Ann McKenna
As a painter and print- maker, Ann's work focuses on the narrative dimension of image making in which she explores diverse themes such as ancient Irish legends, fairy tales, Shakespearean plays and more recent stories such as James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. The images she creates are highly narrative, with a strong emphasis on draughtsmanship, bringing many much loved, iconic tales to life.
Lorraine McDonnell
Lorraine McDonnell graduated from the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005 with a B.A (Hons) Degree in Fine Art. McDonnell works from her studio in Camden Palace Hotel, Cork. McDonnell’s work is grounded in painting and drawing (both traditionally and digitally) taking inspiration from graffiti, street art, contemporary illustration, photographic realism, hyperrealism, surrealism and life in general. More recently, McDonnell has begun experimenting with animation and miniature model making.
Cira Huwald
Cira is a German/Irish artist studying sculpture and combined media at Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD). Her current work investigates possibilities through video, sound and installation. Sombre themes and melancholy are emphasised conveying ideas through music and words. A strong connection is made between the visual and sound elements of the work, a mind is lost in thought, and a continuous feeling of isolation and loneliness take presence.
Laura Walsh
Laura’s area of research is how people react to death, how many people have separated life from death and the stories that people believe and tell themselves in order to face death. Using sound, bones and documentation of graveyards in her work Laura wants to illustrate the intertwined relationship between life and death. Using her own personal experiences as motivation to make this work that portrays death differently.
Camden Palace Hotel
Incorporating fields as diverse as painting, theatre, dance, film-making, music and photography, to name but a few, We encourage and facilitate creative experimentation and collaboration amongst artists of all disciplines. We aim to encourage creative partnerships and collaboration between, artists, individuals, business, community groups and other public bodies, as well as to promote social inclusion and diversity through actively encouraging access and participation to all.
Neil Browne
Neil is a Sculptor currently working in emsemblage and combined media, His current project focuses on measured social interactions, hyper-stylised and constructed in form dark comedic narratives. Beauty, health, wealth, domestic bliss and cultures dependency on technology are all put under the lens of Browne's sharp eye and dark sense of humour.
Ciara O'Donnell
When the power of storytelling crosses the boundaries of photography to create a narrative within the medium, it communicates on another level. The buzzword ‘narrative photography’ really does not define a genre accurately, as a narrative suggests a timeline, which by design a photograph cannot necessarily provide. In this series of images Ciara suggests a story, in a timeline, with no certain story links but communicating an emotional response to a place and time, which inspires me.
Emilia Paczkowska
Camouflage is an adaptation that allows prayer to survive. However the price is losing one’s true colours. A real self might be forgotten, always changing, adjusting and blending into environment…
Fergal O'Connor
Offering the viewer an insight into an imaginative world full of whimsical characters and creatures that exist within a charming but often dark universe, The work of Fergal O’ Connor explores the aspects of beauty less seen, the strange, the haunting and the fantastical. A native of County Kerry, he works primarily in pen and watercolours, and is currently based in Dublin.
Dominique Ammann
plastic ocean// sticky sky// its all a lie//
Danny Ryan
Danny's work is an attempt to mediate between the picturesque and the grotesque. He comments on the dynamics of interaction and the resulting mutations. Appetite for beauty and the flaws of love come together to form these distorted portraits. Ryan draws on intersections between the human and animal rationale to accommodate allure with an uncertain undertone. He is interested in how modes of operation can lead to an empty sense of decadence.
Kieran Murphy
Kieran Murphy has struggled with his identity his entire life. At various points vigorously believing himself to be in many impossible states, such as pregnant, dead, god, a woman etc. his life is regularly consumed by flights of fancy while focusing on his major area of study, his own mind. It is fitting that now, after twenty-six years, the artist has finally turned his brush to the subject of self-portraiture, in an attempt to explain to others what he does not understand about himself
Jackie Nevin
As a sculptor Jackie Nevin is intrigued by materials and their power to represent meaning. Much of this body of work relates to various aspects of protection, physical, spiritual and emotional.
Girts Balodis
Transcendence of a memory- symbolic connection with found objects, color, texture that reminds him of old white-washed walls. The heritage, the energy of an old house where generations of families lived and under every layer of whitewash there is evidence of this energy that builds up through the years. Memory of one’s soul and presence, rather that physical appearance of a human body, that compare to the soul isn't timeless.
