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Nina Graduated in 2005, she is represented by mothers tankstation, Dublin, and has won the Baloise Prize at Art Statements Basel/40, she has a forthcoming solo show at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 2010.

Joanne Boyle graduate of 2009 wasawarded the DLR Studio Award 2009, and a solo show in the Signal Arts Centre in November,

Olwen Coughlan was in a group show at theOpen Gallery, London in October

Nicola Teegan has aforthcoming solo show in FOUR, Dublin, and was in‘No Fixed Abode’ Phoenix Arts Festival, Tullamore,July, ‘Scribble Box’ Bombhouse,Dublin, June,‘Is this Considered Poetry?’IADT April and forthcoming group shows include '16-4-1' in Imoca Gallery, 'Bouvard et Pecuchet' in The Lighthouse Cinema, and Filmbase., She was selected for LAUNCH 2009.She worked on the Percent for Arts Scheme, working in collaboration with artists Fiona Coffey and Liz Mc Mahon in M.E.T.N.S (Monkstown Educate Together National School).

Angela McAndrew exhibited inInside-Out, The Market Studios, Dublin.Dec,Chance, CHQ Building, IFSC, Docklands, Dublin 1, Work Selected by Curator Jenny Haughton, Nicola won the VAI Prize at Graduation.

Jennette Donnelly  exhibited in Canavas Galleries, Belfast. December, Curated by Paul Evans.

La cat salon night mamuska exhibition, La Catedral Studios/The Back Loft, Dublin, Ormond Studios opening exhibition, Dublin. November. She is Co-Founder, Chairperson and Studio Manager of Ormond Studios established July.

Vivienne Byrne is in "Straying Closer to the Truth’, The Friary, Multyfarnham, Mullingar, Co Westmeath November , "Here’s Something I Made Later’ The Market Studios, August  Co-ordinaor and FETAC Level 3 Arts and Craft Facilitator, Drogheda Youth Development, West Gate, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, Co Louth

Aoife O'Sullivan was inPRESENCE Market Studios, Dublin December , HALLOWEVENING, The Back Loft, Dublin October Sarah Walker Gallery, Cork, August . Internship at La Catedral Studios approximately and Certificate course in Art Therapy in CIT

Sofie Loscher  is studying Art Therapy, (Foundation Course), British Association of Art Therapists, London. She exhibited in Pinhole Photography,‘The Light Exchange’; Internship at Pallas Contemporary Projects; Leopardstown Park Hospital, Coordinating an art group comprised of older/active retired people. Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, teaching art to people with brain and physical disabilities. ARTISIT? Selected as a part of their 2009 group of graduating students from art colleges across the world. She worked on a Percent for Arts Scheme, in collaboration with artists Fiona Coffey and Liz Mc Mahon in M.E.T.N.S (Monkstown Educate Together National School). The project was realised through a large-scale ceramic tile mural on the school grounds that involved the participation of each student. Ceramic Teacher, Pine Forest Art Center, Glencullen, Kilteernan, Dublin 18,

Saskia Vermeulen had a solo show Fictitious Interludes,at Signal Arts Centre, she exhibited at Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Co. Dublin; Small Works Big Picture, Mockingbird Arts Centre, Dublin; Altar Simple Exhibition and Studio Space, Skerries, Co. Dublin

Helen Horgan was in Neu! Monstertruck Gallery and Studios, Monster Truck selected show of recent graduates, The Elephant in The Room, Plane/Site, Moxie Studio Artists group show I Made This For You, Market Studios, Straying Closer to The Truth, Multyfarnham Friary, Collaboration with writer and artist Daniel M Ferrari (NY). Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland: Paper Work, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Invited group show. Brave New World, Limerick City Gallery, (Curator Mary Conlon)2010 Multyfarnham Friary, Westmeath, Residency. Currently working from a studio space in Market Studios, Dublin                                                                                                                                           

Ella Burke was in Cracking the Combination” Turn-Berlin Gallery. Berlin; “The Elephant in the Room.” Moxie Group Show. Place/Site Gallery, Lad Lane, Dublin 2; “Project Brand New.” Deysed Performance at Project Arts Centre;“Deysed.” Market Studios, D1    “Scribble Box” Bombhouse Studios, D 1; has an Internship at Urban Retreat Gallery, Hanover Quay. Currently undertaking MFA in Sculpture at NCAD 

Meadhbh O' Connor   exhibited in theDublin Art Fair, RDS Main Hall, Ballsbridge, November and the RDS Student Art Awards Travelling Exhibition, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal. Rua Red, Tallaght, she was in "Sculpture at the Hallward", Hallward Gallery, Dublin and was Winner of the Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary

Seán O Sullivan was in BOXiD: Round II, Original Print Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin,
Summer Edition '09, Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin, Selected for the Black Church Print Studio Extended Access Programme.Winner of Black Church Print Studio Graduate Award. Work purchased and permanently archived at the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL).    Visual Artists Ireland, Publications Assistant (For Printed Project & The Visual Artists' News Sheet), Oct–Present he is the Black Church Print Studio, Technical Intern and has won the VAI Prize 2009.
 Louise Farrelly was inGraduate Award Winners, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar,Dublin June 2010, Absolut Fringe: Oh, Francis! The Bernard Shaw, Dublin , Oct; Summer Show, Rua Red - South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Co. Dublin July Annual Open Submission, Limerick Printmakers, June’ She won the Graduate Award for Printmaking - Graphic Studio Dublin; The Pictureworks Student Photography Awards - Runner-up;She is in the Collection of the  Limerick City Gallery of Art; Currently working The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2 - Gallery Assistant IMOCA, Lad Lane, Baggot St. Dublin2 - Gallery Assistant; Original Print Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 - Gallery Assistant (Exhibition Openings and Events); Ballsbridge College of Further Education, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 - Night class Teacher (Dublin VEC)

Niamh Heery was in ‘Projected Weekends’, Digital Hub, Dublin, 2-14 October ‘Toronto Urban Film Festival’, Toronto 11-20 September 2009 ‘I Made This For You’, Market Studio Gallery, Dublin, 13-17 August 2009 http://themarketstudios.wordpress.com/Member of MART, the Media Art collective of Ireland http://mart.ie/Founder Curator of AMP, a series of cross- arts interaction evenings that ran in May 2008 http://myspace.com/ampbycmc. 

Aine Belton was in 2009 Mamuska Dublin, Back Loft, September 25^th (as part of Culture night), group show.2009 Knockanstockan Festival, Wicklow, 24^th-26^th July, group show. Curated by Mia Doyle.2009 Scribblebox, Bombhouse, Dublin, July 2^nd, group show. Curated by Bombhouse.2009 Elephino, Back Loft, June 13^th, Dublin, group show. Curated by Mia Doyle.Internship program in The Back Loft and La Catedral Studios. The duties include administration, graphic design, audio-visual technician and general jobs.

Therry Rudin  is the cuator of the book 'Living Landscape' forthcoming in December 2009.

She has written and edited an essay 'Video Art in Ireland, Today' for the publication byInstitute Cervantes, Madrid, Spain project LOOP in Barcelona.

Paul Gregg won a commission for a Wicklow School, St. Kevin's College , exhibited at "Vital Signs" Arts & Health in Context, Exhibition & Conference, October Arts Council Initiative curated by Michelle Browne - and is Short-listed for the Life Sciences Building, U.C.D. Commission(good luck)

Mark Joyce was in "Object"at the Crafts Council Kilkenny in July, selected by Brian Kennedy, and "Invisible" forthcoming at the Original Print Gallery in Feb selected by Oliver Dowling and John Graham. He is curating a show called The way things are/10 Irish artists for Sydney Non Objective in December/January, and  has just completed a 3 month studio residency at the RHA.                                                                                                                

Shane Cullen is showing at the Triskel,     "The Institute of Traces" The exhibition is of new and selected works and the venue is the E.S.B. Sub-Station in Caroline Street, Cork, also working on a permanently sited sculptural commission for the Institute for Ireland in Europe. The Institute is located at the Irish College in Louvaine - Belgium.                                                                                                                                                                                        

Saoirse Higgins -Peer reviewed paper publication.'The Grafting Parlour collaborative art practice', written by Saoirse Higgins. http://www.leonardo.info/transactions.htmlLeonardo journal, MIT press, December. Project presentation of The Grafting Parlour art works.Roundabout gallery, Katowice, Poland.http://blog.coalexpo.eu/?p=119 OctoberThe Lab gallery, Force Majeure show, part of the ISEA Dublin hub events, Vera Klute, Aideen Barry, Benjamin Gaulon, Bea mcMahon, Saoirse-the grafting parlour. Curated by Sheena Barrett and Saoirse Higgins, Dublin City Council funded.SeptemberISEA (international symposium of electronic art) 09,Organiser of Dublin hub 3-day events.Presentation and Debate Art-Science Open Labs, AugustE-mobileart lab + MediaLab Prado, Madrid @ Science Gallery, Trinity CollegeChair 'citizenship and contested spaces' ISEA panel.http://www.isea2009.org/wordpress/?page_id=36 Exhibited at Thessaloniki Biennalehttp://www.thessalonikibiennale.gr/ June                                                                                                                        

Cora Cummins curated "What Hiver" at studio 8 Temple Bar Gallery and Studio in April , she co-published The Fold Issue4 "Devotion", and was selected for the Art &Architecture Journal "Building Material" issue in November. She has a Solo Exhibition, "Retreat" at the Dunamaise Gallery Portlaoise in December, is giving the Blackchurch Annual Artist Lecture and was awarded a 2nd Project Studio award Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin                                                                                                                                                                                     

