Day: April 2, 2026

Mary Whitty

“In February I stayed at Live Art Ireland for their In-between Residency, where I spent time researching my ongoing and evolving body of work. During my time there, I developed a clearer grasp on my thought processes, and some questions and answers that lay within my practice re-emerged that I had previously been grappling with […]

Arlene Caffrey

Arlene Caffrey is a visual artist, researcher and educator based in Kilkenny. Working across performance, sculpture and social practice, her practice-based research explores the shifting cultural and sociopolitical landscape of contemporary Ireland and is informed by feminist and gender identity theory. Through performance and sculptural practice, she seeks to provoke critical reflection on constructs of […]

Rebecca Strain

I was born on the day Bobby Sands died of hunger strike for civil rights in Northern Ireland. Iwas brought up both in rural Donegal and in a council estate in Dublin city. I attendedLimavady College of Art a year after the Omagh bomb. I went on to study in England atUniversity of Huddersfield where […]