Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 March 2012 18:14

Kate Buckley

Kate Buckley is an artist based in Dublin, currently in her 3rd year of the BA(Hons) Visual Arts Practice at IADT Dun Laoghaire.  She is concerned with notions of place and non-place.  History, literature and a sense of identity, both cultural and personal, have all influenced her work in some way at different times.

Currently she is investigating ideas around mapping and how these can be used in her practice.  This has involved drawing and re-drawing past journeys, endeavouring to make maps or use map-like imagery in new ways and looking at physical structures such as walls and buildings in a new light, as if they were maps of the past, recording different layers of time.  Most recently this has lead to her experimenting with the print technique of embossing, to give the impression of an image on paper, which requires the viewer to come closer in order to see an image they may have missed otherwise.

Alan Delmar

Alan Delmar is an exciting young artist living and working in Dublin.  His practice spans a wide range of media, focusing on performance, video and sonic art, with a keen interest in audience participation and public interventions.  Concepts tackled include power relations, identity, gender, consumerism, and societal institutions.  Central to his process is an obsessive physical and psychological re-embodiment, through which he attempts to both understand the position of others within society, and also to covertly analyse places and social situations he otherwise could not.  The many scandals throughout Irish history are another area of interest and although Delmar’s art frequently employs humour, issues are also addressed with sincerity.  His creative process is rigorous and energetic, involving detailed investigation and research. Delmar keeps little restriction on his process, allowing his work to naturally abstract along the way, opening his art up to even more unique interpretations and possibilities.

Orla Goodwin

Orla Goodwin is a 3rdyear Fine Art and Visual Culture student at NCAD specializing in Fine Print. Previously she studied fashion design and worked in costume for theatre.

Currently her work follows two main lines of enquiry: questioning the female role within painting as figurative or subject? Also Interiors and cityscapes in their abandoned state performing as a stage or set for a narrative, mapping past and future human presence. She is looking at how to create an intervention in a scene or to set a scene within these spaces that has the energy within it of something that has happened or that is about to take place. These ideas are manifesting together addressing how the essence of human energy can be communicated through a staging of props, the figurative presence of clothing or a subtle human presence within an abstract interior space.

Thomas Hayes

Thomas Hayes is an Icelandic artist in an Irish body. Though normally at home on the glacier, in ferny forest or mossy graveyard, Thomas now finds himself in the big city, attending the National College of Art and Design - and that in itself might have interesting results.

Thomas' work revolves around his schizophrenic concerns: "me versus the world", personal identity versus public reception, the orthodox versus the alchemical, scientific sensibility versus the romance of myth, herbalism, orchids and Eyjafjallajokull (that volcano that keeps on erupting in Iceland). He collaborates and shares authorship with Pia Fogarty, a Christian musician, and Onyx, a codependent ferret. Their long-term mission: to define the artist as a Renaissance-man. Their purpose is not to initiate some kind of re-Renaissance, but rather to criticise the fixedness of the roles we assume in contemporary society. Together, Thomas, Pia and Onyx attempt this by means of video, performance and narrative.

Kamil Markiewicz

Kamil Markiewicz is studying sculpture at National College of Art and Design. His research-based practice focuses on video work, but also includes installation and time based events. He recently has been working on a project in collaboration with UCD landscape architects, which aimed at redeveloping and creating a new energy in Spencer Dock area. His recent exhibitions includes ‘Cheer up the worst is yet to come/Threads Collective’ in Basic Space, and ‘Airfield Exhibition’ Airfield Dublin.

Markiewicz’s earlier work explores individual‘s memory of place and architecture as alternative to ideologically and collectively constructed history. His recent work examines social conflict and its forms of expression within democratic societies.

Sinead McDonald

Sinead McDonald is a Dublin based photographer and digital media producer, currently studying on the Art in the Digital World M.A. at N.C.A.D. Her research and practice focusses on issues of authorship and narrative in portraits and images of people, and the creation of identity in online and offline spaces.  Her work incorporates new technologies; digital production, augmented reality, animation, web based art and physical computing, alongside historical lens-based processes and working within the Victorian pseudo sciences. She is most interested in how technologies old and new affect and challenge our perceptions.

Sinead has recently exhibited her documentary photography in Exchange Gallery, and was an invited artist in the First Fortnight mental health arts festival in January 2012 at Filmbase. She also writes and speaks on photography theory and practice, and teaches photography, multimedia and print production.

Website: http://www.sineadmcdonald.com

Hannah Rosa Oellinger

Hannah Rosa Oellinger is studying fine/media art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and works as scenographer and artist, combining methods of art and research with an emphasis on a sociological approach. Her latest works include wide-spread surveys on the least common utopia, the most average love story and the standard taste. She is currently contributing to the art and social initiative ‘Wochenklausur’ (www.wochenklausur.at) and got chosen by an international open call to form a collective in Salzburg, Austria. Recently she has been organising and collaborating in various interdisciplinary projects, such as designing a new exhibition hall and series ‘Hufak Off Space’ (www.hufakoffspace.net), ‘Protest and Stagnation/Protest und Stillstand’ (www.protestundstillstand.at) and ‘Experimental Set-Up: Love Stories/Versuchsanordnung: Liebesgeschichten’.

Sara Turner

Sara Turner is a third year Visual Arts Practice student at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Specialising in 2D practices. Sara’s body of works usually focuses on identity, specifically the notion on public lives and private selves. It is the idea of taboo to go through somebody’s items, objects, positions, belongings to find out more about them, and the quest to get to know somebody by searching through their contents. Exploring personal objects to display the story they each hold, therefore holding a memory of the person in question. Documenting her work usually through the medium of line drawing and print. Sara hopes CREATE will help make an easy transition through using herself as a subject and how to approach the public. Online notebook of some work and lots of personal inspiration: http://sara-lee.tumblr.com