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ABOUT THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
A=Apple (IRL), Mark Beatty (IRL), Clare
Louise Bligh (IRL), Cyril Briscoe (IRL),
Alan Burns (IRL), Robert Christian
(IRL), Declan Clarke (IRL/UK), Brian
Coldrick (IRL), Roisín Cunningham
(IRL), Niall de Buitlear (IRL), Nuisance
Bears (IRL), Neva Elliott (IRL/UK), Tristan
Fennell (IRL), Dermot Finn (IRL),
Gráinne Finn (IRL), Niall
Flaherty (IRL),
Damien Flood (IRL), Stephen Gaughan (IRL), Cliona
Harmey (IRL), Joan Healy(IRL), Leah
Hilliard
(IRL), Barry Jacques (IRL), Annika
Johansson (IRL/Finland), Frankenstyles (IRL/USA),
Anthony Kelly/David Stalling (IRL/GER) Tara
Kennedy (IRL), Dogmedia
Productions (IRL), Marina
Kessopersadh (IRL), James Kirwan (IRL), K
Bear Koss (IRL/USA), Lee Sang Hong
(Korea), Hazel Lim (Singapore),
Sarah Lincoln (IRL), Paul McCann (IRL), Conor
McGarrigle (IRL), Caroline McNulty
(IRL), Caitriona Moore (IRL), Padraic
E. Moore (IRL), Eli Normal (IRL), Ben
Mullen (IRL), Charlotte
Murray (IRL), Paula Naughton (IRL),
Barbara Nealon (IRL), Fergus Niland
(IRL), Seamus Nolan (IRL), Jane
O’Sullivan (IRL), Alex Pearl (UK), Christian
Reeves (IRL), Sheila Rennick (IRL/UK),
Emma Robertson (IRL), David Roche (IRL), Ben
Roosevelt (IRL/USA), Nina Tanis
(IRL/USA), Keith Walsh (IRL), Robin
Watkins (IRL/Sweden), Conor Wickham (IRL), John
Younge (IRL).
A=Apple (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Collaborative music project based in Dublin featuring artists Mark Garry, Karl Burke and Nina Hynes.
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Mark Beatty (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
The focus of my work is on pen and paper. The work grows slowly, each line being
of minute vantage. It is alive while it is being processed and a relic when it
is completed. The finished work is a document of my handling of time. Each of
the lines can be read as if to be the cut section of a tree. They show its life
span. Each line is an individual. It is unlikely to be repeated identically even
thought the process remains the same. They are on their own quite insignificant
but built up over time they become part a whole, like the cells that make
up an organ. I use simple strategies to generate work. Treating each line as
a
building block, I am all the time working towards an unknown outcome. The work
is
all the time growing, becoming something. For me this ‘blind’ approach
keeps the work engaging for myself, and hopefully the viewer too.
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Clare Louise Bligh (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Education
October 2004- June 2005 Cyprus College of Art, Postgraduate in Fine Art
September 2000- June 2003 National College of Art and Design, Honours Degree in Craft Design
September 1996- June 1999 Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Honours Diploma in Fine Art
Exhibitions
2006- Open Doors, Group show, Back Loft, La Cathedral, St Augustine St., Dublin 8
2005 Art in Arcadia, Larch Hill Gardens, Co. Kildare
2005 Postgraduate Show, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus
2005 No Sermon, Solo Show, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus
2004 Lost Luggage, Group show, Circulo de Bella Artes, Madrid, Spain
2003 NCAD Degree Show, 100 Thomas St. Dublin 8
2002 Untitled, Group Show, Brightwater Foundation, Fitzwilliam Sq. Dublin 2
2001 Shoplifter, Ilac Centre, Dublin 1
1999 Diploma Show, DLIADT
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Cyril Briscoe (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Cyril Briscoe lives in the west of Ireland where he lectures in Sculpture at G.M.I.T. School Of Art & Design, Humanities. He is also a regular guest lecturer at the Media Department at N.C.A.D. from which he holds an MA in Media (Virtual Realities). He has a second life as a DJ and as co-promotor of 110th Street night club, in Galway.
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Alan Burns (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Alan Burns's obsessive collecting and reinterpretation of discarded mass produced objects are used to reflect the individual repressed by the need to conform in a global culture of secrecies and oppression.
By putting new importance onto these objects, devalued by the owner themselves, he hopes to draw attention to the private information people repress and withhold from society for fear of rejection.
In using repeated and veiled images Alan forces the viewer to draw closer and look for what is intentionally hidden and in doing so he hopes to raise questions on the nature of privacy and exposure. Alan's work is often temporary which emphasise the transient nature of prioritized information.
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Robert Christian (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Education
2004-2005
Fetac certificate in Multimedia for Web Design. Fas cabra.
1999-2003 BA in Fine
Art, National
1998-1999 Art and Design portfolio preparation
course. Colaiste Dhulaigh.
Exhibitions
2003
Degree show. NCAD. Thomas street. Dublin.
Performances
2006 Lazybird , The International Bar, Wicklow St. Dublin.
2006 Spirit, Abbey
St. Dublin.
2006 Slattery’s, Capel St. Dublin.
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Declan Clarke (IRL/UK)
(Information as of August 2006)
Declan Clarke is an artist currently based between Dublin and London. In 2003 he represented Ireland on the PS1 MOMA International Residency Programme. Recent exhibitions include Mine Are of Trouble, Four Gallery, Dublin 2006 (solo), Encounters with the Subordinary, Hornsey Pumphouse, London 2005, Communism, Project, Dublin 2005; Forthcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions with the Gallery 3 programme at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, the Art Now Lightbox programme at Tate Britain, and one of the curated projects for the forthcoming Frieze Art Fair. In 2007 he will co-curate one of the inaugural Generator One Projects with Paul McDevitt.
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Brian Coldrick (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Brian Coldrick is a freelance illustrator. Doodling for as long as he can
remember, the time he spent drawing increased sharply in his teens with
the development of an unhealthy interest in comic books. Since then his
influences have ranged from Mike Mignola to Yoshitomo Nara, and from The
Third Man to The Third Policeman.
Based in Dublin, he's been working as a illustrator
for the last two
years. Past jobs have varied from editoral work, poster art and concept
design, with experimental personal projects always balancing out
commercial work.
Biography
Born 1980. National College of Art and Design, 1999 - 2003, B.Des.
(Hons)
Visual Communications.
Exhibitions/Clients
May 2003: Degree Show, National College of Art and Design,
Dublin.
Louis Marcus Productions (for TG4),
McConnell Advertising,
HKM Publishing (for Totally Dublin magazine),
IMMA,
Bonfire Advertising,
Verve Marketing.
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Roisín Cunningham (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Education
2001. National Certificate in Visual Education, IADT Dun Laoghaire
2004. National Diploma in Fine Art, IADT Dun Laoghaire
2005 First class BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art, IADT, Dun Laoghaire
Selected Exhibitions
2005. RDS, Art Student Award, RDS, Dublin
2005. Axis Arts Centre, Ballymun, Dublin
2005. Custom House Gallery, Westport,
Co. Mayo
2004. European Commission, Trim, Co. Meath
2003. European Commission, Trim, Co. Meath
2003. Sculpture in Context, Botanic Gardens, Dublin
2000. An Oireachtais, County
Hall, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Commission
2002 Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council, Drawing used for County
Council
Competition
Group Exhibitions
2006 Octave Group Show, Filmbase, Curved St., Templebar,
Dublin
2006 Octave Zoop, La Catedral, Back Loft, St Agustine St., Dublin
2006 Solas,
Teach Ban Nua Gallery, Drumcliff, Sligo
2005 Caffery’s Art Gallery, Summer
Exhibition, Ballina Arts Festival
2005 Degree Exhibition 2005, IADT, Dun Laoghaire,
Co Dublin
2005 BULK exhibition, Concourse, County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, Curated by Finola
Jones
2004. Purple Monkey Dishwasher, Deansgrange Business Park, Dublin Curated
by Paul O’Reilly
2004 Graduate Exhibition 2004, Dun Laoghaire Institute
of Art
Design and Technology, Dublin
2002. 2 EXPOSED, Exhibition, DLIADT
2001. Graduate Exhibition 2001, DLIADT
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Niall de Buitlear (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Education:
2006 BA Fine Art (First Class Hons.), Dublin Institute of Technology
Group Exhibitions:
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin
2006, Graduate Show, DIT Portland
Row, Dublin
2006, Annual Student
Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2005, Claremorris
Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co Mayo
2005,
Platform 059, Éigse Arts Festival, Carlow
2004, The
Big Bang, The Digital Hub, Dublin
Upcoming:
December 2006, Launch, The Lab, Dublin
September 2006, Being and Becoming, Stone Gallery, Dublin
October 2006, Artisit?
