Rachael Agnew, Deborah Ando, Clare Louise Bligh, Jessica Conway, Terence Erraught, Aoife Flynn, Rosie Lynch, Trish McAdam, Siobhan McDonald,  Fiona McDonald, Ann Murphy, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Sean Ó Sullivan, Jane Queally, Curt Riegelnegg, Sarah Roche, Rowan Sexton, Dorothy Smith, Kate Strain.

Debora Ando
"One of the inscriptions of time (whose irreversibility is demonstrated by the law of entropy), dust is, semiologically speaking, an index. (…) its trace is of duration." Yves-Alain Bois

A landscape is never motionless or still. Every time a society passes through a process of change, the economic, social and political relations also change. The same happens to the physical space, that will transform itself in order to become adapted to the new necessities of society. Having dust as the main element of my poetic, I am interested in the visual investigation of these traces of transformation in the urban environment (based on Sao Paulo city urbanscape).
 

Siobhan McDonald
Siobhan McDonald is a visual artist based in Dublin. Through her practice she examines the links between science and art, exploring processes of entropy and the potency of geological time. Whether examining the unstable volcanic landscapes of Iceland or Montserrat, she addresses ideas of fragility in the face of the power of nature.

Ann Murphy
I am interested in investigating some of the ways in which art functions in the cultural realm, proposing that it is potent in offering an imaginative transformation of human experience which can address gaps and elisions within the cultural discourse, re-presenting for exploration, aspects of historical and cultural experience previously disavowed. The work of Lubaina Himid in addressing the historical trauma of enslavement in African culture, and that of Anselm Kiefer in his re-presentation of the horror of the Holocaust to his generation of Germans, are important points of reference. My current project involves a body of work, comprising paintings and texts, developed in response to the Ryan Report, in an attempt to confront and acknowledge the reality of the trauma and abuse perpetrated by the Irish State, with the complicity of society at large, on vulnerable children.

Sarah Roche
My current research is concerned with systems and hierarchies of knowledge. I am interested in the predominance of linear and rational thought in Western culture. What are the effects of this on the individual and on society? How does it shape our concepts of progress and the path of progress? This enquiry underpins my studio practice, which is currently exploring the experience of a text as a meeting point with the life, experience and memory of a writer, in this case Czeslaw Milosz. This is occurring through drawing, performance, video and installation.

Kate Strain
My practice is situated in the intersecting territory between art making and curation. Through collaborative event and exhibition making, I seek to provide a means for questioning the parameters of the role of the curator. Ideas of communication, dissemination and documentation underpin my activities, along with a consistent re-evaluation of the question: “for whom do I produce?” My work is informed by strategies employed in both Conceptual and Participatory Art practices. Through active research inquiry (often in collaboration with The Workhouse Test) I readily invite outside participation, and posit the idea of event as research medium. Current specific research interests include the history of exhibitions, the impact of new technologies on how we display and experience art and the rethinking of the traditional art object for a gallery context (including live events/actions/interventions).