Art Bursary for academic excellence and the RSA John Kinross Scholarship for extended research.

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Jenny Keogh is a trained photographer with a (BA HONS 1999) degree and is qualified as a non-fiction filmmaker since 2010.

Following the International success of her award-winning short film ‘Story Bud?’ she went on to make a mini-series of short films celebrating and preserving Irish slang (aka the Hiberno-English language). She set up her own video production company, Stand Out Films, in 2016 and over the years has become the go-to person for Artists, Crafters, Creative Businesses and Educators to work with, to produce profile-films and video content for their websites and social media platforms.

She is also the founder, programmer and host of The Documentary Room – a cinema night in Dublin 8 dedicated to screening documentary films on Art, Music and Culture.

Jenny is also the Member Liaison and Events Manager at FLUX.

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Dr. Margarita Cappock is a Curator and Art Historian. She joined Dublin City Council in 1999 as Project Manager of the Francis Bacon Studio Project at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where she was subsequently Head of Collections and Deputy Director until 2018 when she transferred to Dublin City Arts Office. 

She has written extensively and curated several exhibitions on Irish Art. She has overseen major exhibition collaborations with international museums (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; BOZAR, Brussels). 

She is the lead on a major project to digitally document the Public Art Collection of Dublin City Council and coordinates the Dublin City Arts Office Residency Programme. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History of Art and French, an MA in Irish Art and Architecture from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in History of Art (NUI). Dr. Margarita Cappock is currently the curator of LAB Gallery.

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Kevin Rafter is Full Professor of Political Communication at Dublin City University and a specialist in the politics and media of contemporary Ireland. His books include Taoisigh and the Arts (2022) and Resilient Reporting: Media & Elections in Ireland since 1969 (2019).

He is an experienced non-executive director and Board Chair with significant involvement in regulation in the legal, financial and broadcast sectors. He has chaired the two national bodies responsible for the arts in Ireland, the Arts Council and Culture Ireland, and has served as a board member of several commercial and non-for-profits organisations.

Kevin has a book recently published 'Dillon Rediscovered', a Biography of EJ Dillon, a foreign correspondent at the Daily Telegraph.

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Ruby Wallis often works with gendered experiences through photography, installation and moving image. She engages in a haptic way, using the close-up to simulate touch and direct experience through the lens. Her work focuses on the immediacy of an embodied approach. She twists and turns, working with fragmentation, shadows, and materiality. Her practice is becoming increasingly collaborative, operating through conversations, sound, images, and texts. She is interested in an investigation of intersectional viewpoints to disrupt a singular dominant voice and gaze.

She builds on the tension between the wild and the domestic, disorder and order, human and non-human. These ideas manifest through experimentation with psychogeography, reclaiming perilous spaces as a nocturn.In order to disrupt the smooth surface of the photograph, she experiments with early photographic processes using exposure to sunlight, analog, layering and cutting, to create slippages between conscious and unconscious modes of perception and knowing.

Ruby Wallis holds a 2015 PhD Fine Art Media – The National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Selected shows

2025 

Fantasy Island, book of contemporary Irish Photography to be published by Rotten Magazine, Belfast

Between Dog and Wolf (working title), Lismore Castle Arts, A Space for Lismore (Upcoming August)

2024 

UnReal Ireland, University Gallery, Quadrangle, University Galway 

Dlúthpháirtíocht, P21 Gallery, London

(Invited but cancelled my participation to support StrikeGermany) Changing States, Photomuseum Ireland, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin 

DLR Lexicon Library Intervention - A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera, curated by Moran Been Noon

Whistling Through Nighttown (walk/event) Brigit Dublin 

A Whistling Space, Installation O' Connell Street, Brigit Dublin Festival

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Mia Shattock is a painter from Dublin, Ireland with a MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (2023).

She is interested in how film narratives permeate our understanding of reality and how media imagery moulds our sense of self in the digital age. Her large scale oil paintings capture the unseen elements of media portrayal. She uses a monochrome palette, building some up in full colour glazes to exude a dreamlike quality, or leaving the underpainting as its final form. The work dismantles ideas of hyperreality, prompting viewers to acknowledge the pervasive presence of media constructs, initiating a dialogue between film and philosophy and unravelling the intricacies of human emotion and perception as they intersect with cinema.

Selected shows;

2024 Artworks 2024: Behind the Curtain, group show, VISUAL Carlow, Old Dublin Road, Carlow.

2024  NCAD MFA Graduate Showcase, NCAD, Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland

2024  Cracks in the mirror, workshop and display, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland

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Michelle Malone’s multidisciplinary practice presents an autobiographical narrative of growing up in a variety of socioeconomically disadvantaged urban areas, mainly Oliver Bond Flats in Dublin’s inner city.

Through installations comprised of sculptural objects, image-making, audio and text, she aims to bring forward discussions of class, taste, belonging, identity and community. Using pop culture iconography relating to childhood and adolescent memory, as well as family and peer storytelling, Michelle Malone presents materials that are specific to site/time and that intend to evidence ethnographic, phenomenological and experiential meaning. In addition to her interests in developing installations and a body of work that discusses class concerns she is also developing a practice of creative writing that supports her projects.

Although the audio, text and sculpture parts of the installations can be experienced independently they exist to unfold a narrative that displays a material capital that converses both a personal and a collective Irish identity.

Michelle Malone graduated from Technological University Dublin with a first class honours BA in Fine Art. She was awarded the RDS Whyte’s Award 2020, Fire Station Artists' Studios Graduate Award 2020, Mont Kavanagh Graduate Award 2020, John Creagh Student of Excellence Award 2020. Michelle Malone self-organised a solo exhibition of her graduate installation titled Summer Project 1997in The Complex, 2020. 

Selected shows 

2024

• Installation for Frank Sweeney film , A Few Can See, at The Dock Arts, 2024 EVA international 
• Following Threads, Group Exhibition, Curated by Anne Boaedarrt Crawford Art Gallery 

2023  

• Níl Aon Tintean, Curated by Helena Tobin South Tipperary Arts Centre 
• Poor Auld Anna Livia, Studio 1, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, 
• Love you my Sweaty, Curated by Sara Muthi, The Library Project  
• Black Church Emerging Curator exhibition Irelands Eye, Curated by Mark Joyce World Trade Center 2, Jakarta Indonesia 
• Poor Auld Anna Livia, RHA Annual Exhibition 

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Szymon Minias graduated in 2022 from SETU Wexford School of Art & Design with a degree in art and specialises in paint and portraiture.

Largely an unfolding process of developments, Szymon sees painting as a study of “abstraction of the real”, where every element should have a life of its own when ruthlessly singled out.

On a personal level, Szymon said painting serves as an outlet to visualise his emotional reaction to the subject, where style — the appearance and relationship between elements inside the work – becomes the main language.

His fixations pay attention to rhythm, various angles of attack the painting can be observed from and the constant re-examination of the work’s presence.

Szymon was shortlisted in the RDS Visual Art Awards 2022, exhibiting artists from some of the best BA & MA visual art graduates from all over Ireland.

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Fiona Gordon is a visual artist working in video and digital processes. She outlines her own version of female experience to embrace the surreal and bizarre, using her image to challenge perceptions of femininity and capture that all-consuming online and screen-based existence.

Fiona graduated from LSAD in 2021 and is currently based between Limerick and Kildare. Since graduating she has exhibited as part of six group shows including the 2021 RDS Visual Art Awards and the 39th EVA International. She is currently undertaking a residency with Digital Arts Studios, Belfast as part of their Future Labs Foundation Programme.

Most recently, Fiona has exhibited on Imma 

Living Canvas with the video VIRTUAL ARMOUR + EXCESSIVELY CHAOTIC UTOPIAN ESCAPE in March 2025.

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Ilaria Sponda is a freelance writer, curator and editor at Der Greif. Prior to this, she studied a BA in arts, media and cultural events at IULM University, Milan, and an MA in culture studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Her words have featured in C41 Magazine, Lampoon, Over Journal and Trigger. Her focus of interest lies in photographic art, media ecologies, globalisation and image circulations.

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Venus Patel is a performance artist, experimental filmmaker based in Dublin, Ireland.

Patel’s work concerns her experience as a trans femme of colour, trying to navigate the world. Through the use of costuming and loose gender expression, she encapsulates the campy blend of her queer identity. Venus questions the heteronormative society we live in, why the need to conform is so heavily enforced, and how that affects the perceptions of ourself, others, and the world around us. Although her work deals with serious subject matter, she utilises a unique mix of humour, absurdity, and abjection to create multi-faceted performances and experiences.

Education

2018-2022 BA Fine Art, First Honours

 TU Dublin

Grants & Awards 

2022- Taylor Art Award

     RDS Visual Art Awards

2022- Image Now Award

2022- Judge's Choice Award

      Dublin Fringe Festival

Exhibitions & Festivals

2023- Monsters of the Apocalypse

2022-3-Periodical Review 12

        Pallas Projects

2022- RDS Visual Art Awards

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Ofri Cnaani an artist and resarcher who works across perfromance and media. Cnaani makes art and writes about data and coloniality in cultural instituions, somatic knowledge in the age of network spatiality, and performance as a model to create critical technology.

She is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria and a research fellow at the internationally Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Until recently Cnaani was an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Prior to her move to London, Cnaani was based in New York City, where she was a faculty at the School of Visual Arts’s Visual and Critical Studies. At SVA she also ran the 'City as Site: Performance + Social interventions' program. In 2016 she co-founded, with Roxana Fabius, the ‘Unforgettables Reading/Working Group’ at A.I.R Gallery, NYC. 

Her work has appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Venice Architecture Biennale; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; PS1/MoMA, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Chile; Israel Museum; Tel-Aviv Museum of Art; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, among others. Since 2021, Cnaani co-orgenizes Choreographic Devices, a three-days chorographic symposium at ICA, London.

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Olivia Normile is a visual artist working across installation, drawing, animation and film.

Her practice engages with fictional storytelling by considering human to non-human relationships through opportunistic and structured moments. Recent residencies and awards include: Digital Media Practice Award (2024), Firestation Artists’ Studios Dublin, Arts Council Agility Award (2022), (2021), Dublin City Council St. Patrick’s Lodge Residency (2019), Emerging Irish Artist Award, Burren College of Art (2018), Ormond Art Studios Graduate Award (2018).

Exhibitions include: Dog-Eared Paradise, screen service (2023), Matters of Table, Periphery Space, Gorey School of Art (2023), Remembering The Future, VISUAL (2023), Deliverables, Pallas Projects/Studios Artist Initiated Projects (2022).

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Alec Michael Wilson (Alphi Demp) is an artist, musician of the bands VistaFutur, Irate Yeats

VistaFutur VistaFutur crafts a captivating musical experience by blending guitar-driven melodies with expansive soundscapes, evoking a cinematic atmosphere that resonates deeply with listeners. Their sound draws inspiration from the experimental edge of Radiohead and the genre-bending creativity of Gorillaz, while also incorporating elements reminiscent of The Caretaker's nostalgic depth. Subtly integrating pop sensibilities into their atmospheric textures, VistaFutur creates music that is both hauntingly familiar and emotionally immersive.

Their debut album, *...is the black box projector of a once-derelict cinema*, released in 2023, served as a bold statement of intent for the band. The album introduced their signature style, weaving intricate layers of melody and atmosphere to craft a visceral journey through memory and imagination. With its evocative title and richly layered compositions, *black box projector* established VistaFutur's artistic vision, marking them as a distinctive voice in contemporary music. Far from being just an introduction, the album set the tone for their creative direction, projecting a sonic narrative that is mesmerizing and profoundly impactful.

*Tinselcrown*, in late 2024. Spanning nearly 20 tracks, the album takes listeners into more abstract and, at times, brutal sonic terrain. Unlike its predecessor, *Tinselcrown* presents each track as an individual vignette, exploring fragmented yet cohesive narratives through experimental, raw soundscapes.

Irate Yeats are a Galway/Wexford based duo who have been writing and performing music together for over 10 years.

Taking inspiration from artists such as Sonic Youth, New Order, Soundgarden, Radiohead, The White Stripes and The Cure, Irate Yeats seek to combine their multiple grunge, electronica, garage-rock and post-punk influences into potent radio-friendly unit-shifters.

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Róisín White is a visual artist based in Dublin, working primarily with photography, while incorporating drawing, sculpture, and collage into her practice. Róisín holds a BA (hons) in Photography from DIT, and certificates in Ceramics, Sculpture and Drawing from NCAD. 

Róisín White’s work draws from found objects, images, and archival materials, where she is interested in exploring lore and the fictional narrative that can be discovered in discarded imagery and objects. Storytelling and process are central parts of White’s practice. 

She is currently developing her photographic work into a more sculptural practice, using fabric, wood, resin, and furniture, all with a photographic root. She works with her hands, generally printing in the darkroom where possible, using sculpture and interventions in the gallery or the landscape as modes of experimentation and play within the project's delivery or development. 

White has exhibited her work in Ireland and across Europe, including the Finnish Museum of Photography, PhotoIreland Festival, and the Capa Centre. She was selected to represent PhotoIreland at Futures Photography platform, and was selected from an international open call to take part in Parallel European Photography Platform in 2018/9. Her project “Lay Her Down Upon Her Back” was selected for the third edition of New Irish Works in 2019, the Blow Photo Fuse Photobook Residency, and the Landskrona Photobook award, who will publish the book in late 2023.

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Claire Halpin is a visual artist, curator and arts educator born and based in Dublin, Ireland.

Her work explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting, video and installation.