Arts Festival, Fisheries Tower and Ard Bia Cafe, Galway
2006, Tulca, Galway
Niall de Buitléar was born in 1983 in Dublin where he lives and works.
He recently completed a BA in Fine Art at DIT. He has exhibited work at Catalyst
Arts in Belfast, the Claremorris Open, Platform 059 at Éigse Carlow
arts Festival and will participate in the upcoming exhibition Launch curated
by Paul O’Neill.
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Nuisance Bears (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
(A.K.A. Nicholas Devanney)
Education:
2004-2005 B.A. in Fine Art Sculpture GMIT, Galway.
2001-2004 Diploma in Art and design GMIT, Galway.
2000-2001 PLC Art and Design- Quay Street, Sligo.
Exhibitions
2005 ‘Manpower’ ,a collaborative performance presentation on world health, Nuns Island Arts Centre, Galway.
2005 Cluain Mhuire ‘Art and Design’ Degree Show
2005- Cluain Mhuire, Monivea Rd., Galway.
2005 ‘Planet Palette’, Group exhibition, GMIT, main campus, Dublin Rd., Galway.
2004 Cluain Mhuire ‘Art and Design’ Diploma Show
2004- Cluain Mhuire, Monivea Rd., Galway.
2004 ‘I love Tipperary’, performance, Enso- one night event, Black Box, Galway.
2003 ‘Filing a few things’, performance, ‘Bloody Art Students’, Rowing Club Galway.
Awards/achievements:
2005 Student of the Year Award
2004 Student of the Year Award
2004 Received the Patricia Burke Brogan Arts Commission
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Neva Elliott (IRL/UK)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Born 1976, Neva Elliott is an Irish Artist living and working in London where she has recently completed a Masters in Fine Art in Central St. Martins.
Elliott has taken part in a number of curated and selected exhibitions and projects, including in 2005 Archiving Limerick at the Limerick City Gallery of Art, Remote Access, at The Rubicon, Dublin, Eurojet Futures The Anthology at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin and 6x6xTri SHOWCASE 2005, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, China.
In 2006 Elliott represented Ireland at the International Artists´ Residency in Argentina (RIAA, Residencia Internacional de Artistas en Argentina), participated in Ev+a, 30th annual, 6th Biennial exhibition open and invited, Limerick, Ireland, Curated by Katerina Gregos and is exhibiting in Fresh, Re-Imagining The Collection curated by Pippa Little at the Limerick City Gallery of Art and The Taylor Arts Award Retrospective at the National Gallery Dublin.
Curatorial projects in 2005 were Flagged for Visualise Carlow (www.nevaelliott.com/flagged) and On The Underbelly, Upstairs Gallery, Clerkenwell, London.
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Tristan Fennell (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Tristan Fennell graduated from D.I.T. with a B.A. of Photography in 2002. After a year working as an assistant in Dublin, Tristan moved to Tokyo where he had several exhibitions. He currently lives and works in London.
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Dermot Finn (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Dermot Finn was born in 1975. Went to school and did all the usual stuff. He went to Ballyfermot Senior College. He then went to Dunlaoghaire College of Art but then dropped out. He gave up all artistic aspirations for a couple of years, working in a myriad of menial/crap jobs. Eventually he got it together to go back to college.
He got into NCAD, and they eventually they gave him an honours degree in fine art print in 2005. He specialised in both traditional print techniques such as etching etc and also in digital art forms.
Dermot now lives and works in Dublin. He has he own wee studio in Harolds Cross and he recently joined the Blackchurch Print Studio in Temple Bar. He is also a recent member of the City Art Squad and as well as teaching art and crafts in the Pine Forest Art Centre.
Dermot works through a range of mediums including painting, print making (mainly etching and digital art). Central to his artwork is drawing and the unusual properties of print. Themes of life, sex, death, illness, neglect, murder and all of humanities follies have captured the artist's imagination over the past six years. Most of his work of late has dealt with the darker sides of humanity.
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Grainne Finn (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Grainne lives and works in Dublin. She graduated from the School of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005 specialising in editorial illustration. She works from textbooks and other sources using collage, screenprint and digital prints, photography and drawings.
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Niall Flaherty (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Niall Flaherty is an Intermedia artist from Galway, whose works uses the
appropriate tools on a project to project basis to examine the social / political
and economic forces that effect us to produce an art practice that confronts
assumptions and alters expectations. Niall has lived in Dublin for the last
ten years, working as an art teacher at 2nd level, as a media technician
in NCAD, and most recently as a lecturer in photography at the DIT Portland
Row.
Qualifications
2005 MA in Fine Art / Media from The National College of Art Design
2001 Certificate in New Media Project Management from ICM and Arthouse
1998 BA (Hons) Fine Art / Painting from National College of Art and Design
1993 National Diploma in Visual Studies from Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
Exhibitions
2005 NCAD MA Graduate Show, Digital Hub Warehouse, Dublin
2004 'Making Do', 4 South Leinster St, Dublin
2004 'The Wendy House', Digital Depot, Thomas Street, Dublin
2002 Via, Irish Cancer Society, Camden Street, Dublin
1998 NCAD Graduate Show, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
1997 'Catalyst', Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin Castle
1996 'Untitled 3', City Arts Centre, Moss Street, Dublin
1993 'Emerging Artists', TSB Prospect Hill, Galway
1993 GMIT Graduate Show, GMIT, Dublin Road, Galway
Awards
2006 TBG&S Project Studio I have been awarded a Project Studio in the
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (TBG&S) for a 6 month period starting
May 2006. During this time I will be using my residency in the Studio to
research the new digital publishing opportunities available to Irish artists
through online and Print On Demand methodologies.
Damien Flood (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
"I make images of women within a traditional manner; however, through a reworking of "appearance" in the images I hope to disarm the viewer. The subversive nature of the images becomes slowly apparent and the ideas reveal themselves. The female figures in the works come from found images, personally taken photographs and pornographic images.
Each contains a different way of activating the canvas, some in a passive and some in an aggressive manner. In all of the images the eyes have been enlarged and the faces distorted. These changes touch on the ideas of beauty, in particular, from child hood dolls, toys and cartoons. There is a powerful attraction in large eyes. In some of the images part of the face is overly enlarged, this is not initially noticeable but reveals itself through prolonged viewing.
The idea for these images originally came from the viewing of renaissance art and my realisation that the "realism" I was seeing was not so. I discovered that the people in the paintings were more caricature than human. The features were idealised versions and not the ugly reality of the time. The same face appears in a lot of paintingsThe paintings are executed in a traditional manner. I use Old Holland oil paints. I have spent a year researching renaissance techniques, because the paintings have to be "spot on" to carry the subtle slippage of the anatomical forms."
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Stephen Gaughan (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
A native of Co. Meath, Stephen Gaughan graduated in 2004 from NCAD with a BA in Fine Art Painting and later went on to complete an MA in Virtual Realities also at NCAD. He has worked in a wide range of mediums from paintings which use traditional oil on canvas to contemporary industrial materials and methods of application. More recently his work has expanded to include video, sculpture, performance, sound, installation and intervention.
