Angelica Santander

I am a Clown originally from Chile and living in Ireland since 2002. I studied Acting in Chile and I continue with my development as an artist in Ireland completing a Technical theatre course 2005 and a master’s degree in Theatre studies in 2009. The same year I started working as a clown and in 2013 I started my training in the Pochinko Method, “clown through mask”, with Sue Morrison. This training revolutionised my understanding of the art of clowning and brought my practice towards a higher artistic level, its main principle is:

If we ever face all directions of ourselves at once we could only laugh at the beauty of our own ridiculousness.

Following this principle, I am interested in the creation of original work that reveals the essence of our humanity in a genuine and abandoned way, creations that speak and deal with themes that are relevant to our times. I want to connect with an audience and bring my personal experience in the performance of universal themes.
Furthermore, utilising theatrical and clown techniques I want to investigate and develop the interconnection between theatre, clown and Circus arts. I believe that Circus arts are the forefront of contemporaneous performance arts and that the general public is thirsty for more.

My work is based on the ethos of hard work, commitment, respect, consistency, discipline, free expression and fun.

Anthony D Kelly

Anthony D Kelly is a Writer, Visual Artist and Psychotherapist. He is currently based in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. He works mainly with Collage and Poetry techniques to create hopeful, humorous and deeply satirical work. He has experience as a Gallery Administrator and Project Facilitator from his time at Basement Project Space, an artist-led initiative which was part of the cultural fabric of Cork City, Ireland (2009-2012). Anthony was selected as the Kolaj Institutes World Collage Day artist 2023. He has exhibited across Ireland, Europe and in the U.S.A. He has delivered workshops and lectures in Ireland, Brussels and Warsaw. His work has featured in many publications including ‘Empty Columns are a Place to Dream’ from Kasini House. He has work in the permanent collections of Mayo County Council, The Kolaj Institute, New Orleans, USA and The Henry Sheldon Museum, Vermont, USA. He has studied Arts Administration, Arts Participation and Global Development and Humanistic Psychotherapy. Anthony is greatly interested in the Arts as an effective method for seeking beyond the known to formulate the new. He is deeply interested in the creative interplay between literature and visual art, the quality of wonder, and their roles in promoting positive mental health.

Aoife Carrigy

Aoife is a food, drinks and travel writer and editor, wine columnist, co-author of cookbooks, curator and host of live drinks events, and post-grad researcher of the culture of Irish pubs.

Austin Ivers

Austin Ivers is a Galway based artist and educator, lecturing in Contemporary Art at GMIT. Having initially studied printmaking in LSAD and CCAD, his practice has been almost exclusively digital (durational and still) objects for over 20 years. Austin has had one-person shows in the Galway Arts Centre, 126 and the Dock, Carrick-on Shannon and exhibited in group shows including the RHA Annual & Tulca.

Ben Mc Cabe

Ben Mc Cabe is a graduate of the Dublin School of Architecture DIT, Lund University Sweden, the University of Ulster, the University of Wales and Trinity – St Davids. He has commenced a PhD in Leeds.
His practice is centred on architecture and art. He has been shortlisted for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, the Rome Prize, Bloom Award, Law into Art at UCD amongst others.
Ben has been a Research Fellow at CSC UH in urban design and food security, a Grad Fellow of the PFBC in urban sustainability and an architectural designer at Foster+Partners London. He has also been the Course Director for the British Academy of Garden Design. Ben is interested in the empty places of rural Ireland; landscapes, abandoned homes, neglected farms, forgotten myths and lore. Through drawing, paint or photography, these rural identities are translated into craft, painting, installation or sculpture; evoking a deep sense of place.
Ben’s drawings, paintings and designs have been exhibited all over the world. He believes that an ability to draw by hand is fundamental to all design and art practice.

