Artists Profiles
Claire McCluskey
Claire’s practice is multidisciplinary in nature, spanning two and three-dimensional processes. Her approach circles around enduring concerns that focus on the co-creative negotiations between the self and the external world.
John Brennan
John Brennan is Dublin-based photographer and painter. He came to photography through his painting practice, using photography initially as a creative stimulus, but gradually allowing photography to stand on its own.
Sarah Edmondson
Sarah Edmondson is a research-based, multi-disciplinary artist, originally from Waterford but working in Dublin. Sarah’s work is informed by her education and her dual role as an artist and art educator in society.
Vala Kjarval
Vala grew up on a farm in Upstate New York and is a dual citizen of Iceland where she lives now. Her work aligns itself in the vein of photo-realism and humanistic photography. In her words “to catch a bit of their soul on the film.
Ann Ensor
Ann’s practice is based on installation, she mostly combines large organic sculptures which are made in a durational process with a soundscape.
Ensor holds an MFA Degree in painting (2017) from NCAD where she originally graduated in 2015 with a BA (1st Hons) in Fine Art/Sculpture.
Sandy Kennedy
Kennedy’s films embrace the power of expressing through absence, erasure, secrecy, and exploring what is not said.
She relies on breaking the conventional pattern of observation through distortion, using disassociated images, macro imagery, slow motion and dislocated sounds in order to create a sensory effect that engages the viewer emotionally.
Joanne Betty Conlon
Joanne Betty Conlon is a Dublin-based visual artist. Her practice is multifaceted and includes photography, drawing, digital media, print and collage in both analogue and digital formats.
Through her images, she endeavours to highlight particular changing circumstances and capture the city’s personality as it tries to survive its adjustment.
Dorje De Burgh
Dorje de Burgh is a Dublin-born and based photographic artist. His most recent work, Dream the End – concerned with photography’s relationship to trauma, memory, meaning, and death in the era of simulacra dematerialisation.
Which was selected for the FUTURES European photographic mentorship program 2019 and exhibited at both the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland and Mermaid Arts.
Giita Hammond
Giita Hammond is a half Icelandic and half Irish, visual artist and a natural light portrait photographer living in Dublin.
She became interested in photography when she was 15 years old, experimenting and learning about photography in the darkroom at her secondary school in Reykjavík. Since then she has been working as a visual artist and portrait photographer.
Niamh McGuinne
Niamh McGuinne is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin. McGuinness’s practice combines print, sculpture and film to create interactive installations. She also makes structures, inhabitable or often wearable, whose function is not initially clear.
Wendy Judge
Wendy Judge is a visual artist based in Dublin. Judge’s practice is committed to second-hand travel and the authentic experience from the here and now to the far distant future.
Her work revolves around the landscape in all its forms and the anomalous within the landscape.
Sinead Curran
Her practice examines the complex relationship of individuals to place employing a visual lens in the context of the ways we live today. Walking forms part of her response to the work, both in urban and rural settings.
Born in Waterford, she currently lives and works in Dublin. After graduating from the Institute of Art and Design Dun Laoghaire with an BA in Visual Arts Practice in 2007, she went on to complete an MA also at IADT.
Bob Gallagher
In early 2019 Bob was an Emerging Artist-in-Residence at the Darkroom, studying analogue development and printing techniques.
Having come from a filmmaking background to explore photography, Bob used his time here to develop a highly experimental process working with analogue 3D images shot on 35mm film.
Róisín White
Róisín White is a visual artist based in Dublin, working primarily with photography while incorporating drawing, sculpture, and collage into her practice.
Róisín holds a BA (Hans) in Photography from DIT, and certificates in Ceramics, Sculpture, and Drawing from NCAD
Chloe Brenan
Chloe Brenan is an Irish artist from rural County Carlow who divides her time between Carlow and Dublin.
Through moving image, sound, text, and photography she explores the simultaneous engagement of the body and the intellect, and the reciprocity between both, which enhances our ability to be responsible and responsive to the world’s patterning’s and murmurings.