Always with a strong theoretical ground, Gaughan's early work explored issues
raised in modern physics, in particular our concept of the observer and the
observed and David Bohm's theory of the Implicate Order. The result was a
dialogue which sought resolutions and new interpretations for the dichotomies
of subjectivity and objectivity; mind and matter etc. It was work which sought
the natural order the medium itself, circumnavigating the artistic ego and
its dominance of the created form. Becoming more socially engaged, his later
work has broadened its theoretical basis forming a practical manifestation
of a synthesis between transpersonal psychology and the sociology of Pierre
Bourdieu. Thus on the surface it is politically engaged and aims to break
through and illuminate the rarely acknowledged assumptions upon which symbolic
capital and in turn, power are maintained in our society. At a more subtle
level Gaughan is concerned with the cognitive and hermeneutic processes through
which we construct meaning from the world around us and how in turn this
leads to action. He is developing a transpersonal hermeneutics and aims to
demonstrate how this would operate in the sociological and political contexts
of our lives.
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Cliona Harmey (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Education
2005-2007 MA in Visual Practices (part-time) DLIADT
2002-2003 Higher Diploma in Computer Science at UCD
1996 Webmaster Skills Course at Arthouse Multimedia Centre, Dublin
1988-1992 B.A Honours in Fine Art Sculpture, National College of Art Dublin
Online Projects
2004 “Twinned with” for London based Variablemedia.org
archived at http://www.twinnedwith.net
2002 “SeaPoint” A collaborative project with sound artist/musician
Dennis Mc Nulty for Variablemedia.org archived
at http://rhizome.org/artbase/7110/index.html
Solo Exhibitions
May 2005 Rossmore Park Studies, Monaghan County Museum,
Aug 2000 Sequent, Solo Exhibition Arthouse Multimedia Centre Dublin
July 1995 Flutter Solo Exhibition , The Arts Council, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin.
2006 Site-ations International, “Sense in Place” Zaragosa.
2004 Unfiction, Rocket Art Gallery, Newcastle Australia
2003 VMO1, Hoxton Distillery, London
2002 Iontas Award Winners Show, Sligo Art Gallery, Draiocht
2001 Tis, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York
2001 Thaw 01, The Institute of Communication and Culture, Iowa
2001 Vdor Break 21, Llubijana, Slovenia
2001 The Crawford Open; "art and the everyday" Crawford Gallery
1998 Sculpture in Context, Kilmainham Gaol
1997 Interference Installation, Atrium, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1997 Wexford Artists'Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre
1996 The Reading Room, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
1996 Wexford Artists'Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre
1995 EV+A, curated by Maria De Corral, Limerick City Hall
1994 Exposure , The City Arts Centre, Dublin
1993 Iontas, Smallworks Competition, Sligo
1993 Seethrough Art , The Hugh Lane Gallery and selected venues
Residencies /Projects
Nov-Dec 04 Schools Project organised by Tallaght Community
Arts Centre
in collaboration with the National Programme at IMMA. This project explored
video and animation with students from Jobstown Community College. This
culminated in a show Shadows and Light at Tallaght Community Arts Centre
in May 05.
Oct-Dec’03 “Trading Places”: An eight week residency with sixth class pupils in Dernakesh Primary School Co. Cavan. The residency explored the themes of memory using the local history of the Linen industry as a starting point. This project was organised in collaboration with Cavan County Council and Kids Own Publishing.
July 2001 Artist in Residence, Inkshop Printmaking Centre, Ithaca, New York:
Residency exploring printmaking and photo processes and creating an editioned
cd.
Aug99-Aug00 Artist in Residence, Arthouse Multimedia Centre Dublin.
A one year residency at Arthouse Multimedia Centre exploring new media.
Culminated in a solo exhibition and online project Sequent.
1995-1996 Artist in the Community Residency, Our Lady's Hospice Harold’s
Cross. Working in conjunction with another artist Maeve Connolly to devise
art activities and group projectsin Occupational Therapy Dept.
Awards
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05,’03, ‘01 Arts Council Travel Award
1998 Equipment Documentation Grant
1995 Open Award EV+A
1995 Arts Council Equipment Documentation Grant
1995 Short listed for European Pepinere Residency
1993 Open category winner Iontas Smallworks Competition
1993 Arts Council Materials and Documentation Grant
1989 Exceptional Talent Search Bursary, Fitzwilton Trust
Reviews
July 23-04 “The View From Within” - NetArt News, Jonah Brucker-
Cohen
Dec 06-01 “The Crawford Open”-The Irish Times, Mark Ewart
Aug 23-00 “Inner worlds and outer landscapes” –The Irish
Times, Aidan Dunne
Apr 1995 “More hits than Misses at the Ok Corral” Sunday Times,
Medb Ruane
Catalogues /publications
2003 'Crawford Open 1 - 4', catalogue, Gandon Editions
2002 Iontas Award Winners Catalogue, Sligo Art Gallery.
2000 Sequent Catalogue, essay Maeve Connolly
1995 'EV+A' 95, catalogue: published by Limerick City Gallery
1994 ‘Exposure’ published by in show artists.
1993 Seethrough Art published by SSI
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Joan Healy(IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
EDUCATION
2005 BA Fine Art, D.I.T., Dublin (First Class Honours)
2001 FETAC/NCVA, Level 2 in Art and Design, Ballyfermot College.
EXHIBITIONS
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin
2006 Archway Studio Openday, Dublin
2005 Student Graduate Show, CHQ, IFSC, Dublin.
2005 DIT Degree Show, Braodstone Studios, Dublin.
2004 Bazaart, OPW, Dublin.
2001 Ballyfermot College Group Show, Ballyfermot Civic Centre, Dublin
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Leah Hilliard(IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
B.A., M.Sc
Hilliard is a Dublin based artist, curator, researcher and public art consultant.
Her practice is in digital media and performance; she has represented Ireland
at performance festivals nationally and internationally. Currently the co-ordinator
for the MA in Virtual Realties in the National College of Art and design,
Leah took up the post in NCAD after completing the MSc in Multimedia Systems
in Trinity College Dublin. Previous to her return to college she was the
Artistic programme co-ordinator of Arthouse Multimedia Centre for the Arts,
Temple Bar Dublin. She continues to work as an independent curator and exhibition
advisor and is currently public art consultant to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
County Council
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Barry Jacques (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Educaton
2005, MA Fine Art, National College College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
1995, BA Fine Art, Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, Ireland
Exhibitions
2006, Art City 06, Calgar, Canada (upcoming)
2006, The Vending Machine Project, Dublin
2005, 6x6 for Ireland, 411 Galleries, Hangzhou City, China
2005, MA Show, Digital Hub, Thomas St Dublin
2004, Claremorris Open 04 (Prizewinner), Claremorris, Mayo
2000, Vuokala 00, Joensuu, Finland
2000, Artspace Artists, Ministry for Arts Heritage the Gaeltacht and the Islands Dublin
1999, Dead Cities, Logan Gallery, Galway
1998, Dead Cities, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
1998, South by South West, Dumfries, Scotland
1996, Quadrant, Belltable Arts Centre Limerick
1996, Impressions 96, (Prizewinner), Galway Arts Centre ,Galway
1997/96/95, Scóip, Siamsa Tire, Tralee
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Annika Johansson (IRL/Finland)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Annika Johansson was born in 1978 in Helsinki, Finland.After studying photography in Finland, she moved to Ireland to continue her studies at Dublin Institute of Technology where she graduated with a degree in photography in 2004. Annika is currently living and working in Dublin.
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Frankenstyles (IRL/USA)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Stephen Kelleher has been creating design, apparel, animation, and street art under the name Frankenstyles since 2003. Originally from Dublin, Ireland and now living in Los Angeles, he has created work for clients such as MTV, BT, Sony and E4. He has spoken about his work at several Sweet Talk design conferences and has been featured in design publications Creative Review, Computer Arts and Computer Arts Projects. When not exhibiting or hitting up the streets at night, Stephen can be found designing/eating bagels at post-production facility Buck LA.
