Stephen Brandes has shown in numerous exhibitions both in Ireland and internationally, including From Safety to Where?, Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam (2014); From the Last Travelogue of A. Sitzfleisch, Norfolk & Norwich Festival (2014); Phoenix Rising – Art and the Civic Imagination, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin (2014); Undercover: A Dialect, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland (2013); andTwenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2011). In 2005 he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2005 as part of ‘Ireland at Venice’. Brandes has also worked on several curatorial projects, most notably Superbia, commissioned by Breaking Ground in Ballymun, Dublin, and with artists Mick O’Shea and Irene Murphy formed the absurdist culinary performance group, The Domestic Godless.
Nathan Coley has exhibited widely as part of various group shows and exhibitions, including: Portraits of Dissension, House Festival 2015, Brighton; Contemporary Art and Architecture in Brugge; Triennale Brugge (2015); You Imagine What You Desire, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2014); The Theatre of The World, Museo Tamayo, Mexico (2014); You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); The Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship, Edinburgh; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2014); From the People, to the People, for the People, Future Perfect, Singapore (2014); Mom, Am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2013); A Place Beyond Belief, NDSM-Werf / Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (2013); Burn the Village, Feel the Warmth, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (2013); Nathan Coley, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2013); Knowledge, Kindliness and Courage, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2012).
Aleana Egan’s works have been shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally including Shapes From Life, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2015); light on a leaf, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Berlin (2015);Contemporary Drawings, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, curated by Drawing Room (2015); There are all sorts of lives, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2014); Dukkha, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2014); Deep One Perfect Morning, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2014); The Sensitive Plant, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2013); The Line of Beauty, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013); Several Species of Small Furry Animals gathered Together in a cave and grooving with a Pict, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin (2013); A Reader of Materials and a Writer of Forms, MOT International, Brussels (2012).
Fergus Feehily has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Dukkha, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2014); Nothing and Everything, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne (2014); Why Not Live for Art? II, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (2013); Floating & other Metaphors, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo (2013); Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013); disappearance, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (2013), Into the Light: The Arts Council – 60 Years of Supporting the Arts, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (2012-2013); The Paradise [37], The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2012),Concentrations: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2011).
Kevin Gaffney graduated from the Royal College of Art’s MA Photography & Moving Image in 2011, where he received an Honorary Mention from the Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists. He was awarded a Sky Academy Arts Scholarship for the development of a new body of work (2015); was selected for a UNESCO-Aschberg laureate artist residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Changdong Residency, South Korea (2014); and received a Film Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland for the creation of a new film while artist in residence at the Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan (2014). His work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally, including: the Contemporary Art Institute CAI02 as part of the Sapporo International Art Festival, Japan (2014); the London Short Film Festival (2012); and Abandon Normal Devices at Cornerhouse, Manchester 2012).
Rana Hamadeh’s work has been shown nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include The Written City, Triennial Brugge (2015); A Needle Walks into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial (2014); Many Places at Once, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2014); AGITATIONISM, EVA International (2014), A River In A Sea In A River, KIOSK, Ghent (2014); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum Of Contemporary Art, New York (2013); Meanwhile… Suddenly, and Then, 12th Biennale de Lyon (2013); The Magic of the State,The Lisson Gallery, London/ Beirut, Cairo (2013), The World Turned Inside Out, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2013); The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2012); Another Work of Astonishing Economy & Monumentality, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2011).
Merlin James’ work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including Freestyle, Kunstverein Freiburg (2014); Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (2014); Parasol Unit, London (2014); SIGNAL BOX, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013); Sex Paintings, OHIO, Glasgow (2013), In the Gallery, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2012), Merlin James: New Paintings, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2012); Sikkema Jenkins, New York (2011); Frame Paintings, Mummery + Schnelle, London (2010). He represented Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. In 2010, James received the Scottish Arts Council Visual Artists’ Award.
