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Rebecca Strain
On 2 April 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1I 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
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Sadhbh McCarthy McCool and Anna Cavenagh
On 31 March 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Sadhbh McCarthy McCool and Anna Cavenagh attended a joint residency at Live Art Ireland from 9th-22nd March 2026. Sadhbh McCarthy McCool is a Wexford based Irish artist. She is a graduate of SETU Wexford where sheobtained a First Class BA Honours in Art. A 2025 RDS long list nominee, McCool’s practice encompassesinstallation and performance. Anna
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Finbarr Dillon
On 11 March 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Finbarr Dillon (b 1962) is a Sound Designer and Composer living in Co Clare, Ireland,working in the areas of Electroacoustic, Acousmatic and Sound Collages to create “FixedMedia” pieces of Sound Art.He comes to working with sound and music from an Electronic Engineering background’working for some 27 years in the Electronics industry both here in Ireland
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Claudia Barton
On 24 February 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Claudia Barton is a transdisciplinary artist and composer. Her background is in place-responsive performance, sympoiesis, field-recordings, eco-acoustic composition, the voice, ballads and plant lore. Her work is described as Hauntological. She has toured in Japan, Russia, the US, Australia and much of Europe and the UK as a torch-singer-lyricist and experimental theatre practitioner. She is
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Sara Andrade Monteiro
On 31 January 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Sara Andrade Monteiro (b. 1978, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Northern Ireland–based artist currently studying Fine Art at Belfast School of Art. Working across performance, sculpture, sound, and lens-based media, her practice is grounded in lived experience and informed by trauma theory, with a focus on embodiment, memory, dissociation, and endurance. In recent years, she has increasingly focused