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Anthony Kelly & David Stalling (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
David Stalling: Bio
David Stalling is a German contemporary composer based in Dublin. His interest in music lies primarily with sound in the built environment. His music attempts to capture nuances of the ordinary, combining it with summoned sounds to reveal acoustic planes that often resonate with a quirky humour. He composes for a range of art forms including concert performance, contemporary dance, experimental film and installation-based sound art and his work has been performed, exhibited and broadcast worldwide. He currently is a director for Dublin based contemporary music collective EAR and is a former musical director of the NUI Maynooth Chamber Choir. He maintains an ongoing collaboration with Dublin artist, Anthony Kelly creating sound and audiovisual works. Forthcoming projects include a composition for ensemble and tape for the Composer’s Choice series in November 2006 at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, a series of outdoor sound installations at Soundworks 2006 in Cork, and simultaneous exhibitions at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, and University of Limerick campus in spring 2007.
Anthony Kelly: CV
Education:
From 1985 to 1989 he attended Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design,
graduating with a Distinction in Fine Art. Since then he has exhibited regularly.
Exhibitions include:
2006 Soundworks, Shandon, Cork, Ireland
2006 Vending Machine Project, Dublin Fringe Festival 2006
2006 Dislocate, Ginza Art Laboratory, Ginza & Koiwa, Tokyo
2006 Anthology Film Archives, New York, New Irish Film & Video, Solus & Guests.
2005 6x6 for Ireland, 411 Gallery, China
2005 Superbia 2, School, Douglas, Co. Cork
2005 Synch 2nd edition, Athens, Greece
2005 Ohne Kohle 05, Vienna, Austria
2005 Incantations, Nuns Chapel, Co. Cork
2005 Soundworks, Co. Cork.
2004 Darklight 5 Digital Hub, Dublin.
2004 60 Seconds Space-twotentwo, London and 291 Gallery, London
2004 Soundworks, Co. Cork.
2004, Group Show, The Lola Gallery, San Francisco.
2003 New Work - Anthony Kelly, Lead White Gallery, Dublin.
2003 Dreams, Sligo Art Gallery,
2003 Superbia, House, Ballymun.
2003 Sligo Art Gallery, Group Show - Lucy Kelly, Rosarie McHugh & Anthony
Kelly.
2003 The National Gallery, The Return, Goethe-Institut, Dublin.
2003 New Millennium, The Lola Gallery, San Francisco.
2002 Group Show, Lead White Gallery, Dublin.
2002 This Floating World, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen, West Cork.
2001 Zone de Confort, Gallerie de Saint Lucie, Nice, France.
2001 Seventh International Wexford Artists' Book Exhibition,Wexford Arts Centre,
Wexford, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh.
2001 Iontas 2001, Sligo Art Gallery, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast & Crawford
Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
2000 The Mirror of the Sea, Concourse Space, County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, Installation
Programme 2000.
2000 No Trustpassing, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
2000 Straylight, Darklight 4
2000 Pallas Salon Show, Pallas Studios Dublin
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Tara Kennedy (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Tara Kennedy was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1983. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2005 with a first class honours joint degree in Fine Art Sculpture and the History of Art. The central part of her degree work was a public art project dealing with urban regeneration. This was supported by Dublin City Council. During her studies Tara also spent three months on exchange in Lodz, Poland and two weeks as ‘artist in residence’ on a developing residual landfill site in County Meath, Ireland.
Since graduating Tara has been involved in a number of artist-initiated projects. In January 2006 she undertook a large-scale temporary public art installation entitled ‘Transplant’ in collaboration with Barbara Nealon. This received widespread media coverage, including a feature on the main evening news! She has also been involved in artist-initiated group shows in a number of settings, including domestic (Large Well-Lit Studio, Dublin, December 2005) and disused spaces (Guerrilla Impromptu Art, Grennan Mill, Thomastown, during Kilkenny Arts Week 2005). Tara also likes working collaboratively and is currently carrying out a public art project with Jennie Moran under the name Hope Inherent. She is also part of a trio of sound and mixed media installation artists called Vaginal Vynal.
Tara does some critical writing, including two recent articles for the Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet. These were Ciao da Venezia: Reflections on an 'art mini-break', Nov-Dec 2005 and Unleashed in Laois: Reporting on an Art Symposium held in the grounds of Emo Court, Co. Laois, Jan-Feb 2006.
Current projects include; Highlighters, a public art installation along Thomas Street, Dublin, for the Liberties Creative Corridor Festival June 2006; participation in a three week Advanced Course in Visual Arts with Slovenian artist/architect Marjetica Potrc in July at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy and resulting exhibition in October in Milan; interactive public art project entitled Hope Inherent based in a kiosk on Grattan Bridge, Dublin in August 2006; projects for The Vending Machine Project and Out of Site, Dublin Fringe Festival 2006; participation in a group show in Room 103 Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand in October 2006. This show is the result of artist-initiated project and group show Large Well-Lit Studio which took place in Dublin in 2005 and Tara is also writing a catalogue essay for this exhibition.
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Dogmedia Productions (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website: www.thedogmediawebsite.com
Dogmedia Productions are an independent production company formed in 2003. Working primarily in digital format, Dogmedia have made numerous productions to date including documentaries, short fiction films, radio work, sketch comedy, animations and model making & are also involved in live music/visual performances with two Dublin-based groups. Dogmedias members have a background in graphic arts, music, retail video purchasing, and video production. The personell comprise of Andrew Keogh. Ger Staunton, Gary Bermingham, Andy Travers and Tim Hood. The bulk of Dogmedia’s output is predominately created in-house however some projects have been collaborations. To date, our filmography include Jennie Balfe, The Confession Sessions, The Kilo, We Care (This X-mas), We.I.Y., Josephine Die Hunger Maus, The Day it Rained Sweets, The Highway of Death and River Rooney.
FILMOGRAPHY
Peter Edmonds Friction Addiction. Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2001
The Highway of Death Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2002
River Rooney. Dir. Gary Bermingham, 2002
Jennie Balfe. Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2003
The Kilo. Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2003
Josephine die Hunger Maus. Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2003
We Care (This Christmas). Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2003
The Confession Sessions. Dir. Gary Bermingham, 2004
We.I.Y. Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2004
The Day it Rained Sweets, Dir. Andrew Keogh, 2006
IN DEVELOPMENT
When Can You Start? (Short)
In This Way (Short)
Ad Separator (twelve-part sketch comedy programme)
Scumbags (Feature)
The Petrol Pump (Short)
A Man and a Woman (Animation)
PERSONNEL
Nicky Gogan - Producer
Andrew Keogh - Writer / Director
Gary Bermingham - Head of Development
Ger Staunton - Development Executive
Andrew Travers - Development Executive
Tim Hood - Development Executive / Technical
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
Galway Film Fleadh, Galway, 2003, 2004
Parnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2003
Stranger Than Fiction, Dublin, 2003
D.E.A.F Festival, Dublin, 2003, 2004
Kerry Film Festival, Kerry, 2004
Darklight Film Festival, Dublin, 2004-2006
MOOT IV, Kilkenny, 2006
Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2006
CONTACT DETAILS
Dogmedia Productions
104 McKee Road
Finglas East
Dublin 11
Ireland
Telephone: +353 (0)1 8643682
Fax: +353 (0)1 8643682
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Marina Kessopersadh (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Born Dublin, 1980. Marina Kessopersadh is a photographer living and working in Dublin.
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James Kirwan (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"My work is an ongoing journey that allows me to experiment with various mediums and styles. Wether it’s collage, painting or drawing, pieces are worked over and over until they reach their final state, literally evolving. Recently, I have also started collecting items like driftwood, bones, old paper and tacky paintings found in second-hand shops. These groups of items, together with a fascination of voodoo dolls and Mexican shrines have started a new strand of works that stretch new boundaries again for me – 3D sculptural pieces. There is and underlying darkness in a lot of my work but nearly always comes across as humorous. A number of characters constantly re-appear in weird situations and are often subject to evolution themselves. Influences like philosophy, skulls, tattoo art, graphic design, creatures, music, cartoons, cacti and a deep passion for street art also help shape my creations."