Billy Dante

Billy Dante’s work explores the mirrored effect of art as life and life as art, fascinated by the spectacle and theatricality of every aspect of our existence. The work creates a primitive/ritualistic environment in the modern world, highlighting and observing aspects of everyday life to the extent that they become bigger then life. Through the blending of different points of reference, Dante’s practice develops a unique language of expression, in this the viewer feels lost and found all at the same time. The viewer picks up on moments of recognition, but these moments are fleeting and quickly dissolve into the hum of experience. As one grapples for meaning, they are placed outside of their comfort zone and therefore become open to broadened thoughts. The work speaks for the importance of forgotten languages as forms of expression, sounds that have lost their meaning but carry power like a mantra or prayer. The meaninglessness reflects the uselessness of art, taking reference from Oscar Wilde’s, A Picture of Dorian Gray, (‘the only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely’). The work has an intensity that speaks for the empowerment of art, the ability to take simplicity (objects such as the telephone directory) and making them the source of profound feeling. Inspired by the great Irish literary figures Wilde, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, this work intends to stand for art’s ability not to reflect or define the human condition, but once this work is experienced the viewer knows less about life and more about existence.

Bob Campbell

“to find for each person those umbilical cords that put us in communication with other suns“

Roberto Matta

Capulet & Montague

Capulet & Montague has gained a strong following among women who appreciate her acute boldness and purity of design; her work has gone on to feature in numerous magazines, editorial shoots and features partnered with pieces ranging from haute couture to established Irish designers.

Winner of the 2015 IFIA award for Irish Jewellery designer of the year.
Winner of the 2015 IFIA award in all categories for Innovation.
Winner of 2019 Irish made jewellery designer of the year.

Ciara Scanlan

Ciara Scanlan is an Artist and Curator based in Dublin. She holds a Masters in Art in the Digital World from NCAD Dublin and graduated from Crawford College of art in 2005 with a First class BA in Fine Art. In her Art practice she is interested in the ever-present force of the media and its ability to both unify and segregate society. Ciara works primarily through the medium of Video, performance, web based interventions. She is a founding Director of MART since 2007; a multidisciplinary arts organisation that is committed to the development and promotion of Contemporary Visual Arts.

Claire Prouvost

Claire Prouvost is a French visual artist based in Dublin. Her colourful, bold and minimal style is inspired by the cubist art movement. She loves to diversify her practice and work on a variety of mediums, from digital illustration, acrylic painting to large-scale murals and street art. She likes to explore the complexity of relationships and human interactions, telling stories through colours, deconstructed figures, intuitive lines and expressive shapes. Her art is celebrating diversity, the female form and shared human experiences.

Colleen Keough

Colleen Keough is an Integrated Media Artist working across multiple disciplines and genres of expression. Her work explores poetic-feminisms and phenomena associated with identity, technology, voice, mythos, and the natural world. These investigations take shape as multimedia performances, 2D visual art, animations, video projections and installations, audio recordings, and digital art works. Colleen is an award winning artist and creative writer and has taught and mentored artists in higher education for over a decade. Her works have been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally.

Conor Burke

My artistic practice deals with the dialectical processes inherent in the realm of the built environment. Through my work, I seek to unravel the complex interplay between change and power relations that shape our built environment. The built environment serves as a reflection of our society’s values, aspirations, and power structures. It is a physical manifestation of the dialectical relationship between those who hold power and those who are subject to it. My artistic exploration delves into the various layers of this relationship, highlighting the subtle negotiations, conflicts, and compromises that occur during processes of change. In my practice, I employ a variety of mediums, including sculpture, installation, drawing and mixed media, to capture and convey the complexities of this process. Through the juxtaposition of materials, forms, and narratives, I seek to create thought-provoking visual experiences that invite viewers to reflect upon the power dynamics at play within the built environment. Ultimately, my artistic practice seeks to stimulate contemplations about the dialectical processes of change and power relations in the built environment. By capturing the nuances and complexities of these dynamics through artistic expression, I hope to encourage viewers to question, challenge, and envision alternative futures that challenge the status quo.