She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and internationally including The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, IMMA, 38th EVA International, Limerick City Gallery; 189th RHA Annual, Dublin; Painting Then and Now, Highlanes Gallery, and Artisterium VI, Tbilisi, Georgia and Red Sheep Gallery, Sweden, Elysium Gallery, Wales.

Recent solos exhibitions at Cabaret Voltaire Rome, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin and The LAB Gallery, Dublin.

Group Exhibitions: Panorama, Aisling Conroy | Claire Halpin | Mark Redden, Uxval Gochez Gallery, Barcelona, 13 - 31 March 2025.

Most recently, Claire has joined Hillsboro Fine Art.

Her work is represented in the collections of IMMA, TCD Art Collection, OPW State Art collection, UCC Art Collection among others.

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Conor Horgan is a visual artist and editorial photographer, based in Ireland. His work is concerned with identity, vulnerability, trust and the need for meaningful connections to self, others and the natural world. 

Equally happy on location and in the studio, he enjoys connecting with all kinds of people from all sorts of backgrounds; whether it be working on a commission, an experimental film or shooting a story in a distant country. He also work as a writer and film director, and bring these narrative skills to bear when telling stories through stills, motion, the written word or a combination of all three. 

Selected Solo exhibitions

Post-State - The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Oct – Nov 2022 

En résidence - Permanent installation of portraits of artists-in-residence. Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, from November 2021

Selected group exhibitions

Changing States: Ireland in the 21st Century - Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin - 2024

Winter Show - SO Fine Art Prints, Dublin - 2022, 2023, 2024

Annual Exhibition - Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin - 2024

Prism Inside - Íova Group - Tøn Gallery, Dublin - 2024

Summer Show - SO Fine Art Prints, Dublin - 2023, 2024

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Julia Gelezova is a Cultural Producer and Curator, specialising in contemporary lens-based practices. She is General and Project Manager for PhotoIreland, producing events throughout the year like the annual PhotoIreland Festival and Critical Academy, while collaborating on ambitious projects like Creative Europe Photography Platforms—Parallel and Futures.

Julia is co-editor of OVER Journal: The Critical Journal of Photography and Visual Culture for the 21st Century. In 2024, she has founded vicinities.network - a peer network for Visual Arts curators and professionals based in Ireland.

She has ample experience in producing exhibitions and events, including curatorial work and project management, has vast and successful experience in personal and collective application writing for bodies like the Arts Council of Ireland and local councils. She has participated in portfolio reviews, acted as visiting lecturer, and also worked in an editorial capacity and translation for artists and other arts professionals, including work for The Routledge Guide to Photography and Visual Culture.

Most recently, she curated the 2021 edition of PhotoIreland Festival and was the Centre Culturel Irlandais cultural producer resident 2022. She is a member of the AICA International Association of Art Critics.

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McCloughlin’s practice is concerned with the materiality of public space. She engages in the act of 'gleaning', drawing from everyday material configurations which often get overlooked. To glean is to gather excess material from disparate sources.

Influenced by filmmaker Agnès Varda’s documentary ‘The Gleaners and I’ (2000), which explores the act in urban and rural settings, Mc Cloughlin feels compelled to appropriate abandoned objects. Beginning with photographing found objects in their respective locations, she attempts to understand the objects’ economies of use and the patterns of these material arrangements. 

No longer fulfilling their intended function, the objects found in their dislocated states lend themselves to reimagining. Through material manipulation, the utility of the objects is subverted by pushing the limitations of the object’s form. Ultimately the work aims to raise awareness around the circulation of mass-produced materials and how they embody the marks we leave as humans.

Aoife McCloughlin has recently joined Provost's Curatorial Fellow at The Douglas Hyde in Ireland (April 2025).

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Born in County Limerick, Robert Ryan graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1987. He worked in Copenhagen and London before returning to Ireland in 1994.

In Ireland, Ryan’s work is viewed as somewhat unique. Referencing post-modern, it borrows qualities from European old masters, using traditional characteristics in a modern context. Robert Ryan paints landscape, but his work cannot be described as ‘landscape painting’. Allegorical concepts including the infinity of space and time, solitude, vulnerability, fragility and the cycle of life are explored in his paintings and drawings in which a generic four-legged creature is central. This creature inhabits another world, a universal landscape. 

Ryan has cultivated his images, of both place and it’s inhabitants, into a hybrid, a non-specific and as a result the viewer is left to reflect on essential truths. This is work that ultimately celebrates the commonality between man and all other creatures – past, present and future.

An interest in zoology and travel has hugely informed Ryan’s work. He has travelled widely, visiting over sixty countries on all continents where he has encountered many different eco-systems, experiencing first hand how all living things interact and how they respond to their environment, how man responds to other evolutionary groups and how we value that fact. This knowledge forms a major part of the work. 

Robert Ryan lives and works in Lough Gur, Co Limerick. Lough Gur is a small placid lake, surrounded by rugged limestone hills and deciduous woodland. it has been continuously inhabited since the arrival of neolithic people five thousand years ago and is of outstanding archaeological significance. Ruins and artefacts from many periods of irish history have been found there. The evocative qualities of this environment have been a constant source of inspiration for Robert Ryan.  

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PhotoIreland grows the reputation of Irish artists globally through a 360 degree support framework and platform for contemporary photography, activated through a diversity of projects. These include events such as PhotoIreland Festival and Halftone print fair amongst others; resources such as the PhotoIreland Collection, a specialised research library of photobooks, and Ireland’s Art Bookshop, The Library Project; via publishing with projects such as OVER Journal and TLP Editions; professional development support through networking and consultancy opportunities; and empowering early and mid-career photographers via our international partnerships, most relevantly through Creative Europe co-funded platforms such as FUTURES and Parallel.

A new cultural hub in the Dublin’s North Docklands opening Summer 2025 will strengthen PhotoIreland's work supporting Photography in Ireland.

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Doireann Ní Ghrioghair (b. 1983) graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London in 2010.

Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Eight Gallery, Dublin (2016) and CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork (2014). Notable group exhibitions include Tulca, The Headless City (2016); ARTWORKS, VISUAL, Carlow (2016); Veins, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin (2016); After the Future, Eva Biennial (2012) curated by Annie Fletcher, Limerick. She was selected three times to exhibit at Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London (2015, 2013 & 2011 curated by Lisa Milroy, Ceri Hand and Phyllida Barlow respectively).

She was commissioned to create an installation, Beyond Excess, at Shunt, London Bridge (2011). She has received Arts Council of Ireland bursaries and was an award winner at Now Wakes the Sea, Kinsale Arts Festival (2013). She was selected to participate in the WARP Artist Village, Bruges (2015). Future projects include a solo exhibition at Platform Arts, Belfast (2017) and a two-person show at Arthouse1, London (2017).

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Shane Lynam (b. 1980) is an Irish photographer based in Dublin. His first book, Fifty High Seasons, was published in 2018. He is represented by Galerie Bertrand Grimont in Paris who presented his work at Paris Photo and exhibited Fifty High Seasons in 2019.

He won the Gallery of Photography Solas award in 2015 and the Curtin O’Donoghue RHA award in 2018. He was selected for a residency at the Irish Cultural Centre Paris in 2019 which included an exhibition at the Centre. He was the recipient of the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award in 2022.

By spending prolonged periods photographing built environments and overlooked public spaces, and weaving the images together to create intuitive narratives, he looks to provide a fresh perspective on how we regard public spaces.

“Having moved around a lot since my childhood, I found myself back living in Dublin in 2012 and slowly realised that I would be spending an indefinite period of my life here. I have been negotiating my relationship with the city ever since. This has involved obsessively photographing as much of the fabric of the city as I can. By returning over and over to the same sites and almost deconstructing the space, I then look to put these fragments back together to suggest an alternative representation of the city, somewhere between reality and my own experience. The work intends to challenge popular visual representations of the post-crisis period in Dublin by emphasising the subjective experience and how it can be reflected in the texture and physicality of the built environment.”__Shane Lynam

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Sorcha McNamara lives and works in Mayo, Ireland, and sometimes elsewhere. She works in abstraction. 

Her approach to making things is simultaneously meditative and improvised; at once thoughtful and thoughtless. Her eye attends to the overlooked, unnoticed or disregarded aspects of the everyday, focusing her attention towards material, objects and fragments that are often discarded, salvaged, reclaimed holding traces of a previous existence, or entirely ambiguous in their origin.

Selected recent group exhibitions include VISUAL Carlow Centre for Contemporary Art (2024); Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2024); Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2023); and The LAB, Dublin (2023). Solo projects include Echo/Locate, Linenhall Arts Centre (2025); Fathomless Arms, Ballina Arts Centre (2023); (dis)attachments, The Hyde Bridge Gallery (2022); and Oonagh Young Gallery (2022).

Recent residencies include Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024); Zaratan Arte Contemporanea (2024); Totaldobze Art Centre (2022); and Tangent Projects (2021). Sorcha’s work has been supported through the Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2023, 2022, 2021) and a Mayo Artist Bursary Award (2023, 2022).

She holds an MA in Art + Research Collaboration from IADT Dún Laoghaire (2024) and a BA in Painting from Limerick School of Art & Design (2019). 

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Kitsch Doom (Isabella Bonet) is an award-winning visual artist and filmmaker based in Ireland and the U.S. With a background in fine art printmaking, performance, photography, and video Kitsch combines elements of fine art and media. Kitsch graduated with a first-class honours in BA Fine Art and Visual Culture in 2019 and recently graduated from an MFA in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

Kitsch has won 4 awards for Best Experimental Film in New York Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, Festigious Los Angeles and FilmCon for their video performance The Clothes Wear You (2020). Kitsch has exhibited work both nationally and internationally and is represented by Stoney Road Press.

Notable exhibitions include #ICPConcerned at the International Centre of Photography New York City, Ink Miami, London Original Print Fair, The RHA 190th, 191st, and 192nd Annual Exhibition and Galway International Arts Festival where they were awarded with the NUI Galway Purchase Prize. Kitsch’s work has been collected by NUI Galway, The United Arts Club, Wexford Arts Centre and other private collections. 

Inspired by theories on gender, sociology, and posthumanism, Kitsch transforms themselves and volunteers into fictional characters through acting techniques such as improvisation and the Method. Through performance, video, photography, print, and social media experiments Kitsch explores new ways of conceptualising ‘the self’.

Kitsch creates work about the many layering processes behind human identity, and how we are now living in a strange, chaotic time in the world that lies in-between dated traditional values and trailblazing digital realities. Undoubtedly, the imprint of man is changing. In a world where being human isn’t cutting it, where does our sense of self lie? 

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Alan Raggett (b.1977, Kilkenny, Ireland) is a visual artist, living, and working in Kenmare, Co. Kerry.

​Raggett is a fully committed and energised professional with a strong track record as a practicing artist, art collections coordinator and project manager, working for 25 years in the arts industry in Ireland, alongside curators and other artists to bring exhibitions to domestic and international audiences.

Working primarily in oil paint, Raggett’s work is ambitious, original, and distinctive. It deals mainly with the abstraction and retelling of the source image. Images, found and self-documented, are retold by means of collage, rephotographing, cropping and manipulation. These manipulated images become the starting points for his paintings where he explores ideas of repetition, contemporary landscape, and storytelling.

He has exhibited regionally and nationally, and his work is held in private collections worldwide.

Selected solo and group shows 

March 2024

GRILSE GALLERY

-be good if you can-

Killorglin, Co. Kerry

2024 

Salon du Kerry, Crane Visual, Cork

‘Bucolica’ Open call, Mount Congreve Gardens, Waterford.

K-FEST, Killorglin, Co. Kerry -KFEST ART PRIZE Finalist 2024

2022 Grilse Gallery, Killorglin, Co Kerry

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Sian Costello (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Limerick City, Ireland.

Since graduating from Fine Art Painting in Limerick School of Art and Design in 2020, Costello has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently with her solo show Baby Obey Me at Modern Animals, Zurich, and the group show girls, girls, girls at Lismore Castle Arts, curated by Simone Rocha.

She has been the recipient of the individual bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland and project funding from Culture Ireland. Her work has been profiled in The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, British Vogue, Another Magazine, The Visual Artist’s Newsletter, and The Irish Arts Review. She is currently preparing work for two solo shows at Paragon Studios at PS2, Belfast, and at Ormston House, Limerick.

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Day Magee is a performance-centred multimedia artist based in Dublin. Since 2011, they have performed as part of live art organisations such as Livestock and the Dublin Live Art Festival, before pursuing a BA in Sculpture & Combined Media in Limerick School of Art & Design in 2017, during their time there staging group live art events with the collective Evil, and by their third year exhibiting work as part of Galway’s Tulca Festival 2019, group shows in Dublin and Manhattan, as well as being put forward for the Future Generation Art Prize 2020 by its Irish partner platform Pallas Projects Studios, and shortlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. They are most recently commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland and Live Art Ireland in 2021.

