Chair: Jenny Haughton
Jenny Haughton is associated with a variety of groups and initiatives from the Women’s Artists Action Group (WAAG) to artists representing Ireland at the Biennales. She is founding director of Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and most recently Coordinator of ‘…the lives we live’ Grangegorman Public Art. Jenny holds a degree in Business and Arts Management from the Institute of Art, Design & Technology and a Masters in International Security & Conflict Resolution from Dublin City University. In 1991 she established Artworking which continues to function as a process consultancy and adviser in the contemporary arts. She was a Founder of Alternatives to Violence (Ireland), and accommodates political, and economic migrants to Ireland. She is a PhD Candidate with TU Dublin.
Na Cailleacha Artist Collective
Na Cailleacha Artist Collective: Na Cailleacha is a collective of five visual artists, one jazz musician and a curator/writer who have come together to explore being female, older and hopefully wiser. The group are: Helen Comerford, a painter and educator, based in Co. Kilkenny; Carole Nelson, jazz composer, pianist and saxophonist based in Co Carlow; Therry Rudin, an artist from Switzerland. Drawing and documentary film; Patricia Hurl, a painter and performance artist, based in County Tipperary; Barbara Freeman has worked in a wide range of media including sculpture, painting, installation, digital media and film. Based in Belfast. Founded by Catherine Marshall, a curator and art-writer, interested in forging and documenting collaborations and relationships across arts practices and disciplines, based between Dublin and Co. Kilkenny.
ART NOMADS
The group, initially called the Migrant Artist Community, got together in 2019. Their first exhibition ‘Transhumance: The Nomadic Artist: Part of This Land’, was held in February 2020 in Phizzfest: The Space a gallery in Dublin 7. The group re-named Art Nomads then staged an exhibition online for World Refugee Week in June 2020 in collaboration with Christ Church Cathedral Dublin and Counterpoints Arts UK. In September 2020 Art Nomads worked with curator of collections at IMMA Christina Kennedy to provide a series of participatory workshops ‘Mask, Myth and Multiple Cultures’ to complement their Paula Rego retrospective. In October 2020 the group were featured artists with the Arts and Human Rights Festival run by Smashing Times International Centre for The Arts and Equality.
Members currently include: Muhammad Achour, Antonio D’Souza, Hina Khan, Tomasz Madajczak, Roxana Manouchehri, Joe Odiboh, Laragh Pittman, Rajinder Singh and Amna Walaya.