Conor Burke

My work is predominantly focused on exploring systemic themes, be they social, political, lingual, material or meta-physical, within which I seek to highlight social relations and the dialectical interactions that are the source of change within the world. A key theme that underpins much of my work is the concept of power and class and how that finds expression in the structures that we create as a society and how it is reflected in the built environment around us. l often make drawings and paintings of specific buildings with a certain social significance and then layer them with multiple perspectives, abstracting the image to an extent in order to give expression to a deeper social meaning such as class consciousness or our relation to nature or the likes. These more philosophical concerns act mainly as a point of embarkation but which also fuel the evolution of my work throughout the creative process.

My work is often based on certain vexations towards the systemic forces that dominate contemporary society, but rather than concentrating on the negative associations of this, I prefer to look at the positive potentiality for progressive change. My work up to this point has consciously excluded figurative representations of the human form, as I’m more concerned with expressing the structural nature of systemic oppression that exist, rather than the subjective or individualistic experiences that each of us go through. My work possesses a strong Marxian influence which often underpins the social expression that I am aiming to incorporate into the work. These concerns are more about my own subjective input, they act as the driving force that under pins my creative process. My work tends to look at the common threads that exist between our manufactured environment and that of the natural world and the symbiotic structures that exist within this relationship.

Aesthetic concerns play a significant role in how the work finds expression, these deeper social and philosophical concerns at a certain point give way to the simplicity of creating a visually pleasing image or structure. Aesthetics I feel It are important with regard to our collective need for order and symmetry in relation to making a connection with the viewer. Which in essence is actually a material reflection of these deeper systemic themes that I an attempting to address. My work often tends to start off with a simple image, design or text that appeals to me, and through a process of drawing or writing it evolves and incorporates various different elements throughout, I tend not to start off with a comprehensive plan but rather a loose outline and I just let the project evolve as I go, this method allows the work to take on a life of its own which can lead to sometimes unexpected and interesting results.

Conor Nolan

Conor Nolan is an illustrator currently based in Dublin. You can spot Conor’s work through its bold shapes and bright, limited colour palettes inspired by the aesthetics of different analog making techniques such as screen printing and collage. Conor’s work consists of a graphic depiction of a variety of characters and motifs, with interesting expressions, inky lines, and a distinct textured appearance.

Dani Gill

Dani is a writer, curator and creative producer based in the west of Ireland. She was the Director of Cúirt International Festival of Literature (2011-2016) and has also worked with Galway Theatre Festival, Ennis Bookclub Festival, Decadent Theatre Company, Words Ireland, County Councils, Arts Centres and venues nationwide.
In 2017 her debt poetry collection After Love was published by Salmon Poetry and went on to be made into a dance/theatre show that premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in 2021. Her next collection Lessons in Kindness will be published in Spring 2023. She also writes fiction and is currently under commission to write a theatre piece.
In 2022 she founded Match in the Dark, a writer support and advocacy platform.
She is also the Artistic Director of The Lighthouse Project, a site-specific collaborative process where artists respond to lighthouses and their environments around Ireland.

David Whelan

Whelan’s work is uniquely his own, mixing humour and surrealism to make fun, colourful, funny artwork. Whelan originally studied Printmaking but has now branched out into a variety of different mediums, including creating comics, 3D artwork and digital art. Whelan uses a mixture of dreams, his own background and storytelling to influence and create his unique pieces of art.

Derval Tubridy

My practice is process-based abstract painting that responds to liminal environments and contested epistemologies. Recent projects explore painting as a forensic practice (Solo Exhibition Adjacency, No Format Gallery 2017), and extreme geological environments (Lithosphere, current project). I publish critical writing (Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity CUP 2018), and participate in collaborative projects (Art Writing at the Royal Court Theatre 2014; The Joseph Boshier Collective, Standpoint Gallery Hoxton 2013; Land | Labour | Capital, Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2013), and am currently investigating neurodiversity in performance and practice through collaborations with Touretteshero and DYSPLA. I am a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Edward Sheehy

Edward is our Operations & Finance Manager. He knows all the buildings inside out and here to answer any of your questions on our wonderful portfolio of studios. He has a background in Animation and Illustration.

