Category: Convergence artists 2025

Renn Miano

Renn Miano is 1 of 4 of BMR aka BlackmagicRawr – they are an afrofuturist performance and movement sonic rooted trio who are based between Lucan, Dublin and Wicklow. They are also a sonic artist who’s practice focuses on reclamation of spaces, with an ongoing theme of rest and play and resistance. In between that […]

Monstera Deliciosa

Monstera Deliciosa (she/they) is a performance artist who has been presenting work internationally for over ten years, activating galleries, festivals, bridges, train stations, churches, highways, deserts, fountains, and more. Her work has been shown at venues such as Grace Exhibition Space (NYC), Performance Space (UK), and Ugly Duck (UK), and at festivals including Wienwoche (Vienna), […]

Shirani Bolle

I am a self-taught, multi-heritage, neurodivergent artist based in Limerick. My practice spans textiles, performance and sculpture. It explores themes of identity politics, particularly looking at race and trauma through personal and cultural histories. My first solo show will take place at Sirius Arts Centre in 2026 and I will have a fellowship at Ormston House in 2025-26. […]

Vaticanjail

Chilean-born, Dublin-based artist producer Vaticanjail invites her audience to enter a world of sonic magical realism through sampling absurdity. Bringing a musical performance that creates a harmonious balance between smooth melodic elements consisting of lush piano and layered vocals, and a groovy rhythmic section of deep bass and drums. Her latest single ‘ANGEL’ welcomes her […]

p(art)y Here and Now

p(art)y Here and Now is a monthly participatory live performance art event, held in various locations around Co Clare since early 2024. p(art)y was founded by artists Rachel Macmanus, Slavek Kwi and Laura Jane Allis, who also co-direct p(art)y.  p(art)y  will be inviting you to participate in a collaborative performance on the Sunday as part of […]

Laura Leuzzi

Keynote 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 […]

Liam Ó Maonlaí

Liam 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 […]

Maja Zeco

Maja 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 […]

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

Beth 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 […]

Sandra Johnston

Sandra 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 […]

Cait Ni Riain

Cáit 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 […]

Mary and the pigeons

Mary 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 […]

Marie- Chantal Hamrock

Marie-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 […]

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