Iseult McCormack on Colour, Mark-Making and Authentic Connection

Colour, texture and bold mark-making become a way of trusting the unknown, giving shape to instinct while carrying connection outward through each new layer.

Elisabeth Neveux: Defending the Wonderful Art of Linocut

Through linocut, folklore and a traditional process, Elisabeth Neveux defends the human journey of making, where every mistake, mark and story carries its own weight.

Hearthfire Tales: Amazing Fantasy, Friendship and Finding Your Tribe

Around the table and out in the field, Hearthfire opens fantasy into something deeply human, helping people find confidence, community and a place to belong.

Ciara Darcy on Beading, Powerful Fashion and Feminist History

In beads, fabric and carefully held detail, Ciara Darcy turns fashion into a record of labour, memory and feminist history, where small objects carry serious weight.

Barry Keegan: Visual Communication, Clay Media & Imagination

From Aardman influences to ancient memory systems, a practice that shapes clay, doodles, and character into bold forms of visual communication

Joshua Burnside – Inside It’s Not Going to Be Okay

From the layered textures of Teeth of Time to a more exposed and intimate sound in It’s Not Going to be Okay, Burnside enters a new phase of his work

Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics, Alice Rekab and the Future It Opens

Tracing identity through objects, inheritance, and the quiet movement of the Atlantic Ocean as a space of connection and shared histories

Kerrie Hanna – Carrying the Land Through Authentic Material and Light

Ancient pigment and endangered craft meet feminist reclamation and community authorship in a practice rooted in land and light

Anne Harper – The Magic Stories That Still Live in the Land

From ancient hills in County Down to evolving musical practice, uncovering the quiet connections that link mythology, place, and lived experience

Frances Magee – Preserving Ireland’s Natural World in Cyanotype Magic

In her North Belfast garden, Frances Magee transforms carefully tended plants into luminous cyanotypes – where texture, imperfection and light combine in work that feels timeless.