Cecily Brennan has a Solo Show at Taylor Galleries Dublin in 2010, she exhibited VOICES a Breaking Ground Commission Axis Arts Centre Ballymun in October. Currently in Terror and the Sublime. Art in an age of Anxiety. Crawford Gallery Cork curated by Peter Murray 2010, Recent Publications include:Boulevard Magenta 2 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Terror and the Sublime catalogue to accompany show at Crawford Art Gallery Breaking Ground 2001-2009 published by BG2                                                                                                                   

Maeve Connolly . Recent publications include The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen(Catalogue Essay)‘An Alternative Archive: Vivienne Dick and the Future of Irish Cinema’, Between Truth and Fiction: The Films of Vivienne Dick, ed. Treasa O’Brien, London: LUX and The Crawford Art Gallery, 2009: 70-77.(Dialogue) ‘The Material, The Immaterial, The Shining: Maeve Connolly and Anita Di Bianco in Conversation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art’, in Anita Di Bianco, Ghostwriter, Braunchsweig: Kunstverein Braunchsweig, 2009, 30-35. (Essay) ‘Death-Defying Acts’ in Gary Coyle, At Sea: The Daily Practice of Swimming, Dublin: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and Project Arts Centre, 2009: 66 -71. Conference papers and talks: ‘Urban Landmarks and “Regenerated” Cityscapes in Helen (Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor/desperate optimists, 2008)’, Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, University of Winchester, 2009. Public interview with Prof. John Canemaker, An Evening with John Canemaker, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, November 12, 2009. Lecture, ‘Art Criticism and Visual Culture’, Critical Perspectives series, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, October 29, 2009.  Conversation with Daphne Wright about Prayer Project, QUAD Gallery, Derby, June 26, 2009.                                                                                                                                         

Clodagh Emoe                                                                                                                                                                         

Conference Participation
The Sublime Affect, coordinated by Peter De Bolla, Tate Modern, London
Triptych, University of Norwich, UK
Knowing Not to Know, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Guest Lecture
Disclosing the In-Between Encountering Liminality in Contemporary Art: A Study in Aesthetics and Art Practice MA Programme, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London                                                                                                   

Publications
The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Kitty Harmon (ed.), 2009 Princeton Architectural Press, USA
The Fold, Cora Cummins, Alison Pilkington (eds.), The Lab, Dublin City Council, April 2009  Solo Exhibition
The Approach, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam Cult of Engagement -newly commissioned solo-show, Project Arts Centre, Dublin                                                                                                                          

Site Specific Projects/Events
Mystical Anarchism, Glendalough, collaborative project with Prof. Simon Critchley, Head of Philosophy, The New School, New York.
Mystical Anarchism is an experimental project to explore an alternative model to engage with theoretical enquiry using a trans-disciplinary approach. Rather than coordinating a lecture in an academic context, Mystical Anarchism seeks create a more open discourse. This took place using a more informal approach; 100 participants were brought to a secret location by the upper lake in Glendalough and gathering together at midnight under the night sky on a 17 metre x 7 metre, hand made quilt.
Invisible, Black Church Print Studios, Dublin
Creating the Common – newly commissioned Per Cent for Art Project, Dublin City Council
Group Exhibitions
Small Moments of Fantastic Things, Antje Wachs, Berlin
The Infinite, The Intimate and The Impossible, Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia
Under Construction I, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam
Here is the Place, IMOCA, Dublin
Awards: Step Beyond Award – networking opportunity with City and Arts Project/Mimar University and Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey                                                                                                                                                          

 Boards: IMMA Advisory Panel; VEC and South Dublin County Council Per cent for Art Panel - Adams Town Primary School Commission; External Examiner, BA Fine Art Sculpture, GMIT, Galway
 Cult of Engagement -newly commissioned solo-show, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, December ‘09- 
 

Kathleen Moroney    (Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books and University of Chicago Press: 2009) (Exhibition Review) Garrett Phelan, Mother’s Tankstation, Artforum, September 2009, 304-305.(Exhibition Review), James Coleman, Artforum, Summer 2009, 349.  (Exhibition Review) Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, Project Arts Centre, Artforum March 2009: (Column)‘Writing After the Exhibition: Tactically Yours’, The Visual Artists News Sheet November/December Column) ‘Writing After the Exhibition: In Absentia’, The Visual Artists News Sheet July/August 2009 (Article) Dublin City Report, Frieze, June 2009: 182-183. (Column) ‘Writing After the Exhibition’, The Visual Artists News Sheet, March/April 2009: 4. June 2009, Residency at the International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark -the Irish Arts Council. September 2009, Acceptance onto PhD University of Sunderland, Ceramics and Glass Department.  June 2010, Residency at Ceramic Cultural Centre, Japan.                                 

Laurence Riddell/Lynda Devenney are using online mapping tools for reflection and critique; and the creation of a visual dynamic archive of project work completed off campus. This site-specific project is now a Proposal for ELIA 2010-New Learning Spaces