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Áine Phillips
Áine Phillips has been exhibiting multi-media performance works in Ireland and internationally since the late 80's. She has created work for diverse contexts; public art commissions, the street, club events and gallery exhibitions including City of Women Festival Ljubljana, NON Festival, Bergen, Kyoto Art Centre, The Stanley Picker Gallery, London, Judith Wright Centre for Art, Brisbane Australia, Tanzquartier Vienna, Moving Image Gallery and The Kitchen,New York, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Mozovia Art Centre, Warsaw Poland. In Ireland: at the Irish Film Centre, Arthouse, EV+A Limerick, Galway Arts Centre and the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin. She co-curates Live@8 in Galway, a bi-monthly screening of video and Live Art since 2008 and she curated Tulca Live 2005-2007, festival of video and Live Art in Galway. Her work has been supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Clare Arts Office and Culture Ireland. She is Head of Sculpture at the Burren College of Art Ireland.
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Ann Maria Healy is a visual artist based in Galway, Ireland. Graduating from Galway & Mayo Institute of Technology in 2009 with a first class honours in fine art, sculpture, her practice includes live performance, installation and photography. Her work explores the bodies’ relationship to space and time, in particular focusing on cycles, how they affect and shape our lives. She has shown both nationally and internationally, recent work includes Amanda Coogan’s, Yellow – Re-performed as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival, Right Here Right Now - Irish Performance Art at Kilmainham Gaol and a residency at the Live Art Development Agency, London. Since graduating, Healy has been awarded a mentored residency at Galway Arts Centre, where she has subsequently exhibited several times. She has undertaken a residency at The Firkin Crane, Cork, working in collaboration with international dancers and had her first solo show at Basement Project Space, Cork. She has also sat on the board of 126 Artist Run Gallery, Engage Studio’s and Tulca Festival of Visual Art.
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Amanda Coogan
Amanda Coogan is a performance artist living in Dublin, Ireland. The centrality of Coogan’s practice is durational live performance where powerful live events are fundamental to her videos and photographs. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Coogan’s recent practice has been concentrating on the longitudinal durational performance presented as living installation in the gallery. Coogan was awarded the Allied Irish Bank’s Art prize in 2004. She has performed and exhibited her work both nationally and Internationally including The Venice Biennale 03, Liverpool Biennial 04, PS1, New York, Galeria Safia, Barcelona, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Trace Gallery, Cardiff, The Litchfield Festival, Litchfield and MARTa Museum, Herford. In 2005 Coogan published the first monograph on her practice, A brick in the handbag in conjunction with her solo show at Limerick City Gallery of Art. In 2008 Coogan performed Yellow for 6 days at the Artists Space Gallery, New York and in 2009 she made her seminal durational performance, the Fall, over 17 days at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester for the Manchester International festival’s acclaimed exhibition Marina Abramovic presents.... Coogan curated the first live performance based exhibition in Ireland, Accumulator, for Carlow’s new Center for Contemporary Art; VISUAL. In 2010 Coogan co-curated a group exhibition of twenty Irish live performance artists for Right Here, Right Now in Dublin’s historic building Kilmainham Gaol and this year Coogan exhibited and performed as part of Dublin Contemporary. Her practice is represented in the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s collection, The National Self Portrait Collection and the AIB art collection. She is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin. Coogan is currently working with the Theatre director Robert Wilson on his production of The Life and death of Marina Abramovic and will show her New ArtFilm at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2012.
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Chrissie Cadman
Chrissie Cadman is based in Belfast. She is a member of Bbeyond, a performance collective that supports live artists based in Belfast. Through her membership to Bbeyond Chrissie has extensive experience of both supporting and participating in national and international artist tours. Examples include, New Territories Winter School, Glasgow Scotland, Tulca, Group Performance Bbeyond, Crossings: Canadian Exchange Belfast, NIPAF Nippon International Performance Art Festival (Japan), Enniskillen Festival, and the I Am Poland Exchange. Chrissie is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Ulster.
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Pauline Cummins is an artist whose work explores the human condition from a feminist perspective. Her interest lies in performance and video work where she examines identity, gender and socio-cultural relations connected to different communities in society. Her examination of specific locations questions how the self is constituted and how people act within a group either chosen or determined in social situations such as work, education, prison, leisure time, or within the basic structure of the family. She was the first visual artist to work with prisoners in Mountjoy Women’s Prison in a scheme initiated by the Department Of Justice and the Irish Arts Council in 1986. She has had video installations commissioned for the Neo-natal unit, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, in 1995 and with Firestation artists’ studios for Inner Art, where her video installations were shown in confession boxes, in 1997. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. She has been on the board of the Arthouse Multimedia Centre in Dublin, and holds the position of video tutor at the National College of Art in that city. She co-curated the exhibition Terms & Conditions 2008 for the Mermaid Art Centre, Bray, with artist Aideen Barry. She presented a new video work and performance, Sound the Alarm 4, in Victoria, Canada, in September 2010. She will show a series of her video works at the Irish Cultural Centre, Paris in May 2012. She works with other established performance artists in The Performance Collective on projects throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland, with an international tour planned for 2013.
