Patryk Gizicki is originally from Poland and spent his childhood in County Mayo, Ireland. His practice is focused on the relationship between photography and personal experience. He uses analogue techniques in his image making process and colour is fundamental. Being present at every part of the image making process is important.

Patryk’s artistic vision extends beyond the frame, as he crafts stories that touch upon themes of identity, memory and home. He looks back at childhood and adolescence, confronting difficult memories of emigrating from Poland to Ireland aged six. There are evocations and reflections upon the desire to feel connected and to be ‘at home’ and what it means to be Irish. It is a love letter to his hometown, Castlebar, in all its complexities.

Katerina Gribkoff has a BFA in Drawing from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2017. Her research aims to find alternative, liveable ways of making and creating in tandem with growing systems, and directly links her studio practice with a dye and pigment garden in the Burren.

Her work includes foraging and growing to make dyes and inks, biodegradable soft sculptures, photography, and plant support systems. She is currently doing Doctoral research at the Burren College of Art, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Ethan Mc Garry is a Dublin based artist. His practice is concerned with the everyday, reflecting on societal living, he creates and compiles a variety of imagery through expanded photography and digital media into moving images. His work connotes oblique narratives that emphasize and employ each person’s independent understanding of the world we live in. He is interested in how we navigate and bring meaning into our lives.

He graduated in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2023 and was longlisted for Royal Dublin Society Visual Arts Awards and Shortlisted and for Photo Museum Ireland’s Early Career artist award.

Asha Murray graduated from The Limerick School of Art & Design in 2023. She creates experimental films in tandem with textile work of wool tufted collages. Mixing the two mediums has created a form of experimental storytelling, exploring concepts of identity, memory, and the internal conscious stream. These ideas prompt her to experiment with narrative, through visual rhythmic collages of sounds and moving image and textiles.

Asha has won awards in the International Fresh Film Festival in 2016 and 2021. Her work was selected for K-FEST Arts Festival in Co. Kerry, Ireland in 2022 and she was commissioned for their permanent collection. In 2023, Asha was awarded a residency at the National Sculpture Factory Ireland. Asha has exhibited in IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art as a shortlisted artist in the 2023 RDS Visual Art Awards. Her work has been purchased by TUS – Technical University of the Shannon, The Office of Public Works, Ireland and many private collectors in both Ireland and Europe.

Jan O’Connell is a photographer based in Cork City. In 2022, she decided to relocate her work and family to the remote West Kerry region of Ireland. A move that enabled her to become fully immersed in this powerful landscape while completing an MFA in fine art photography at Ulster University.

In her work she makes ‘portraits’ of individual rocks in West Kerry and their dynamic interplay with the Atlantic Ocean. In themselves they are extremely powerful, with individual characters revealed through repeated visits and innovative lighting techniques. This work explores our relationship with the natural landscape, an immersive connection. There is something marginal, isolated, and yet human in these rocks.