My site: www.alanjamesburns.com

My site: www.angiegrimes.com

My site: www.ceciliabullo.com

Cecilia Bullo’s recent work investigates the potential of a journey or voyage taken in the hope of healing ones inner self. Through aspects from the life of theorist, philosopher and playwright, Antonin Artaud, the artist considers the coping mechanisms that come into play when the body and mind are at pains to mend a trauma. Bullo’s work departs from Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937, a journey made in the hope of returning what he believed to be St. Patrick’s crosier to its homeland. The importance of the crosier to Artaud becomes for Bullo both a physical and metaphorical guide with which she delicately probes the nature of self healing and the journeys that are taken as part of this process. Through the Jungian suggestion that the experience of psychosis is a journey for the individual to rediscover something that has been lost to them, the concept of METANOIA comes to represent an existential journey towards recovery.

My site: www.fionnualahanahoe.com

Fionnuala Hanahoe is a recent graduate in Fine Art (Sculpture) from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Fionnuala employs the mediums of drawing, sculpture, video, installation and participation in her practice and her artworks are mainly concerned with exploring the creativity of the viewer, often in public space. Recent public art projects include Connecting Horizons and Piecing Together on Sandymount Beach in 2009, Constructing Docklands in 2008, and Drawing Football as part of the Dublin City Council 'Lighting the Liberties' project in 2008.

My site: www.gavinocurry.com

My site: www.makrai.com

Maria Makrai is a Dublin based artist, who graduated in Visual Arts Practice from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. In the course of her on-going exploration of urban development and modern buildings, she references existing structures and surroundings, while creating her own building environment, where spaces often reflect the transient nature of composition, whether man made or natural. Her practice has become increasingly engaged in the investigation of site-specific locations, unfinished derelict buildings and residue left
in surroundings.

She pursues the language of abstraction in order to create complex geometric and rectangular patterns. Her drawings and paintings emphasize delicate lines distorted in their elongated and intriguing formations that vanish into a grainy map. These artworks can be viewed simultaneously, both as abstractions, and depictions of actual sites. She re-creates the original sequence, events and locations, as much as depict the elaborate structures of these characterful buildings. Her work includes collections in the Office of Public Works, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and private collections in Ireland.

My site: www.marynoonan.com/

Mary Noonan was educated at the National College of Art and Design and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin. In 2009 she received a Masters in Fine Art from the NCAD. Her work involves many different media including painting, drawing, print and sculptural installation, most of her work is drawing based.

She has exhibited both in Ireland and abroad. Recent shows include TULCA in Galway Arts Centre 2010, Island in Occupy Space 2010, Telling Images in Claremorris Gallery 2010 and The Habit of Remembering in Draíocht Arts Centre 2009. Her work has been selected for juried exhibitions such as the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Iontas Small Works Competition and the Boyle Arts Festival. She received a travel bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2005 and has been awarded residencies in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Heinrich Boll Cottage, Achill and Can Serrat Arts Centre, Barcelona. In 2010 she was selected for Dublin City Councils Artists' Panel. Her work is in the collections of the Office of Public Works, Meath County Council, Irish Life and AXA Insurance amongst others.