Camille Souter (1929–2023); b. Northampton, England) lived and worked predominantly in Achill, Co. Mayo. Souter was raised in Ireland and originally trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital London, before taking up painting in the mid-1950s. Souter is the recipient of numerous awards from the Prix de Ville de Monaco (1977) to the IMMA Glen Dimplex award for contribution to visual arts in Ireland (2000). She was an Honorary member of the RHA and was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2009. Souter exhibited extensively from the 1960s onwards and represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale (1961). Major retrospectives of her work were held at Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (1980); Ulster Museum, Belfast (2000); and more recently at Custom House Studios, Mayo (2019), in celebration of the artist’s 90th year. Souter’s work is within IMMA Collection and is regularly exhibited at IMMA, as well as at venues nationally and internationally.

Alberta Whittle (b.1980) is an artist, researcher, and curator. She was awarded a Turner Bursary, the Frieze Artist Award, and a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award in 2020. Alberta is a PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art and is a Research Associate at The University of Johannesburg. She was a RAW Academie Fellow at RAW Material in Dakar in 2018 and is the Margaret Tait Award winner for 2018/9. Her creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as key methods in battling anti-blackness. She choreographs interactive installations, using film, sculpture, and performance as site-specific artworks in public and private spaces.

Whittle has exhibited and performed in various solo and group shows, including at Jupiter Artland (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2021), The Lisson Gallery (2021), MIMA (2021), Viborg Kunstal (2021), Remai Modern (2021), Liverpool Biennale (2021), Art Night London (2021), The British Art Show – Aberdeen (2021), Glasgow International (2021), Glasgow International (2020), Grand Union (2020), Eastside Projects (2020), DCA (2019), GoMA, Glasgow (2019), Pig Rock Bothy at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (2019), 13th Havana Biennale, Cuba (2019), The Tyburn Gallery, London (2019), The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh (2019), The Showroom, London (2018), National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (2018), RAW Material, Dakar (2018), FADA Gallery, Johannesburg (2018), the Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg (2017), FRAMER FRAMED, Amsterdam (2015), Goethe On Main, Johannesburg (2015), at the Johannesburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015), and BOZAR, Brussels (2014), amongst others. Her work has been acquired for the UK National Collections, The Scottish National Gallery Collections, Glasgow Museums Collections and The Contemporary Art Research Collection at Edinburgh College of Art amongst other private collections. See more detail on artists website here