Shane O' Donoghue - Designer/Curator/Painter

 

Shane O' Donoghue is an Irish designer trained in three dimensional design at Central St Martins. He has always moved between product and print. Professional experience includes work for Absolut Artspace, The Goethe Institute, IKEA Ltd, School of Architecture and Design (Bangkok) and Raffles Design International.
More info: http://www.shaneodonoghue.com, http://connemaraskies.blogspot.com, http://www.curateanddesign.com/ 

Sue Rainsford - Photographer

Sue Rainsford studied History of Art and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, and since the completion of her degree in 2011 has begun to explore the potential realities we can construct through a literal manipulation of film photography. Her work focuses on imbuing visual art with a textural quality, so that more than one sense is required to fully appreciate a piece. Having travelled extensively her photographic works encompass a variety of cultures and climates, the atmospheres of which she attempts to reproduce in her painted pieces. She will commence a masters in Visual Arts in IADT in January. 

Kelly Campbell - Actress/Photographer

Kelly Campbell holds a degree in theatre, history and English at the University of Ulster in Coleraine and she attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Kelly Campbell is a film actress and has been a member of La Catedral Studios since April 2011 where she operates as a photographer.
More info: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2011/0430/1224295528726.html

David Booth - Painter

Graduating from Gorey School of Art I.T Carlow in 2009 with a BA Hons in Fine Art, David went on to continue his practice in Wexford, co establishing Bond Studio’s before eventually moving to Dublin to continue his practice. Specializing in painting he is currently employed in a body of work titled ‘Qualia.’    

 

http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/65373-david-booth

Kieran Broderick - Photographer

Artist's statement

I’ve been shooting a lot on my Yashica-D TLR more often then I’d ever think of.

It’s gotten to the point where if I am going out around Dublin for fun for street photography this is the first camera I put into my bag.

What has happened to me that I have regressed into film work? These days old photographers are making the leap from medium format/large format over to digital and the skills transfer very easily. Where as I on the other hand seem to be working in the reverse the more I shoot on these old cameras the more I want to do...

http://www.kieranbroderick.com/

Ken Mahon - Cartoonist

Cartoonist detective, working at the Corporate Cartoon Machine, Ken is a member of la Catedral Studios since April 2011. Formerly an animation student, he now spends his days writing comics about serial killers and occasionally himself. He wrote 34 comics in a month once. More info on: plus.google.com/108184850449978151412/posts

Aaron Lowry - Fine artist

Aaron Lowry received a Certificate in Art and Design at Coláiste íde College of Further Education in 2006. In 2010, he graduated with a BA (Honours) Degree in Visual Arts Practice at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). As an emerging artist, Aaron has exhibited in a selection of Group Exhibitions including Kaleidoscope (2009) at IADT; Exit, Pursued by a Bear (2009)at Broadstone Studios; What Hiver (2009) at Studio 8 in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios; and This is Not Therapy (2007) at IADT.

Aaron's t work is based on a language where thoughts, facts and theories are organised accurately and neutrally. I typically engage with traditional modes of drawing such as pencil and often work in a collective series of multiple images. I also utilise digital photography as means of recording drawings of an ephemeral nature. This method of production lends to the predominately analytical and documentary quality of my work.

My most recent work is influenced by an interest in the idea of political power and how it is exorcised over the masses. This has led me to investigate how fear is often used to exploit and control people. The drawings forming my latest body of work are derived from the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List. The compositional structure of each drawing directly references the impact of Physiognomy, the defunct study of judging a character from facial features, on the way that composite drawings and images are constructed for use by government agencies in the USA such as the FBI.

More info: www.aaronlowry.wordpress.com

Dee Walsh - Fine artist

Dee Walsh is an artist specializing in painting and drawing. Her work is a continuous investigation into the urban environment and its psychological effects. The integral geometry of the built environment is examined, and the everyday basic structures which influence and envelop our daily lives are manipulated and reconstructed.

This is achieved by layering several architectural experiences and approaching it in an architectonic manner. It is intended that a space is created for the viewer to construct and deconstruct using their own personal experiences.

Dee Walsh graduated with a Fine Art Honours Degree from Carlow I.T and has exhibited both nationally and internationally.

For more information contact: deirdrewalsh_9@hotmail.com

Anthony cullen - Painter/Film Maker

Anthony Cullen is both a painter and filmmaker with an education steeped heavily in visual structure.
The themes that he explores in his work centre on existence and expressing consciousness.
His films also tend to have socio-realistic topics in them.

Anthony's paintings are largely portraits of people or animals and
collect character, story, subtext and place using only faces. The style is the familiar
contemporary environment of a TV or film screen with the frame size of the paintings
working out close to the aspect ratio of a wide screen TV and the de-saturated colours
simulating the colour schemes on many modern TV shows. He is also actively engaged
in the manipulation of his painted images digitally in a separate project.

Rachel healy -Video artist

Rachel Healy recently graduated with an Honours degree in Fine Art Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design, LSAD.  Her work serves as a commentary on image making and is rooted in the idea of storytelling and of the work of art as a metaphor for the artist’s voice and willingness to mediate meanings through their work. Animation pieces coexist alongside the drawings used to create them and become a unique history of the movement of their coming-into-being and immediate erasure, the removal of one subject allowing for the appearance of another.

http://nothoughtforfurniture.blog.com/

John Fitzsimons - Fine artist

John graduated from DLIADT (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology ) with a diploma in fine art printmaking in 1995 and joined Graphic Studio as a printmaker.  He did editioning work for the likes of John Graham and Cliona Doyle.  With the number and variety of artists there, John found the atmosphere stimulating and invigorating. Through his current job at Stoney Road Press, where he editions art, John has also worked with artists such as Charles Tyrrell, Donald Teskey, Dorothy Cross, Patrick Scott and Brian O’Doherty.