Killorglin Knitting Group
In 2014 ‘Patch’ an 8 foot tall knitted teddy bear was created. This year for K-Fest the group have an even bigger surprise lined up as the newest addition to Patch’s family unit will be installed in the town. Keep an eye open! The group are lovely and inclusive bunch who are well up for the craic but do so much for the community and local charities. New members always welcome
Danielle Swanser
Danielle Swanser is a creative media graduate who uses an illustrative style to represent the corruption and degeneration of memories and identity over time. Using projection-mapping techniques, Danielle counteracts the fundamental nature of the accumulation of photographs as memories by allowing these images to be subjected to deterioration over time by the stories and words that create the memories themselves.
Killorglin Community College
Details To Come ....
Jake Casey
We live in the digital age where information is continuously becoming more readily available to us through advancements in technology but where all this information is being recorded and scanned by governments and companies alike. Jake’s work is based on a dystopian future post the collapse of the internet, where our blind faith has lead us to ruin. Jake explores the idea of the surveillance state and man’s gullibility to have faith in the mystic. Speculating on what kind of future this will lead us to. Realised through object making and photography the work plays on fragmented knowledge and archaic intuition.
Laurence Counihan
Laurence is a musician and digital artist studying Creative Media at the Institute of Technology Tralee, where he is currently investigating the use of algorithmic and generative computer processes applied to the creation of sound and images. The sound he produces is inspired dually by experimental 20th century composers, and popular electronic music genres. While his images draw inspiration from minimalist abstraction, and early video game graphics. Through his work he is interested in exploring the effect that digital and network technologies have had on our society, particularly in relation to concepts of human/computer automation and the dissolution of cultural boundaries.”
David Crane
David Crane is a Galway based Artist. Irelands West Coast is my home its part of me and central to my creativety. David's aim to instill humour in my work, but there is also a political undercurrent that covertly seeps through. He is a Print Artist and foremost in my work are my own life values through the medium of Silkscreen, Lihography, Intaglio, Drypoint and Graphite. Influences include, Anthony Davies, Chris Orr, William Hogarth.
Conor Browne
Conor Browne is a member of the K-Fest Art Committee and Director of the Screaming Pope Prize. When Conor dropped out of his Phd course in University College Cork to pursue a career making historically inaccurate street signs many people said it was a huge mistake. They were right.
His array of Street Art will adorn various locations throughout Killorglin town over K-Fest weekend, with help from Penny Dahl.
Tricia O'Connor
Tricia O' Connor is an Artist and Energy therapist from Co.Kerry in Ireland. Tricia's work is a narrative of her own experience of a process that is termed globally as 'The Ascension'. The Ascension is a term given to continual shifts that occur within the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual layers of the body. It is an action that raises the vibration of the body, moving the body from a place of carbon density to a higher crystalline lighter state.
Stephanie Murphy
Stephanie Murphy’s work explores the relationship between chance and control. She aims to play with the concept of control through the participation of others. Relying heavily on drawing, video and performance, Stephanie explores the role of the artist by looking at the authorship and ownership of the work.
Gerard Mannix Flynn
Mannix Flynn is an artist and independent Dublin City councillor. Published works include Nothing to Say, The Liberty Suit and James X . He has written extensively for various newspapers, magazines and periodicals. Mannix is a member of Aosdána. He is the artistic director of Farcry Productions Arts company and has produced many works internationally. He has extensive experience in the campaign to highlight the issues relating to residential institutional abuse and clerical sexual abuse.
Lorraine Neeson
Neeson employs strategies of inversion and reversal and implement dislocating devices to envoke intrigue within altered objects and phantasmagoric environments. Spatial and temporal logic is disrupted, by means of shifting shadows, repetitive sound, light and distorted reflection. A fundamental theme is the simultaneous representation of conflicting states of revelation and obliteration.
