Philipp Gufler explores matters of queer imagery, questioning the Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system define the social norm. In his artistic practice he uses various media, including silkscreen-printing on fabrics and mirrors, artist books, performances, and video installations. Since 2013 he has been an active member of the Forum Queeres Archiv München.
Katherine Waugh is a filmmaker, writer and curator whose trans- disciplinary practice includes films such as her recently completed I See a Darkness, framed by an accompanying exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland in November 2022. I See a Darkness/e-flux announcement The Art of Time (co-directed with Fergus Daly), another film essay, on the complex temporalities in contemporary art, film and architecture, has screened internationally.
She has been the recipient of a number of Arts Council awards and was awarded a distinction in her MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College London.
Her curatorial projects include Schizo-Culture: Cracks in the Street in SPACE gallery London (with David Morris): an exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference in New York. She curated (with Michaele Cutaya) a weekend art event combining performance and multi-disciplinary presentations Proposition: An Art of Ethics, in which creative forms of experimentation were explored in depth, drawing on the work of Spinoza and Gilles Deleuze.
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson are filmmakers and artists whose work interrogates potential forms and fictions emerging from the ruins of the moving image, and whose practice also includes the creation of visual essays, sound and video installations, performances, eventworks, radio shows, tube-tracts and books.
Their first feature film, Facs of Life (2009), draws on encounters with a number of former students of Gilles Deleuze and with the video archive in which they appear, navigating between the terrains of documentary, fiction and essay to explore aspects of Deleuze's philosophical legacy.
In Search of UIQ (2013) unfolds the story of Félix Guattari's lost science-fiction screenplay, Un Amour d'UIQ (“UIQ in Love”), through a series of fabulations and spectral re-enactments, in relation to key social and political transformations of our time from Autonomist struggles to the digital recoding of life.
Since 2005, the artists' production (and, on occasion, resistance to production) has emanated from Terminal Beach, a constructivist zone for critical reflection, exploring possible new configurations of image, sound, text and politics, using cinema in expanded form to reactivate lost or forgotten archives and histories and to create new modes of collective engagement with contemporary thought.
Their work has been presented in a number of international festivals and art spaces including FID-Marseille, Bafici, Jihlava, Anthology Film Archives, Tate Britain, Serralves, Centre Pompidou, Redcat, MACBA, Ludwig Museum, Castello di Rivoli.
David Fagan was born in Dublin and lives and works in Glasgow. He holds an Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art and a Joint Bachelor of Art in Sculpture & Art History from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Selected activity includes Self Improvement Quiz with John Waid at Gallery Onono, Rotterdam (2019) and Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2020). small night zine—ARRANGEMENTS with Lily Cahill curated by James Merrigan (2019). Solo exhibitions include I have nada so far but I remain optimistic, Tactic, Cork (2016) curated by Aoife Power and He saw the world and was left wanting, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee (2015) curated by Emer Lynch.
Lily Cahill is a visual artist, writer, facilitator and editor. She is the winner of the Visual Artists Ireland/ Dublin City Council Art Writing Award 2019. She has written or performed her work for The RHA, The Lab Gallery, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, CIRCA, Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Paper Visual Art, the School of Visual Culture at NCAD and Foaming at the Mouth. Lily has facilitated writing and creative projects with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, The RHA, The LAB Gallery, Dublin and MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland. She has been a co-editor of Critical Bastards, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, since 2014.
Artist Katharine Barrington hosts an opportunity to explore what happens when you show a work of art and what happens if you never show them at all. Katharine lives and works mostly on the Isle of Skye with painting, text, found objects and performance. katharinebarrington.com
I am an artist living in Dublin, Ireland.Through my art practice I play with language, sound, drives, ordering, gesture, and speech. Some of the work has been shown in public previously, other pieces have not. Get in touch if you want to show work or collaborate. jessicaconway.org
Fiona is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2014 with a first class hons. Masters Degree in Social Practice and the Creative Environment. She also holds a BA hons degree in Fine Art from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Fiona has exhibited throughout Ireland and abroad and is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Art Award 2016. Her practice now straddles the fields of Fine Art and Socially Engaged Practice. This includes an ongoing investigation of their relationship with each other. She works using a combination of performative and event based actions and the production of objects. Site, context and circumstance are of fundamental importance and works often emerge in response to personal and social situations. Play, experimentation and repetition are tools she regularly employs.