Magee’s work concerns the grieving of futurity as per the subjectivity of a queer sick body - queerness navigated via fundamentalist Christianity, and illness as manifest in chronic pain. Taking the form of performative multimedia, from live performance to image-making, the written word and music, they manifest and chronicle a self-mythology

Selected works;

2022

-February: ‘you breathe differently down here’ at Draoícht Blanchardstown - Work: ‘A Thing Least Like Eternity’ [Video]

-March: Solo show ‘Contraindications of the Cross’ at Pallas Projects/Studios

2021

-March: ‘Sam’s Eden’ at Catalyst Arts, Belfast [Online] - Work: ‘The Garden of Jarman’ [Video]

-May: Solo exhibition with Emerge Arts Magazine [Online] - Work: ‘Triloquy’ [Video]

-May: Bealtaine Festival 2021 [Online] - Work: ‘A Male Keening (vi)’ [Performance]

-May: ‘Rally’ Graduate Show at Limerick School of Art & Design [Online] - Work: ‘A Thing Least Like Eternity’ [Video]

-September: Gaze Film Festival 2021, IFI Cinema - Work: ‘Unprotected’ as part of ‘Shame//Less” [Video]

-November: Revision Performing Arts Festival, Flax Art Studios, Belfast - Work: ‘Bethesda’ [Performance]

-December: ‘Pathology of Energy’ with Arts & Disability Ireland [Online] - Work: ‘Body Without World’ [Video]

-December: ‘Virtually Alive & Steaming’ with Live Art Ireland [Online] - Work: ‘Eat the Good of the Land’ [Video]

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Ute Klein, studied at the University of Bern and the M+F Lucerne Design School, and was an artist in residence at the Plüschow Castle (Germany), the Nairs Foundation (Switzerland), the Cité des Arts Paris (France), and Melbourne (Austria).

Exhibitions have included the Museum Langmatt Baden (2016), the Thurgau Art Museum (1999, 2001, 2013, 2018, 2020), Kassel (2002, 2009), the Kunstraum Vaduz (2011), and the Nairs Art Gallery in Scuol (2017). She has held regular solo exhibitions at the Adrian Bleisch (Arbon) and Sylva Denzler (Zurich) galleries, and previously at the Schönenberger Gallery (Kirchberg, St. Gallen), as well as several sponsorship awards and commissions for art in architecture. Lives and works in Amriswil.

“My painting develops in collaboration with circumstances and chance.

I paint by pouring paint onto flat canvases, which I then tip over.

The relationships in space, between pigments, and to underlying layers are as influential as the forces that cause the diluted paint to flow.

My painting is a representational thought of movements: movements of and in liquids, masses of rock, in and between cells, of crowds of people, of the behavior of different crowds toward one another, of growth, dissolution, and fusion.

My painting is a fragile, ambivalent reflection on inner and outer life processes.” —Ute Klein

(Translation in English from the original text by Dr. Katharina Ammann, Prof. Dr. M.Holzner / Prof. Dr. W.Kinzelbach).

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Anne Ryan is a contemporary artist who creates highly coloured constructed paintings of figures. Her subjects dance, party, pose and generally indulge themselves, in scenarios that draw on diverse sources from visual culture and the world around her.

Born in Limerick, Ireland, Anne Ryan studied at Limerick School of Art and Birmingham University and was Abbey Fellow in Painting at the British School at Rome in 2016. She has taught at a number of leading UK art schools, including Turps, and has exhibited work at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, CAPC Bordeaux and Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt. Anne lives and works in London and is represented by greengrassi.

Ryan is renowned for her ‘cutouts’ – virbant, three-dimensional paintings made from card, collage, canvas, ceramic and metal. Many of her cutouts focus on the physicality of the human form – often depicting groups of figures dancing, posing, swimming, frolicking in the woods, even cutting loose in a mosh pit – and are inspired as much by scenes found in nightclubs and cinema as by classical painting and sculpture.

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Eamonn Maxwell has worked as a contemporary art curator and art advisor for more than 20 years. 

He curated numerous exhibitions across the world including the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011. From 2009 to 2016, he was Director of Lismore Castle Arts, where I programmed significant exhibitions by leading international and Irish artists. In more recent times, he worked as a collection advisor to the Arts Council of Ireland, Goldsmiths and private art collectors.

He regularly lectures at universities and art schools in Ireland and internationally. He offers curating and advisory services to a huge variety of clients, including artists, art collectors, public galleries, universities and various arts related bodies. 

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Susan Buttner is an artist of emphatic morphology. Her artistic practice is a delicate evaluation of power relations, revealing tensions and forces by combining static elements, while highlighting the borderless, transgressive aspect of institutional critique. Working in sculptural form, painting, performance and film, a recent recipient of the Arts Council Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award, PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award, Draíocht Incubate Residency Award, RHA Residency Award.  

Selected residencies 

2024 Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Fingal County Council

2023 Fingal Artist's Support Scheme Award

2023 Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency, Paris

2023 Loughshinney Residency Award, Fingal County Council

2022 Carlow Arts Festival Bursary Award

2022 PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award

Selected group and solo exhibitions

2024 Pallas Projects Studios, For Palestine Exhibition, The Bank, Digital Hub, Dublin

2024 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 194th Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2023 Love You My Sweaty, curated by Sara Muthi, The Library Project, Dublin

2023 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 193rd Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2022 Court House Gallery Annual Exhibition, Clare

2022 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin

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Victoria Cantons’ ongoing preoccupation with metaphysical themes; concepts of time, memory and personal identity lends her works their multi-layered subject matter, fuelled by a variety of historical and literary sources as well as her experiences being raised in a multicultural and multi-religious home, and being a gay and transgender woman. She was an only child to European immigrants who had both experienced war in the countries they had come from –her mother was from Madrid and Catholic, and her father was French Algerian born to Russian-Jewish and Basque parents. As a result Cantons has had memories of being different from the outset and the ability to accept, declare and celebrate oneself is an ongoing journey that for her, has been littered with mental anguish, trauma, and scars.

Cantons’ artistic output is presented in multiple mediums including painting, neon, poetry, text, performance, photographs and videos and sculpture. Cantons often uses text in the body of her work, and further probes language in her titles. At the core of the practice is an investigation of eternal questions: What is my position in the world? What are the nature of our relationships? And what is our purpose?

Her concept led work is autobiographical and confessional with political undercurrents and takes inspiration from art history, there are also references to religion, notably Christianity and Buddhism, philosophy, science and the classics. There is no creative formula, Cantons has an exploratory way of working. In the studio her questions are explored embracing experimentation, inspired spontaneity and discovery. There is a degree of surprise and unexpectedness in the work.

Cantons seeks to make sense of the world around her. The work deals with issues of the individual’s freedom, how people shape their beliefs, and the notion of who the individual can be. There is a search for confrontation with our internal schisms, and a lack of concern with “likability”. It’s about confronting what makes a person conflicted. Cantons has previously stated: “How can art allow the richness of the inner life to speak for itself? Art is a form of resistance, a way to reassess memory, to remember but also to reinvent, and that within these boundaries the truth can be alternately distorted or clarified.”

Cantons also considers her work to be an abstract self-portrait of sorts, with references to both her own personal history and histories of art that inform and inflect her work. On the subject of her identity Cantons has said: “I’m an artist, I'm a woman, I'm transgender, I'm labeled a trans (female, if I’m lucky) artist, but that trans-ness or any other aspect of my identity –the fact that I have a multi-national, cultural and religious background because of my parents and my upbringing– can't be tokenised”… to paraphrase the artist Alvaro Barrington: “I’m hoping that it becomes about an all-encompassing humanity and that it's also very individualised. I think a lot of people unfortunately have been pigeonholed into presenting their identity in a tokenised way, as the only thing that they can offer to the public’s imagination.”

Upcoming solo shows

2025

Title to be Announced, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London (UPCOMING Opens 5th June)

The Hour Before Sunrise / La Hora Bruja, cur. Christian Dominguez, Tube Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (UPCOMING Opens 21st March)

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Dublin born, Mary-Ruth Walsh graduated from Goldsmiths College London (MA) and the National College of Art and Design (BA) Dublin. Walsh has participated in national and international exhibitions and the Artist’s Residency Programme in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Dublin; RHAs experimental drawing studio (Dublin); Aabenraa Artweek (Denmark) and Basekamp (Philadelphia). Mary-Ruth Walsh’s work is in the collection of Trinity College Dublin and private collections.

'My practice explores buildings from frenetic shopping centers to the desolate loneliness of empty spaces and how architecture affects the way we move and behave in the urban environment. I also see architecture as part of our identity. These explorations are realised in drawing, painting, film-making, sculpture-installation, critical writing and occasionally performance'.

Walsh’s solo and group exhibitions include IMMA (Dublin); Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane (Dublin); RHA (Dublin); CUBEOpen (Manchester); Oonagh Young Gallery (Dublin); Highlanes Gallery (Drogheda); Parlour (New York and Italy); Arts Centres (Wexford and Galway); Cross Gallery (Dublin); Goethe Institute (Dublin) and SCOPE (Miami). Awards include Create Ireland research bursary, Arts Council of Ireland’s Project, Travel Awards and most recently Visual Arts Bursary Award. She is co-founder of Drawing de-Centered https://www.drawingdecentered.com/

Her public work extends beyond the gallery space and is both permanent and temporary.

Selected awards, residencies

2024 and 2025 Zeitgeist-Ireland 2024 with Drawing deCentered, residencies and exhibitions in Bonn and Hamburg.

2022-23 Leitrim Sculpture Centre, residency and exhibition

2022 Centre Culture Irlandais, Paris Residency.

2022  Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland.

Selected solo shows 

2021 Strangely Familiar Shades of Gray, Rathfarnham Castle, OPW, Dublin, solo exhibition of blueprints, drawings and sculptures that explores contemporary materiality, its relationship to the body and Eileen Gray. A book based on the exhibition with an essay by Jennifer Goff is forthcoming. 

2020-21 SKIN DEEP Arts Council of Ireland Touring Award, solo exhibition touring to Wexford Arts Centre, Highlanes Drogheda and Limerick City Gallery. This exhibition was accompanied by an award winning book with essays by Dr. Yvonne Scott and Katherine Waugh. The limited edition, hand-made book was by foldedleaf.ie

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Aisling Phelan is an Irish multi-disciplinary artist working across 3D animation, AI, video, sculpture, and live interactive technologies. Her work delves into the complex relationship between our online and offline identities and aims to highlight the ethical concerns and vulnerabilities of digital representation.

Heavily concerned with the body, Phelan explores the intricacies of corporeal identity and its relationship with technology. Examining the losses involved in physically replicating and digitally reconstructing her own body, she explores the abstraction, fragmentation, and validity of multiple identities. Ultimately, her practice questions the impact of current digital infrastructures on our social and mental well-being, and what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological advancement and pervasive social media influence.

In 2025, Phelan’s ‘Goodbye Body’ was screened on the Living Canvas, Europe’s largest digital art screen at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her latest work ‘Surrogate Bodies’ was commissioned by Beta Festival and exhibited at the Digital Hub in Dublin in 2024. In 2023, Phelan created live installations for the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Rua Red and the National Concert Hall. In 2022, her degree show ‘Dual Reality’ was shortlisted for the RDS Visual Art Awards and included in their annual exhibition. This work was also exhibited at 126 Gallery for the Galway International Arts Festival 2022. 

Phelan has been interviewed by RTE, The Irish Times, Dublin Inquirer, District Magazine and Totally Dublin, and her work has been selected for publications in Vice, Dublin Art Book Fair, Douglas Hyde Gallery, and other international publications. She is a co-curator of D.A.T.A, the Dublin Art and Technology Association and the founder of the Digital Artists Ireland Discord Community. 

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Adam Gibney is an interdisciplinary artist with numerous awards that include the Aileen MacKeogh Award, the Siamsa Tíre Emerging Artist Award, the IMOCA graduate residency award, and the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary award. His solo exhibitions include Can you breathe for me? (Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, 2021 and The Dock, 2022), Projective Verse 9: Deep Breadths (Daegu Foundation of Culture, South Korea, 2017) and Euclid, I miss you…(Artbox, Dublin, 2016).

Other notable exhibitions include I am sitting in a room (Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2022), Embracing (The Lab Gallery, Dublin 2022), Scaffold (The Bomb Factory, London, 2019), The Voyage (CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, 2016) and Futures (Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2014). In 2016, Adam represented Ireland in the V Moscow Biennale for Young Art – Deep Inside. 

In 2019, Adam launched his first public art project, Your Seedling Language, in St. Catherine’s School, Rush, Co. Dublin. He was commissioned to create a temporary public art project for Graft, a project curated by both the Glucksman Gallery and the National Sculpture Factory and he is currently working on a public art project for Fingal County Council.

Adam has recently completed a practice-based research master’s degree at the Technological University of Dublin. Drawing on his interdisciplinary approach to technology in fine art, interaction design, and emerging media practices, he has lectured at several universities, including the Technological University of Dublin, The National College of Art and Design, and The University of Limerick.

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Asha Ari, who was named as Hot For 2023 this year by Hotpress, is a singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland.

She is half Ghanaian, half Irish, and grew up in Blanchardstown, Dublin. She has been actively performing in the Dublin music scene since her teens, and has released many singles and an EP entitled ‘Freedom’, and impactful music videos.

Asha Ari's music brings people together. Her music combines elements of Pop, Soul, and R&B to create uniquely catchy and relatable songs. Her song writing inspirations stem from growing up bi-racial, self-love, believing in yourself, spreading positivity and being true to oneself.

She successfully ran her first showcase Blanchardstown Resonance in March 2024 in The Draiocht. In April 2024 she had successful headline show in Whelan's which had a great turn out. She was featured on Songs of Ireland on RTE One on May 2024 where she performed and put her own twist on Raglan Road alongside Mike Hanrahan and Pat Short.

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Soňa Šmédková is a Czech emerging curator and multidisciplinary artist based in Galway, Ireland. Watch a teaser from this Interview @_ultravioletarttalks_

Soňa gained First-class Honours in Master of Arts in Creative Practice at the School of Design and Creative Arts, ATU, Galway. In the fourth year of her undergrad studies, she was an integral member of the student-led curating team for an exhibition for GMIT contemporary art graduates Not a Degree Show, Printworks, funded by Galway City Arts Council.