Laura-Anne O'Sullivan
Laura-Anne’s practice deals with the use of natural substances which are manipulated into an unnatural environments, thus facilitating questioning of one’s human relationship to nature within this post-industrial society. Laura-Anne is interested in the restraints inforced on nature in the modern industrial environment. In this piece she ultimately wants to confront man’s constant interventions on natural substances, such as grass and how this influence can cause nature to loose its fundamentals and become unnatural.
John Smith
Since 1972 John Smith has made over fifty film, video and installation works that have been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television around the world and awarded major prizes at many international film festivals. John Smith lives and works in London. He teaches part-time at the University of East London where he is Professor of Fine Art. He received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2011, and in 2013 he was the winner of Film London’s Jarman Award.
Maeve Lynch &
Sophie Behel
As practicing artists/curators, Sophie Behal and Maeve Lynch collaborate on publications, curation & one off events. Recent projects include The Infinite Line [A Search for the Unknown] Tactic,Cork 2014, an exhibition, publication and symposium. They have curated exhibitions and events in Lismore Castle Gallery, CIT Wandesford Gallery and other off site locations.
Tom Henry
Tom returned to photography only a couple years ago after a long break. A source of imagery I continually return to is that of the changing colours in our sky-line .In my most recent work, I have been using a small hidden bullet camera it helps me achieve some stunning results when capturing scenes in nature.
Laura Poff
Laura Poff's work explores gestural, repetitive and obsessive mark making techniques to create abstracted forms. She's attracted to repetitive methods of art making because it effectively conveys rhythm and duration, such processes also become meditative. The accumulation of abstracted arrangements which are created in her work are unintentional, however recognisable images often appear. Poff believes that the processes involved in creating her artwork are just as important as the end product.
Daire Lynch
Daire is a self-taught painter. Daire works primarily with oils and watercolour, focusing on the human face, its expressions and emotive qualities. He also creates a lot of figurative and nude works. Daire hopes to convey a moment of time, a story of the subject in each piece.
Tom McLean
Tom is a Painter/Illustrator based in Galway. ''My work consists of psychological scenes constructed through paint and mixed media, oil being my favoured medium. He creates underlying narratives based around his own life and the lives of the models he uses. In Tom's work he strives to capture a sense of vulnerability, displacement, and isolation that are masked by a projected image of self in a world that is becoming increasingly fixated with how we present ourselves.
Alan Ryan Hall
Integrity, originality, commitment and conviction - these qualities shape the vision of the sculptor Alan of Irish extraction has been resident in Valentia since 1975. Born in London 1944, he attended Ealing, Whitechapel and finally for his degree in the late 60’s at the The City & Guilds of London, Fine Art School. He attained his degree together with a Vargus Ayre award, commendations for his portraiture and creative calligraphy.
Kit French
Born 1986 Cork, Ireland. Kit studied for three years under the american painter Charles H Cecil, in Florence, Italy. Since returning to Ireland he has been dividing his time between landscape and portrait work , one to influencing the other. He only works from life using distance and the changing light to compose his work. Photographic aids are not used as this would disrupt the dialogue with nature. Kit's paintings are held in a growing number of Private Collections. Niccolo Caracciolo Drawing Award winner. RHA. 2008
Roisin O'Connell
The work explores the desperation and isolation that comes with loneliness. Documenting space and conversations during interactions in both social and private, Roisin looks at how people interact within a specific place and space, while pushing the limits of personal boundaries. Through photography and print she brings this work to fruition.
Terry MacSweeney
Terry is a photographer based in Milltown Co. Kerry. He is interested in all aspects but especially landscape photography. Terry loves exploring the beautiful surroundings of Kerry discovering new photo opportunities. He has been a member of Killarney Camera Club for a number of years and won Photography of the Year for 2014. He is usually up before the lark and after the sun has set to make the most of the amazing light we have here!
Rachel Manzke
On YouTube there is a video of a man ripping up a piece of paper in front of a baby who finds this inexplicably hilarious. Why the baby found this so funny, She does not know, but the child had transformed something so mundane into a hilarious exciting thing. This transformation is what Rachel strives to convey in my own practice, taking banal items and reinventing how we look at them, by finding their intrinsic peculiarities and giving an insight into my own personal perspective of them.
