Hilary Morley is a visual artist living in Galway in the West of Ireland. Her themes are based on her passion for landscape and suburbia, as well as a colourful view of life as a homemaker. She has curated multi-disciplinary exhibitions for The Galway International Arts Festival, Ceramics Ireland, Galway Design Week, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and The Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork.  She edits an online journal about Irish traditional and contemporary craft called http://www.making.ie/

Maeve Curtis’ art practice is a meditation on the mysteries, anxieties and metaphysics which ghost around imaging technologies. A graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway she had a ten year corporate management career under her belt when she decided to study Fine Art. She gained a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art from Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Ireland. In 2007, she was also awarded the AIB Graduate of the Year in Paint and Galway City & Galway County Council Emerging Artist Awards

Cecilia Danell is a Swedish artist based in Galway since 2004. While regarding painting as her main medium, her work is multifaceted and also utilises experimental film, installation and photography. She has exhibited solo in The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon (2017), the Galway Arts Centre (2017) which garnered a five star review by Aidan Dunne: "A landscape of the mind, and a terrifically effective one too" (Irish Times 28/03/17), Eight Gallery, Dublin (2014), Talbot Gallery, Dublin (2012) and Wexford Arts Centre (2012). Recent group exhibitions include Material Conditions, Platform Arts, Belfast (2017), Boyle Arts Festival (2017), Veins, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin (2016), the RHA Annual Exhibition (2015) and Tulca Festival of Visual Art (2010, 2012, 2014). Awards include the 2017 Arts Council Next Generation Bursary, Arts Council Bursary and Project Awards (2010, 2011, 2017), the Wexford Arts Centre Emerging Artist Award (2011), Bursary and Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency awards from Galway City Council and a Nordic Artists' Centre Dale Residency funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture (2016). She has works in the collections of the OPW, Wexford County Council, Galway City Council, Kelly's Resort Hotel, Rosslare and Motala Municipal Council, Sweden. www.ceciliadanell.com

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Eimearjean graduated in 2007 with a Masters in Fine Art Print from the University of the Arts London.  In 2016 she completed a second Masters in Graphic Design specializing in publication design projects primarily informed by artists’ books and zine culture. She has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and on an international scale in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Berlin, London, Lorient and Taiwan. Recent exhibitions include Art and Architecture Interwoven, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, New Prints, The International Print Center New York, The Future Is Self Organized, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Summer Show, The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Tracing my Echo, Zweigstelle Gallery Berlin and Kaleid, The Art Academy London.

Brenda Flannery, from Co Mayo is a visual artist based in Galway since 2012. She graduated from The Centre of Creative Arts and Media, GMIT with a First Class Honours degree in 2015. She was shortlisted for the RDS student awards and completed the SIM residency in Reykjavik, Iceland in July 2017.Her practice has evolved by examining the concept of time-consciousness. Time connects creation, memory, differential space, speeds and singularity. It consists of the collective history of memory and how it affects the way we perceive and experience the present. The standardisation and measurement of time produces an inner struggle to try and continuously pin down time. Inspired by the rural landscape the work represents a quest for calm and a search for a space of peace and stillness.Flannery uses a broad range of mediaincluding paint, video, photography and installation.

Jane Queally, from Co Clare, lives in Galway city, completed an MA in Visual Art Practice from IADT 2012 and a BA in Fine Art (Hons) from Sligo Institute of Technology 2002. She works predominately in painting and experimental photographic media, the latter is broadly concerned with analysing representations of the photographic image in print media as ‘document’, in the construct of social narrative. Jane is currently developing new work in her
painting practice.
She has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, including Tulca festival of visual art, Claremorris Open 2011/12/14. ‘Public Gesture’ The Lab, Foley St, Dublin 2011. 126 Annual members show 2012/14. Selected International artists exhibition ‘Teling Lies’ Rua Red Tallagh 2015 curated by Paul Mc Aree. Most recently exhibiting in ‘ Material Conditions’ selected group show with Engage members at Platform Arts , Belfast. She has been the recipient of Visual Art Bursary awards from Galway City and County councils and the D O’Sullivan Graphic Medal from the Sligo Institute of Technology. Her work is in a number of public and private collections including H.E.T.A.C Dublin, Aras an Uachtarain and S.I.T., Bank Of Ireland.

