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Ben Ryan is an American but lives in Killarney, Co. Kerry. He is a visual artist, illustrator and printmaker. He studied with the American Academy of Art in Chicago in the early 90’s. He then went to work as a scenic artist producing backdrops and murals for the advertising and film industries. He is an independent artist looking to freelance.
Ben tends to pull ideas from various sources such as film, music, literature and history. He is currently working on a graphic novel and preparing for an exhibition in the autumn.
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Ronan O’Reilly, born in Kildare, is an artist working in Dublin. He graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology with a BA in Fine Art in 2015. His work consists of painting and drawing, and is concerned with the dialogue between the conscious and the unconscious mind.
For more information, visit http://www.ronanoreilly.com
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James M. Moran is an organic farmer with a keen interest in all aspects of art. He is a self taught painter and sculptor. He’s especially interested in landscapes, skyscapes and mythology, and his art works tend to have an ecological slant. He has published a number of local history books, maps and sketchbooks on local themes, whilst he has also taken part in many art exhibitions, both personal and shared.
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Leah Hewson achieved a First Class BA(Hons) in Fine Art from IADT in 2010. Hewson’s first solo show, What’s behind the Magic door? (2011) gave way for her work to be included in the Microsoft Collection as well as being published as part of Goblin Market: New Irish Contemporary Art. Amongst a steady flow of commissions for private collections, Hewson developed work for her second exhibition CUSP which was in 2013. Earlier this year she gained experience working in Sean Scully’s studio in New York which has seen her work move to a more abstract approach to image making.
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Aileen Hamilton is an Irish artist who graduated in Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2001. She is currently based in between Spain and Ireland. Over the past 10 years, she has exhibited my work in Ireland, Spain, Japan, Sweden and Thailand. Her art has a firm basis in nature, with an emphasis on organic processes. She is fascinated with the notion of chaos versus order and the idea of being in-between. Her paintings have been described as both atmospheric and whimsical.
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Joe Gonzalez is a Phoenix-based artist. He paints with acrylic on canvas, and has done 2 seasons of live painting as performance art for PEP Rally (Phoenix Educational Programming).
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Corina Fitzgibbon is an Irish artist and printmaker, currently residing in Co. Kildare. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA (Honours) in Fine Art specializing in Printmaking and Contemporary Practice in 2014.
Corina works with a wide variety of material and techniques including silkscreen and woodblock printing, pen drawing, photography and sculptural works in plaster and wax. Within her practice, her works conveys her own world, themes of childhood, emotions, memories and fantasy are altered by her own uncanny inner most thoughts, fears and fragments of her imagination.
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Alana Barton is a painting student about to graduate from University of Ulster, Belfast. Her work is concerned with the Jonestown Massacre, a tragic real life horror story.