Eoin Heaney

Eoin is an award winning filmmaker. He writes and directs projects together with writer / producer Nora Windeck. They are Highly Stimulating Productions.

Fontana Shelter

Fontana Shelter’ carries on with the art activity of Italian Painter Luigi Fontana. FS is a member of West Ox Arts Gallery in Bampton, Oxfordshire Artweeks in Oxford, Jaamzin Creative Studio in Singapore, Parallax Art Fair in London and Saatchi Art in London and Los Angeles.  As a represented artist at Opulent Art Gallery in London and Artsy in New York,  FS was  protagonist of two Solo Showcases in 2024: the first one dedicated to Sir Matt Busby’s 30th death Anniversary 1994-2024, the second entitled ‘A Journey to Loch Fyne and Northumberland’ in tribute to Inveraray , Bamburgh , Haddington, Lindisfarne, Alnwick  and Dunbar. FS is proudly supported by DOWNTON GAZETTE cultural website and is the illustrator of their latest books: ‘Shining Ocean’, exalting Irish Playwrights and Musicians and celebrating Shining City Play by Conor McPherson, and ‘Guiding Light: Sir Busby. Feat. Mr Bates’, a breathtaking homage to resilient historical hero Matt Busby from Bellshill and the resilient imaginary Downton Abbey character Mr Bates (phenomenally performed by Actor Brendan Coyle, Busby’s great nephew). Both books on Amazon.  FS featured in an awesome VOD on ITVX ANGLIA in 2024  with Downton Gazette. Also on OX LOVES, FYNE TOWNS and  OX MAG

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Gavan Duffy

I am a trained artist and designer living in Dublin. My work is primarily the result of a need to paint. Though acrylic is my favourite medium, I also work with oils, gouache, metallic leaf, ink and charcoal. My ultimate goal is to seek feeling, and be unafraid to share what I find. In recent years my work has been mainly commissioned by private clients.

Georgina Diaz

Specialized in Historical Costumes for the Television and Film Industry, Georgina Diaz is a Fashion & Textile Designer from the NCAD in Dublin. Passionately interested in all History related subjects and particularly in the fashionable garments as material culture of any given period of time.

Georgina Kendall

Handmade to order, sustainable womenswear designer. Collections are fashion-forward, timeless and unique, using 100% natural fabrics. Every piece is handcrafted start to finish by Georgina and her sewing machine.

Grace Sexton

Grace is an independent filmmaker and film producer from Dublin. She studied film studies n Sweden and subsequently obtained a degree in Film and TV Production. She is interested in ecological filmmaking and documentary.

Hilary Morley

Hilary Morley is a mixed media artist. She specialises in collage, painting and drawing. She reflects personal experiences in her work, sometimes through dramatic representations of landscape and the familiar sights of rural county Galway. She has exhibited widely, and has curated national touring exhibitions for multi-disciplinary artists. She is a member of Interface Inagh in Connemara and and Visual Artists Ireland.

Irene Uhlemann

Primarily a painter Uhlemann also makes artists books. She frequently uses words as a springboard for ideas; the lyricism of poetry and the fluidity of paint and mark-marking complement each other.

Jeanne Sheridan

I am originally from Galway and became heavily influenced by the landscapes and colours around me. My family and I moved to NEw Zealand 4 years ago and since my arrival I have loved indulging my curiosity in the natural landscape. New Zealand has a lot in common with Ireland with its ruggedness and vibrancy. I completed my diploma in ceramics through Otago polytechnic in Auckland studio potters and have been teaching local pottery classes for the past 2 years in Auckland. On my return to the emerald isles, The continued focus of my works will be an exploration of the world around us and the textural elements found in the natural environment.

