Nuala Ní Fhlathúin is from the Leitir Móir area in Co Galway. She received a BFA in 2008 and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2011. Since then she has established a strong track record as a contemporary art practitioner in the Connemara Gaeltacht and further afield, developing an art practice around questions of place, language and visuality. Her work has been supported by bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, Ealaín na Gaeltachta and Galway County Arts Office. She is currently engaged on a practice-based PhD with Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT.

Dan O’Flatharta graduated from Limerick School of Art & Design with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting). His practice developed from an exclusively painting based practice to one incorporating painting, photography, video, writing and sculpture. Much of his work evolved from an interest in writing, linguistics and history. His art was one of spontaneous growth, open to influence in terms of process, context and social/cultural mores. His practice alluded to that which is hidden.

Seán was born on the Aran Islands and currently has a studio in Killeany. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with a degree in art. He also spent time studying in Belgium and America. His work has been displayed in exhibitions in Ireland and abroad. Seán represented Ireland at the Interceltic Festival in Lorient, Brittany in 2009. He won the visual arts competition ‘Ciall’ (The Gallery, Donegal) in 2011. He was a designer for the 1916 commemoration show “Aisling?” (Ealaín na Gaeltachta), the drama “Baoite” (An Taibhdhearc/Abbey Theatre), agus the show “ORÓ” (Galway 2020)

Ciara is a visual artist based in West Kerry, Ireland. She moved to the Gaeltacht having completed a Degree in Fine Arts at the Crawford College of Art and Design. She came to focus on her visual arts practice and to learn our beautiful language- Irish. Since coming to the Gaeltacht she has co-founded the Goat Street Studios - Stiudió Stráid an Gamhair - in Dingle, an arts facility containing 12 artists studios.

Caoimhghin Ó Fraithile makes sculptures and drawings all over the globe - in Asia, Europe, and America. He maintains his peripatetic lifestyle by taking on residencies in different parts of the world. His wooden structures and exquisite drawings have grasped worldwide attention in the international art world.

Karol is a Donegal native. She spent a period of time in London working in the field of architecture. In 2015, she visited Letterkenny as part of the Create-a-link project, which sparked a keen interest in the realm of visual arts. She works with oil, watercolor, drawing and collage, of various sizes and formats. The Donegal landscape inspires her greatly, thus allowing her to translate her feelings from landscape to canvas. Her work can be seen in open call exhibitions in Donegal, Sligo, Mayo and the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

Ian Gordon has lived in Dun Lewey, Co.Donegal for over forty years. Born in London, he studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art and Architecture at Q.U.B, without graduating. As a Plein Air painter in oils, he makes vigorously expressive canvases of landscape and streetscape of the north-west. Exhibiting regularly with Solo Shows in Donegal, and occasionally further afield including the U.S.

Ian Joyce works with performance, music, installations and short films and makes prints, paintings, sculptures and art books. His works have been exhibited in Ireland, France, Germany, Finland, Iceland, Italy, the Czech Republic and Bosnia as well as in Georgia and Armenia. He has participated in contemporary art events in Japan, Taiwan and Korea and did various public art commissions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. He lives in Donegal and Berlin.

Sandra Landers is a book artist and writer living in the West Kerry Gaeltacht. While pursuing her book art she has also produced, edited, and indexed books. She has travelled through most of North America, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands and Europe. Her lifelong fascination with books as containers and the words they hold continues.

Clare Langan studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and with a Fulbright Scholarship, completed a film workshop at NYU. She has represented Ireland in numerous international Biennales, including the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, 2002 Brazil; The Liverpool Biennial - International 2002, Tate Liverpool; Singapore Biennial 2008, Dojima River Biennale 2009, Osaka Japan; Busan Biennale 2010, South Korea. Her films and photographs are in a number of international public and private collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland, The Office of Public Works, the Tony Podesta Private Collection, Washington, and the Hugo and Carla Brown Collection, UK.

Sarah Lewtas lives and works in Dunlewey in county Donegal where she has lived for the past 40 years. Originally from Sussex where she studied fine art at Eastbourne College of Art and Design she then moved to London where she studied for her B.A. in painting at St Martins. Over the last three decades she has focused on sculptural installation while continuing with an ongoing drawing practice and recently botanical painting. She has been involved in numerous international exhibitions and symposia.She is presently working with cardboard as a material for making sculptural forms and will be presenting a special installation at the R.C.C. Letterkenny for the St Columkille centenary exhibition this summer.

Kevin is from Gortahork, Gay Town, Donegal. He has a background in agriculture, blacksmith and silversmith, stonemason, painting and decorating houses, music agus storytelling. He has been painting, sculpting and a mixed material artist for the last 30 years. He studied art in Galway and returned home to Donegal in the nineties. His time is spent between family, art, art exhibitions, farming, gardening, and enjoying life.

Cathal McGinley is ‘of’ Inis Bó Finne; he was born on the island but was raised in Magheroarty overlooking his family’s home place. Cathal obtained his degree in Sligo and later his MAFA in University of Ulster.

Throughout this formal education Cathal  maintained a ‘grá’ for his home place and its people, customs and heritage. His methodology combines heritage, folklore, dinnseanchas and a love of his language and island community. Cathal’s work is attuned to ‘dúchas’ – it is both instinct and heritage and at the same time utterly contemporary; simultaneously ancient and modern.

Deirdre attended the College of Art and Design, Crawford in Cork. She studied fine art painting and has been a practicing professional of the craft since. In 2011, she began to learn printing techniques under the mentorship of Niall Naessens. She is a member of Cork Printmakers for several years, and works in Corca Dhuibhne and Cork city. Her art work has been chosen for printing exhibitions worldwide including; Center for Printmaking Connecticut, Impact 10 Encuentre i Santander '18, The Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW Australia, The New State at Graphic Studio Gallery.