Evelyn Murphy
My project is based on the question – what is real, and what isn’t, and is there more than meets the eye? Even though I have painted images of myself, they are not exactly self portraits. I am dressed up as three different alter egos in the form of dolls. A doll is a small model of a human figure, typically one of a baby or girl, used as a child’s toy. By actually putting myself in the place of this toy, my work changes from innocently childlike to slightly unnerving. A doll should not have a mind of its own. Sometimes, and I am sure a lot of other people feel the same way, it is easy to get trapped in yourself; unable to express true feelings. You just act the way others expect you to act. It is like being a doll or a mannequin.
Megan Walsh
Megan Walsh is an artist currently studying paint in the National College of Art and Design. Working with a wide range of media such as painting, video, photography and drawing, her work focuses on preserving fleeting moments, and is concerned with time, space and memory. She is influenced by the past, and by using old family photographs and home movies, she aims to manipulate memory. Digital malfunctions and glitches play a huge part in the work and digital breakdown is a recurring theme. Her work aims to evoke feelings of nostaliga within the viewer
Daniel Corkery
Daniel's work often involves attempting to communicate an inner vision or narrative through disconcerting, striking imagery that often involves the depiction of bodily forms that have been removed from their natural context and subtly abstracted. This is done in order to reactivate the human body as a site of metaphysical expression – To give form to the intentions and machinations of our minds.
Aaron Stapleton
Aaron Stapleton is a visual artist, his films relate to Art and Film structure, how they are viewed, how context can determine a different outcome. His first film “Routine” was shortlisted in the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival 2014.
Dermot McCarthy
Having grown up in Killorglin in the 1950’s in era without TV there was plenty room for the world of the imagination to be absorbed. I had a lot of interests in simply dreaming possibly taking interest from the books at the local library especially fairytale books to harness the imagination of their contents. He followed landscape till drawing imaginary shapes began to emerge. Luring his style of work towards the subconscious. Today he works a sense of understanding for each new beginning of a work and step by step towards a clear emerging of composition, while along the way several little messages have to be erased until finally it all comes together.
Damien Slattery
Paint fascinates me. The feel of it, the texture, the smell, the stains that inevitably destroy my clothes. I focus on the human figure, primarily the head and work almost exclusively in oils. I have worn hearing aids since a young age so I tend to lip read slightly which would account for my fascination with the face. I draw my inspiration from artists like Freud, Saville, Yeats, Bacon and Auerbach. I work my portraits up to a point and then begin to deconstruct them again using blocks of thick impasto. There is nothing else for me to say.
Christy Deane
My artwork consists mostly of subjects I have a strong connection with and, at this stage of my life, a sort of envy toward what I’m trying to capture.Most of my art has been portraits, mostly chalk and oil pastels and some pencil sketches.
I have chose five of these pieces, a love of live music, the security and comfort that went with a cigarette, the awkwardness of conversation, the enjoyment and courage that came with a pint and finally the consequences of drinking for me.
Pawel Poreba
Pawel Poreba is an airbrush artist living in Dublin for the last 7 years, and has been airbrushing for around 5 years. He started from painting t-shirts, then portraits and now he focuses on custom painting.
Bertrand Perennes
Bertrand was born on the north side of suburban Paris in the early 60's. A self taught tattoo artist, he moved to Cork in 2000…a bit of painting…a bit of sculpture and a lot of found objects….founder of 'The studio with no name' in 2004….founder of 'The Reliance Company' in 2008….founder and artistic director of Camden Palace Hotel in Cork City Centre.
Aleksandra Kordeczka
Alexandra is an artist currently residing in Killorglin, Co. Kerry. She works mostly in acrylic technique on large Canvas. Her most recent series of work is entitled "All about things, and some others". Aleksandra has previously exhibited in Poland.
Helen O'Sullivan
Helen O’ Sullivan was born in Co. Kerry and her passion for drawing and painting has been with her from a tender age of three when she first began drawing on the concrete floor of her parent’s old farmhouse using ‘charred’ sticks from the fireplace. She has been involved in successful solo and group exhibitions in Dublin, Cork and Kerry. She gets her inspirations for her work from her own personal inner journeys and from the stories of the land of Ireland which are rich in myth, magic, fairies and folklore. Her work opens us to a world in which we are in tune with the elemental and the emotional rhythms of the earth, the Great Mother.