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K Bear Koss (IRL/USA)
(Information as of August 2006)
Editorial and Writing:
Online Content Editor and Consultant, freelance (2004-present)
Clients include:
ITIAdventure.com
Rodeopathic.com
KXCI.org
Thingstolookat.com
Littlewhitemice.org
Aliasglee.com
Contributing Writer, Red Square literary magazine (2004, 2005)
Consulting Editor, Ulaanbaatar English Language Newspaper, Mongolia
(2001-2002)
Contributing Writer, Tailwinds sports magazine, Southern AZ (1998-2000)
Consulting Editor, Audiophile magazine (1998-2000; 2002-2004)
Editor-in-Chief, Greyscale Press, Michigan, USA (1996-1998)
Managing Editor, Greyscale Press, Michigan, USA (1994-1996) Projects included: Ekklesia Arts Quarterly, Embryo visual arts review
Managing Editor, Minerva literary arts magazine, Indiana, USA (1992-1994)
Exhibitions and Shows
Contributing Artist, BOXiD show, Black Church Print Studios, September
2005
Team Leader, Little White Mice, "Frankie" project, Save The Robots
Festival, Summer 2005
NCAD MA1st Year Show, Digital Depot, May 2005
Love Letters from Leap Years, solo
show, Zoe Boutique, Tucson, AZ, USA, Sept. 2004
Introduction of piece into the
collection of the German Consul, Hollywood, USA, March 2004
Other Little Lies,
Solo show, Vaudeville, Tucson, AZ, USA, February 2004
All Saints Day, solo show
of mixed media, Biblio, Tucson, AZ, USA, October 2003
Joint show with N. Adiyabaazar,
Mongolian National Museum of ContemporaryArt, May 2001
Dreams and Nightmares,
group show, Raw Gallery, Tucson AZ, USA, April 2000
Live from the Land of Two-Hour
Parking solo show, Mount Pleasant, MI USA, May 1998
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Lee Sang Hong (Korea)
(Information as of August 2006)
1976 Born in seoul , Korea
Exhibitions:
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin, Ireland
2006 B.F.A in fine-art , The Korean national university of arts
2005 4th preview, team-preview , seoul
2005 Serial Killers, gallery 175 , seoul
2005 Serial Killers, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Playing with art, Inchoun , Korea
2004 Water Wall Project, Yonsei University Medical Center,seoul, project manager
2003 Creative Camp, Asia-Europe Foundation, Paris, France.
2003 Head, JIFF MIND 2003, junjoo , korea
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Hazel Lim (Singapore)
(Information as of August 2006)
Scavenger seems like a much fitting description for Hazel who enjoys rummaging
through her surroundings for its little known stories, the intimate, and the
precious mundane. Such curiosities were being employed in her body of work to
address such notions of displacement, history, memories and also, imaginary landscapes.
Though trained as a painter, she frequently employs methods of assembling various
types of medium and materials together, sometimes with her paintings, to produce
whimsical takes on the subject she is interested in.
Besides being a practicing
artist since graduating from Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts in 2003, she has
experience in other aspects of art: gallery management,
education and artistic publications. She had participated in several group
exhibitions as well as international art exchange events such as the Creative
Camp 2003 organised by ASEF and Convergence which was held at the Fine Arts
Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hazel is also the associate artist with
the Substation and she held her first solo painting exhibition entitled Secret
Windows at the Substation Gallery in July 2004.
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Sarah Lincoln (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
EDUCATION
2006-2008 Currently Completing an MA in Visual Arts Practice, IADT, Specialising in Art Making
2000-2004 BA Fine Art Printmaking/History of Art, NCAD, Dublin
2003 Erasmus placement in the photography department od Turku Polytechnic, Finland
EXHIBITIONS & REVIEWS
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin Fringe Festival 2006, Dublin.
2006 Connecting Lines, AB Gallery, Galway.
2006 Westmeath Arts Office, commissioned workshop, Westmeath
2006 Archway Open, Archway Studios, Dublin
2005 Large Brightly Lit Studio, Sandymount, Dublin
2005 Brass Picnic, Dublin Fringe Festival 2005, Dublin.
2005 Occurrence in the Workhouse, Birr, Co. Offaly
2005 Circumstances, Henrietta St., Dublin
2004 Hongongalongalo (Set Design), Dublin Fringe Festival 2004, Dublin.
2004 RDS Exhibition (Toured nationally)
2004 CIRCA Magazine, John Gerrard, Issue 109, pps 94-95 (Review of degree show)
COLLECTIONS
AXA Insurance
Office of Public Works
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Paul McCann (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"My subject matter is derived from both real-life observations and imaginative speculation. Thoughts, discoveries and memories pass through a process of free association to create a visual language drenched in a multi-faceted narrative. What is represented is highly personal. Each work represents a single perspective that is most definitely grounded to a certain time and place. However, there is no restriction placed on those times and places. The imagery could be derived from 18th century etchings or an illustration in a child's book. Each picture is a separate parallel act rather than a linear sequence of events. I want to encourage the viewer to delve into a sort of nonsensical universe and to indulge in their own thoughts and curiosities. I am interested in a number of possible truths enabling the viewer to become involved in a visual process of decisions and fostering, perhaps, an intellectual, dialectic engagement with ideas. On the whole, most of the works force us to reassess overlooked aspects of our everyday, aspects that we may only register subconsciously. I am interested in how this subconscious, piecemeal absorption of our surroundings is subsequently reinterpreted by our conscious minds, particularly in the narratives of seemingly incongruous elements or images."
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Conor McGarrigle (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Occupation
New Media artist, curator of the Net Art Open, founder & Artistic Director of Stunned.org
Education
Bsc University College Dublin
Currently studying for MFA in Virtual Realities at NCAD, Dublin.
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2006
FILE 2006 Festival Internacional de Linguagem Electronica São
Paulo, Brazil August – September 2006
Invited guest on Empyre (European
new media email discussion community) Bare LIfe Online discussion, a Documenta
12 Magazine Project event July 2006
Seoul Net Festival 2006 Finalist International
Competition May - September 2006, Korea.
MAPLESS Group exhibition NCAD MA Fine
Art , Backloft Gallery Dublin April 2006
FILE RIO Festival Internacional de Linguagem
Electronica Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March-April 2006
2005
FILE 2005 São Paulo, Brazil November 2005
Thailand New Media Arts Festival
(MAF05)
February 2005 Bangkok, Thailand
5th Symposium on Art & Multimedia : Metanarrative(s)?
Caixa Forum, Barcelona.
28th & 29th January 2005.
The Net Art Open 2004-5
curator and participating artist
2004
Tate Britain - panellist at Kurt Schwitters in England Conference,June 2004
Rejoyce Dublin 2004
Cyclops a featured art event
National Museum of Contemporary Art BucharestiRomania, March - April 2004
JavaMuseum
Netart from Great Britain and Ireland, Jan 2004
2003
City Arts Centre Dublin. Haunted Blog commissioned project for Sept-Oct 2003
DATA:BASE
- Panellist at Digital Dialogues conference, Dublin.
April 2003
Fundacio ‘La Caixa’ , Invited speaker : Surveillance in
Art lecture series Feb 2003
OTHER NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Arthouse Artist in residence February - August 2001
Imagine 2001 University of
Gävle, Gävle Sweden, December 2001.
Marks of Omission, Arthouse, Dublin
Sept 2001
We're Not Really Here, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Sept 2001
Temple-Bar.org project
commissioned
FILE, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Electronica,
August-September 2001,
Sao Paulo Brazil
Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Boston, USA, April 20-May 6, 2001
Net-Z-Lab Internet
Kunst Preis 2001 finalist, (Chemnitz, Germany)
CyNetArt 2000 9 - 26 November 2000,
Dresden, Germany
Art on the Net Machida City Art of Graphic Art (MCMOGATK) Tokyo,
Japan 2000 & 1999
d>art00 festival June - July 2000, Sydney Australia
Darklight digital film
festival Straylight exhibition Dublin 2000
Intermedia_ 2000 at the Triskel Arts
Centre Cork
SIGGRAPH 2000 , New Orleans, USA . July 23rd -28th 2000 ·
X-00 Art Festival
Lorient, France March 2000
SIGGRAPH '99 Los Angeles, USA, Selected for the Siggraph99
Travelling Show world tour
MEDIA COVERAGE:
A Minima , Spanish art magazine feature interview about Work
in Progress with Pau Waelder conducted in Barcelona, April 2005.
