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Claire O Keeffe is an artist based in Co. Cork, who graduated from CIT Crawford College of Art & Design in 2015. Claire works predominately in the medium of collage. Since childhood she has collected imagery, old biscuit tins full of images cut from old catalogues and magazines. Hours spent cutting and pasting, arranging imagery in unexpected juxtapositions, creating a different narrative each time. Today, O’Keeffe is still employing collage as a means to escape into a world she cannot plan. The imagery she appropriates pre-dates the digital age, culled from discarded encyclopedias and reference books, medical texts and popular science books. Collage is her way of disengaging from the increasingly digital world that surrounds her. The exercise of cutting requires time-intensive hand movements that reminds her that not everything is instantaneous as a click of a mouse.

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Bradley’s works range from small, atmospheric oils to large, more complex compositions. The smaller pieces focus primarily on texture, creating mood and movement through the use of strong tonal ranges and loose brushstrokes. The larger works are often theatrical in nature depicting an array of peculiar characters thrown together in a world not entirely of our own. Influences of Bosch, Bruegal and Neo Rauch are evident in their compositional arrangements. He employs fantasy and satire to unravel the complexities of the human story. The works are rich in symbolism, reflecting life experience and issues of a wider nature. The paintings are often deeply personal that mirror contradictions within all of us-light and dark, peace and violence, life and death. Such dualities fill our lives. Despite having a conflicted outlook, Bradley weaves humour through the narratives of my work, conveying the absurdity and pathos of a situation.

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Lorcan Cassidy ia a graduate from NCAD with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture and Expanded practices. He was a short term member of Ormond Studios, an artist run space in the heart of Dublin city, for eight months and has now just started as a full member.

As an artist his work revolves around creating alternate realities and then making/illustrating objects/artefacts/creatures/specimens from these fictitious worlds. Another focus of his art practice is on modes of display especially in terms of the museum context. The wunderkammer has also been a direct influence in regards to his art work. What drew him to these cabinets of curiosity was the sense of wonder and awe they inspired with the various objects they held, the curios and oddities, even in spite their contents not always being entirely genuine.

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Born in Ireland, Kathryn Maguire lives and works in Dublin. She studied in Cork (Bachelor in Fine Art Sculpture, Cork College of Art & Design, Cork) and Dublin (Master of Art in the Contemporary World, National College of Art & Design). She has participated in several group exhibitions: Social Fabric, Liberty Hall, Dublin May 2018. Sim House, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2018. Nasty Women, Pallas Projects, August 2017. We Claim, Banner on 15-16 Eden Quay and Chap book, 2016 /2017. Terra Incognita, Platform Arts Belfast, March 2016. Construct, Bray Institute of Further Education, December 2015, Luan Gallery, Athlone, November 2015, Omagh Library, Co Tyrone, October 2015, Ards Arts Centre, Co Down, September 2015; The Artists Armada, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, August 2015; Random, Sim House, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014; The Balloon, Rawson Projects, New York, 2014; Contagion, Monstertruck Gallery, Dublin, 2013; Interactivos12?, part of Hack the City, Science Gallery, Dublin 2012; Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, 2011; Notes of Protest, Wyspa Institute of Art, Poland, May 2010; No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London, 2010; Video Killed the Radio Star, RHA, Dublin, 2010; No Soul For Sale, Dia Centre, New York, 2009; Cork Caucus, Cork, 2005 Kathryn Maguire’s practice uses text, sculpture, video, and installation work.