Pawel Wroblewski
Pawel was born in Poland, where he got some art education and a degree from fine arts academy in Gdansk in painting.
Apart of visual art Pawel stays busy with various music projects, trying to entertain with bass lines. Some Polish folk think he's a writer too.
Pretty/Handsome Studio
Our aim as a creative studio is to encourage and promote the creative possibilities of DIY art forms- screenprinting, stencilling, pasteups, transfers, stickers, clothing- both as a means of producing quality printed art and as a means of attracting public interest, through strong visuals, attractive typography and colour composition.
As well as creating original illustrations, paintings, posters and streetwear for our own personal ventures, we also provide a design and print service to small businesses, muscians/bands, cultural events and individuals.
The Forge Clay Studio
The Forge Clay Studios propose to use both meanings; one being 'connect', and the other, its opposite, 'disconnect' to build our Garup sculpture, an organic web of ceramic links.
We have made hundreds of ceramic links which will be interconnected & hung into whatever shape comes naturally within the garden space. Through our collaboration we can explore the visual possibilities of so many small elements building or growing into a larger form. A net, a skin, a union. Broken & unbroken.
Peter Missing
Peter Missing is a New York City artist, poet, musician, and activist who founded the influential underground industrial band Missing Foundation in 1984 and imported it to the U.S in 1985. At shows Missing would sometimes set himself on fire as part of the performance. The band released five albums with Restless Records in L.A. including Your House Is Mine which was named Rock Album of the Week in the New York Times in 1988. Peter has been painting for the past 30 years and has works in over 30 museums in the U.S. and Europe including The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Getty Institute, and the Stadt Museum in Berlin.
John Flynn
John Flynn, Cork based artist, Graduate of the Crawford College of Art and Design 2012. First year out of college was back to what I know through classical painting of studies of animals as well as a traditional exhibition which had personal success but career letdowns. After a summer of reflection of my work in 2013, I began to go back to more of style I loved, painting for the pure enjoyment with concepts or themes. My work developed into a style with high detailed drawings with a one tone colour base which in my opinion everyone can enjoy. My work featured animals which always capture my imagination but as well had no hidden meanings to them so allowed anyone to appreciate them.
Elhaji Conde
Elhaji Conde was born in Dakar, Senegal (West Africa). He moved to Ireland 15 years ago and fell in love with the magical landscape of Killarney Co. Kerry. Conde started drawing when he was in primary school at age of 9 , a self-taught artist . He uses both palette knife and brush on his colourfully mixed media art . The community where Elhaji is from inspires him to paint throught their traditional culture dress music and way of life.
Helena Grimes
Helena Grimes is an artist and illustrator based in Limerick. Her drawings desire to tell a tale or to spawn anew in the minds of the viewers with it’s fable like qualities. The non-human form is a subject she is deeply involved with using as an agency to understand human society. She illustrates her inner most thoughts blends them with pieces of her imagination. Familiar themes fabricated within her work include anxiety, power, greed, vanity, love and degeneration. The work challenges society and culture with aims to enlighten and impact consciously or subconsciously. She graduated with a Fine Art BA hons degree in LSAD. Her work has been exhibited in numerous places nationally and internationally.
Sinead O'Connell
To watch someone close to you see their mortality is a hard thing. Relationships and the position in those relationships change dramatically for one and subtly for the other. This series of works are a side project, a way of preserving the little snippets of tales and enjoying these peoples past. There’s no real need to know or understand the actions taken. Even the order of events can be altered. These stories are interpreted by the understanding of a child and the eye of an adult so I play with perspective, two figures may represent the same actions or actions are attributed to the wrong time and place.
Carmel Mary Deely
Carmel has taken the urn from the mantel piece and brought it outdoor, bringing a closer recognition between the urn and the headstone.These urns, pictured below, have since been cleaned (this happened unknowingly!) and so a new idea has emerged. Throughout the cleaning process many parts of the porcelain pieces have become undone, due to weathering. When Carmel first placed the urns out in the garden setting she knew this would be a development to the work and so has a resolution to the breakages already in mind.Inspired by Japanese ceramic art Carmel will repair the pieces using a gold lustre. Japanese ceramic artists do this to emphasis the break /breakages and mark them as beautiful. They are to be revealed and adored.
