Artist Mentor Panel

Established in 2022, Create is delighted to offer an Artist Mentor Panel, made up of experienced collaborative socially engaged practitioners who specialise in a range of artforms, and who have worked with diverse communities across Ireland. Each brings in-depth knowledge of the field, and a deep awareness of key considerations when working with communities, including in sensitive settings and where projects are addressing significant social issues.   

Artists who feel in need of mentoring from artist peers can currently access this via a suite of offerings under the Artist in the Community Scheme (AIC). This includes the AIC Scheme Artist Mentoring Award, an open call process in which five artist mentors and five artist mentees are paired for durational mentoring.

Members of the Artist Mentor Panel will be available as mentors to emerging practitioners, artists with a strong interest in, or who are transitioning into collaborative socially engaged arts, artists who find themselves on the margins, for example due to displacement or migration, artists who feel they are underrepresented in the field of collaborative socially engaged arts and artists facing particular challenges in developing their collaborative socially engaged arts practice. Current and previous mentors include Oluwatobi Balogun, Alan James Burns, Feidlim Cannon, Cathy Coughlan, Grace Dyas, Tomasz Madajczak, Séamus Nolan, Deirdre O’Mahony, Eve Olney, Silvina Sisterna, Dominic Thorpe, Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin, Dr. Sinead McCann, John Conway, Kate O’Shea,  Jijo Sebastian, Michelle Browne and Aisling Byrne.

Opportunities to engage with the Artist Mentor Panel will be posted on our website. Read current mentor biographies here. 
Mentor Biogs