Convergence artists 2025
Laura Leuzzi
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Keynote Lecture Dr. Laura Leuzzi is an art historian and curator. Currently she is a Chancellor Fellow at Gray’s School of Art. She is the author of articles and essays in books and exhibition catalogues, with her research focused on art and activism, socially engaged art, early video art, European video art histories, art and
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Liam Ó Maonlaí
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Liam is one the most gifted and versatile musicians to emerge from Ireland in recent decades. A founding member and frontman of the internationally successful Hot House Flowers, Liam also performs widely as a solo artist, and in collaboration with other musicians around the world. His music is rooted in Irish tradition with deep connections
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Maja Zeco
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Maja Zećo [maya zecho], born in 1987 in Sarajevo, is a sound and visual artist based in Scotland. In her research-oriented work, she explores themes of identities, decoloniality and Balkan futurisms. This critical exploration has led Maja to self-burials, diving into water to recall memories, sensory impairment experiments, and endurance practice. She completed a practice-based
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Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle create multi-media art projects about love, sexuality, and queer ecologies. Collaborating since 2002, their practice is in many ways an Earth art laboratory. From 1973 to 1995, Annie was a sex worker. She morphed into a performance artist and sex educator. Beth Stephens is an artist, and since 1994, she
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Sandra Johnston
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Sandra Johnston’s artworks often involve exploring the aftermath of trauma through acts of commemoration that exist as forms of live testimony and empathetic receptiveness. Her performances are experiential in nature, based on improvisational processes that explore physical states of responsiveness, formed in relation to the actualities of specific situations and the moment of making. Actions
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Inni-K
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Named by RTÉ.ie as “one of ten fierce women defining Irish culture”, Dublin-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Inni-K’s music draws on her extensive background in folk and traditional Irish music, even as she ventures into new musical territories. Her original songwriting career (‘The Hare & the Line’ 2019 and ‘The King has Two Horse’s Ears’
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Cait Ni Riain
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Cáit Ní Riain is a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Co.Tipperary. She is deeply rooted in Irish traditional music and song, and influenced by folk musics the world over that have grown from the ground up, from the human’s relationship with land. She is particularly passionate about the traditional songs of Ireland, the keening tradition, the
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Mary and the pigeons
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Mary Barnecutt is a Dublin-based musician, composer and music organiser. She has written music for short films, theatre, dance productions, and worked with artists such as Amanda Coogan, Inni-K, Liz Roche, Ruth O’Mahony-Brady, Justine Doswell and Ray Harman. She was cellist and vocalist with Teać Damsa in their world- touring production of Loch Na hEala 2017-2020
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Marie- Chantal Hamrock
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Marie-Chantal Hamrock is a n Irish visual artist based in Aberdeen. Using relics and inscrutable objects, she creates surreal and complex narratives, hinting at arcane and clandestine revelations. Her work seeks to blur the line between the real and the imagined through a multi-disciplinary practice, moving across drawing, film, writing, and object-making. She is one
Convergence artists 2025
Nightwood
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1NightWood is an ethereal duo featuring singer-songwriter Alice Night and old-world vocalist Purdie Wood. Together Night and Wood sing haunting ballads, wordless songs and intimate original and traditional folk songs, woven with hypnotic guitar parts, the bodhrán drum and harmonies. NightWood create an experience in which the audience can soften, feel, and lean into parts
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Julliette Murphy
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1JULIETTE MURPHY is a multidisciplinary artist who works in printmaking, painting andperformance. She has lived in Catalunya, Spain for over 30 years and has show inmultiple exhibitions in France, Spain, Britain and the USA. She is a member of theperformance group Birds in the Head, and previously Vibra, a womens art collective(until 2021). Latest projects
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Andy Spearpoint
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Andy Spearpoint has been involved in weird pop since his time as front man for New Fast Automatic Daffodils in the nineties, to his current interest in electronic, semi improvised performance and a more experimental approach. Andy Spearpoint is a community musician with a particular interest in devised group music making and collaborative work. His
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Ian Whitty & the Exchange
On 19 May 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Ian Whitty & The Exchange are an indie-folk band based out of Cork, Ireland. Late 2016 saw the release of their second release, ‘Cash Crop’, a recording which has been described by Hot Press as ‘an album of genuine heft’. Cash Crop veers from simple stripped-back melodies to riotous guitar overtures to Americana. Ian’s lyrics