Peter Morgan 

I left home when I was 18 and spent 5 years travelling and working at a variety of jobs, from a motorcycle messenger to the oil terminals in the Orkney Islands, and then to South East Asia, Australia, and India. On my return I studied photography and film and for 6 years worked as an artist, illustrator and teacher in London. Romance moved me to the Emerald Isle, I bought the chickens and continued working.

My practice has always been diverse: photography, video, text, collage, and 3-D objects. “Every force evolves a form.” The work has been commissioned, published, broadcast, exhibited and collected.

The process is often collaborative in nature. With writer Judy Kravis I produce artists' books.
www.roadbooks.ie

Video commissions include works for:- Daghdha Dance Company, and Cursaí Ealaíne, RTE 1.  
Books commissions include:- Lives Less Ordinary: Thirty-two Irish portraits. Lilliput Press, 1999. and When the bells go down: A Portrait of Cork City Fire Brigade. Cork Corporation 
Collections include: The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon;
Tate Britain (Artists’ Books) London, University College Cork, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.

Róisín Lewis

Róisín Lewis is a visual artist currently living and working in Dublin and Tipperary.
 
The focus of her work in general is the artistic analysis of perception and in particular the correlation between spatial and temporal experience and the drawing process. Projects take the form of works on paper installations and multimedia collaborations.

She exhibits in Ireland and internationally, and has had solo exhibitions in the Ashford Gallery and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, and the Proposition Gallery and The Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast. She has been awarded residencies in Irish Museum of Modern Art and The Firestation Artists’ Studios. She currently teaches drawing at the Limerick School of Art and Design.

Alan Keane

Alan Keane is an Artist and Lecturer, his Artistic Practice includes painting and object based work and is informed by notions of Place and Travel. He has been on many Artistic Residencies including NIFCA Vilnius Lithuania, IMMA Dublin and a one month Residency at Sea on the Marine Institutes Research Vessel, The Celtic Explorer.

He has exhibited widely at home and abroad and currently teaches Painting at The Limerick School of Art and Design.

Kieran Whitelaw

I have lived in Ireland for 30 years. I was always going to do art in some shape or form, because it is in me.
Clay, Pottery, Ceramics, whatever one wants to call it is my passion.

At the age of 24 I was walking across O’ Connell Bridge and realized I had emigrated and a whole new chapter of my life began. Thirty Years on, with my wife and four children, I have no regrets about that choice.

I enjoy teaching, so much it is not a job. I have to say Irish students are a joy to work with and over the years I have met so many people involved in ceramics and they feel like family.

For the future, I would like a bit more space for self-development. As stated in the book the Alchemist (by Paulo Coelho) it is the journey not the destination that is important.