Jessica Checkley

I completed my studies in 3D design, model making and digital arts in 2019 and during my time there I learned to work with a wide variety of materials and tools. This combined with the skills and knowledge I’ve gained as a wax work technician and mold maker in bronze art has influenced the work I create today. My sculpture is intricate and detailed and I like to explore my practice by producing work in a variety of materials through experimentation. The context of my work is inspired by a lot of film, mythology and science fiction. I would describe my style as a mix of the surreal and the macabre that I hope both intrigues and fascinates people.

Jordan Holms 

MART Member Spotlight : Jordan Holms

Jordan Holms is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, textiles, and sculpture. With a keen sense for architecture and design, her practice considers how aesthetic ‘tastes’ are materialized, organized, and made to mean. Mining source materials from the built environment (both physical and online), Holms’s references range across commodity culture; from folk art, to flea markets, reality television, boutique ‘concept’ stores, and so-called aspirational design accounts on social media. Filtered through the lens of abstraction, her work interprets the things we find in our homes and in the built environment that signal something about how taste produces meaning. Holms constructs irreverent and errant spaces that index their own meanings in an attempt to make sense of what ‘having taste’ might look like in a moment wherein cultural trends are dictated by algorithms as well as elites.

Katarzyna Gajewska

Creating canvases laden with emotion and personal feelings is my necessity, obsession and addiction, never insatiable appetite. Believing in instinct over reason, I am starting over with every painting. The relation between value of colour and texture is my formula for expressing my vision. The effect of the feeling’s complexity is doubled by the works chaotic texture. Trying to contour human silhouette in bold structure on the surface, I am exploring the physical expression of the theme. The paintings give direct attention to their own physicality and because of that, the human form emanates with psychological structure, driving to insubstantial. Colour and texture are symbols. Oppressive through reconstruction becomes useful. Such is the mourning in Ginsberg’s Kaddish. Fact and fiction becomes blurred; Ginsberg is restoring memory of his mother through exposure, exasperation, desire to know. He is embracing her in the most direct way. I am shaping my work by fidgeting with direct and metaphorical. Draping dissonance between new and recycled; painting over new surfaces subsequently as in endless circle of life.

Katherine Nolan

An artist, lecturer and curator specialising in gender and new media. With a particular focus on tensions between the experiential and the spectacular body, her research investigates gender, identity and desire in the context of digital cultures. Recent publications include Fear of Missing Out: Performance Art through the Lens of Participatory Digital Culture (2021) and Reading Queer Irish Performance across Live and Digital Practice (2021)

Leonie Connellan

I am an Australian-born artist living in the Irish midlands. Primarily a printmaker, I make art about words, language and storytelling, and am a member at the Black Church Print Studio in Dublin. In 2019, I also started writing songs and producing music, performing and releasing music as Hot Pink Halo.

Louise Newman

“After many years of being self taught I began my formal studies in the late 80’s at San Jose State University.  After returning to Ireland in 1992 I was accepted on to the Foundation Course at  I.A.D.T.  I went on to receive a National Diploma and Degree in Fine Art.   I have exhibited nationwide. In 2012 I was invited to exhibit in a group show for The Princes Trust at Somerset House U.K      My work can be found in many Private and Public collections including, Bank of Ireland, The O.P.W,  Department of Defence, The Flynn Hotel Group, The Haddington Hotel Dublin, The Blackrock Clinic, Irish Credit Union, The European Patent Office Munich, Touchstone Healthcare and in the Private Collections of many.  My present work came about through residencies at The Cill Rialaig Project in Co Kerry, Clare Island and  time spent in Connemara and West Clare. My Costal scenes are of The Wild Atlantic Way. This area is written into my life force and personal history. It has given and it has taken.   I try to maintain an assured use of texture and mark making and to play with transparency and colour of light. It is my intention to be inspired and informed by my observations and feelings about that which surrounds me, both visible and metaphysically. I strive for my work to maintain a fresh and honest expression, changing and developing in new ways whilst encouraging a meaningful dialogue with the viewer.”