She was awarded an Agility Award by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2021. In early 2022 she became a member of the Board of Directors at 126 Artist–Run Gallery and the same year she was a curator of an exhibition A Remix of Change at 126 Gallery as part of the Galway International Arts Festival. Soňa’s work was recently exhibited in a group show DÉAD in Transmediale, Berlin under the Creative Pathways Programme, funded by the Irish Embassy Berlin and Goethe Institute Ireland. The show travelled to Dublin and was launched as part of the Culture Night 2023 at Goethe Institute Ireland. She also showed in Brussels at the European Parliament as part of Mental Health Day and in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Soňa's practice investigates identity, in-between spaces, and disruption through the lens of migration and abstract painting. She works with a range of media, often blending digital and physical artefacts to create installations that evoke a sense of entanglement. Her creative process is rooted in migration studies, specifically examining the political regimes of Eastern Europe, which shapes both her art and curatorial work.

As a curator, she is passionate about supporting underrepresented artists and those working at the intersection of technology and contemporary practices. She has previously served as a director of the 126 Artist-Run Gallery, which deepened her engagement with artist-run spaces and collective curatorial efforts. 

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Julieta Aranda born in Mexico City, Mexico, is a conceptual artist that lives and works in Berlin and New York City. She received a BFA in filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts (2001) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006), both in New York. Her explorations span installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making.

Aranda's complex body of work exists outside the boundaries of the object, and is characterized by the struggle of catching sight of elusive concepts such as time, circulation, and imagination. Her installations and temporary projects, which often examine social interactions and the role that the circulation of objects plays in the cycles of production and consumption, are intensely site-specific. Much of her work takes up the concept of time, sometimes to consider alternative notions of the temporal experience, and other times to approach the arbitrariness of time and freedom from time.

Julieta Aranda has been actively collaborating on e-flux since 2003, which is a publishing platform, archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and cultural enterprise founded by Anton Vidokle in 1998. Aranda is both a contributor and editor of e-flux journal, and in collaboration with Vidokle, has produced several e-flux art projects that explore unusual models for the circulation and distribution of art.

Her work has been shown in internationally renowned institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami(2009); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009); the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2010); and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain (2010), as well as at international art festivals such as the Liverpool Biennial(2010); the Kassel Documenta, Germany (2012); and the Shanghai Biennale (2012).

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ANNEX is a collaboration of artists, architects, and urban researchers born and/or based in Ireland who came together to curate the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. ANNEX explores the material and cultural implications of large technical systems for the built environment with reference to architecture, art, computer science, and gaming platforms. Members include Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster and Fiona McDermott.

David Capener is a theorist, educator, writer, architect, and designer. His practice critically examines the spaces produced by our contemporary technological condition. He has taught on the masters programme at Queen’s University School of Architecture and the Belfast School of Architecture at Ulster University. He has written for The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and numerous other print and online publications.

Donal Lally is an architect and co-founder of the architectural office zero-degree machine [z-dm]. He has recently published articles in Strelka Magazineand Archplus, and given talks at the Floating University (Berlin), Berlin University of the Arts, and at the UCD School of Architecture. Donal is an assistant lecturer in design theory at the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts.

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Dr. Frank Wasser is an Irish artist, writer, educator and researcher at TATe, based between Vienna and London. He is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Originally from the Liberties, Dublin, Ireland, Wasser holds a PhD at the University of Oxford in Fine Art, BA in Painting and an MFA in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. Wasser has exhibited and lectured internationally: most recently at Jerwood Arts (London) Tate Modern and Tate Britain (London) Villa Empain (Brussels) Damian and the Love Guru (Brussels) Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art (Newcastle) In December 2020 he will publish a book with the imprint MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE. Wasser was the recipient of the Inger Lawrence Award (2019) and the Art Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary (2018) Wasser has been an invited visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and University of Reading.

Most recent Exhibition,

‘Debt’ Annual Exhibition of the members of the Salzburger Kunstverein 2024

14 December 2024 – 16 February 2025

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Joe Duggan is a Limerick born artist living and working in Buckinghamshire. He studied at the Royal College of Art London gaining an M.A. in Fine Art (Photography). His artistic practice includes sculpture, photography, video, publishing and installation. 

Through these various media his work considers ideas of value and identity. Focusing on themes of the family, the artists role in society and the influence of hierarchical systems, including religion, on culture. Across his projects Duggan’s work is inflected with a wry wit and a playful DIY aesthetic in which he conveys deeper lying concerns. He also curates and produces exhibitions.

Most recent show : 2025: Irish Art Now, 7 - 28 Jan, Embassy of Ireland, 17 Grosvenor Place, London, UK. co-curated by Joe duggan and Orla Jackson.

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Karen Donnellan (they/she) is a psychic artist and energy healer. After earning a Bachelor of Design in Glass from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and a MFA in Glass from the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, they served as Director of the National Casting Center Glass Studios; Associate Professor of Glass; and Chair of the Sculpture/Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University, NY from 2014-2022.

Donnellan has received numerous residencies, most notably at the Toledo Museum of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, the Creative Glass Center of America, and Pilchuck Glass School. Their artwork, encompassing sculpture, installation, music, words, and video, is held in public and private collections and has been shown at venues internationally, including the Smithsonian Museum, Corning Museum of Glass, Tushanwan Museum, and the Museum of American Glass.

As an energy healer, Donnellan is a practitioner and teacher of the Rising Star, Prema Birthing, Reiki, and Seichem modalities. They are also an active member of AerachAiteachGaelach, a collective of LGBTQ+ Irish speaking artists, researchers and activists. They are currently based on the West coast of Ireland in Co. Sligo, with a studio at The Model.

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Maura Finnegan is an artist based in the West of Ireland, graduate of the MA Creative Practice course at ATU

Her work investigates the unspoken dialogue of furtiveness in the human psyche and trauma in its many forms. Her practice is sculptural assemblage, the method of communicating the effects of prolonged suffering and trauma is through materiality. Familiar domestic objects associated with the female become ’embodiments of pain & loss.’ Nylon tights, bedding, bandage, undergarments, upholstery foam are some of the materials she uses. Her soft/sculptural forms are exposed to an almost violent deconstructive creative process – ripping, tearing, knotting, slicing, piercing, burning etc – exposing the bruised contents. The thread of materiality undergoing this transmutational force both reveals & conceals simultaneously.

Artist Statement:

"Creativity shows up differently in every Artist’s studio.

This Artist’s Creativity was not a cheery sort. This Artist’s Creativity was a beast with an unfiltered, unapologetic darkness within.

For had it not been ignored, suppressed and jeered at for countless years, waiting?

One night, Creativity spat at the Artist;

“Bring me the stuff of your ordinary life, your daily grind, your lived experience. Bring me the

materials you discard, the dirt, the grime, your tears and pain. Bring me the labours of your mother,

grandmothers and all your history – and I will show you, Artist, who you really are …."

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Ishmael Claxton was born in New York and living in Dublin for 10 years. Ishmael turned to photography as a means of expression and embarked on his career as a professional visual artist. He continues to challenge his audience by raising awareness about issues like in ‘Migration/ Integration’ series and Capall Gang series. By holding a mirror up to society, his aim is to make sense of the every changing world.

Ishmael is one of the cofounders of ÍOVA Club, a photographer-led club that gives voice to image makers. The group has presented three Culture Night group shows, presentations, gallery visits all to help build the photography community in Ireland.

Ishmael has exhibited widely, both in Ireland and internationally. In 2023 his work was included in 39 exhibitions which included Outset Gallery, 126 Galway, Rua Red Gallery, Carlow Visual, and Ulster Museum. His portrait of artist Seán Hillen was selected for the Lens Culture Portrait Choice Awards 2023. His work was featured in a solo exhibition in Gallery X, Dublin in 2022, Round Rabbit, Dublin in 2023 and National Concert Hall and the Irish Georgian Society in 2024. 

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Alan Phelan works in sculpture, photography, film, museum interventions, public art and collaborations with other artists, writers and curators. Born Dublin, Phelan received BA, Dublin City University, 1989 and MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 1994.

Selected exhibitions include: Casino Marino, Dublin; Luan, Athlone; The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin; Void, Derry; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; RHA, Dublin; The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon; The Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The LAB, Dublin; TBG+S, Dublin; LCGA, EVA International, Limerick; Solstice, Navan; Chapter, Cardiff; Bonn Kunstmuseum; Detroit Stockholm; Treignac Projet, France; Bozar, Brussels: ŠKUC, Ljubljana; SKC Gallery, Belgrade; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Public works include Kevin Street Library; Fr Collins Park, IMMA formal gardens and Void Offsites, Derry.

His most recent public work is for DCC/Sculpture Dublin, the O’Connell Plinth Commission, a temporary sculpture outside City Hall, Dublin which was moved to the TU Dublin Grangegorman campus on longterm loan.

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Winners of Turner Prize 2021, Array Collective are a group of individual artists rooted in Belfast, who join together to create collaborative actions in response to the sociopolitical issues affecting Northern Ireland. Array’s studios and project space in the city centre acts as a base for the collective, however the participating artists are not limited to studio holders. Array Collective are known for projects that support "gay rights, marriage equality, feminism, reproductive rights and anti-austerityactivism".

Array Collective's activities have included placard-making workshops and participating in activist events and demonstrations with elaborate costumes and props.

Collective members: Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell, Jane Butler, Emma Campbell, Alessia Cargnelli, Mitch Conlon, Clodagh Lavelle, Grace McMurray, Stephen Millar, Laura O'Connor, Thomas Wells

Selected recent works;

Array’s current show ‘The Goose and the Common', Rua Red, Feb 2025. 

An Dún, IMMA Dublin, 2024

Self-Determination: A Global Perspective, Interventions, IMMA Commissions 2023-24

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Maud Cotter’s recent solo exhibitions include a consequence of –, at The Irish Arts Center, New York, 2022; what was never ours to keep, at MOCA, Jacksonville, Florida, 2022; a consequence of – a dappled world, at The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2021; a consequence of – a breather of air, at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2019; a consequence of – without stilling, at Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2018; Matter of Fact, at domobaal gallery, London, 2016. Current and recent group exhibitions include: Contradictory Senses, at Lismore Castle Arts, 2022; The Twin, Coventry Biennale of Contemporary Art, Coventry, UK, 2019; backyard sculpture, at domobaal gallery, London, 2019; 2116: Forecast of the next century, at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2016 touring to Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MI, USA.  

She lives and works in Cork, Ireland. Cotter has lectured in Art and Architectural Colleges in Europe and America. She is co-founder of the National Sculpture Factory and a member of Aosdana. Her practice is represented by domobaal gallery.

Artist’s statement “I like to think of the gallery as a mercurial landscape of the mind, a place where matter and consciousness mingle. The work seeks to assert the importance of this duo of forces, cerebrally presented and fully existing emotionally at the same time, connecting our bodies with our minds. I strive to use this kind of interactive intelligence as a totality of force, one that is necessary to intuit and explore changing spatiality and understandings. The work seeks to unsettle the conventional account of reality, the cul de sac spun by corporate values, so vividly and forcefully delivered to our minds through contemporary culture; to build an adaptive and sustainable relationship with the world we inhabit.

The work explores material reality as one of compliance and contradiction, one in which no rule applies. In this world of upheaval, lies an endless range of evolving possibilities which can become manifest visually through the enactment of will within the agency of matter.

Macrophysicality finds its point of incision; conscious and insightful, it enters the molecularly complex world of the object. These actions orchestrate new formation in that amorphous bank of matter behind appearance – consciousness modelling form. Interiority within an exterior condition.”__Maud Cotter.

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Vera Klute is a visual artist based in Co. Kilkenny. She was born in Germany but lives in Ireland since 2001. Her work utilises a range of different media such as sculpture, painting, drawing and video animation. 

Themes span from formal portraiture and public sculpture to kinetic installation. She is always interested in exploring new materials and processes and in this way her work has taken many different incarnations over the years.

She has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad since graduating from IADT in 2006, including solo exhibitions at the RHA, the Butler Gallery, Limerick City Gallery (2-person show), the Molesworth Gallery, QSS Gallery and the LAB.

Her work is represented in many collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Office of Public Works and the Arts Council and she has won numerous awards. These include the Anita Young Award (2022) and the Hanley Energy Sustainability Excellence Award (2021), the Solomon Fine Art Award for sculpture (2020), the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery and the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the RHA (both 2015), the K+M Evans Award (2013) and the EVA Award at Wexford Arts Centre (2009).

She has received several Arts Council Bursary Awards and was elected Associate Member of the RHA in 2018 and is a full member since 2023. 

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John Graham graduated from the NCAD with a BA in 1993 and an MFA in 2006.

With a foundation in drawing and printmaking, his practice has included video and sound installations, writing and curatorial projects. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, most prominently with Green on Red Gallery, Dublin and Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan. Public collections include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, Chester Beatty Library, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and New York Public Library. His writing has appeared in artists’ books and gallery publications.

His exhibition reviews are published by the Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Enclave Review, Art Monthly, Paper Visual Art Journal and Mirror Lamp Press, among others. After lecturing for more than twenty years, he finished teaching in the Yeats Academy of Arts, Design and Architecture (YAADA) at the Atlantic Technological University, Sligo, in September 2023.

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Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, is an Irish filmmaker, landowner and rewilding advocate. Plunkett is the holder of a peerage title, and holds Dunsany Castle, one of the longest-inhabited houses in Ireland, and its remaining estate.

Plunkett succeeded to the Dunsany title upon the death of his father in 2011. In his professional life, he has directed a range of film shorts, worked on several dozen other film projects, and provided location and post-production services from his demesne. He produced his first feature film, The Green Sea, in 2018–2019 and released it in 2021. Plunkett became an advocate for rewilding in 2014 and has dedicated around half of the ancestral estate in County Meath as Ireland's largest private nature reserve.

