Dee Magee: Captivating Jewellery Exploring Identity, Storytelling and Sustainability
From raven-sized lockets and reclaimed silver to animation and community, Dee Magee uses Quirky but Fierce to make room for the ideas that refuse to stay in one lane.
Helen Hancock: Powerful Glass Art Preserving Motherhood, Memory and Loss
Derry artist Helen Hancock transforms breast milk, ashes and other intimate materials into luminous glassworks that preserve stories of motherhood, loss and family.
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.
Martina O’Connor: Transforming Everyday Memories into Vibrant Art
Martina uses vibrant colour and expressive palette-knife work to preserve treasured memories, familiar objects and the everyday places that have shaped her life.
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.
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.
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