Killorglin Community Council
The Killorglin Community council and The C.E Scheme Boys have long been supporters of K-Fest. In 2014 they constructed the now iconic K-Fest letters. This year they promise to raise the bar with a large surprise that will be revealed on the Plaza in The Interactive Art section of the festival.
Finbar James Deery
I am drawing on a specific site in north inner city Dublin. A laneway. This lane exists only by virtue of the spaces bordering it, and is of ambiguous jurisdiction, and purpose.My practice attempts to situate work within this ambiguity, highlighting failed infrastructure. It draws on a disparate range of subject matter, including history, local authority, and theories of collapsing narrative. The site is symbolic of a broader theme of how ambiguity in infrastructure can limit agency. This work specifically deals with the tenuous components and fragile connections that create this space, and lead to its failure.
Mark White
Mark's work consists of trying to create interesting images that form a story or lore, in which the interpretation is up to the individual. It is my hope that the viewer will fill in the gaps and connect the images in interesting ways.
Áine Brennan
Vulnerability, violence, and the resistance of the vulnerable began as points of interest in my work. Stemming from Judith Butler’s studies in which she continues to interrogate dynamics between the state and the individual, precarity and violence, belonging and dispossession I created a series of strict rules in order to reacquaint myself with painting. These rules involved restrictions on how I should treat the surface of my paintings, how I should explore the materiality of the paint and canvas, and how I should incorporate text into the image.
Connor Robertson
Connor's work explores the notion of the timeline and the separate dimension that is the figure in space. He attempts to create an atmosphere of isolation, solitude and the possibility of an unforeseen event unfolding. Connor employs distortion and the use of lurid colour amongst a matte and somewhat dreary palette in an attempt to create a foreboding atmosphere within each painting.
Ron van der Noll
Born in Rotterdam, 1958, Ron received his formal art education in the Dutch city of Delft. Since 1993, he lives and works in Ireland. He completed a number of public art commissions including a collaboration with Irish artist Louis le Brocquy. Ron’s work is also found in various international private collections, most notably, the Walt Disney family’s collection in New York. In 1996 he received an achievement award from the Irish Parliament.
During his career, Ron experimented with a wide variety of media and disciplines, however, his recent work is mostly graphics based.
Maria Elizabeth McCarthy
Maria is currently studying for an MA in Creative Media at the Institute of Technology, tralee. She has a particular interest in film & stop motion animation. Prior to her return to college as an undergraduate in 2010 she spent many moons dabbling in traditional handcrafts. In particular, she likes to work with fabric, yarn and paper. The subject of her current work finds its source in animal folklore with an aim towards merging her handcrafting experience into a physical, handmade world and combining it with a newer, digital one.
Elva Carroll
Serving as a catalyst for uncovering the sounds that invisibly occupy all spaces in our lives, this work can bridge the senses and bring people closer to the pleasure of themselves through the experience of sound and play.
The physical matter in our world in which we perceive to be solid, is simply a manifestation of vibration. Through live performance and art, this work gently reminds us the joy of recieving sound.
Josephine Kraft
Josephine Kraft spent her early childhood in Killorglin. In the late sixties she received hotel training with the Great Southern Hotels. This allowed her to spend time in both Germany and Switzerland where she met her German husband. Emigrating to South Africa in 1969, Josephine attended the Johannesburg Academy for Arts and Crafts from 1971 to 1973. She spent many years producing beautiful pieces for 'Bauern Malerei." On her return to Europe in 1990, she took to Oil and Acrylic painting on canvas. In 2010 Josephine and her husband returned to Ireland and made their home on the Ring Of Kerry where she spends most of her time in her Studio. Painting on Ceramics gives her great pleasure.
Exhibit A
EXHIBIT A are brothers Brian and Mike Ahern, Artists based out of Killorglin Co. Kerry. They have been showing their creations as a duo since 2013. There work spans all disciplines “in the pursuit of creativity and expression”.
Exhibit A is a body of work created out of the brothers passion for everyday objects which they collect, study, take apart, tinker with, reassemble and present in a truly unique way.
