Nenagh

Gerardine Wisdom is an artist who works in rushwork basketry, also in ceramics and mosaic murals. Uniquely in Ireland, she has taken this ancient craft of rushwork and turned it into a new Irish Art Form in sculpture. The mosaic murals are created using handmade ceramic pieces and broken ceramic tiles.

Gerardine has passion for rushes and is inspired by the natural beauty she sees around her in the Irish landscape where she lives, especially in its lake and shores of the Shannon.

Gerardine has over 20 years experience working with schools, community groups and festivals.

Josephine Geaney is a contemporary visual artist from Nenagh, Co.Tipperary. 

For as long as she remembers she spent her entire life painting and drawing.  Her artistic journey began formally though when she enrolled in Limerick School of Art and Design achieving a BA(Hons.) Degree in fine art painting in 2008.  Inspired by the works of contemporary artists Gerhard Richter, Peter Doig, and Edward Hopper, Josephine delved into creating her own thought provoking paintings.

Writes theatre, art history, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Books include Agnes Martin (2018), Yappo (2017), and Great Women Artists (contributor, 2019). Theatre includes work at Belltable, Lime Tree Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Arcola Theatre, and Underbelly. Poetry is published in the UK, US, and Ireland. Other credits include Phaidon Press, Irish Times, Hyperallergic, and Journal of Illustration. Scholarships include the Fulbright and Tavolozza Foundation.

For as long as I can remember, I have had a love of Art. As a child, I always had a pencil and paper to hand and spent hours doodling away drawing varied subjects from flowers to cartoon characters and everything in between. My first memory of painting was in Sixth Class in Primary School when our Principal introduced us to painting lessons. 

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.