I am a native of Cahir, Co. Tipperary. Although I live in Wexford, I 'm always delighted to return to Tipperary to facilitate writing projects. I have published six collections of poetry, most recently 'Our House, Delirious' published by Revival Press, Limerick. Recent awards (2022) include The Ballybunion Poetry Prize, the Michael Mullen Prize and placings in the Frances Browne competition and the Francis Ledwidge. My writing largely addresses the memory of 'the people, places and events' I experienced growing up in south Tipperary.
Participatory, Socially Engaged, Collaborative or Community Arts practices
Nocht Studio is an emerging collaborative art practice that focuses on made objects and interactive experiences. The studio was founded in 2018 by Martin McGloin and Philip Ryan with studios and workshops in both Clonmel, Tipperary and Beltra, Sligo. Martin and Philip both graduated from the Dublin School of Architecture in 2013.
Leah Corbett is an artist and curator from Co. Tipperary.
She graduated in 2016 with a degree in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.
Kriti Khatri is an international Artist and Designer from India. She completed her Masters in Design from The National Institute of Design and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Delhi in India. She has closely worked with industries and conducted workshops for the Naval Academy in India.
Before moving to Ireland she was teaching as an Assistant Professor in various Design Institutes and Universities in India.
Aoife Barrett is a multi-disciplinary artist and printmaker with a career that spans artistic creation, education, community engagement and entrepreneurship. She holds a BA (Honours) in Fine Art: Printmaking from the Limerick School of Art and Design and an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England.
I am a multi-media artist making sculptures, basketry and arts projects for a variety of settings. I work to commission and with community groups, creating site-specific projects and artworks. My Public Art Sculptures are well-known.
I have extensive experience in teaching craft skills and working creatively with people of all ages. I have an open studio and gallery in a quiet rural location where I teach classes and run cultural events.
Brigid Teehan’s art practice involves working with people, places and situations where she is operating at various levels of creative direction, organisational structure; curation and production.
Her strategy has been to test how an artist might exist in spheres of life outside the art world such as businesses, workplaces, schools, mental health settings, communities of interest, and empty buildings. At the same time attempting to bring that work back to the contemporary art context.
I'm an experienced community musician with a specialism in devised, collaborative work. I have substantial experience working with schools and adult mental health groups and am particularly interested in developing arts and health work with adults. I have built a group resource in the form of The Good Vibrations Orchestra, a set of extremely accessible tuned instruments, gongs, percussion and electronics which I use for much of my work.
I generally work with people who don't consider themselves to be 'musicians' and encourage active, creative input from participants.
Aideen Barry is a visual artist whose work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and commissions in Ireland and internationally.
Significant projects include: residencies and exhibitions at; IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art; Ireland, CAC Malaga; Spain, The Headlands Center for the Arts; US, Centre for the Less Good Idea; South Africa, Art OMI; US, The Whitaker Museum; UK, NASA Kennedy Space Center; US, Skaftfell; Iceland, Banff Centre; Canada, Centre Cultural Irlandais; France.