Residency Call Out

Flesh As Witness

On 1 May 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1

Stories We’re Not Supposed To Hold

News update: Artists selected for this residency are:

Pak Lun Fung

Pak Lun Fung is a queer interdisciplinary artist and atmospheric scientist whose work grows out of the tension between data and lived experience. Moving between scientific research and performance art, he explores how bodies carry climate, memory, and identity in ways that numbers alone can’t hold. His recent projects in Finland, including ‘My Planetary Boundary’ and ‘Inner Complexity’, investigate the emotional and ecological pressures shaping queer and non‑queer bodies alike, often through movement, sound, and site‑responsive actions. As an emerging artist, Pak Lun Fung is still learning how to trust his instincts and let vulnerability guide the work. He’s drawn to collaborative and participatory processes that allow for shared witnessing, especially within queer‑centred spaces. His practice is slowly becoming a place where science, embodiment, and personal history can meet without needing to resolve their contradictions.

Sara Monteiro

Sara Andrade Monteiro is a Portuguese artist based in Northern Ireland, working across performance, installation, sculpture, sound, and moving image. Her practice is grounded in lived experience and informed by trauma theory, with a focus on embodiment, memory, and endurance. She uses her body as both material and site, often placing it in states of restriction, suspension, or prolonged stillness. Her work explores vulnerability, control, and transformation through repetition and non-verbal expression. Drawing on ritual, horror aesthetics, and personal history, she creates emotionally charged environments that invite audiences into slow, attentive encounters with discomfort, care, and witnessing.

Nadia Tamerji

Nadia Tamerji is a multi-disciplinary artist obsessed with the grotesque. She was awarded Artist in Community scheme from Create and The Model 2021 Residency with Create and Model, Sligo: Nadia Tamerji – Create (create-ireland.ie). Solo exhibitions awarded by Sligo Artist Network Last full day to view our current… – The Hyde Bridge Gallery, | Facebook and Emerging artist award granted by IT Sligo Event: Insides Out | Nadia Tamerji: The Ballinglen Gallery (ballinglenartsfoundation.org). Nadia worked as a mediator for Ireland at Venice 2022 and continued to volunteer abroad as a studio assistant in Rome and ceramic assistant in Spain and Austria.

Zoé Marzeau

In 2026, art library assistant (Poitiers, France). Managing and cataloging art collections, promoting artworks, and cultural mediation. • In 2025, contributed to mediation activities at La Base (Barcelona, Spain) during Manifesta15. Enhancing public engagement with contemporary art. • In 2024, assistant to artist Célie Falières (Aveyron, France). Natural dyeing, wool craft, sewing, and sound recording for a performance film project. • In 2023, assistant to artist Aurélien Mauplot (Aubusson, France). Collaborated on artistic project development. •• Academic background: Cégep in Architecture (Trois-Rivières, Québec) and currently pursuing a Master’s at the European School of Visual Arts (Poitiers, France).

Pasindu Weeramunda

Pasindu Weeramunda was born beneath the monsoon skies of Sri Lanka, where stories were carried on the wind like the scent of rain on warm earth. At eleven, a stroke rewrote the rhythm of his body, leaving him in silence, in stillness but not in surrender. In that quiet, he learned to listen. To the weight of memory, to the shape of resilience, to the unseen forces that shape who we become. He began his journey at Stonewall Jackson High School, later spending two years at Northern Virginia Community College before stepping into George Mason University, where he now pursues a BFA in an accelerated master’s program. His work is rooted in materiality and transformation, drawing from personal and cultural histories to explore themes of identity, isolation, and the passage of time. He has exhibited his work twice in juried jewelry shows, once at Northern Virginia Community College and again at George Mason University. Looking ahead, he envisions his practice evolving beyond the academic sphere into galleries, experimental spaces, and dialogues that bridge the realms of art and science. He does not create for permanence; he creates to transform. In the long term, his work is not just something to be displayed, but something to be experienced a bridge between body and memory, between past and future, between silence and sound.

Jenn Ng

Jennifer Ng (PhD) is a Singaporean born interdisciplinary artist who practises between the UK and Singapore. Working through a diasporic lens, she explores the complex relationship between ‘being’ and ‘place’. She considers how our sense of identity, presence, and environment, are intertwined, drawing inspirations from her personal and collective memories, perceiving their interstices as portals into emergent knowledge. Practice trajectories associated with her eclectic cultural experiences enables her to explore ideas relating to presence/existence, loss/lost, displacement/estrangement. Recent examples include her use of Chinese ink and objects from her Southeast Asian heritage, manifesting in performances such as ‘Same Moon Different Suns’ (Manchester), ‘Shifting Ground’ (London), ‘Black Water Blade: 5 am'(Bath), ‘現 [Presence] Between the Lines’ (London), and ‘Chukop [Enough]’ (Birmingham). Jennifer holds a doctoral degree in practice-led research from the Birmingham School of Art, and a master’s degree in art education from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Brendan Egan

Living in west Clare, Brendan holds a BA in Fine Art Painting and a PME in Art & Design Education with digital Media. In 2019 he was awarded the Shinnors Scholarship at Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) where he has developed his Ph.D research into contemporary gallery pedagogies and the implications of online and physical engagement in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. A result of this research is the ongoing performance project MOVING WITH ART. Brendan is currently a fulltime lecturer at LSAD teaching across multiple modules including art & design studio practice, art education pedagogy and curriculum innovation, research and school placement.

Please note in case you are unsure
A global majority artist is a collective term for creatives who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, or indigenous/first nation artists

Application opens: Friday 30th January

Application closes: Thursday 30th April