Indymedia.ie
The
Net Art Open,June 2005, featured article
Anna Livia FM, Interviewed about the
Net Art Open, June 6th 2005
El Pais : CiberPais Cyclops review 21 April 2005
Furtherfield.org , Reviews of
Cyclops and Proteus by Pau Waelder , March 2005
Rhizome, Net Art News, Net Art Open
October 2004
Net Art Review Cyclops review by Isabel Saij October 2004
Spin FM Dublin interview
about Bono Probability Positioning System June 2004
Anna Livia FM - Arts Beat Panellist discussing new approaches to curating,
Neural
Magazine - Temple-Bar.org project review
Arts Electric Irish Museum of Modern
Art.com review feb 2002
Temple-Bar.org on ExibArt Random Italian new media art
site 30 Oct 2001
Temple-Bar.org featured in RTE's ACE arts site, 23 Oct 2001
New York Times,
And the Best Internet Art Is . . . Virtually Sept 3 2001
The Irish Times, IT
Matters June 5 2001
El Pais Spook... reviewed as a net.art highlight of 2000
in Arte.Red guide to net.art.
The Irish Times, Spooky, 24 April 2000
The Guardian, 11 May 2000
Netscape Cool Site of the Day 24/4/00
USA Today hotsite
RTE Radio 1 Future Tense Interview about Spook… 22nd
March 2000 - live webcast from the RTE site
The Independent on Sunday
Second Site Column by Marek Kohn - Marines go anywhere
and everywhere - review of Spook… March 5th 2000
Video Interview in Enter
Interactive Magazine January 2000, Irish CD-ROM magazine
Irish Times Net gets
to the art of the matter July 12th 1999
The Guardian Let's Play August 26th
1999
RTE radio's The Main Event on the 20th August - interview about internet
art, Play-lets and my Siggraph experiences . Live netcast on RTE site
Interview
and review of Play-lets on WOW - What's on Where website.
Web Ireland - August
- Zoo TV meets the Internet September 1999
Circa 89 - review of Siggraph99 artGallery
PUBLICATIONS
Net Art Guide - Fraunhofer Electronic Business Innovationszentrum,
Stuttgart 2000.
CyNetArt 2000 - Internationales Festival Für Computergestützte
Kunst Dresden
SIGGRAPH 2000 Electronic Art and Animation Catalogue, ACM SIGGRAPH 2000
SIGGRAPH 99 Electronic Art and Animation Catalogue, ACM SIGGRAPH 1999
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Caroline McNulty (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
EDUCATION:
2006 Maynooth University Maynooth C.A.D
2003 National College of Art and Design Dublin M.A Fine Art
2000 National College of Art and Design Dublin B.A Fine Art
1997 University of the West of England Bristol Foundation Studies
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Caitriona Moore (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Artist Statement
"In my work I focus on collecting clips of information from popular culture sources: Information which warps or changes in meaning when removed from its original context- looking at the ridiculous in details within the confines of society, everyday life and old-fashioned values. I enjoy twisting the line between the fairytale fantastic (fiction) and the domestic, mundane everyday (reality) truth. My work plays with the potentialities of found imagery and text which seems to fit together, clues codes and connotations of themes. Images draw mainly on themes of socialisation, moral fables and myths, the use of the narrative and the storytelling tradition- this acquisition and portrayal of odd social information; cultural hiccups or quirks in peoples stories/ lives and the transferral of this information from the realm of reality to that of fantasy or fairytale. Traditional fairytale motifs, concepts and images become involved with images and text lifted from the world of consumerism and communication: Advertising, magazines, T.V., film, storybooks, newspaper articles and literature in a type of culture clash which brings about new undercurrents of meaning or interpretation-the sense of the slightly uncomfortable, weird, ambiguous and absurd."
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Padraic E. Moore (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
A selection of some of my 20th century cultural heroes.
Manually mass produced monuments.
An ephemeral homage to those who shape and shade my view.
Audacious Producers with a vision.
Icons who escaped the monotony of awful mediocrity.
Never forget them!
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Ben Mullen (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Artist’s Statement:
At present my work is concerned with the idea of celebration. The
celebration of human phenomenal existence here occurs through the
presentation of an imagined pseudo-reality; one rendered with colour, hope,
happiness and optimism, to produce (positive) alternative states of
consciousness in the audience.
The implicit reality of this simple phenomenal
existence is accentuated
through a visual engagement with an art which is the product of fun and
play. Exploring the relationship between the physical and non-physical
worlds of thought and form and the 'spiritual' experience produced by this
encounter.
The work inhabits a space that is at once physical and ethereal, where
the
joy of experiencing reality and its effects on our perceptible abilities
(both those of observation and imagination) is celebrated, creating a
positive and uplifting experience.
It is hoped that the work serves as a bridge
between human and divine, self
and other, or subjective and objective realities.
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Charlotte Murray (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Exhibitions
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin
2006 DIT Graduate Show.
2004. Sherkin Island Exhibition, DIT.
2002. San Francisco City College Exhibition “Colour & Light”.
1999 ASTI National Exhibition.
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Paula Naughton (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My work is about my fascination with the city and the energy and movement of lives that flow through it. At every possible view of the city there is an unknown and hidden history, an endless site waiting to be represented through an exploration of its architecture. Modern day architecture leaves us very abstracted and separated from one another. Yet I find it intriguing that the city is an inter-relationship of the past and present, of imprints of history and current activity. The buildings are vessels full of memories. That is why to me the experience of the city has always been a very emotional exploration.
Through the use of the photograph I take a peek at urban living beyond the cold rigid walls of high-rise and solid stone buildings. This emotional and ungraspable element of cities is what I want to represent. Transport and movement in the city reach such a velocity that they become transparent to the lens. But the solid rigidness of the buildings is always captured. In the photographs, the people and the movement become just temporal dimensions of the city. In society we as humans view ourselves as separate and independent from our environment; our world is physical and objective and our memories and experience are subjective. Yet urban space does affect our mental space. The forms of the buildings and rooms give us form to manifest our imagination and they condition our mental space, from how we commute and move within the city to how our imagination manifests itself. It is this emotional aspect to architecture and movement within the city that guides my lens and creates my drawings.
I am passionate about my art because to me art is a representation of ideas. When the viewer sees my work I hope to allow them to see as I see. To me it is this challenge that spurs me on. I use the camera lens to navigate around urban environment. And from my photographs I draw and print, trying to capture the movement and constant fluidity and the solid rigid ness of the buildings that impose their structures on the flow of the city. In trying to represent this I wanted to make a drawing come to life on a page and show it in a way that the viewer wouldn’t expect, thus opening the viewers mind to see from the artist’s eye (to see the everyday buildings in a new light and maybe seeing them from a different perspective) That’s why I began experimenting with drawing and light; to create a literal illumination through taking the traditional form of drawing and showing it in a fresh way. This is what led to my use of ultra violet paint and black light.
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Barbara Nealon (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Education:
Hons BA in Fine Art (sculpture) from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, June, 2004.
Work History - Upcoming
I am part of a trio of performance artists/dj’s called Vaginal Vynal
who specialise in creating romance and nostalgia while playing songs new and
old. We have just finished a 14 month residency in Dublin’s Dice bar.
We have played in London’s Off the Rocks club and AB art space in Galway.
We will be playing in Belfast in June and are invited artists to Kilkenny arts
week in August. We will also be performing on the nightlink as part of the
Dublin Fringe Festival this year.
* I am currently organising a group exhibition of the work of 13 Irish artists that is travelling to rm103 gallery in Auckland, New Zealand this autumn. The show is a result of a project that took place last summer where I “let-out” my studio to artists for 24 hours and asked them to respond to the space and the materials available to them.
I am shooting a short film this August in Kilkee, Co. Clare. Documenting the annual Bay Swim Race in which up to 200 swimmers traverse the mile wide bay. This will be screened as part of a large-scale temporary coastal installation the following month.