Vicky Smith is an award winning visual artist, arts educator & administrator from Galway City. She is a graduate from NCAD, Goldsmiths College and Crawford College of Art and Design with distinction. Her visual art practice is predominately installation and sculpturally based composed of paintings, photographs, appropriated moving images, text, found objects and film that explores feminist theoretical constructs today.

Simon Daly is originally from Kerry but now based in Galway. He graduated from CCAM, GMIT, with a bachelor (HONS.) in Fine Art in 2015. His paintings cover many themes and he is interested in mark making form and shape. Simon mainly uses oils but introduces other mediums to his work when  needed.

“Without thought or intention I started painting everything I was looking at pallet knifes brushes etc. I also became influenced by the shapes outside the window. My palette began to be influenced by my new surroundings. From the blue carpet, green trees, pink skies outside and cars and buses passing peoples cloths I would paint loose and fast and hang them on the wall and move swiftly on to the next.”

Nuala Ní Fhlathúin is from the Gaeltacht area in the West of Ireland. She received a BFA in Ceramics from GMIT, Galway, and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland, the USA, Portugal and Georgia. In addition to her art practice she edits Nua-Ealaín, an Irish language website for the contemporary visual arts.

Noelle Gallagher practice is informed by architectural space, with the former medical school of UCD at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin providing the source material for her current body of work. Her visits to Earlsfort Terrace were triggered by a curiosity as to how the spaces had reinvented themselves since UCD’s move to the suburbs at Belfield. One significant change that caught her attention, was how the high ceilings of the former dissection room at Earlsfort which were designed to limit exposure to formaldehyde and the smells of the mortuary, now provide interesting acoustics for musicians of the National Concert Hall who rehearse in the space.

Seamus current work varies in themes, but always seems to connect the Man made world with that of the natural world and sprinkles of a Magical world that doesnt quite exist. Seamus works mostly in oil on canvas but has been known to incorporate Print, Sound and Video into his work as he deems necessary.

Red Burke is a native of Roscommon who spent his entire working life in the computer and electronics industry in Galway. During that time, he studied art in GMIT, part time for six years and one year full time, and completed an Honours Degree in Fine Arts. Red completed an MA in Creative Practice in 2017 at GMIT. His practice involves the production of paintings based on a former Digital computer industry in Galway and the Marconi radio communication station in Clifden. As an artist, he is fascinated with the way that computer and radio components are laid out with respect to each other. Red seeks to breathe life into a forgotten era and display it on canvas.

Michelle Hill is a native of Galway who graduated from CCAM, GMIT, with a BA (Hons.) in Fine Art in 2015. She works primarily in paint but also has a keen interest in photography.

Paul Malone is a visual artist working and living in Galway. Erosion, magnetism, and gravity are some of the forces that shape Paul's art. Rather than painting the landscape Paul engages directly with the environment, using found materials to create textures and pigments. He is interested in the connection between the influence of the physical forces on the environment and the seemingly unrelated process by which human thoughts are formed. In the romantic tradition of landscape painting, thoughts are disembodied. The observer is outside the environment. In his work, by contrast, Paul sees thoughts, about the painting and about the environment that produced it, as forming patterns which are created by physical forces and chemical reactions that are rooted in the body. You can follow his work at paulmaloneart.com  search @paulmaloneart on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaloneArt/

Deirdre Deegan is a Galway based Artist-Teacher with specialised experience in Printmaking and Photography. Deirdre recently completed her MA studies in Creative Practice and her studio work and research thesis reflect on identity and the dual role of the Artist-Teacher. Deirdre graduated with a first-class honour in Art & Design Teacher Education from LIT in 2014 having previously completed her honours degree in printmaking at GMIT. In 2014 Galway City Council awarded her an Individual Artists Bursary and in 2012 she was selected for the Claremorris Open Exhibition. Deirdre also spent three weeks in Finland in 2011 on an artist’s bursary awarded by Leargas and Galway VEC. She has taken part in several group exhibitions in Galway, Dublin and London and her work is held in private collections. Deirdre has worked as a volunteer in the Education Centre in Limerick Prison and has given several lectures as an invited artist to students in GMIT. Deirdre’s particular interest in art education and its connectivity with people has led her to recently establish her own art school; Galway Art Academy.