Plunkett began his filmmaking career around 2009, producing and directing a range of short films, which have been shown at various film festivals. His directorial debut was the thriller Kiss Kiss (2010), set in London, and shown at the Leicester Square Odeon. He then returned to Ireland, producing Guerrilla, directed by Blaine Rennicks and starring Jack Lowe and Darren Killeen, on the Dunsany lands from winter 2009. The low-budget film, with a crew of 40, was based on a concept of Ireland under martial law after social collapse in Europe in 2013, and was released in 2010.

This was followed by the horror film Prey(2011). Plunkett's 4th short film, written with some autobiographical elements, was Walt(2011). Plunkett has used his estate lands and buildings, some partly ruinous, as locations for much of his filming after Guerrilla, including for Prey and Walt. Plunkett received external private funding for his next film, a post-apocalyptic horror movie titled Out There, co-writing the script with his brother Oliver. Out There was awarded Best Industry Short at the Limerick Film Festival as well as Best Short Movie at a festival in Germany. Subsequently, it was selected to play Cannes Film Festival.

In 2010, Plunkett established Dunsany Productions, a film production company, at Dunsany Castle. He worked on more than 40 film projects in Ireland, in various production roles, and in post-production at his facilities at Dunsany, while looking to produce longer work of his own.

Plunkett's first feature-length film, the drama The Green Sea, was filmed in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Dublin, at Brittas Bay in County Wicklow, and at Dunsany, where one lodge was painted black for the production; about half the scenes were from Mullingar. It was filmed and produced 2018–2019 but only released, after Covid-related delays, mid-2021. Plunkett was director, scriptwriter and executive producer. Plunkett performed the editing himself, alongside Chris Gill. Plunkett has described the film as having semi-autobiographical influences.

Plunkett's work and the film itself were awarded as Best Feature Film at the Paris Play Film Festival, April 2021, Best Indie Feature Film and Best Feature Script at the Florence Film Awards, April 2021, and Best Production and Best Editing at the New York Movie Awards, April 2021.

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Glenn McQuaid is an Irish film director. He is known for his feature film debut I Sell The Dead and his involvement in the audio play anthology series Tales From Beyond the Pale, both of which were produced by frequent collaborator Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix. He has also directed a segment of anthology horror film V/H/S.

McQuaid began his career at Glass Eye Pix, where he performed visual effects on films such as The Roost (2005) and The Last Winter(2006). Inspired by the muted reception of one of his short films, he made his feature film debut, I Sell the Dead (2008), more comedic. He cites David Cronenberg as an influence.

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 73% approval score based on 44 reviews. After I Sell the Dead, he worked on the segment Tuesday the 17th in V/H/S, a 2012 horror anthology film. The short was inspired by his enjoyment of early 1980s slasher films. In 2014, he directed The Trouble with Dad, a segment in another horror anthology film, Chilling Visions: 5 States of Fear.

McQuaid collaborated with Fessenden again on the audio play anthology series Tales From Beyond the Pale, which he co-created.

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Miguel is a Belfast-born artist exploring identity, the uncanny, and liminal spaces through drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation. His work investigates how digital masks and everyday anomalies reshape perception, blending sincerity and irony to question authenticity in a digitised world. Collaboration and playful exchanges of imagery are central to his practice, creating dynamic spaces where meaning and connection remain fluid.

Visual artist, born Belfast, 1985
University of Ulster 2004 – 2008

Lives and works in Hastings
Learning and Participation assistant, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Between Two Worlds, 5th Floor Gallery, East Sussex College, Hastings

2023 REAL MAGIC, Aspace Gallery, East Sussex College, Hastings

2020 Fire in the middle, The Naughton Gallery, Queen’s Univeristy, Belfast

Selected group Exhibitions

2024 The Last Off-Site Show On Earth At Plague and Everywhere (pt. 2), Plague Space, Krasnodar, Russia

2022 Open Plan, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

2020 In A Rainbow of Coalitions, The MAC, Belfast

2020 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University 

2020 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, The Salisbury Museum, Salisbury

Online Group Exhibitions

2024 The Last Off-Site Show On Earth At Plague and Everywhere (pt.1), Plague Space, Krasnodar, Russia

2021 Big Fungus, Soloshow.online

2021 No-Body’s Room, The Room Projects, Paris

2020 ANNO ∞ DOMINI, Soloshow.online

2020 The Days Are Just Packed, The Pool, Heybeliada, Istanbul

2020 Wellnow.wtf

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Sarah O’Brien, born in Cork, 1980.

BA Painting, CCAD, Cork, 2003. MFA Painting NCAD, Dublin, 2007. PgDip Third Level Learning and Teaching, DIT 2012

Lives and works in Kinsale, Co.Cork. 

Selected shows include: NEW LIGHT, Lewis Glucksman Gallery (2020), RHA OPEN 2020 (Invited Artist), PERIPHERIES Open 2019, Gorey Art School, Gorey, Everything is in everything, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Wish Me a Wonder, Waterford (all 2019) and STREAM PROJECT, Limerick (2018).

Sarah O’Brien’s work is in the collection of The Office of Public Works and has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and the RHA.

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Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer was born in Morges, Switzerland and grew up in Florence, Italy where her conscience became replete with a visceral exposure to Medieval and Renaissance iconography. As a young painter, Ferrer also spent extensive time in Spain where she became drawn to the works of Francisco de Zurbaràn, and Symbolist painter Julio Romero de Torres.

Among her other strong influences are Goya, Manet, Giorgio de Chirico, Edvard Munch, Arnold Böcklin, and Félix Vallotton. Early in her artistic career Ferrer pursued a classical education in drawing and painting.

One of the youngest students ever accepted into the academy, at 18 years of age Ferrer enrolled in the Advanced Painting program at the Florence Academy of Art, a traditional atelier where she would be imbued in the techniques, methodologies, and theories of the great masters. There, Ferrer undertook exhaustive studies from of the live figure, studying human anatomy in depth as well as becoming fluent in classical materials in drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Upon finishing school, Ferrer moved to New York where she would work in contemporary art galleries as a curator and international artist liaison, as well as become the administrative director of a Democratic Super PAC specializing in the sale of contemporary art as a means of political fundraising. During this time, ferrer also gathered experience working in production and art direction for music videos and short films. Ultimately, she would return to live and work, devoting herself to her art practice, at her home in Camaiore, Italy.

Ferrer received her MFA from Central Saint Martins in London in 2024. Throughout the course of her education and professional years she has been mentored by, studied under, and worked for artists such as Vincent Desiderio, Golucho, Will Cotton, Cynthia Talmadge, Ivan Theimer, and Emanuele Giannelli. She has curated and assistant-curated the works of Zac Posen, Manolo Blahnik, 24th, 25th, and 28th Venice Biennale artist Eugenio Pardini, and 54th Venice Biennale artist Sofia Cacciapaglia for institutions in the US and Spain.

Emma Ferrer currently has a solo exhibition 

The Scapegoat, Sapar Contemporary, New York City 9 Jan - Feb 15 (2025)

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Michaele Cutaya is a writer, researcher and editor on art living in County Galway. Her reviews and essays have been published in Irish Arts Review, The Stinging Fly and Art Monthly amongst others.

She collaborates with artists towards specific art projects and residencies. She continues a contextual writing and discursive practice in the west of Ireland and has regularly participated in public discussions on art and its broader social and political framework. She has been invited to present ongoing research on writing and publications in universities and art colleges. She was co-founding editor of Fugitive Papers (2011- 2013) and editor of Circa Art Magazine (2016- 2022).

Her work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary in 2021 and 2022.

Sona Smédková is a Czech emerging curator and multidisciplinary artist based in Galway, Ireland. Sona gained First-class Honours in Master of Arts in Creative Practice at the School of Design and Creative Arts, ATU, Galway. In the fourth year of her undergrad studies, she was an integral member of the student-led curating team for an exhibition for GMIT contemporary art graduates Not a Degree Show, Printworks, funded by Galway City Arts Council.

She was awarded an Agility Award by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2021. In early 2022 she became a member of the Board of Directors at 126 Artist-Run Gallery and the same year she was a curator of an exhibition A Remix of Change at 126 Gallery as part of the Galway International Arts Festival. Sona's work was recently exhibited in a group show DEAD in Transmediale, Berlin under the Creative Pathways Programme, funded by the Irish Embassy Berlin and Goethe Institute Ireland.

The show travelled to Dublin and was launched as part of the Culture Night 2023 at Goethe Institute Ireland. She also showed in Brussels at the European Parliament as part of Mental Health Day and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Soňa's practice investigates identity, in-between spaces, and disruption through the lens of migration and abstract painting. She works with a range of media, often blending digital and physical artefacts to create installations that evoke a sense of entanglement.

Her creative process is rooted in migration studies, specifically examining the political regimes of Eastern Europe, which shapes both her art and curatorial work.

As a curator, she is passionate about supporting underrepresented artists and those working at the intersection of technology and contemporary practices. She has previously served as a director of the 126 Artist-Run Gallery, which deepened her engagement with artist-run spaces and collective curatorial efforts.

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Isabel Nolan has an expansive practice that incorporates sculptures, paintings, textile works, photographs, writing and works on paper. Her subject matter is similarly comprehensive, taking in cosmological phenomena, religious reliquaries, Greco-Roman sculptures and literary/historical figures, examining the behaviour of humans and animals alike.

These diverse artistic investigations are driven by intensive research, but the end result is always deeply personal and subjective. Exploring the “intimacy of materiality”, Nolan’s work ranges from the architectural – steel sculptures that frame or obstruct our path – to small handmade objects in clay, hand-tufted wool rugs illuminated with striking cosmic imagery, to drawings and paintings using humble gouache or colouring pencils. In concert, they feel equally enchanted by and afraid of the world around us, expressing humanity’s fear of mortality and deep need for connection as well as its startling achievements in art and thought.

Driven by “the calamity, the weirdness, horror, brevity and wonder of existing alongside billions of other preoccupied humans”, her works give generous form to fundamental questions about the ways the chaos of the world is made beautiful or given meaning through human activity.

In 2026, Nolan will represent Ireland at the 61st Venice Biennale, with Georgina Jackson and The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art as the curator and Cian O’Brien as producer. In 2025, Nolan will participate in the 13th Liverpool Biennial, Bedrock, curated by Marie-Anne McQuay (7 June – 14 September). 

Isabel Nolan lives and works in Dublin.

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Séamus McCormack has developed curatorial projects both in Ireland and the UK including at Luan Gallery, Athlone; ArtBox, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Bomb Factory, London; Lewisham Arthouse, London; No Show Space, London; The LAB, Dublin and Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford.

He curates Commonage projects space in Bethnal Green, London presenting solo exhibitions with artists including Hugo Brazao, Nat Faulkner, Hannah Lim, Tami Soji-Akinyemi, Tim Spooner and Taro Qureshi.

He is Senior Curator, New Contemporaries working on exhibitions, events, talks and performances in venues across the UK including at the South London Gallery, ICA, Camden Arts Centre, Leeds Art Gallery, BALTIC and Firstsite. He was previously Assistant Curator at both the Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin working on group exhibitions such as ‘Electronic Superhighway’; ‘Intellectual Barbarians: The Kibbo Kift Kindred’; ‘Primal Architecture’; ‘Traces’ and solo shows with artists including Christopher Williams, Willie Doherty, Haroon Mirza, Harun Farocki and Alice Maher. 

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Education

M.A. in Visual Arts Practices, I.A.D.T. Dublin, 2010 

B.A. in Fine Art Painting, N.C.A.D., Dublin, 2006

Turps Banana Art School, London 2016-2019

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions  

2023

LOOP, Emergence Award, Wexford Arts Centre

Lined Out, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray

2021  

OCHRE, 2-person exhibition with Ciara Roche, Wexford Arts Centre 

2021  

Spiders and Cheerleaders, Ground Floor Gallery, The Complex, Dublin  

2018  

Forward Slash, The Lab Gallery, Dublin  

Selected Group Exhibitions  

2024

What Now?, PM/AM Gallery, London

Le Vernissage, Partie Deux, Brigitte Mulholland, Paris

2023

John Moore’s Painting Prize Exhibition, Walker Gallery, Liverpool

2022

GENERATION 2022, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

Zurich Portrait Prize Exhibition, The National Gallery, Dublin and Crawford Gallery, Cork

Small Night Zine, Catalyst Arts, Belfast and Garter Lane, Waterford. Curated by James Merrigan 

2020  

The Sky is Blue, VISUAL Carlow, selected by Katie Holten  

Teaching

2022 Guest Lecturer, The National College of Art and Design, Dublin (MFA Painting)

2022 Guest Speaker Troubling the Museum on The Culture File Debate, RTE Lyric FM

2022 Guest Lecturer, Sligo IT, BA Painting

2020- 2022 PeripheriesMEET Mentor, Gorey School of Art, Wexford

Guest Lecturer, IADT, Dublin (BA Painting)

2019 Guest Lecturer Wexford Campus, Carlow IT

2018, 2019 ColART and TFAC Artist Lecture Series, London

2017-2022 Co-curator PERIPHERIES exhibition programme with James Merrigan, Gorey School of Art

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Joseph Heffernan is an Irish artist based in Backwater Artists Studios, Cork. His exquisite paintings transports the viewer to a different, magic era.

Education

2013-2016: MFA(Painting), NCAD, Dublin.

2012-2013: Creative Ceramics Level 6, Colaiste Stiofain Naoife.

2005-2009: Hons BA(Fine Art), Crawford College of Art and Design.

