Maria Noonan-McDermott: Where Memory Becomes Art

Transforming intimate family memories into paintings and poetry, her work invites others to recognise stories of their own.

John Britton: Finding Calm Through Ink

After three decades of visceral performance and constant travel, John Britton has found a quieter connection through ink, mentorship and calm.

Vicki McCorkell: Transforming Wood into Remarkably Detailed Pyrography Art

Ballymena artist Vicki McCorkell transforms locally sourced wood into dark, intricate works shaped by mythology, dreams and human emotion.

Greta Baltic: A Powerful Exploration of Lithuanian Identity Through Photography

Lithuanian-born visual artist Greta Baltic uses photography, folklore and collaboration to explore life between cultures – while creating spaces in which other artists can be seen.

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.

Chiara Mattozzi: The Magic Still Held in Old Stories

From queer readings of Arthurian legend to Welsh history and low fantasy, a practice shaped by scholarship, story, and the magic still held in old texts

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