Louise Newman

I began my formal studies at I.A.D.T. where I received a National Diploma and Degree in Fine Art. In 2012  I was invited to exhibit in a group show for The Princes Trust at Somerset House U.K. My work is in Public collections including, Bank of Ireland, The O.P.W,  Department of Defence, Irish Credit Union amongst others. It is on permanent display in the Haddington Hotel Dublin and The Flynn Hotel Group Kilkenny. My present work came about through residencies in Clare Island Studio, The Cill Rialaig Project in Co Kerry, time spent in Connemara and Co Clare. My Coastal scenes are of The Wild Atlantic Way, an area which is of great interest and significance to me.

Luke Reidy

Architectural structures and the impact they have on their surroundings are often perceived as works of art. I have always had a fascination with form and balance in architecture and in particular I love the simplicity I can evoke with this. Through screen-printing I rebuild structures using simple shapes, vibrant colours and overlapping transparent layers. My architectural structures are broken down into the simplest forms folding and unfolding, using depths and planes which orientate in space as the flat image becomes almost three dimensional. The introduction of organic curved shapes brings a new dimension which contrasts with my sharp architectural forms and the inspiration for these shapes was drawn from the coast where I grew up in Co.Clare.

My use of colour highlights the depth of these unique forms and gives them visual energy. My vision is to create work that is clean, crisp and confident, structures with strong visual impact and complement modern-day
interiors.

Matthew Nevin

Matthew Nevin is a Cultural Producer with over 20 years of experience working in film, television and the arts throughout the US, Ireland, UK and Europe.  He is Co-Director of The MART Gallery & Studios Dublin where he oversees the running of over 100 artist studios and a Contemporary Art Gallery, and serves as Executive Director of CIACLA – The Contemporary Irish Art Center Los Angeles – a non profit which produces contemporary Irish cultural events in California. 

Matthew has recently Produced and Directed the award winning feature length documentary What is Going to Happen Next?, which reaches into the minds of one person from every country in the world; winning several awards and screening at 21 international film festivals. Recently produced projects include the short films ‘Maggie’ and ‘180 Degrees’ both filmed during the covid-19 pandemic. As an Art Director & Designer for film and tv he has worked on hit shows, such as Luther, Eastenders, The Bill, The Amazing Race, working with CBS, BBC, ITV, Element Pictures, RTE, TG4 and MTV.

Matthew has produced over 60 exhibitions internationally, curating several large scale creative projects in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and Japan; for MART, CIACLA, PQ, IrelandWeek, EUCIA and Imagine Ireland. Through his own artwork he has exhibited internationally and created artwork for leading brands such as Ralph Lauren.

Matthew is a passionate advocate for the arts, he looks to create conversation and dialogue about key world issues, directly connecting the audience with a relatable narrative. He has a particular interest in the creation of inclusive projects that actively break down social and economic barriers.

Matthew holds a degree in Film & TV & Scenography from the University of Wales Aberystwyth and a Masters in Art in the Contemporary World from National College of Art & Design Dublin. He has secured funding from Culture Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, Kildare, Galway & Dublin City Councils, Visual Artists Ireland, IFA Germany, Alliance Francaise, David Manley Awards, JEC Fund, Dept of Foreign Affairs Ireland, Creative Ireland and received a commission from Ralph Lauren.

www.matthewnevin.com – www.mart.ie – www.ciacla.com  – www.whatisgoingtohappennext.com 

Maura Culbert

Hi, I did my degree in fine art many years ago. I paint using acrylic on board. The two subjects I like to paint are interior space and seascapes. Only recently l brought out a series of prints which are really great quality.

Oona Hyland

Oona Hyland is a visual artist. She has over 25 years experience working as a professional artist. Currently she is shortlisted for the ON Paper International Print Prize and was recently elected to the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Oona Hyland is currently studying for an MA in Art Research and Collaboration at IADT.