Selected Exhibitions Solo

2023: A Thousand Years, Studio 12 Gallery, Backwater Artists Studios, Cork

2022: The Golden Age, Blue House Gallery, Schull, West Cork

2020: There were Strange Gatherings, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2018: Borderland/Memento, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford (2-Person)

Selected Group

Upcoming: 

Backwater Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2023: 193rd Annual Open, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2023: Displacement and Belonging – Home, RUA RED, Dublin

2023: Annual Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2022: Winter Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2022: Sample Studios Annual Members Show, Lord Mayors Pavilion, Cork

2022: Closer, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2022: Annual Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2021: Sample Studios Winter Members Show, Lord Mayors Pavilion, Cork

2021: Annual Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2021: Backwater 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Blue House Gallery, Schull

2020: 190th Annual Open, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

Awards

2023 Cork City Council Individual Artists Bursary

2021 Arts Council Agility Award

2020 Contemporary Irish Arts Society Award for a work of Distinction

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Taffina Flood was born in Dublin. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad, and her work is held in many notable public and private collections. 

In addition to painting and printmaking, Taffina lectures at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.

Taffina’s art is characterised by dense, evocative, jewel-like colour patterns. Her prints for Behaviour & Attitudes were devised as a series of imagined windows into the language and forms of gardens – crossing the memory of actual remembered gardens with dream-like glimpses into nature, experienced as an idealised abstract force.

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Satin Shadow is a Goth, Industrial music duo by artist Austin Hearne and filmmaker and producer Glenn McQuaid.

Concerns around the occupation of Ireland by the Roman Catholic Church are at the heart of Austin Hearne's practice.The majesty and misery of this institution are the poles which Hearne operates within.

Photography is at the root of his practice, using this medium in its most experimental and expansive form to create performances, installations, films, music and mise-en-scéne. Playing with fact and fiction Hearne creates worlds, characters and scenarios to satirise, demonise and embellish.

Alongside all this he brings in the stuff of the painting and decorating industry to make wallpapered interiors decorated with painted photographic objects and furniture.

Austin Hearne is supported by the Arts Council Bursary Award 2020,2021, 2022.

Recent projects include Requiem for Raymo (solo) at the RHA Gallery (which included a weekly performance as part of the installation.), (Nov 22 to Jan 23). His film Whispers was shown as part of the Gaze Film Festival where it won Best Irish Short (2022).

Glenn McQuaid is an Irish film director. He is known for his feature film debut I Sell The Dead and his involvement in the audio play anthology series Tales From Beyond the Pale, both of which were produced by frequent collaborator Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix. He has also directed a segment of anthology horror film V/H/S.

McQuaid began his career at Glass Eye Pix, where he performed visual effects on films such as The Roost (2005) and The Last Winter(2006). Inspired by the muted reception of one of his short films, he made his feature film debut, I Sell the Dead (2008), more comedic. He cites David Cronenberg as an influence. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 73% approval score based on 44 reviews. After I Sell the Dead, he worked on the segment Tuesday the 17th in V/H/S, a 2012 horror anthology film. The short was inspired by his enjoyment of early 1980s slasher films. In 2014, he directed The Trouble with Dad, a segment in another horror anthology film, Chilling Visions: 5 States of Fear.

McQuaid collaborated with Fessenden again on the audio play anthology series Tales From Beyond the Pale, which he co-created.

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Identity, memory and surveillance are themes around which Celina Muldoon investigates relationships between socio-political structures and the body.

Her work spans Live Performance, Film and Installation. She uses collaborative processes to test live performance methodologies in response to site and context. Her unique live installations and videos generate uncertainty through satire and wit.

Critical triggers of Muldoon's live work rely upon audience participation and interaction. Audio and live installation elements work in tandem to manifest highly charged emotional experiences unfolding momentarily in real time. 

With a particular focus on the intimate space and the analysis of the body as representation of political agency, her work is realised through sci-fi re-enactments of mythological narratives. Often what arises through her live performances is a deep emotional connection between participants and the audience. Her primary motivation is to cultivate moments of magic and fantasy. Within this surrealist environment she conjures human connection with the viewer and strives to promote a collective sense of tolerance, compassion and empathy.

Celina Muldoon is an artist based in Northwest Ireland. Research projects include collaboration with the dept. of Neuroscience in Trinity College Dublin.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally in Bushwick Studios N.Y., Cyberarts Gallery, Boston and with Craw Festival Berlin. Her major multi-disciplinary work SIRENS is funded by the Next Generation Award and the Artist in the Community Scheme Award from the Arts Council. Selected exhibitions include SIRENS for Live Collision, Dublin, 2019; SIRENS III solo exhibition in Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 2019; and SIRENS IV in Futures: Series 3; Episode 3, R.H.A. Dublin, 2019.

She has completed residencies in Cowhouse Studios and Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annamakerrig. Celina Muldoon was artist-in-resident at St. Vincent's Primary School, Dublin as part of Creative Generations supported by The Central Bank of Ireland.

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Richard Harvey is a writer and director from Dublin. His work is heavily influenced by Irish mythology and the horror genre and often deals with themes such as mortality, toxic masculinity and the dysfunctional family. 

Some of his achievements include winning the 2020 YMVC at First Cut Youth Film Festival for the music video for ADT’s Even the Sun Don’t Shine on Lonely Hearts in Shadow. The music video also screened at DISFMF 2020 and went on to be nominated for an EDA. 

His 2018 short film Real Horrorshow screened at The Richard Harris International Film Festival 2018, First Cut Youth Film Festival 2020 and The Revere International Student Film Festival 2020.

His 2019 short film Polaroid screened at the Richard Harris International Film Festival 2019 and the 2020 National Student Media Awards.

Most recently he has written and directed a music video for La Di Da’s Communicate (2022) alongside co writer and producer Alex Keatinge from Glance Stealer Productions as well as short film Ceist an Taibhse (2024). 

Richard is also available for works as location sound and has experience working on short films, features and documentary. 

His photography portfolio includes headshots, food, fashion, events and product. He is always relaxed, yet focused and professional in nature, consistently delivering a high standard.

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Serena Caulfield is an artist who makes paintings. Memories morph into tall tales. Invented imagery invites novel narratives. Transforming old to new, past to present, absence to presence, here to there, she likes to paint quickly and think slowly.

Serena has exhibited regionally and nationally. Recent group shows include WIDE OPEN SPACE, at Wexford Co. Council Buildings, BEEP Painting Biennial, Wales, GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and Zurich Portrait Prize, at the National Gallery of Ireland and Crawford Art Gallery. Solo exhibitions include Dream Baby Dream, Solomon Fine Art Dublin, (2024), The Remnants and the Ruins RCC, Letterkenny (2024), Not somewhere else but here at Wexford Arts Centre, (2023) and Convergences at Ballina Arts Centre (2023).

She is currently working towards a solo exhibition at Art-Seen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus in Spring 2025 and her work will be included in multiple group exhibitions in the coming months.

Recent awards include The Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary, Platform 31 Artist Award, an Artlinks Visual Arts Bursary and an Arts Council Agility Award. Serena has an MA in Fine Art from NUA, Norwich, UK (2009) and a BA from Gorey School of Art and Wexford Campus School of Art and Design, IT Carlow.

Her work is held in private, public and corporate collections nationally and internationally.

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Lukeman first came to prominence in the summer of 1995 when he and The Black Romantics took up a residency at The Da Club (Dublin Arts Club) in Dublin selling out night after night. The band's set included interpretations of Jacques Brel along with several of Jack's own compositions. The band recorded the album Wax in 1995 before splitting in 1997.

Lukeman established himself as a solo artist and songwriter with his live work and his breakthrough 1999 multi-platinum selling album Metropolis Blue, gaining record deals and touring extensively in the US and Europe, and becoming a regular fixture on U.S college radio with the singles "Rooftop Lullabye", "Georgie Boy" and "Ode to Ed Wood".

During his musical career Lukeman has worked with composer Brian Byrne, the Nelson RiddleOrchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and producers Greg Wells, Craig Armstrong and Martin Clancy.

Lukeman has also performed over the years supporting or alongside U2, Ronnie Wood, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, John Lee Hooker, Elvis Costello, Jools Holland, and Marianne Faithfull, and has appeared at venues such as Olympia Paris, Royal Albert Hall in London, and The Lincoln Center in NYC.

Discography:

Wax (1995, with The Black Romantics), Acoustico (1997, limited release), Metropolis Blue (1999), Universe (2001), Songs from the Little Universe Show (2002), The Amsterdam Album (2005), Broken Songs (2006), Burn On (2008), The Story So Far – The Essential Collection(2009), The 27 Club (2012), The Great Wall of China EP (2013), Northern Lights – Songs for the Winter Solstice(2014), The King of Soho (2016), Magic Days (2017), Streamed: Best of the Lockdown Sessions Vol. 1 (2020), Echo On (2022).

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Niamh O’Malley is interested in the exhibition as an architecture for scrutiny and attention.

She is drawn to materials that display traces of their own making, labouring the surfaces of polished wood and graphite. There is a haptic, agitated quality to the edges and surfaces of her sculpture and drawings. When glass, a favoured material is seen it is sometimes tinted, and encountered as slivers of edged, translucent, solidness, potentially directing us to observe, re-observe and filter. Niamh O’Malley also uses video for its role as an animator; capturing and arresting attention and reminding us of our compulsion to gather and to make still. Her moving image works deliberately mark the observational tone or document of the film as subjective and delimited. The partial or the glimpse can be enough.

Born Co. Mayo, Niamh O’Malley studied at University of Ulster, Belfast and lives and works in Dublin. 

She has made numerous solo exhibitions including representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale (2022), mother’s tankstation (2020); Royal Hibernian Academy (2019); Lismore Castle Arts (2019); Grazer Kunstverein (2018); Bluecoat Liverpool (2015); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2017) & (2015); a five venue solo show called ‘The Mayo Collaborative’ Ireland (2013); ‘Garden’, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2013); Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway (2012); ‘Model’, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2011); ‘Island’, Centre Culturel Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2010); ‘Frame, Glass, Black’ Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (2010); ‘Echo’, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2010); ‘No Distance’, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland (2009).

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David Beattie is an artist and lecturer in Art and Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology.

Beattie’s sculptural practice explores the material world through experiential, physical engagements with objects and non-objects. Recent projects have focused on the social and environmental impact of digital technologies, haptic robotics and machine learning. He was awarded the Harpo Foundation Award in 2010 and was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, 2016. In recent years, he has been commissioned to produce a number of temporary and permanent public artworks including VOID Commissions, Derry (2021), Reflectors, Bray, Co.Wicklow and Patterns of Illumination, Griffith Barracks Multi-denominational School, Dublin. 

Solo exhibitions include Tulca Festival, 2024, Berlin Opticians (2019), NUI Maynooth (2017), CCA Derry-Londonderry (2017), Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (2011), The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh (2010), Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto (2010) and Oonagh Young Gallery (2009); Group exhibitions include Circadian Rhythms, The Glucksman (2019), Berlin Opticians (2018+2019) TULCA Art Festival, Galway (2017), As above, so below, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017), In the Line of Beauty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013), O Brave New World, Rubicon Projects, Brussels (2013) All Humans Do, The Model Sligo and Whitebox, New York (2012); Feedback, Galway Arts Centre (2011); Holding Together Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2010); La Part des Choses, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, and Quiet Revolution, Hayward Touring, UK (2009). 

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Bernadette Kiely is a visual artist based on the quayside of the river Nore in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

Known for her powerful portrayals of the fragility of the natural and physical world, Bernadette draws particularly on her experiences as a child growing up on the quayside in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary, where she witnessed many flood events which have continued throughout her life as an adult living on the river Nore in Co. Kilkenny. The effects of flooding and decay on land and human lives have been an enduring theme in her practice for over 25 years expanding in scale and intensity along with the urgency of the present climate emergency.

Bernadette is represented by Taylor Galleries, Dublin and is a member of Aosdana, the governmental body of artists who are deemed by their peers to make a continuing significant contribution to the arts in Ireland.

“Bernadette Kiely’s Don’t Need No Country, Don’t Fly No Flag at the Paintwork’s Gallery in Galway during the summer was a wonder. it’s a visual arts exhibition about borders and a warming world. Flooded landscapes, drawing from memories, past emotions, the flooded street, the flooded house, river rats, debris and how you live through it all on the river Nore. A haunting exhibition that lingers in the mind.” Rita Ann Higgins, Poet and member of Aosdana.

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Yero Adugna Eticha, born in Oromia/Ethiopia, is a Berlin/ Addis Abeba based photographer working for renowned culture Institut : Akadamie der Künste, Tanz im August , Festival of Future Nows, Studio Olafur Eliasson & his own different projects. As a spät passionate runner, he started his photographic career at the age of 29 by covering Berlin party events und alte heim. From 2008 to 2011, he joined Ostkreuzschule in Berlin to study photography. He developed an individual documentary style while focussing on social and politics issues, it´s staging and in the end, humanity. "Yeroo Kenyaa", his project about youth movement, took him to different citys in Ethiopia.

His most recent project and passion is Black in Berlin; 

When Breonna Taylor and George Floyd were murdered by police officers in 2020, the global protest movement Black Lives Matter got high attention. In Berlin, like many other places, people demonstrated their solidarity. Yero Adugna Eticha (b. in Oromia, Ethiopia; lives and works in Berlin) decided to get active and document Black life in Berlin. He walked through the streets of Berlin handing out flyers inviting Black people to be photographed by him. In the following two years, Adugna Eticha portrayed over 512 people, listened to their stories and learned the mundane but moving details of their lives during the encounters. 

Black in Berlin presents a selection of these encounters. They are 100 portraits of the multifaceted realities of the Black diaspora’s life in Berlin: the author, the opera singer, the white-collar single mom, and the pensioner. With a conversation between Yvette Mutumba and the artist.