"We try first and foremost to create work that we enjoy, work that makes us laugh, makes us cry, makes us question, make us think, we tried to create work that gives answers and work that poses more questions. We as artists want to entertain our audience, which is exactly what the viewers of our works are to us, our audience. These people who make the effort to come to our show deserved to be entertained."
Martina Furlong
Martina paints landscapes and abstracts and work in oils and acrylics. In her paintings Martina wants to transform reality; mix it with memories and imagination and paint my interpretation of it. Her landscapes are inspired by the Irish countryside. She likes to exaggerate colour, apply layer upon layer of paint, then work back into the surface using cloths, rollers, scrapers, stones, plastic knives and twigs as well as brushes and pallet knives to create textured paintings which capture the beauty, ruggedness and magical quality she sees in the Irish landscape.
Aia Leu
A swiss artist Aia Leu has lived in Kenmare for over 25 years. Born in Formentera, a little Island near Ibiza, she grew up in many different countries and comes from a large family of artists well known in the tattoo and music world. She has exhibited in Ireland, Europe and the United States.
Michael Ledwith
Michael Ledwith is a Killorglin based amateur photographer who works mainly in black and white film photography. Michael has experimented with styles as diverse as Portraiture, Landscape and Street photography. Michael develops all his own film and then scans them to print. Michael works in both 35mm and medium format and has displayed his work previously at an exhibition at Block T - an independent creative arts organization in Smithfield, Dublin as well as having images shown in Hot Press magazine.
Paudie Jones
Nearly all of the timber Paudie uses came from trees that fell during the infamous storm Darwin in February 12th 2014. Paudie was lucky enough to have got some beautiful oak and beech from Beaufort and Monkey puzzle tree from Killarney as well as an array of other timber that otherwise would not have been available. The style Jones likes to use is Natural edge for the bowls and vases. He drawn to this because he feels it gives us a direct link to the tree from bark to pith and really shows off the beauty of the wood. Paudie is a Killorglin native and has only been turning for about 2 years.
James Dunne
Themes of duration and value have been of key significance in my most recent work. James began to contemplate the value of artistic practices and processes, and through reading the book “Surplus Value in Art” by Diedrich Diederichsen he became interested in the Marxist concept of Mehrwert. Which translates to “surplus value”, a term Marx used to refer to to the yield, profit or return on production capital invested. He thought when applied to artistic practices, James found the way capitalism produces its own valuation of goods and services very interesting. He chose to experiment with the heavily time consuming process of Mezzotint.
Rita Thompson
A self-taught artist, Rita was born and raised in Killorglin, Co. Kerry. She started painting in oils under the tuition of Kerry artist Diane Lavery. She took up watercolours, but returned to oils in the mid – 1990’s with painter Mark Eldred. In recent years, Rita has painted full-time in her studio near Beaufort, Killorglin. She is a founder member of the “Avenue Artists” in Killarney. She exhibited with the Laune Art Group in Killorglin. She recently completed a workshop in the National Gallery of Ireland, under the renowned artist Sehoko Blake.
Martina Cronin
Martina Cronin was born in Caherdanial and has had an on going love of all things maritime. She now resides in Glencar where she continues to create works now inspired by her magical surroundings.
Kate Landers
Kate began painting seriously on returning to live in Kerry in 1999, inspired by the natural beauty and creative influences abounding there. The landscape, local history & diverse plantlife of the area provide much of her subject material. She is largely self-taught, using mainly oils, acrylics and pencil. Her work has featured in many exhibitions in Ireland, in New York & Chicago, and can be found in private collections throughout Europe, as well as in the United States, New Zealand & Australia.
Michelle Houlihan
This work is inspired by ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in 1892.
Gilman’s story plays on the notion of the hysterical female stereotype. The narrator perceives a trapped female life form in the confines of the pattern of the wallpaper. She wishes to free this woman, of whom she eventually identifies as herself, a woman she sees ‘creeping,’ around the interior and exterior of their house.This ghostly lifeform embodies a trapped, ‘creeping’ psyche that we do not see, animated, and uninhibited. I aim to represent the creeping, dipping, ducking, and hiding of the evasive psyche that ‘tears’ free and doesn’t want to show itself.