Ruth O’Mahony-Brady

Ruth is a musician, producer and composer. She has recorded and toured with a number of artists around the
world as a pianist, keyboardist and vocalist. Performing under the moniker ROMY, her solo project explores music
that seeks to combine her beginnings as a classical pianist with her love of vintage synths, organs and electronics.

Sarah Edmondson

Sarah is a research-based, multidisciplinary artist. She is interested in the evolution of knowledge and the impact photography and cinema have on our understanding of the universe.

Sarah Edmondson

Sarah Edmondson is a visual artist, art educator, and studio member at MART, Dublin. She is interested in the evolution of knowledge and the role iconic images from the history of art and the media have on our understanding of interpersonal relationships and the natural world; using a variety of mediums to playfully challenge anthropocentric views. To date, she has successfully created staged photographs in response to archival ephemera, pseudoscientific zines, moving images and video installations. The writings of Donna Haraway, Sophia Al-Maria and Hito Steyerl inform her practice. Sarah is also part of the collective MIDDEN alongside Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne. Recent exhibitions included; ‘MIDDEN’, Luan Gallery, Athlone; ‘Through Light and Shade’, Alalimón Galeria, Barcelona; and ‘Gormworm’, TaKt, Berlin. In June 2023, Sarah completed a residency at IMMA with the Museum of Everyone’s Communal project and is a MOE Associate Artist.

SC Walsh

S.C.Walsh is an emerging artist best known for industrial dockland scenes, strong in composition, and contradictive in use of material, redefining the use of soft watercolour to depict hard industrial subject matter.

SC Walsh is interested in the ordinary, crafting semi abstract compositions recurring themes depicted in the artist’s work are docks, boats, city streets, rooftops, heavy machinary.

Walsh studied Painting in Galway with the artists Loughlan Hoare, Geraldine Quinn and Hugh Mc Cormack, and Printmaking with Siobhan Piercy and Declan Holloway. The artists work is influenced by the Technical processes employed in the Fine Art Lithography process. The strong compositions in the Artists pieces are reminiscent of Snapshot Photography.

Walsh’s close focus on subjects result in a tension between the representational and abstract.

Sean Clarke

Sean Clarke is a Dublin based director and cinematographer. He works mainly in documentary and film.

Síofra Egan

Síofra Egan is a visual artist based in Dublin. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2024 with a First class honours from the department of Fine Art Sculpture and Expanded Practice. Her practice is concerned with moments of slippage and misrepresentation. She examines these moments of collapse as a means to unravel complex narratives and challenge existing hierarchies and binaries. Central to Síofra’s practice is an exploration into the nuanced qualities of the Irish language, which serves as a rich foundation for her investigations into legibility, identity, mistranslation and power dynamics. Minor languages often contain specialised knowledge, indigenous wisdom and alternative perspectives. By uncovering and honouring these alternate forms of knowledge, intrinsic “Irishisms” are preserved in a society wrought with globalisation. Recently this preoccupation with misrepresentation and opacity has led her to explore the dichotomy between presence and absence, exploring the deceptive neutrality of the “view from nowhere” and the violence inherent in aerial perspectives, particularly in the context of modern warfare and internet dynamics. Her current practice delves into the motif of swarms- language, the internet, insects (as understood from a feminist sci-fi perspective), and drones, examining their dual nature as invasive or liberatory potential. Inspired by Donna Haraway she applies a feminist, sci-fi lens to challenges traditional hierarchies of media and image quality, embracing the complexity and opacity of ‘poor’ quality imagery, paralleling her explorations of minor languages.