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Working both behind and in front of the eye of the camera lens, artist Amy O'Riordan oversees every detail of costumes, make up, extensive setting up of props, settings and locations.

Her photographic images offer a privileged glimpse into an intimate world by challenging by gaze. O’Riordan presented a series of works that specifically addressed subverting gender roles, explored female empowerment and investigated the female gaze. Her work makes references to both the historical tradition of painting and popular culture to examine female identity.

In her more recent works she presents a series of intimate allegorical self portraits which she stages in her home in Clonsilla, Dublin which further examine complex questions regarding female gender as well as her own female identity. Her photographs again are staged, complete with photographic tableaux, make up with a strong element of performance and theatricality. By being both behind and in front of the eye of the camera, she maintains complete bodily autonomy of her own image and creates her very own visual language.

Ten years ago, O’Riordan experienced a life changing accident which left her with a permanent spinal injury, requiring nine spinal surgeries needing a bionic spinal implant and she lives with chronic nerve pain. By focusing and creating art professionally has given her a tremendous sense of joy, purpose and catharsis despite her physical challenges

Selected Solo exhibitions

2021, March“Intimations of Immortality” solo online photographic exhibition at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin March 2021

Selected Group exhibitions

2022,  Through the lens,  selections from the Limerick City Gallery of Art Permanent Collection. Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square, Limerick.

2022, The RHA 192ND Annual Exhibition, The RHA Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

2022, Opening the Gates, PhotoIreland Festival

2023, The RHA193rd Annual Exhibition, The RHA Gallery, Dublin.

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Tadhg Ó Cuirrín is an artist and teacher based in the west of Ireland.

He received a BA in Fine Art, Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. He works in a variety of media, and his work was recently shortlisted for the Hennessey Craig Award at the RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition. In November 2022 he will present new work at TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway. In March 2023 he will present a new exhibition at the Custom House Studios in Westport. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include "The Unexamined Life" in July 2021, and "Magic, Metallic Saliva” with Karen Conway at 126 Artist Run Gallery in March 2022.

His work is supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, the Arts Council of Ireland, and Galway County Council.

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James Earley produces abstracted figurative works that bring together traditions of painting, design and stained glass art.

James Earley (b. 1981), is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Earley's practice is rooted in graffiti, graphic design and his family's heritage in stained glass. He creates artworks that are timeless in their aesthetic and rich in their conceptual narrative.

The pieces are produced using digital tools to create analogue artworks. Fusing computer-aided fabrication with traditional hand-made techniques, he embraces technology to create complex, layered, highly charged compositions. Earley's principle aesthetic focus is to visualise deconstructed stained glass windows, where the architectural forms of the window (lead, glass) hang in suspended tension, depicted through a graphic language of line, colour and halftone forms.

Earley's work deals with wide ranging themes of power, societal imbalances, religion, politics and ultimately, the inhumanity of man. His artworks are a visual meditation and reflection of these themes.

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Liliane Puthod's practice often takes the form of large-scale installations and sculptures using both handmade and industrial materials as a way to confront archaeological and commodified times.

She appropriates and manipulates some of society’s existing modes of dissemination, display and production to subtly destabilize what she considers the fabrication of desire and subjectivity in relation to objecthood. Investigating the temporality of everyday life’s consumption, her work questions its perceived value within our globalised world.

Liliane Puthod, born in France lives and works in Dublin. She graduated from a Master in Fine Arts at HEAD Geneva in 2013.

Selected exhibitions include: Longest Way Round Shortest Way Home exhibited at the Dublin Port, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dissolving Histories: An Unreliable Presence, Golden Thread Gallery, curated by Mary Cremin and Peter Richards (2020); Display, Link and Cure, The Complex, curated by Paul McGrane and Mark O’Gorman (2019); How Long After Best Before, Pallas Projects/Studios (2019); Everything Must Go, PS2, Belfast (2019); Awards include; Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary (2019); Summer Studio Residency, TUD, Dublin (2019); Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain (FCAC) Geneva (2015); Fire Station Sculpture Workshop Award (2014).

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At the core of Andrew Carson’s practice is the exploration of the body and interpersonal interactions through the mediums of digital technology. Examining social structures, systems, and methods of communication, he is interested in the use and effects of digital devices and social media as the modern ubiquitous means of contact.

Influenced by Transhumanist thought, questions that continuously arise for Carson include; how do we reconcile virtual and physical realities, and can we overcome the psychological distances inherent in digital interaction? 

Carson’s work is installation based, often as a response to, and in conversation with, specified spaces. He works in a variety of media, including digital sound and image, print, and paper

Andrew Carson is based in Dublin, recently finished an MFA in NCAD in 2019, having graduated from DIT with a BA Fine Art in 2010. He has shown in solo and group exhibitions extensively around Ireland, the UK, Greece, Italy, Spain, Poland and Japan. His work is featured in private and the OPW state

collections.

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Alex Keatinge is a Visual Artist working across sculpture and photography.

With mould making and photography being key tools in her practice, her work often explores the commonalities between the two and draws upon the intrapersonal and the material extended self to create objects that pace the line between knowingness and uncertainty.

Selected exhibitions

2024 Early Plastic, Green Service two person online show

2023 art Works! PP/S, Irish Georgian Society, Dublin

2022 Deliverables, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin

2022 You Breathe Differently Down Here, Draiocht, Blanchardstown

2019/2020 Periodical Review #9 , Pallas Projects/Studios , Dublin City

Keatinge lives and works between Kildare and Dublin. She is currently supported by the Arts Council Agility Award (2023). 

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Audrey Rangel Aguirre is an Interdisciplinary Mexican artist based in England, researching at the intersection of art and science, focusing on artistic intuition to create new systems and speculative scenarios that belong to the future of human civilisation. Currently developing the research project Terras Lux, focusing on the relation between energy on microbial microecosystems on soil and the energy on human body.

The core and intellectual structure of my project Terras Lux is the energy as electricity produced by microbial ecosystems on soil related with the energy of the human body, I present soil as a natural source of renewable energy that will be the future technology on future systems for human civilisation.

Currently creating a body of work that has been developed as the outcome of the ongoing collaboration between the artist and astrobiologist Marta Filipa Simões, exploring her current scientific research on metal nanoparticles and the emergent field of astromycology.

The collaboration has originated exciting and interesting projects as the creation of speculative materials developed with fungal resources, as well as photographic documentation, texts, experiments, digital images and has bridged the artist’s current project Terras Lux with notions of astrobiology, situating the project into a vision that connects the microscopic dimension of microorganisms on earth with the macrocosm, the vast universe and space.

The current convergence of art and science may be the key to unlock new possibilities and the development of human consciousness towards the next phase of civilisation. In my research, I allow myself to free artistic intuition in order to power and enhance scientific research with the aim of the creation of new systems that belong to the future of human civilisation, in which, with the collaboration of other beings like microbes and ecosystems, a new way of living and collaborating between all beings on Earth can be achieved, through reciprocity.

Audrey Rangel Aguirre in her own words; "I use creative intuition as a tool to create speculative scenarios that may be a possibility for our nearest future as society, and entangle it with diverse branches of science as biology, biotechnology, microbiology, energy harvesting technology, physics, philosophy and spirituality. Intuition, reciprocity and caring for others as a way for weaving politics, poetics, and consequences through contemporary art practices."

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Belfast-based artist Helena Hamilton works both visually and sonically. Her practice crosses the lines between creating objects, sound, digital interaction, and action/performance. Her current research focuses on creating works between digital and physical environments while negotiating the relationship between the sonic and visual. 

Helena has previously exhibited and performed in both gallery spaces and contemporary music/sound festivals across UK & Ireland as well as Berlin, Rome, Tokyo and New York.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Virtual Matter [Ambient], Naughton Gallery, Belfast, NI (2022); Semblance and Event, Millennium Court Arts Centre, NI/The Agency Gallery, London (2018). Showcases include: Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2017). Recent artist residencies include: Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2016); Goldsmiths University of London, EAVI Group (2015).

Helena received an MA in Sonic Arts (Queens University Belfast, 2014) and holds a BA Honours degree in Fine Art (University of Ulster, 2009). She is currently completing a PhD at Sonic Arts Research Centre, QUB. 

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Mundy is an Irish singer-songwriter and founder of the independent record label Camcor Records.

He released his debut album Jelly Legs in 1996 on the Epic Records label. The album included the song "To You I Bestow", which was featured on the best-selling soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation Romeo + Juliet.

In 2000, Mundy was dropped by Epic while working on his second album, The Moon is a Bullethole, which was about to be recorded. Although a four-track EP of that title was released, much of the material for the canceled album was eventually incorporated into 24 Star Hotel, Mundy's 2002 album.

24 Star Hotel was released on Camcor Records, a label Mundy himself set up, primarily funded by his royalties from the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack.

In 2003, Mundy also contributed to Afro Celt Sound System's album Seed, as well as to Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1, with a cover version of the Shakira song Whenever, Wherever, in which the two words in the title are reversed.

In May 2004, Mundy released his third album, Raining Down Arrows, recorded with producer Mark Addison at The Aerie studio in Austin, Texas. It entered the Irish Albums Chart at No. 1, the record having since gone platinum. He toured the UK with songwriting legend Jimmy Webb, and continued to win-over Irish audiences whilst making UK appearances with Richard Hawley, and gaining Irish support slots with The White Stripes and Oasis.

In 2006, Mundy recorded a live album and DVD called Live & Confusion at Vicar Street, Dublin. It contains all of his best-known songs such as "Gin & Tonic Sky", "Mexico", "July", "To You I Bestow", "By Her Side" and "Love & Confusion". The album also contained an encore of "Galway Girl", a Steve Earle-penned song that Clare accordionist Sharon Shannonhad recorded with the author years before.

In 2008 Mundy continually guested with Sharon Shannon's Big Band alongside Damien Dempsey and Shane MacGowan, turning up at The Glastonbury Festival as well as touring Ireland and the UK.

In 2009 Mundy recorded his fourth studio album, Strawberry Blood, with Irish producer Joe Chester, and mixed a number of tracks with UK producer Andy Bradfield. The album featured contributions from Shane MacGowanand Gemma Hayes and was released worldwide on iTunes with a bonus download video.

The album went into the Irish charts at No.14. During the sessions for Strawberry Blood, Mundy recorded several cover versions with Joe Chester, including Bob Dylan's Buckets Of Rain, Neil Young's Ohio and Simon and Garfunkel's Kathy's Song. These cover versions went on to be released on the follow-up, 2011's Shuffle.

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Matthew Coll is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He graduated from NCAD’s Fine Art Painting BA in 2022 and work predominantly in Painting, Sculpture and Installation. 

His practice explores the experience of "Being" and Memory, with recent work focusing on the subject matter of crowds. Utilising AI-image generation tools, found imagery and photography throughout his daily life as a starting point for source imagery.

His paint actual and imagined gatherings, ranging from joyous raves to monotonous commutes and turbulent riots. His aim to depict a reality slipping away, where Real and Unreal become indistinguishable. Distorting the image's origin through the painting process, often dragging and scraping paint across the surface and occasionally deconstructing structural components, pursuing a simultaneous harmony and conflict between points of representation and abstraction.

His work is part of several collections, including the OPW, St. Vincent’s University Hospital and Teeling Whiskey Distillery. They were awarded NCAD’s Clancy Quay Studio Graduate Residency Award 2023 / 2024, The Arts Council’s 2023 Agility Award & Fingal County Council's 2023 Artists' Support Scheme Bursary. 

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The studio painting practice at the centre of O’Kelly’s artistic research demonstrates a sustained engagement with theories of materiality, representation, reproduction, display and quotation, towards investigations around questions of cognitive representation and the inherent psychological poetry of the image. The imagined public spaces that result within this architecture of pictures narrate consciousness-formation in the public interaction within contemporary cosmetic image cultures. 

Mark O’Kelly lives and works in Dublin and Limerick. He attended the National College of Art and Design and Slade School of Fine Art, London.

Recent selected exhibitions include Dubliners, 6th Biennial of Paintings Zagreb 2021, Ghosts From The Recent Past, Irish Museum Of Modern Art IMMA 2021, Its Very New School, Rua Red 2017, RHA Annual exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, invited artist, 2018.

Collections, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland, AIB Bank, Bank of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Athlone Institute of Technology, AXA Insurance, OPW Office of Public Works, Microsoft, Boyle Civic Collection, University College Dublin and Private collections in Ireland, UK and USA.

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Neil Dunne, an artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland, embarks on a multifaceted exploration at the intersection of art and the urban landscape, drawing inspiration from the profound ideas of Guy Debord and the Situationist International.

His expanded print practice serves as a research vehicle, delving into the amalgamation of printed matter and paint, with a keen awareness of the distinct abilities each medium possesses to respond to the built environment.

Informed by the Situationist ethos, Dunne's work becomes a dynamic inquiry into the psychogeography of urban spaces, seeking to unravel the layers of memory, social movements, and sub-cultural tropes embedded within the cityscape. His research methodologies pivot on a profound sense of place, evolving from practical studies of physical space and expanding into urban semiotics and sub-cultural influences.

As an alum of The National College of Art and Design, where he earned his BA in 2014 and was awarded the NCAD Postgraduate Scholarship from 2015-2017.

Dunne's artistic journey has been marked by notable exhibitions, including The VUE Art Fair in 2018, where he earned a nomination for the Savilles Art Prize. His contributions extend globally, with exhibitions in Dublin, Hong Kong, and his works being collected by esteemed institutions and private collectors alike.