Michael G. Kenny
Michael's photography work is frequently published in national & local newspapers/magazines and various other promotional material,earlier this year my pictures of the storm damage in Rossbeigh were used extensively by the online edition of the Spanish newspaper "Zamora News"
Hannah Fitz
Hannah Fitz lives and works in Dublin, focusing predominantly on Sculpture. She previously spent five years working and exhibiting as part of the artist lead project group Basic Space and graduated from NCAD in 2012. Hannah is currently resident in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios where she was awarded the graduate residency for 2015.
SYN Studio
As a species, sound is something that we sometimes take for granted and as a consequence something we tend to neglect and consider it as just another of our senses which is used to interpret the world and environment that we inhabit. However sound essentially plays a far more fundamental role in our everyday lives and the world around us.
This artefact hopes to address and showcase the importance some of the many phenomenon found in the world of sound. Using surround sound and projection mapping, we aim to establish a link between these two very distinctive arts forms (audio and visual). The purpose of the projected visual imagery as part of the installation is to make the spectator more aware of the hidden properties of sound and how it plays a fundamental aspects of our lives such as mental wellbeing cultural heritage and health.
Pause/Play Collective
The objective of the Pause Play Collective is to make the arts accesible to people in Co.Kerry and to showcase and promote local artists, crafters and musicians. While we embrace our individuality, we collectively believe in similar values that focus on creative expression and innovation.
Clodagh Irwin Owens
Clodagh specialises in custom made one off pieces. As with the clothing she designs, the accessories are also hand crafted in Killorglin. Using metal from household goods, textured fabrics and anything that looks good basically,
Clodagh designs art you can wear! She builds looks from the texture of fabrics, the shine of a bead, any little thing can lead to inspiration of a whole new look. Winning the title of Fashion Designer of the Year at Kerry Fashion Week 2012 and the Tia Maria Hi Magazine Designer of the Year 2014 has brought her business to a much wider audience.
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Shota Kotake
Born in Niigata, Japan 1988, moved to Ireland alone in 2004, currently lives and works as self-employed artist in Dublin. Life can go on without art, but it can be boring without it.
Art is a means to connect myself with other people. These people don’t exist in the past or future, they exist now and we are sharing this time and place together. I currently live in Ireland, so the people I try to connect myself with those who live in this country. They are whom I create art for. My reasons for creating art for the people living in Ireland is because I have spent so much time here. Since I first came to Dublin on my own in 2004, I have been in Irish education for over eight years. I have been through language school, secondary school, a portfolio course and finally art college. I believe that it is my duty to return what I have received through what I have learned and to artistically reinterpret Ireland’s culture, history, society, and the people currently living here through my eyes. I'm having my fun and that's all that matters...
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James L. Hayes
James L Hayes is a contemporary visual artist and is a graduate of the Limerick School of Art & Design, The University of Vigo, Spain, De Montfort University Leicester and the University of London.
He works predominantly in Ireland, the UK and the United States. Utilising a wide a variety of media Hayes’ s practice is diverse ranging from temporal and ephemeral interventionist projects and gallery based installations to large scale public commissioned artworks and film works.
Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan is an Architectural Designer & Videographer based in Killorglin.
His short videos are inspired by the beautiful surroundings of Kerry, the adventure of cycling and the company of friends.
Paul shoots his footage from the saddle. This unique view, from a moving camera, gives the name “Velocitylens". The viewer will be brought on a bike journey through Kerry’s stunning landscapes.
Trisha Higgins
Trisha Higgins is known for her humorous, tongue in cheek and often irreverent works which are inspired by popular culture and explore issues of addiction, religion, consumerism, and identity. I believe art is one of the most powerful tools available, to express people's needs, desires and feelings. I have great, unwavering, faith in the power of art, it is my religion and I wholeheartedly trust in it. I trust that it can give everyone, however artfully inclined a sense of hope. I believe it can transform the world The perfect studio is the holy grail for all artists, my current work deals with the strive or search for that elusive studio. The sea is free, wild, unruly, playful and unpredictable it's where I feel most at home. 'The floating studio' is a work in progress, an installation and performance piece. It's not only my ideal working studio it's also a platform for social engagement, for generosity and exchange.