Ursula Burke is an Irish artist whose practice incorporates Porcelain Sculpture, Soft Sculpture, Embroidery Sculpture and Drawing. Burke’s work explores precarity in the social realm, power relations in the political arena and post-conflict histories relative to Northern Ireland. Her work creates a conceptual bridge between antiquity and the contemporary, mining art historical tropes of representation and display. Mediated through craft – based processes re-configured in a fine art context, her approach destabilises conventions around traditional approaches to making by using unexpected juxtapositions of materials, processes and images with a desire that bends towards the surreal.
Originally from Sligo, Kian Benson Bailes received a BA in Visual Arts Practice from IADT, Dublin in 2016 and currently lives and works in Dublin. Recent multidisciplinary work has examined Ireland’s language and colonial history – as well as craft, folklore and art – to re-evaluate a sense of place and self.
Austin Hearne is an artist from Dublin, living in Co. Wexford. He holds a MFA from NCAD (2016). Hearne is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in Photography, he comes from a family of Painters and Decorators and uses the stuff of this industry to make works and installations. His film work Whispers won Best Irish Short at the Gaze film festival (2022). Recent solos shows include Love Letters to Cardinal Raymo at Gorey School of Art (2021), Slabs at The Complex (2021), Requiem For Raymo at The Royal Hibernian Gallery (RHA)(2022-2023), Slabs II and Whispers at The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (2023) Confessions at Lismore Castle Arts (2023) and group shows Mysterious Ways at The Glucksman (UCC) (2024) with WEARTFETISHISTS (2022), PhotoIreland Festival (2022) and Speech Sounds at Visual Carlow(2022). Austin is a founding member and one half of the experimental queer goth music act Satin Shadow, they have released 3 albums to date. Austin’s work is held in private collections in USA, Europe and the OPW collection.
Locky Morris was born in Derry City where he continues to live and work. Renowned for his early work that explicitly dealt with the conflict in Northern Ireland – most notably from a socially embedded perspective – he has gone on to develop another working vocabulary that moves fluidly between the personal, public and political. While still informed by the complexities and intricacies of his immediate landscape, this work extends across video, sound, photography and gallery installation incorporating found sculptural assemblages. Morris’ practice, born in part out of a fascination for what confronts him in the often chaotic details of the everyday, is rich, inventive and marked by a visual playfulness that feels distinctly his own. He has been posting almost daily for seven years to Instagram especiallyeverything @lockymorrisartist, seeing it as a parallel practice. Running alongside this have been numerous large-scale works and interventions in the public realm. The work has also been influenced by his active musicianship.
Celine Sheridan is a multi-disciplinary Irish Visual Artist. She is a graduate of the MA in Visual Art Practices (MAVIS) from IADT, Dublin and a Degree in Fine Art, Limerick School of Art &Design. She was awarded the inaugural Platform31 for Westmeath in 2021 and the Arts Council Agility Award 2021. She is a recipient of a Creative Ireland grant 2022.
Past exhibitions include ‘Mammalia & Psyche’, Limerick City Gallery of Art 2023 curated by Catherine Marshall; ‘PlayRoom’, Roscommon Arts Centre Sept 22, curated by Naomi Draper; ‘We Are Fetishists’ curated by James Merrigan, Garter Lane Waterford 2022; “Hiatus”, 126 Galway 2019; “Nasty Women”, Pallas Projects, Dublin 2017; ‘’Nasty Women’ New York, 2017; The Reading Room’, Berlin, June 2010, ‘Labyrinth – Writings & Observations’, 2009 Tumba, Sweden, ‘Drawing Eire’, 2009 Shanghai, China. Her work is included in several collections including the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Rua Red Collection, OPW and NIVAL.