Stephanie McLaughlin 

Stephanie McLaughlin is a visual artist living in the west of Ireland. She holds an MA (2018) in Creative Practice from Atlantic Technological University in Galway. She received an Arts Council Agility Award in 2021 and was the recipient of an individual artist bursary from Galway City council in 2019. Her work has been purchased by Galway City Council, The Galway Clinic, and can be viewed in University Hospital Galway Symptomatic Breast Unit. She has completed numerous private commissions. She has had four solo exhibitions in Galway and has been involved in numerous group shows, including the 191st RHA annual exhibition in 2021. She is currently undertaking a year of mentoring by painters with Turps Art School, London. She spent a week’s residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre in 2023, and has been a member of Engage Art studios, Galway. Artist statement: Landscape is the context in which my expression occurs. Locality consists of spaces in which we are drawn outside ourselves, and in which the erosion of our lives takes place. Impressions of the landscape capture the essence of a space and time, emotional, thoughtful, and personal, and a basis for a visual vocabulary that is more universal, therefore the painting is an experience rather than a view and has its own internal visual logic so it can function as an artwork. I produce paintings inspired by landscape but not a slavish representation of it. I concentrate on unusual and unremarkable spaces, making magic from the nondescript. I love the process of painting, and the challenge to achieve something visually interesting. I describe my work as influenced by inner factors, intuitive, related to memories, senses, emotions. Time found in space stilled. The landscape as a reflection of my own condition. To quote Camille Souter: ‘Painting has gathered time into its being, almost as if it is a conversation.

Terence Erraught

Terence Erraught is an artist, educator and project manager. His artistic practice encompasses a combination of traditional mediums such as painting, drawing and sculpture with digital modes of dissemination, primarily through digital video installations. He has lead creative projects across a diverse range of ages and environments including children, adults, the elderly and participants with learning disabilities with a focus on confidence building, ownership and opportunity.

Education includes:  Masters Degree in Visual Arts Practices (2011), B.A. (Hons.) Degree in Fine Art (2007) and a (Level 9) Special Purpose Award in Training and Education (2015).

National and internationally exhibitions include Los Angeles, Japan, England and Ireland.

Awards include: New Project Award (Irish Arts Council 2012), Fingal Arts Bursary (Fingal County Council 2015), Travel and Training Award (Irish Arts Council 2014).

Residencies include: NIDA Art Colony, Lithuania (2015), Market Studios Curatorial Award (2012).

The Ljilja

The Ljilja is a visual artist born in Croatia. She made her first debut in 2006 and since then her art has been shown in group and solo shows. Her work range from installations and paintings to photography and performances.

The Ljilja is an ongoing photography / ritual project . “As an artist my main aim is making the subconscious conscious, and bringing it to the light. We live in an era where most of us are showing the best part of ourselves, the most beautiful parts (a wonderful Kingdom of Selfies), and I am showing those, hidden, dark, disturbing parts. By covering my face and hiding my identity, I become no one; and by becoming no one, I have become everyone. By disfiguring my face, covering my eyes I am allowing my Primordial Self to step out from the darkness. I am reconnecting all over again with my true Self.” – says the Ljilja.

In her work Ljilja is in a constant search for selfless, content and Ego free body. Body that becomes. Bursting body. A body in which human soul live in a complete freedom stripped from all false teachings. A body which is “breaking down areas hardened by perspective of the Ego”. Primal body. Her work can be described as a transformation through creativity and connecting all over with her primal “I”.

The Shift

The Shift is a podcast network that only creates podcasts that we think are that wee bit special. Home to Be Grand, I Don’t Know Her, Promenade and Sound in Space. If you have an idea for a show we would like to have a chat with you over a cup of tea.

William KWAKU AMO

William Kwaku Amo is a Ghanaian-born artist renowned for his captivating exploration of emotions, moments, African heritage, curiosity of humankind, and ideas through the prism of colour theory. Employing an action painting technique, Amo’s art style is characterised by its dynamic and expressive nature.Engaging in the process of making art transports Amo to different realms, inducing a trance-like state and rekindling the explosive energy of his youth.Over time, Amo’s artistic style has evolved, placing greater emphasis on symbolism and texture. These symbols serve as representations of his personal growth, deeper understanding of his African heritage and humanity.