Sam Barker grew up in rural Tipperary.
He achieved an honours degree in music performance and a subsequent master's degree in composition from CIT Cork School of Music. Sam engages in a broad range of musical styles while mainly focusing on classical, jazz and improvised music. His compositions have been performed by soloists, ensembles and orchestras across Ireland and abroad.
Louise Garcia’s life journey weaves together a love of the natural world with creative writing and theatre performance work. She spent over twenty years stimulating young imaginations in her teaching career, alongside creative endeavours in community theatre and local broadcasting.
Her recent creative work in Tipperary has involved scripting and presenting nature films, writing and producing plays such as Lady Blessington’s Bath, performing in pantomime and street entertainment and hosting large-scale public events such as Clonmel’s Zombie Walks.
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.
I have worked as an artist since obtaining an honours degree in art and design, at the London Guildhall University in 1996.
I strive to make art understandable and accessible to everyone. I often bring “community” along in the creative journey for some of the artworks, thus reinforcing their understanding and ownership.
In my work I like to combine different materials, utilising their unique inherent qualities and also honouring the craft skill for each.
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.
Completed the B.A. (Hons) Animation & Motion Design course in Limerick School of Art and Design (2016). A self-motivated practitioner with a passion for the more traditional forms of animation, particularly stop frame animation. Over the years I have been developing my skills as a stop-motion animator and model maker.
In 2019 I was presented with the opportunity to facilitate Stop Motion Animation workshops through the Artist in Primary Schools scheme. Since then, I've worked with several schools, youth centres and other organizations.
My name is Tara Power and I am an actor, writer, singer, drama facilitator and lecturer. I worked in Beijing as a drama facilitator and creator of work for early years for several years. I also act in theatre, TV, film and voice-over and I am currently part of a radio drama production with Green Ember Arts.
I write interactive drama for children and I teach drama in education in the School of Social Science, Language and Law on the Early Childhood BA in TU Dublin. I have completed a master's in Higher Education and my research examined online role-play to foster social skills.
Edel Meade is an award-winning vocalist and composer from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. For her, music-making is less about playing within the confines of a particular genre and more about stretching her abilities as a creative artist with something to say.
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.