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Alison Pilkington in her own words;

"In my painting practice I tap into my inner world and personal experiences to conjure up strange and unsettling worlds where all is not entirely at ease. Humour, the absurd and private jokes abound in strange unsettling landscapes. Bizarre figures are recurring motifs. They can be viewed as tragi-comic and quasi- philosophical in tone. I strive to communicate a range of thoughts and emotions through the medium of painting.

 My work draws from a variety of eclectic influences from ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture.  From the classical painting of the 17th century western traditions to the writing of Stephen King and the humourist Ivor Cutler and the stories of James Joyce.  I frequently return to motifs and imagery and reuse and rework them into other paintings. I consider my paintings as visual and philosophical problem solving. I always focus on how imagery interacts with the intrinsic qualities of paint, how the paint material moves and how it can be played with. The quality of paint handling, although seemingly casual, is a result of repeated attempts at getting something 'right'.

My work has been included in key international painting exhibitions including the Marmite Painting Prize London , and the BEEP international painting Biennial Swansea as well as part of international private and public collections in Ireland OPW, UCD, Bank of Ireland, Wexford Co.Council,and  in private collections in Ireland The UK  the USA and Europe."

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Paddy Casey received his first guitar when he was 12 and left home soon after and began busking and gigging for about 12 years. At about the age of 24 he was approached by Sony A&R Scout Hugh Murray at the International Bar in Dublin, while performing at the singer/songwriter night hosted by Dave Murphy. Sony gave Casey some studio time in Sun Studios Dublin where he recorded 9 tracks in 2 days. Sony decided that they liked the tracks so much that they wanted to release them as they were. They offered Paddy a recording contract. He was signed by Sony, and was eventually taken in by U2's management company, Principle Management.

Casey released his first album Amen (So Be It) in 1999. This album was produced by Pat Donne and was certified triple platinum in Ireland and did fairly well worldwide. "Sweet Suburban Sky" surfaced the following year on the soundtrack to the award-winning US TV teen drama Dawson’s Creek. Casey received nominations for Best Irish Songwriter and Best Male Singer at the Hot Press Awards. Touring saw Casey providing support to artists such as R.E.M, Ian Brown, Ani DiFranco and The Pretenders.

Casey returned in 2003 with the multi-platinum album, Living. It was produced by Fred De Faye, Paddy Casey and Pat Donne. It spawned the Irish Singles Chart hits "Saints and Sinners", "The Lucky One" (in 2003), plus "Bend Down Low" and "Want It Can't Have It" (in 2004). Living spent the majority of the year in the top ten, climbing to the top of the Irish Albums Chart 21 weeks after its initial release.

In 2005, Casey toured extensively in Ireland and abroad; highlights including a headline concert at the Heineken Green Energy Festival and also supported U2 on their Vertigo tour, performing in Ireland, Scotland and Norway.

In 2006, Casey went to Los Angeles, California, United States, to record with George Drakoulias, who had worked at the Def Jamlabel with Rick Rubin. He toured the album extensively and also toured with KT Tunstall and Augustana amongst others.

On 3 April 2008, Casey performed on the Late Show with David Letterman.

After returning from the US, Casey chose to part ways with Sony and Paul McGuinness, and for the next few years he began writing and recording at home. In November 2012, he released his first independent album The Secret Life Of. The first single, "Wait", featuring the Shannon Gospel Choir, was released in May 2012. Casey toured in Ireland and abroad for the last few years with frequent visits to Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

In November 2016, Casey released the single "Everything Must Change". This was the first taster taken from Casey's then forthcoming sixth album. In July 2017, Casey released "Turn This Ship Around", the second single from this forthcoming album.

Paddy Casey's double album Turn This Ship Around was released on August 6, 2021. Turn This Ship Around has one side focusing on an array of acoustic songs decorated with strings and piano, and the other side featuring an array of full band tracks that span multiple genres.

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Using video installation, photography, music composition and writing, Jaki Irvine explores the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us, a process which, for Irvine, has both philosophical and political implications.

Jaki Irvine has written many critical texts and short writings on other artists work in the past, including Extinction Beckons, for Mike Nelson, a book commissioned by Matts Gallery. In 2013 she wrote Days of Surrender, her first novel, published by Copy Press, UK.

Irvine is represented in the collections of IMMA, the Irish Arts Council, Tate Modern, FRAC and in numerous other collections, both public and private. In 2014 her permanent photographic commission, Shot in Mexico, was installed in the Deutsche Bank in Dublin.

In September, 2016, she presented If the Ground Should Open, a major new commission for the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. This was then shown at Frith Street Gallery, London, in 2017.

She is a member of Aosdana and an artist advisor at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam.

She is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.

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Colin Martin was born in Dublin in 1973.

He graduated from DIT in Fine Art- Painting in 1994 and completed a post-graduate year in printmaking in 2005. He completed an MFA at the National College of Art and Design in 2010. He lives and works in Dublin. In 2008 he was elected an associate member of the RHA.

He has been the recipient of numerous Awards including, in 2008 Thomas Dammann Travel Award; 2005 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, 2005 RHA Hennessy Craig Scholarship, 2004 Golden Flee ce Merit Award, 2004 Travel Bursary Arts Council of Ireland, 2000 Tony O’ Malley Travel Award.

Colin Martin’s work is included in several important public and corporate collections including the OPW, AIB, Kelly's Hotel Rosslare, Boyle civic collection, Chester Beatty Library and ESB.

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Colin is currently curating RDS Visual Arts Awards show, opens on 22nd November 2024. For more information, follow Colin Martin on Instagram @colinmartin81

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Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.

Welch creates gestural, atmospheric paintings that attest to the psychical and emotional depths of his chosen subjects and map out delicate negotiations between beauty, desire, and the painted image. Depicting figures from his own milieu, as well as from history, literature, music, and tennis,

Welch finds feeling in that which he depicts, always rendered with the intensity of his particular humanism; a close looking akin to love. In each subject’s specificity, the artist reveals the universal feelings that connect us to each other, and that stretch from our present moment back through time.

Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011.

He has since been widely exhibited internationally and received numerous awards. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.

His paintings are in private and public collections such as the Arts Council, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane and the OPW - State Art Collection.

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Lar O’Toole is interested in an art/science interface and the cultural and psychological effects of expanded seeing; the insights into inner and outer space afforded to science by the application of lenses since the late 16th century.

The shift away from a heliocentric cosmology at this time spurred scientific inquiry and decentred mankind within the universe. Lar is drawn to the dilemmas that arise when considering our cosmic significance or insignificance.

His recent work and research explores the compression of astronomical distances and timescales relative to the human experience.

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Liz Nielsen lives and works in Brooklyn and Newburgh, NY.

Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997.

Nielsen's works have been reviewed in Artforum, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The British Journal of Photography, The New York Times, LensCulture, FOAM Magazine, and ArtSlant among others.

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Camille O'Sullivan is an Irish singer, musician, and actress.

Born in London to a French mother and Irish father, she grew up in Cork, Ireland. O'Sullivan is known for her unique, dramatic musical style and covers of artists such as Radiohead, Tom Waits and David Bowie. As an actress, O'Sullivan has appeared in Mrs. Henderson Presents, Rebellion and Pick Ups.

The award-winning singer - one of the original cast members of the Olivier Award-winning La Soiree- has stunned audiences around the world with her sell-out performances including Sydney Opera House, London’s Royal Festival Hall,The Roundhouse and a show-stealing appearance on Later with Jools Holland BBC. Recently she sold out her 10 night run at Sydney Festival where she won a prestigious Australian Helpmann Award ‘Best Performance’.

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Gabhann Dunne is an Irish artist working with all kinds of subjects, from Landscape Paintings to Portraits. Using soft colour palettes and thick brushstrokes, Gabhann creates Oil Paintings with a romantic and poetic quality. Rich in colour and texture, his art is an examination of various different themes, ranging from power structures to the marginalisation of animals and their spaces. This Animal Art is a celebration of our natural environment and ultimately a defence of them that urges us to reconsider our relationship with nature.

Gabhann was born into an artistic environment. His mother was a Watercolour Painter, which encouraged him to explore his creative side from a young age. He went on to study a BA in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1997, and returned to his studies 13 years later to complete a MA in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. His work incorporates elements of the Abstract and the Figurative, and has been featured in solo and group shows across Ireland.

You'll find Gabhann's Paintings in numerous notable collections, such as Facebook, Deloitte and the Law Society of Ireland.

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Mark Joyce is an artist based in Dublin.

He studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA, received awards from The British Council, Thomas Damman Trust and the Georgette Chen fellowship in 2016.

His work is in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Arts Council collections. 

In his painting, public commissions and teaching, he explores some of the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our human visual experience, inspired by ideas drawn from science and philosophy. 

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Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in London.

Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist begins her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, offering attentive studies of bedding and clothing, the intimate textures of our lives.

Through the artist’s reflections, these prosaic materials open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming, articulating the creatively fertile space between ‘conscious’ and ‘unconscious’. Tomasko’s approach to abstraction is rooted, therefore, in the physical realm but ultimately transcends beyond it. Fusing material observation with intuition and association, the artist produces vigorous, imaginative expressions of familiar environments and psychological states. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories.

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Peter Richards is an artist based in Belfast, in the North of Ireland. He works in a range of media including forms of photography, installation and performance. His works can be seen as artistic enquiries into subjects, such as: how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed to; how we have the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to continue believing in chosen truths. 

Richards often engages with interactions between re-presentation, time and referencing. He exhibits internationally and, in 2005, participated in Northern Ireland’s inaugural presentation at the Venice Biennale, ‘The Nature of Things – A Long Weekend’. 

Having grappled with comprehending how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed to, Richards has, throughout his practice, questioned: how he chooses what he believes?; how this is informed?; and how he can suspend disbelief in order to continue to believe in seemingly temporary constructs of a truth?

Often early works took as their starting point an engagement with forms of mediated experience, such as: how he could defer questioning the edits in movies in order to enjoy and believe in a filmic reality?; or how a combination of text and/or image influenced his thinking. 

He has been director of the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast since 2001.

Richards has had solo exhibitions at venues including: Millennium Court Art Centre, Portadown; ZDSLU gallery, Ljubljana; The Naughton Gallery, Belfast; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Studio Lipoli & Lopez, Rome; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo;

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Born 1976, London, UK MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK. Lives and Works in Malmö, Sweden, Alex Hudson is a contemporary artist whose body of work is deeply rooted in the history of painting. 

More specifically, Hudson creates mesmerising images that very often draw from the work of the old masters up until early forms of Modernism. He does so in a way that when looking at his work there is a simultaneous sense of strangeness as well as familiarity —his imagery is purposely ambiguous which allows the artist to flirt with notions of belonging and displacement. Alex Hudson’s work is somehow a conceptual inquiry on painting itself, an entanglement of approaches and veiled references that crystallises in scenes, portraits or landscapes where allegories and refined philosophical ideas coexist with humorous, explicit or vulgar images.

Even the most anecdotal motifs find themselves a suitable place in Hudson’s compositions —it is indeed his technical dexterity that makes each and every one of his paintings a truly enjoyable experience Hudson imbues his oeuvre with a strong psychological charge that is intensified by the characters and the scenes he chooses to depict which tend to be outcasts, acrobats or nomads usually performing intimate or domestic activities.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 - Guru, Galleri Fredland, Arild, SE

2021 - Anytime Now, New Art Projects, London, UK

2018 - Mute Monolith Reflector, Apartment Projects, Zermatt, CH

2015 - The Promise, Kremanskis, Berlin, DE

2010 - Golden Mean, Vegas Gallery, London, UK

Awards

2009 - Whitechapel Gallery, Studio Bursary

2008 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Collections

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, USA

Hugo and Carla Brown Collection, NL

Private Collections

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Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen. 

She describes her process as ‘experimental’ and is interested in exploring digitally native and new forms of art. Her work often addresses and critiques themes arising from identity, place and the biopolitical body. 

She works through a wide variety of mediums such as, virtual reality, artificial intelligent systems, programming, video, installation and live remote cyber performance.

Selected exhibitions include; Bone Of What Absent Thing, Living Canvas, Wilton Park (2022-2023); Prosthetic Knowledge, The Glucksman (2022); Screentime, SilentGreen, Berlin (2022); Mimesis, at Solstice Art Center Navan (2021); Desire; A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin (2019-2020); Unflattering at The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (2020) and Citizen Nowhere Citizen Somewhere at The Crawford Gallery, Cork (2020); The Dictionary of Evil, Gangwon International Biennale, South Korea (2018); Design and Violence MOMA and Science Gallery (2016-17); Dublin Futures, The RHA, Dublin; Turbulence, The Model Sligo; Oracle at Scena9. Bucharest (2018); Open Codes, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany; Surface Tension, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2018); FILE SP Fiesp Cultural Centre, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); This is not Architecture (2017) at Highlanes, Drogheda; The Ground Opened Up, The National Sculpture Factory, Cork (2017); 

Elaine is a recipient of the Taylor Art Award and the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award and the CCI Residency Award from the RDS Visual Arts Awards. She is a part time lecturer in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

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Contemporary visual artist Niall Cullen, formerly know as Kurb Junki, holds a first class honours degree in sculpture from the NCAD, Dublin. 

In his early days as a street artist and filmmaker, Kurb Junki spent years spreading his signature hand-drawn hamburger motifs which populate the various surfaces of Dublin's inner city.

His work investigates themes around identity, public space, mark making, re-appropriation of data and imagery while he also explores a collaborative practice with other artists, relevant acquaintances, familiars and the public.

In recent years artist Niall Cullen’s journey has led him towards the exploration of spiritual growth completely disassociated from any form of organised religion.

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