Vincent Sheridan studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology. He has been working as a full-time artist since 1981. From 1989 to 1998 Sheridan lived and worked as an artist in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. He returned to Dublin in 1999. In 2007 he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, specialising in video. He joined the Black Church Print Studio in 2000 and is a former Director of the Board.

Birds (especially crows and starlings) continue to feature largely in Sheridan's work. He is concerned with the social behaviour, flight dynamics and subliminal 'brushstroke' patterns of birds in flight. His images often mirror human group dynamics, modes of communication and social interactions.

Residencies include West Baffin Eskimo Printshop, Arctic Canada; St Michael's Print Shop, Newfoundland; Cill Rialaig Art Centre, Kerry and Annaghmakerrig, Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Awards include First Prize (graphics), Claremorris International Exhibition (1989); Best Graphics Award, RHA Exhibition (1992); Ernst & Young Purchase Award (1992) and Image Now Award, Best Use of Multimedia in Fine Art (2007). Sheridan has had solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and Canada.

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Surrendering ‘the self’ to the sensory elements of colour, form and sound is at the core of Aisling Conroy’s work. Her work is multi-disciplinary using painting, sculpture, sound, and installation and attempts to emulate the notion of ‘the sublime’ that is often experienced when viewing art; most notably in galleries, museums and in various forms of public sculpture and architecture, such as, monuments, churches, and shrines. Conroy uses the duality of dark and light, colour and form, in her painting, installation and sound work, and with this, creates abstractions of various models of sacred art, iconism and veneration, in ritualistic manifestations.

Aisling graduated from NCAD with a BA Hons degree in 2009 and an MFA in 2011. She is a resident artist at the Talbot Gallery and Studios in Dublin and has exhibited in various venues around Ireland, as well as having exhibited abroad in the US, China and India. Her most recent selected exhibitions include, Prism, solo show, The Talbot Gallery, Dublin (2013), From the Dawning, solo show, Studio Verve, Ahmedabad India (2012), Fast Moving Consumer Goods, The Talbot Gallery, Dublin (2012), Level Open , Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise (2012), Without Memory, Without Expectation, solo show, The Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise (2011). Aisling was Draíocht’s Artist in Residence from January to June 2013.

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Present State is a series of paintings based on cropped compositions of the human form. They record the body as present against a natural backdrop of the sky. ‘My intention is to divert attention away from the cultural cues we use to identify with figures in order to suggest that something else remains. There is an absurd and elegant characteristic of humanity viewed from this perspective and I identify with it through my paintings.’ Patrick Horan.

Since graduating from NCAD in 1998, Patrick has been living and working Dublin. He has had five solo shows. In 2009 Patrick was awarded The Don Niccolo D'Ardia Caracciolo RHA Medal and in 2010 he was a joint winner of The Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the RHA Annual Exhibition.

‘My practice is positioned in an Art and Ecology framework, addressing our attitudes and perceptions of how we live on Earth - how we affect our surroundings and how they affect us. I work with Sculpture and Drawing, allowing the ideas to dictate the form. I have worked with stone carving and cast iron, and have made ephemeral work. Most recently, my inquiry has been concerned with audience interaction with the work. As an art practitioner, I see part of my role as effecting attitudinal change through dialogue and experimentation; through engaging my audience in practical ways which enable me to communicate directly with them and to offer them something of value.’
Kathy Herbert