June 2005-Janurary 2006
During this time I undertook two large-scale public art projects
“Transplant”, which took place on January 8th last, was a large-scale collaborative public artwork devised by Tara Kennedy and myself. It comprised of collecting used Christmas Trees and transplanting them onto the beach at Sandymount, Dublin. We shot a digital and 16 mm Film of the event over 2 tidal cycles that showed the “forest” being surrounded by the tide coming in and receding again. Public participation was an integral aspect to the success of this artwork.
Laois Artists Symposium - Having been selected as one of five artists nationally,
I spent 3 weeks working in the grounds of Emo Court, Co. Laois, where I develop
a series of works in
response to the location and its public. During this time I also conducted
workshops with local schools exploring the possibilities of commonplace objects
in art. A subsequent publication on the Symposium has been produced by Laois
County County Council
March-June 2005
* Production assistant, in charge of fund raising, for Come Good Rain Productions, in association with the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin.
* Production Co-ordinator for the award winning Gúna Nua Theatre Company, Dublin, for their production of Hamlet at Project Theatre, Dublin.
September ’04-April 05
* Community Artist, Dán Project, St. Teresa’s Gardens, Dublin 8
ABLE Project, Ballyfermot, Dublin
I develop a digital video programme designed specifically for young people at risk in society. Artistically it explored the genre of self-portraiture through video. By examining their interests, communities and personal concerns, they became comfortable with video technology as an artistic medium. They began to understand its potential for mass communication while learning to articulate themselves artistically and effectively. The programme has been very successful. The project was subsequently screened as part of a community arts film festival at the Irish Film Institute, Dublin, last December.
* August ’04 The Tidal Wave
A major part of my college final year research was concerned with a “tidal wave” that hit the coastal town of Kilkee, Co Clare, on St Stephen’s day 1951, causing terrible damage to the seafront. The summer after my graduation was spent
Researching and making a documentary for RTE Radio 1, which was broadcast
that August
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Fergus Niland (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"I find it very difficult to write about what I draw. Not because its a strain to express the 'inexpressible quality of true art' in two hundred words or less, but because you 'd see me for the shallow hack of an artist that I really am. 'But', in all its morbid obesity, if you were to ask me straight up where I get ideas from, then I would tell you about the 40 year old encyclopedias and other tomes of knowledge that I've read from cover to cover digesting stories of human triumph, when men where men and the women fed tea and cake to the astronauts. Moreover, I'd explain how listening to 90 second songs from 80's SoCal about "shooting Reagan" and "hating them" because "they hate us" have had a greater effect than any formal education on the work I make. If anything I have a determined interest in demolishing the concept of a 'moral hierarchy' (and have absolutely no interest in rebuilding one). Hence, in terms of presentation I've latched on to a method of drawing, inspired by comic books, as a means of approaching all subjects in an even-handed manner. Sooo, in summary, I love old people, fuck-ups and dying dogs."
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Seamus Nolan (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
EDUCATION
1996-98 Painting, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
1998-99 Community Theatre, Spraoi, Waterford
1999-2004 Sculpture, NCAD, Dublin, First Class Honours
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin Fringe Festival, 2006.
2006 Participating in Breaking Ground artists, round table discussion in IMMA
2006 EV+A, Limerick, Ireland collaboration with Lisa Marie Johnson. Curated by Katerina Gregos.
2005 Artcirq/Seamus Nolan, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Curated by Grant Watson
2005 Invited speaker for professional development evening programme hosted by Lee Welch
2005 Two-week community art project in Ballymun, commissioned by B.R.L. and The Silloge Recycling Centre, Ballymun.
2005 Member of the Dublin Cell for Cork Caucus, on art possibility and Democracy, curated by Art not Art, Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher
2005 Viewing Tower, Multimedia sculptural exhibition in association with O.P.W. and Cork Cultural Capital Programme. Organised by Patrick Gillis in Fota Island, Cork.
2005 The World + The Work = The World, Art and the Everyday, invited Speaker for seminar organised by final year students of IADT, Dun Laoghaire.
2005 Paris, St. Petersburg, Dublin: Private sculptural commission for photographer Chris Harrington.
2005 Urban Bicycle Exchange, A performance installation commissioned by The Project Art Centre with the Hugh Lane and the Goethe Institute as part of the group show 'Communism', The Project Art Centre, Dublin.
2004 NCAD Degree SHow, NCAD, Dublin.
2004 May-Day, Signal Art Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
2004 Pre-fabricated LUAS De-railer, Ballyfermot Civic Centre, Dublin.
2003 Ibrahim Habaci's International Brass Band, City Arts Cente, Dublin Fringe Festival, 2003
2003 Ibrahim Habaci's International Brass Band, Fringe Festival Studio, Dublin
2003 Tribute to Carlos Giovanni, Signal Art Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
2003 Improv sound performance w/Skanger, Blackfort Organic Gallery, Dublin
2003 Paul Daniels, Performance Artist. Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
2002 Images of Daytona, Dublin Fringe Festival
2002 Souvenir State. Triskel Art Centre, Cork.
2002 Souvenir State. Signal Art Centre, Bray.
2002 Music is no Object. Improv music performance w/Skanger. Eamon Doran's, Dublin
2002 NCAD/CREATE education programme
2002 Billboard exhibition, (community art project), Oliverbond St., NCAD
2001 Missing Link, 5th Floor, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin.
2001 Country Fence, Carlow, Ireland.
2001 Shoplifter, Ilac Centre, Dublin
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Eli Normal (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Eli Normal lives and works in Ireland and the U.K.
He has always been fascinated by how Western cultures produce and consume
information, especially in the commercial sphere. Armed with an artistic qualification
and a ‘useless’ wealth of cultural references from his years as
a consumer Eli began to produce work that add to the currency of commercial
production while questioning the role of contemporary art.
Using the etymology
of his own name Eli (meaning ascension) and his seemingly contradictory family
name as a basis for his own ‘brand’, “Normal
Creations” was founded in 2005. He works in a range of media all inspired
by the aesthetics and techniques of commercial advertising and production in
order to communicate with his brand outlook. Through his creations he aims
to expand this name and make his audience consider all the elements complicit
in generating the message.
At the root of his brand is the belief that seemingly
mundane occurrences and objects can be elevated to items of cultural significance.
Some may even
call this a ‘unique selling point’.
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Jane O’Sullivan (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Jane works and lives in Mayo.
Education
2002 (currently studying) BA(ord)degree in Fine Art(Painting), Galway Mayo Institute Technology(G.M.I.T)
1992 BA(hons)degee in Communication Studies Dublin City University
Selected Group Shows
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin
2006 Oscailt -Charlestown Arts Centre Co.Mayo
2006 8x8 -Galway Civic Trust Fisheries Tower Galway
2005 IONTAS small works exhibition -Sligo Art Gallery Sligo
2005 Mayo Artists Show Linenhall Arts Centre -Castlebar Co.Mayo
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Alex Pearl (UK)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Alex Pearl was born in Manchester, educated in Birmingham and settled down with an Irish girl in Suffolk. He makes things and then videos them before they fall apart. His work deals with chance and the things in life he doesn’t do very well. Singing, dancing and telling jokes all feature. He is currently attempting to tour the world with an automatic filmmaking unit comprising a number of rickety camera operators and a remote controlled airship. Alex is especially proud of having shown work simultaneously in California and Siberia. He lives just outside a small village near Ipswich.
Education:
BA hons Fine Art, UCE Birmingham
MA History of Art & Design, UCE Birmingham
Exhibitions:
2006, Drawing Links, The Drawing Room, London & Outpost, Norwich, & International3,
Manchester (touring group show)
2006, Sideshow, Costume Museum, Nottingham
2006, 60 seconds of Play. Saltworks
Gallery, Atlanta, GA, & Forum Gallery,
Cranbrook Academy of Art.
