Alan-James Burns
Alan-James Burns is a visual artist working primarily through audio, video and performance. He holds a Masters in Visual Arts Practice from The Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Dublin Institute of Technology.
Selected recent exhibitions, video screenings and performances include Those Who Swim (in) The Forest, MoKS, Estonia, 2015; MEx15 Symposium, Maynooth, 2015; LUX13, Laban Center, London, 2014; SIX Degrees, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2014; and He, solo exhibition, The LAB, Dublin, 2013. Burns received a Dublin Institute of Technology Summer Studio Residency, 2016. He was awarded the Irish Residential Studio Award, Red Stables, Dublin, 2012- 2013 and will commence a residential residency at Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin, in 2017. Awards and artist grants include the Developing Creative Practice Across Borders Award, The Leonardo Programme, EU, 2014; Cavan Council Arts Act Grant, 2016, 2014, 2011 and 2009; Fire Station Digital Media Residency Award, 2012; and Arts Council Travel and Training Award, 2009.
Emer Lynch
Emer Lynch is an independent curator based in Dublin. She has developed projects nationally and internationally, most recently the visual art spoken word series Foaming at the Mouth, co-curated with Tracy Hanna in Dublin and Amsterdam. Emer is a member of the seminar group The Enquiry, who recently considered ‘immateriality’ at their research event at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with a primary focus on French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. She is Gallery Co-ordinator at mother’s tankstation limited, Dublin, and previously completed an internship as Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
Fiona Marron
Fiona Marron was born in Co. Monaghan in 1987 and now lives and works in Dublin. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Dublin Institute of Technology (2009) and an MA in Visual Arts Practice from IADT Dun Laoghaire (2013). Solo exhibitions include ‘Proving Ground’ Artbox, Dublin (2016), ‘Pivot a closed path’ Flat Time House, London (2015), ‘Co-location’ at RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre (2013) and ‘Last and First Men’ at The Joinery, Dublin (2011). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Bandits live comfortably in the ruins’, Flat Time House, London (2016), ‘Reverse Pugin!’ at St. Cartage Hall, Lismore Caste Arts, Co. Waterford (2015), ‘In Free Circulation’ at Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (2014), ‘Ingenious Showcase’ at The Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire (2014) and ‘At the level of entity’ at The LAB, Dublin (2013).
Most recently she has undertaken residencies at ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’ Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Co.Limerick (2016) , UCD ‘Art-in-Science’ (2015- 2016), FTHo, London (2015), Creative Spark: Create Louth (2015), Firestation Artists Studios, Dublin (2015) and Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co.Cork (2014). Amongst other publications, her work has featured in The Irish Times (2016), Art Monthly (2014) and Paper Visual Art (2012). Upcoming exhibitions include a solo presentation in Turin, Italy in November 2016.
Caroline Doolin
Caroline Doolin is a visual artist currently resident at Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin (2015-2017). Selected previous residencies include Acme Studios, London (2015) and Irish Museum of Modern Art (2013)
Doolin will develop a solo exhibition, commissioned by Project Arts Centre, Dublin in 2017. Selected recent exhibitions and events include: Periodical Review #5, Pallas Projects & NCAD Gallery, Dublin; Seachange, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway Arts Centre; The Homesickness Project, Logan, Australia (2015) Foaming at the Mouth, The Stag’s Head, Dublin; How does the group function, Enclave Projects, London; mirror source | ghost pulse, the Friary, Callan (2014) At the level of entity, The Lab, Dublin; These liquid brinks, the Guesthouse, Cork (2013).
Doolin’s writing is featured in the literary publication some mark made (2015). She has been awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Project Award (2014) and Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Digital Media Award (2012).
Michael McLoughlin
Michael McLoughlin is a visual artist working in a wide variety of media including drawing, video, sculpture and sound. Since the mid-1990’s McLoughlin has consistently developed and presented new ways of working in a social context.
McLoughlin continually explores developmental possibilities through a contemporary art practice grounded in sound, drawing and spacial consideration. His work examines the value placed on the feelings of ownership, belonging and connection experienced by both the individual and the collective. In addition, he is particularly interested in the relationship between public spaces, institutions, the public they aim to serve and the potential meeting ground with contemporary visual arts practice within these contexts.
Recent exhibitions include Cumann:An Audio Map of Drogheda, in Droichead Arts Centre and Beyond the Pale in Highlanes Gallery McLoughlin was UCD College of Social Science, Artist in Residence 2015 and a major exhibition of his work Cumann:Limerick will open on Sept 15th in Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Mike Finn
Mike Finn is a playwright, screenwriter and actor who holds an MA in Scriptwriting from the National Film School and has had over fifty scripts produced in various media. Among his plays are Pigtown (winner of the Stewart Parker Award and produced Off-Broadway), The Quiet Moment, The Crunch, and Shock & Awe, (Island Theatre Co.), Ellis Island (Theatre USF, Florida), Stories (LYT), Langered and One (Balor Theatre Co.), The Big Question (Institute of Excitement, Hampstead Theatre, London), We Are What We Witness, The Revenger’s Tragedy and Porkville (Bottom Dog) and Life In 2 Syllables (Fishamble, seen in Dublin, New York and Washington and described by The Guardian as ”ingeniously written”). Mike recently wrote the book for the musical The Unlucky Cabin Boy (Guna Nua).
For television, Mike has co-written extensively with Pat Shortt including thirty six episodes of the IFTA nominated Killinaskully, seven episodes of Mattie and the pilot of Behind The Crystal Ball. Mike wrote the radio drama It’s A Worthless Life for RTE 1 and Little Bits Left Over for Limerick 95FM. In 2017, Mike will be Theatre Artist-in-residence at the Belltable in limerick.
Ella de Burca
Through her practice Ella de Burca creates visual juxtapositions between action and language, treating language as an object, and objects as languages. She warps, swops, and pops their positions as she works with subversion to unearth the subjectiveness of memory and interpretation.
De Burca’s sculptural installations could be mistaken for theatre sets, just as her scripted performances could be mistaken for theatre.
Playing with histrionics, Ella pulls apart and re- presents hegemonic patriarchy in language and culture. Her pieces are site-specific, and often use humour as a means to illuminate dissensus. Her work lies between social and studio practice, drawing from history and place to overlap historical ghosts with contemporary voices.
Brian Cregan
Brian Cregan is a graduate of the Photography B.A. programme at the Dublin Institute of Technology. As an artist, using lens based media, he is interested in themes relating to landscape, natural history and the built environment. Ideas around a ‘sense of place’ and how it is represented are central to his work that takes the idea of the photograph as document, to build narratives around what is often overlooked or taken for granted. Recent achievements include work featured in Beyond the Pale: The Art of Revolution at Highlanes Gallery, Describing Architecture 2015, Workhouse Union, Callan, Co. Kilkenny and Greetings From Ireland at the Library Project. His work has been featured in The Irish Arts Review, The Irish Times, Dezeen, Inhabitat and Architecture Ireland.
Suzanne Walsh
Suzanne Walsh is a writer and audio visual artist from Wexford. Her work often queries the human animal divide and the edges of what constitutes the borders of the human self. She draws on music, ecology and literature as material and her work often has a performative element, with sound or text. She has performed in IMMA, The International Literature Festival, The New Lacanian School Congress, The Burren College of Art, and The Artists festival in Warsaw. Her writing can be found in Critical Bastards, on Fallowmedia website and in Gorse literary journal.
To read Suzanne Walsh’s Who Will Silence Them, At Last?, click here to download the 2016 booklet.