Shanon O’Bracken

Shanon O’Bracken is an artist and graphic designer based in Monaseed, County Wexford. Her mixed media works combine painting and printmaking. Shanon is inspired by landscape and the seasons - particularly hedgerows and field margins, and the plants and animals they contain.

Mary O’Connor

Mary O’Connor was born in Wexford. She studied visual communication and 3D design at DIT in Dublin, and painting at Chelsea College of Art and in New Zealand. She has lived in Belize and (for 11 years) Kazakhstan, a place of vast landscapes and infinite white winters; during her time there she published two books of photojournalism on central Asia. She paints in mixed media, often on a large scale. Her work features in private and public collections including those of the Office of Public Works and the Environmental Protection Agency. She is a member of Black Church Print Studio.

Marie Phelan

Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. Her painted backdrops are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.

John Short

John Short lives in Dalkey, County Dublin. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and took an MA at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. His many awards include the RCA Drawing Prize, the Berger Colour Prize, the President’s Award given by the Watercolour Society of Ireland and the Artist’s Prize awarded by the Royal Watercolour Society in London. His drawings have appeared in Vogue, Harpers & Queen, the Irish Times and the Observer. He is a frequent exhibitor in Ireland, the UK and internationally.

Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He studied visual arts practice at IADT, and combines his work as an artist with working as part of the team at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Stephen’s paintings and drawings explore the strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from popular culture, memory, observation and imagination.

Marta Wakula-Mac

Marta Wakula-Mac graduated from the Institute of Art at Krakow’s Pedagogical University in 2003 with a master’s degree in fine art education. She has lived and worked in Dublin since then, becoming a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and developing her linocut and etching techniques.

Heidi Wickham

After graduating in fine art at Bristol University, Heidi Wickham moved to Sligo and initially got involved in aspects of theatre there: writing, set and costume design. She turned to charcoal drawing in 2004, and found a love for the medium as well as for her subjects - animals domestic and wild. Her animal art has since been shown at the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Academy (UK), and the Royal Ulster Academy (RUA).