Nicola Gunwhy was born in Liverpool (UK) and now lives in Ireland. Alongside her own art practice Nicola trained as a Clinical Psychologist and whilst working in healthcare completed her Doctorate focusing on children’s experiences of illness. Drawing upon her personal and professional experience of chronic health conditions, she is interested in the intersection between Arts & Health.

Angela is from Co. Galway and studied Art & Design in the 1980’s. Moved to Germany and came back to Ireland in the late 1990’s. Returned to art studies in 2003, attending GMIT (Chluain Mhuire) completing it with an Honours Degree in Art & Design (Paint) in 2006. Lives in Galway City.

Joan Sugrue is a Galway based visual artist who obtained her degree in Fine Art (First Class Honours) in 2011 from GMIT and was awarded Student of the Year in Paint. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally including RDS Student Awards, Irish Wave III Bejing, China, Eigse and as part of the Kitchen Table Collective in Tulca (2011). In November 2012 she won the ARTSTAP Title Award for critical writing.

Born in Italy, Ilaria is based in Galway since 2014. Her work is very much connected to the materials including fabrics, threads and fibers used in combination with other mediums and techniques.
These elements represent her origins and her essential environment. Through them she communicates her states of mind and aesthetic views. Coming from an industrialised background her focus is on putting her experience and knowledge into her creations, concentrating on the development of a sustainable way of living and working, considering different aspects such as alternative raw materials, natural dyes and the use of components that are considered “waste” as a resource for her artworks.
In Ireland she works as a costume maker and coherently with the Slow Fashion Movement ideas, which is an inspiration for her own visual art and a source of the ethical values she wants to communicate. Nowadays there is a rising awareness of the fashion industry world, and her work is rooted in the questioning of her role in this process. After getting a diploma in textile engineering at the I.T.I.S.V.E.M. in Valdagno, she specialised in pattern making and has worked in the fashion field since. In 2012 she attended the Art programme at the U. Boccioni Institute of Art, and she is a member of Galway Print studio since 2016.

Stephanie McLaughlin is a visual artist working in the west of Ireland. Within her practice she is drawn to unremarkable features or structures within the landscape. She depicts fragmented landscape, small structures, light and shade. McLaughlin creates these images in a manner which is visually arresting, as she is seeking a type of poetics in the landscape. McLaughlin’s oil paintings which result from this exploration, are varied in scale.

McLaughlin has had two solo exhibitions in Galway, and has been involved in numerous group shows. She was longlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards in 2016.

McLaughlin’s work has been purchased by Galway City Council, and she has completed numerous private commissions. She has recently competed an MA in Creative Practice at the Centre for Creative Arts and Media in Galway.

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Elena Moreno is a Spanish artist, based in Galway. Passionate about art from a young age and fascinated with the creative process, Elena completed her studies in History of Art, Fine Art and Restoration in Valencia before settling in the West of Ireland.

Elena’s paintings represent various themes, though they focus mainly on landscapes. She represents her surroundings with a technical skill and use of color which captures our imagination.

Mariez was born in Denmark and raised in Mexico and Spain. She
lived in different countries before graduating in Fine Art with honours at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland. The feeling of being an outsider is expressed in artworks showing a distorted reality. The artist approaches the painting as an object, and rage catalyses compositions that have been torn apart and built up again. The use of mixed media applied in successive layers reveals the conflict of the artist and the painting freeing itself from it.

Ruby Wallis is an award winning artist who recently completed her PhD in Fine Art Practice at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. She also has an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales. In 2013 she was nominated for the Prix Pictet Award and won first prize at The Claremorris Open Exhibition. Wallis was selected for Belfast Exposed Futures and is preparing for a solo show in 2016. She lectures in Visual Culture at Griffith College, Pulse College and The Burren College of Art.