Marian Balfe is a visual artist, her practice is multidisciplinary, exploring ways in which painting, writing, sculpture, and zine-making may be used to reflect on her surroundings and rural(ish) upbringing. The paintings, Marian will present in this exhibition, are a result of her being both mildly addicted to scrolling on her phone and being nap trapped by her baby. She uses Adverts, not DoneDeal, finding Adverts less crass but more user friendly. She screenshots ads for things she doesn’t need or even really like and pays €1.99 a month to Google for the privilege of storing this data. The discarded jetsam, the specialist services and the pet llamas that illuminate the cracked screen of her Huawei P20 are then painted using luxury brand oil paints and specialist Italian paper.
Born in 1976 in Dublin, Patrick Redmond lives and works in Co. Wexford. For over 15 years he was represented by Molesworth Gallery Dublin, having multiple solo exhibitions at the gallery. During that formative period Redmond used traditional modes of representation to create figurative paintings that have the potential to embody a multiplicity of interpretations. In 2018, after a year-long residency at Gorey School of Art, Redmond transformed his painting practice to incorporate new modes of art-making, encompassing painting, drawing and print on plaster. This body of work, entitled “All Possible Worlds”, would be followed by the solo exhibition “Making New Worlds” at the Ashford Gallery (RHA) in 2020. Combining his skill and craft for image-making with an inherent critique of the market forces and administrational agents that dictate the career path of the artist, Redmond’s work continues to question the act and agency of art-making with blunt tools and black humour.
Brian Teeling is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice collides distillations of photography with aspects of the innately personal to create sombre poetic works that reflect on romance, melancholy, and masculinity. His work explores themes on queer working-class dynamics, psychogeography, cosmology, automotive psychology, and portraiture. Recent work includes Portrait Lab, a group exhibition at The Model, Sligo; c-space, installation at The Dean Art Studios; and forthcoming work including publication Busáras, and a commissioned body of work, Building As Witness, for The Crawford Gallery, Cork (2023). Recipient of Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary (2020, 2021), shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize (2022) and a studio residency with IMMA at The Dean Art Studios.
Emma Roche lives and works in Gorey, Wexford. She was a 2023 Artist in Residence at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, New York. She recently received the inaugural Lady Grantchester Prize as part of the John Moore’s Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2023. She is the 2021 recipient of the EMERGENCE Award, Wexford Arts Centre; Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award, 2021 and 2020, and the Creative Ireland Bursary Award, 2020. Recent exhibitions include Lined Out, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow (2023); Spiders and Cheerleaders, The Complex, Dublin (2021), Ochre, a two-person show with Ciara Roche, Wexford Arts Centre (2021); and Forward Slash at the LAB Gallery, Dublin (2018). Selected group shows include The John Moore’s Painting Prize Exhibition, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, (2023); Generation ‘22, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2022); We Are Fetishists, Small Night Zine, Garter Lane, Waterford (2022), Women Can’t Paint, Turps Gallery, London (2018); and Turps Cloud, Turps Gallery, London, (2018).
In 2009, with Waterford City Council, Paul Hallahan set up Soma Contemporary, kept it going until 2012. Worked with many, near and far, artists and institutions alike. Exhibited here, there, and everywhere in the years that followed. In 2018, winning the Golden Fleece Award.
His work has been shown at Hang Tough Contemporary (2023), The Complex (2020), Royal Hibernian Academy (2018), The Lab—all Dublin. Also at Berlin Opticians Gallery, Roscommon Arts Centre (2020). In 2019, he was part of a two-person show that made the rounds—Lexicon Gallery Dublin, Garter Lane Gallery Waterford, Sternview Gallery Cork, Platform Arts Belfast. His work found its way into collections: The Arts Council, DLR County Council, IDA, Trinity College Dublin, The Office of Public Works, Waterford City Collection, and many a private home.