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Elvira Santamaria Torres
Elvira Santa Maria Torres was born in Mexico. Now based in Northern Ireland She is an experienced Performance Artist, she has in recent times become an ambassador for the Performance Art Platform, Northern Ireland. She completed her Masters in Fine Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast. In 2009.Elvira has worked developing her practice since the early 1990’s. She has an International platform within Black Market International and works extensively nationally and internationally. Her Works are a personal search by means of many forms of art action (performance, public interventions, process installation etc.) Nowadays she is realising urban interventions, process at and In-Situ installations. For her “action art” is a formless form of art and practical existential knowledge, its poetics postulate the self-creation and acts as an endless process of artwork. The symbolic act creates important reference points in the evolution of consciousness of the artist”
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Frances Mezzetti is a Dublin Based visual artist. She graduated in Fine Art, (hons) Sculpture in NCAD 1998. Her work explores the relatedness of people and place and is realised in installations, video and live, durational, performance work which often has a ritualised reframing of narratives. Her interest is in collaborative work with other artists and local communities. Through a process of research and engagement with local history she seeks to create interactive and participatory projects. Mezzetti is one of the founding members of The Performance Collective. In collaboration with artist, Pauline Cummins, she has created Walking in the Way a series of performances from 2008 to the present, where the construction of gender is explored. Other collaborations have been in the Netherlands with Alanna O’ Kelly,(Ireland), Anet van Elsen, (Netherlands), Theatre Mobile (France), Michiko Kanzawa, (Japan) and in Java (Indonesia 2011) in the New Year Performance Festival in Candi Sukuh. She graduated with a MSc in Art Psychotherapy (International) from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh (2011).
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Helena Walsh
Helena Walsh is from Co. Kilkenny Ireland. She has been based in London since 2003. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art in 2001 and completed her Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2004. Helena’s live art practice is based within a socio-political context and investigates the extent to which social ideologies regulate individual identity and construct gender. Her work attempts to positively violate the preconceived systems, borders and rules that impinge on individual identity. Helena has showcased her work at many established venues such as Bodily Functions, Cork, The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, The Zaz Festival, Israel and Art Radionica Lazereti, Croatia. In November 2010, she performed at Right Here, Right Now, a showcase of Ireland’s prominent live artists in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. In 2011 she performed Containing Crisis in the Fringe Out West at Strokestown Park House, The National Famine Museum, Ireland. Helena co-organised Gobsmacked: Getting Speechless in Performance, a one day conference held at Queen Mary University of London in November 2010 that bought together performance practitioners and researchers to discuss the intersections between writing, performance and silence. Helena received a Doctorate Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2009 and is currently undertaking her practice-based PhD in the Drama Department of Queen Mary University of London. Through her research Helena is exploring live art, femininity and Ireland.
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Anne Quail makes performance work that encompasses both the working action along with the improvised action. She is interested in the presence of art and audience; how involved one becomes with the work/artist, how we begin to effect upon it and be effected by it. Using known and familiar objects, she often engages with them through repetitive action, until the identity of the action is absorbed into an extension of bodily action. Living in Belfast, Anne graduated from the University of Ulster in 2008 with a Masters in Fine Art. Since then she has become a member of Bbeyond and has performed nationally and internationally. She is also a co-director of Platform Arts, Belfast.
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Michelle Browne
Michelle Browne is an artist and curator based in Dublin. Much of her work is performance based and she has performed and exhibited both nationally and internationally most recently taking part in Quantified Self, Dublin; Transmuted International Performance Festival, Mexico; Right Here Right Now, Irish Performance Art, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin; Trouble Performance Festival, Belgium. In 2009 she was commissioned to make Mind The Gap, a participative public art project, for The Absolute Dublin Fringe Festival. In 2011 she presented solo shows in The LAB, Dublin, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge and Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton. Michelle is the founder of OUT OF SITE, a festival of live art in public space in Dublin running from 2006-2008. In 2009 she curated Vital Signs, an exhibition of arts and health in context for the Arts Council and Create and she was the 2010 curator of TULCA a season of visual art in Galway. She has written for Circa Art Magazine, Visual Artists News Sheet and Create News. Michelle is a member of The Performance Collective, a group of artists exploring improvisation in the context of creating collaborative, durational performance art.
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Áine O’ Dwyer
Áine O' Dwyer studied Fine Art at the Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland and completed her Masters at The Slade School of Art, London in 2011. Áine’s live art practice is strongly multi-disciplinary, drawing upon her interests in video, film, sculpture and in particular sound based material. For her MA showcase Áine worked with different groups of actors and singers with whom she composed a ten minute musical which was performed within a variety of wild landscapes. The documentation took the form of a super 8 installation composed of four screens which interplay with one another. Áine has performed and exhibited both nationally and internationally in Europe and across the US. Recent exhibitions and performances include Caberet melancholic, st Marks church Dalston, Hunter Moon festival, st Georges church, carrick-on-shannon, Ireland. The Tomorrow People, Elevator Gallery, Hackney Wick. Peckham Free Film Festival, Nutbrook studios, London. Ordinary time, st Barnabus church, Dalston. Life elsewhere, The Crypt Gallery of St. Pancras church, Euston.
