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
Sara 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
Claudia 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
Bio: The Little Mango is the artistic identity of Caterina Mangone, a multidisciplinary video artist working between nature, technology, and contemporary ritual. Based in Italy, she explores the symbolic and emotional relationships between humans and digital devices through short-format video artworks. With a background in Art Direction and communication, her practice blends poetic visuals with
BIOI was born in Belfast and I currently live and work on the North East coast of Ireland, where I have been active in areas of performance, community art and art education from 2004. In my capacity as a performance artist and member of the Belfast performance organisation Bbeyond, I have formulated and collated subjective