Performers: Paola Catizone, Sarah Joan Kelly, Julie Landers, Manuel McCarthy Valderrama, Méabh McKenna, Emily Miller, Charlotte van Braam and Nada Yehia.
Sarah Joan Kelly is a Dublin based theatre-maker, performer and writer from Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. She is a recent graduate from Drama and Theatre Studies in Trinity College Dublin.
Paola Catizone is a visual artist (MFA NCAD), arts facilitator (IMMA) and a yoga and movement facilitator. Paola combines the immediacy of drawing and the directness of Performance Art in her work. Embodied awareness, performance, drawing, relational processes and interdisciplinary collaborations, are the elements of her practice. Paola is the founder of the Breaking Cover Collective, an artist collective focusing on the role of performance art in the current ecological emergency.
Julie Landers is visual artist currently enrolled in the MA in Art and the Contemporary World in the National College of Art and Design.
Manuel McCarthy Valderrama is a Spanish and Irish multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Dublin. His work and research are concerned with the relationships that can form between objects and humans through daily use and interaction. He studied Fine Arts in the Complutense University in Madrid (2017-2021), where he exhibited his own work multiple times. He studied a MA in Art and Technology in the University of Limerick (2021-2022). His work has been exhibited across Spain, Ireland, and Germany. He was funded by the Irish Embassy in Berlin and the Goethe Institut Irland under the ‘Creative Pathways 2022’ project, where he participated in the exhibition ‘DÉAD (a set of teeth)’ in Silent Green, Berlin (Transmediale Studio) in November 2022.
Méabh McKenna is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Moynalty, Co.Meath. Currently undergoing postgraduate studies in Art in the Contemporary World in NCAD, her focus on collaboration and community ritual has led her to working with songwriters and performance artists such as Aoife Nessa Frances, Maija Sofia, and Isadora Epstein.
Emily Miller is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in expanded and traditional paint, print, installation, film and performance, with a focus on the natural world in the wake of the environmental crisis. Emily is a George Moore Scholar and will study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the acclaimed Painting and Drawing MFA programme, from September. She is currently preparing for her first solo show at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery which will open on August 10th through to September 2nd. instagram @emjmarts.
Charlotte van Braam is an academic, artist, and performer. Her work as a performer in the Sarah Pierce exhibitions is linked to her research interests in museum geographies and decolonial museum practices, as part of the MA Race, Migration, and Decolonial studies. She has also worked in the development-humanitarian sector which she now studies from a decolonial perspective. Moreover, she explores art-making as decolonial praxis focusing on exploring embodied knowledge and identity, in collaboration with the IMMA Studios.
Nada Yehia is a PhD researcher at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, where her research is focusing on refugee-led humanitarianism. Her Masters thesis focused on handwashing with soap promotional interventions in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan and she has more than six years experience in research and implementation of international donor funded projects related to refugees and asylum seekers’ rights.