2006, Film Makers Show Case, Salt Gallery, Hale
2006, Another Product, Cornerhouse,
Manchester
2005, Indisposable, Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich
2005, Regeneration, WAG at St
Mary at the Quay, Ipswich
2005, Trampoline, Reactor, Nottingham
Residencies:
2006, Automatic Filmmaking residency, Sideshow, Nottingham
2005, Automatic Filmmaking
residency, WAG at St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich
Film Festivals:
2006, Darklight, Dublin
2006, Izolenta ’06, International Digital Film
Festival, Museum of Cinema, St Petersburg
2006, PixelDance Video Art festival,
Thessaloniki, Greece
2006, Streaming Festival {The Hague}, Syntocin, Netherlands
2006, 2nd Athens
Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2006, D>Art.06, dLux Media Arts, Sydney,
Australia
2005, L’Alternativa 2005, 12th Independent Film Festival of Barcelona,
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
2005, Max Five Video festival,
Café Gallery, Southwark.
2005, Extra Short Film Festival, Novosibirsk,
Russia.
2004, Shot by the Sea digital film festival, Electric Palace Cinema,
Hastings.
Screenings:
March, 2006, 37Seconds, BBC Big Screen Liverpool, Clayton Square
, Liverpool
March 2006, Camera Obscura, Sydney, Australia
March 2006, 7inch No. 22, The
Rainbow, Birmingham
March 2006, Dark & Daring II, WAG, Ipswich
February 2006, A Valentines Special
II, Slack Video, Hull
February 2006, Digital Corruptions, Chesterfield
January 2006, 2006 - A Slack
Oddity : The 8th Triannual Review, Slack Video, Hull
November 2005, IF 3, Side
cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
June 2005, Slack video, “2nd Birthday Screening” The
Lamp, Hull
May 2005, International Shorts, Electronic Arts Program, California
State University
February 2005, Dark & Daring, WAG, Ipswich
February 2005, About Space, Midlands
Arts Centre, Birmingham
Summer 2004, Alternative video tent, The Big Chill.
Online:
www.thirdplacegallery.org/gallery
www.syntocin.com/
www.tank.tv/
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Christian Reeves (IRL)
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Sheila Rennick (IRL/UK)
(Information as of August 2006)
EDUCATION:
National College of Art and Design, Fine Art Painting 2000-2004.
Byam Shaw School of Art @ Central St Martins,M.A in Fine Art, Painting. London.2005-2006
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
C.A.P Foundation Award, 2004- 2005, ‘The Studio’, 36 Leeson Close,
Leeson St, Dublin 4.
‘Professional Training and Development Award’, 2005.’
EXHIBITIONS
Civic Offices, The Quays, Dublin 2, - Group Exhibition 2003
Dublin Castle,
Dames St, Dublin 2. - 2003
N.C.A.D Degree Show- 2004
C.A.P Foundation Award 2005- annual exhibition.
‘Purpose’, Mash
Potato Gallery, The Old Distillery, Depford, London.2006
The Vending Machine Project, Dublin, 2006.
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Emma Robertson (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
EDUCATION
2006 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art,
2005 Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art
2004 BA Fine Art and History of Art 2:1, University of Reading,
EXHIBITIONS
2006 ‘Halcyon Days’ Group show at the Tannery Arts
Centre,
Laburnum Street, London
2005 ‘Post Graduate Diploma Fine Art Show’
2005 Degree Show, Chelsea
College of Art, London
2004 ‘Dawn’ Group Show at the Ecology Pavilion,
Mile End Park, London
2004 University of Reading Degree Show, Fine Art Department,
University of Reading
2004 ‘Fuel’ Group show at Foxhill House, Whiteknights
Campus, University of Reading
PROJECTS
2005 ‘Homeshow’ Curatorial project,
exhibiting work by Anders Clausen, Aya Fukami, Richard Johnson, Ruth Solomons
and Robert
Luzar at 179D Coldharbour
Lane, London
PUBLICATIONS
Contributed to Miser and Now magazine issues 2 and 4
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David Roche (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
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Ben Roosevelt (IRL/USA)
(Information as of August 2006)
Ben Roosevelt is an American painter, sculptor, and multi-media artist based in Atlanta, U.S.A. He has participated in exhibitions and site-specific events in the United States and Ireland, including a solo show at the St. Andrews-Sewanee Gallery in Tennessee. Current projects include an upcoming group show in 2007 at Bolm Studios in Austin, Texas, and a solo show in October 2006 at the new Ard Bia, Galway, Ireland. Roosevelt holds a Masters degree in Theology from Vanderbilt University and recently completed a Masters in Fine Art at the Burren College of Art. He has pieces in private collections in Italy, France, Ireland, and the U.S. The artist also works as a curator and organiser; his project Interim was shortlisted in Ireland for the Allianz Business2Arts Awards, 2006.
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Nina Tanis (IRL/USA)
(Information as of August 2006)
Nina Tanis graduated from NCAD in 2004 with a Fine Art degree in sculpture. A strong area of interest lies in site-specific installation, in which her works are created out of the unique intersection of particular places and ideas. She enjoys making pieces with participatory elements that create possibilities for things to happen. Recently she has been exploring interventionist ideas - connecting people in a shared event or offering something unexpected, as elements of the work. She appreciates the generosity of the public to sincerely engage in her projects and feels that the work is enhanced tenfold by what individuals bring to it.
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Keith Walsh (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"I have been a designer/artist since I banged my head while riding a space hopper aged 8. For the last 6 years I have worked in various ad agencies as well as doing a spot of freelance work. I have done comic covers, designed logos, drawn pitchers and vases, taken some photos and traveled a bit. While in Melbourne last year I re-discovered stencil art, which is my main influence at the moment, along with Jackie Collins novellas, banana custard and folk music. If I ever find myself stuck I think to myself, “what would Jesus do?”
Since returning from Melbourne, my interest in street art has blossomed. What started as a small personal project has turned into turtlehead.ie. I started experimenting with stencils sprayed directly onto hand painted stretched canvas and this has developed into a fledgling tshirt business. Turtlehead is an Irish fashion label trying to keep one eye on the establishment, one on the subversive and another on cool stuff. Our goal is not to bring down corporations or governments, but to show that we care. We are not about saving whales, rainforests or puppies; but if we can help we will. 5% of our profits will be donated to a charity of our choice, depending on who needs it the most at the time."
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Robin Watkins (IRL/Sweden)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
Robin Watkins is a Swedish musician/artist/designer who is based in Dublin, Ireland. Born in Stockholm in 1980, he was raised in Andalucia, Spain and later went on to study economy, photography & drawing before finally moving to Dublin in 2001 where he recently received a BA (Hons) Degree of Design at Institute of Art, Design & Technology. Watkins is currently an artist in residency at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios where he lives and works with his partner and occasional collaborator Nina Canell.
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Conor Wickham (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Website
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"My work is about stuff. Sometimes it means something, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes when it doesn't mean anything it can take on a meaning later and sometimes it never takes on any meaning. To be honest I don't really care, not now anyway. It becomes apparent when I think too hard about explaining what I do the aching pain at the back of my eyes starts. I just draw it and let the size-queens worry about all that shit. Who cares what its about, you either like what it looks like or you don't. If it looks good to me then I'm happy, other peoples opinions don't really matter. If you hate it feel free to tell me, but remember: the drawings can't hurt you. But I can."
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John Younge (IRL)
(Information as of August 2006)
Freelance Photographer and Designer 2001-2005
Photography Lecturer,NCAD,2003-2005
Photography Lecturer,Rathmines College,2000-2005
Design Lecturer,Stillorgan College,2000-2001
EDUCATION
B.A Fine Art-DLIADT-1999-2000
Diploma,-DLIADT-1992-1995
EXHIBITIONS
2 o Clock Fallout-EVA-Limerick-2006
Performance,Cork City of Culture-may-2005
Ladyfest,Dublin-November-2004
Mutual-Guinness Storehouse-2004
u.s live,guinness storehouse-2003
Eject,Limerick,december-2001
Projections,south tiperary art centre-june-2001
installation,Real Art Project-Limerick-2001
Crawford Open,-2000
Degree Show,DLIADT-2000
Concourse,DLIADT- 2000
Body Without Organs-Temple Bar Gallery and Studios-1999
Freeze,Winter Projection Festival,Arthouse-1998
Diploma Exhibition,-DLIADT-1992
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