                                                                                        

In parallel with his printmaking, John kept “notebooks” of art in gouache and acrylics.  This formed the basis of his art career.  He returned to DLIADT to complete a degree in fine art in 2000 and is a member of La Catedral Studios since April 2011..

Eleonore Nicolas - Fine artist/performer

Eléonore Nicolas (b.1980, France) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin. She graduated with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture from NCAD (Dublin) in 2004 and from Nanterre School of Anthropology (Paris) in 2006. Through paintings, sculptures, documentaries and live art performances, Eléonore seeks to create an atmosphere that allows people to be more in touch with themselves and inspires them to design their own life. More info: www.eleonorenicolas.com
 

Deborah Smith - Installation artist

Artist Bio

Deborah Smith recently graduated with an Honours degrees in Visual Arts Practice in Dun Laoghaire’s Institute of Art, Design and Technology AIDT. She specialised in 2D Drawing and Video work. Her work focuses on particular moments that we often let pass us by. Smith explores the familiar and heightens the banal through experimenting with different forms of display. She presents her work in a way that allows the viewer a moment of reflection.

Artist Statement

My work focuses on my fascination with the familiar and intensifying aspects of that through the creation of abstract forms using video, sound, paper and found objects. Because of the subject matter of the work, the image is instantly recognisable to the viewer, yet it is an image that usually goes by unnoticed. I wish to recreate and enhance these images through basic materials and display. By capturing my visual and aural experience of the banal I create a moment of reflection for the viewer by focusing attention on the contradictory element of noticing the unnoticed.

Contact Information

deborahac86@gmail.com

http://deborahacsmith.wordpress.com/

Damian O'Donoghue - Illustrator

Damian O'Donohue graduated from the IADT Dun Laoghaire after studying Graphic Design Communications and Interactive Media. He now works as an Illustrator, utilising Paints, Pastels, Pens & Pencils.
While preferring the hand-made approach to image making, Damian also creates images digitally. His work mostly consists of character illustrations, with an emphasis on combining the 'cute and familiar' with the 'grotesque and outlandish'.
More info: http://www.itsdod.com

Vanessa Donoso Lopez - Combined-Media Artist

Vanessa Donoso Lopez creates scenarios with endless imagery and references where unusual animated constructions of hybrid worlds and separate disciplines coexist. More info: www.vanessadonosolopez.com

Kieran Greene - Fine Artist

Kieran Greene is a painter. More info on his artistic practice: mr.kieran.greene@gmail.com

David Folan - Sculptor

Sculpture, Installation and Design

David Folan originally trained as a furniture designer and cabinet maker in GMIT Letterfrack.

After working as a designer for several years he relocated to Dublin in 2009 to concentrate on fine art.

His work is produced in a variety of materials and media including bronze, resin and wood.

Photography, video and sensor based installations also form a part of his work.

Faceboock: www.facebook.com/pages/David-Folan-Sculptor/288905807965

For more information contact david@folan.info

Sharon Kane - Fashion Designer

Sharon Kane works as a fashion designer. She creates limited edition vintage inspired contemporary clothing and accessories using a combination of new and sourced vintage fabric.

contacts : http://www.talenthouse.com/revoltintostyle

revolt.into.style@gmail.com

Eugene Moore - Painter

Eugene Moore, Visual artist
http://eugenemoore.eu

Hugh Frazer - Painter

Hugh Frazer works mainly in oils. His main subject matter is the urban environment, particularly of Dublin , Belfast and Brussels . His work explores different aspects of urban life and he is interested in the contrast between the old and new and the drama of light and shadow and the abstract shapes they create.

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Anthony Collins - Interactive/Mixed Media Artist

Anthony Collins is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 1999 with a Joint Honours BA in Painting and History of Art. He has held solo exhibitions at the Oisin Gallery (2001) and Park Wall Gallery, London. Selected group shows include: The Talbot Gallery & Studios (2006); Microsoft Ireland 19th Exhibition (2006); 'Timeline', Bank of Ireland HQ (2006); The Cobalt Cafe (2002); Berkeley Gallery, Kilkenny (2001); EV&A, Limerick (2001); Oisin Gallery, Dublin (2001); Cross Gallery (2000), Royal Hibernian Academy (1999), Civic Offices Dublin (1998) and The Gallery of John Jones, London (1993).
For more info visit: www.canvas.ie/Pages/gallery/artistpopups/anthony.html

Matthew Cave - Painter

Matthew Cave graduated from DIT College of Marketing and Design with an Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting in 1998. Originally from Guernsey, he now lives and works in Dublin. Matthew’s paintings are concerned with depicting urban environments. He creates narratives by portraying scenes of daily life which are readily identifiable to the urban dweller. Recent exhibitions include Microsoft Ireland Art Collection 19th Exhibition (2006); 175th and 173rd RHA Open Exhibitions (2005 & 2003); ‘People’, Ivy House (2005); ‘Flawed Reason’, Ardgillan Castle (2004); Ashford Gallery Christmas Show (2003); Iontas 14th National Small Works Exhibition (2003); ‘Paintings’, Ashford Gallery (2003); ‘The Way We Figure’, THEatre SPACE, The Mint, Dublin (2002); ‘Bubble Chamber Art Collaboration’, Dalymount FC (2002); ‘Art in the Mill’, Grennan Water Mill, Co. Kilkenny (2002); ‘Theatre of Paint’, Cobalt Café (2002); ‘The End of the Beginning’, Signal Art Centre (2001); ‘Postcard 2000’, West Cork Arts Centre (2000) and ‘Dublin Gallery Number One’, World’s End Studios, Dublin (2000).
www.canvas.ie/Pages/gallery/artistpopups/matthew.html