He is interested in how we navigate and bring meaning into our lives. He graduated in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2023 and was longlisted for Royal Dublin Society Visual Arts Awards and Shortlisted and for Photo Museum Ireland’s Early Career artist award.
Asha Murray graduated from The Limerick School of Art & Design in 2023. She creates experimental films in tandem with textile work of wool tufted collages. Mixing the two mediums has created a form of experimental storytelling, exploring concepts of Identity, memory, and the internal conscious stream. These ideas prompt her to experiment with narrative, through visual rhythmic collages of sounds and moving image and textiles.
Asha has won awards in the International Fresh Film Festival in 2016 and 2021. Her work was selected for K-FEST Arts Festival in Co. Kerry, Ireland in 2022 and she was commissioned for their permanent collection. In 2023, Asha was awarded a residency at the National Sculpture Factory Ireland.
Asha has exhibited in IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art as a shortlisted artist in the 2023 RDS Visual Art Awards. Her work has been purchased by TUS – Technical University of the Shannon, The Office of Public Works, Ireland and many private collectors in both Ireland and Europe.
Jan O’Connell is a photographer based in Cork City. In 2022, she decided to relocate her work and family to the remote West Kerry region of Ireland. A move that enabled her to become fully immersed in this powerful landscape while completing an MFA in fine art photography at Ulster University.
In her work she makes ‘portraits’ of individual rocks in West Kerry and their dynamic interplay with the Atlantic Ocean. In themselves they are extremely powerful, with individual characters revealed through repeated visits and innovative lighting techniques. This work explores our relationship with the natural landscape, an immersive connection. There is something marginal, isolated, and yet human in these rocks.
About The Curator
Mark Joyce (Instagram @markj0yce) is an Irish artist, lecturer and occasional curator. As an artist, he explores the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from scientific and philosophical concepts of physical light.
He curated the initial Ireland‘s Eye in 2022 and has curated several exhibitions in Europe and Australia, such as Ingenious at The Drawing Project in Dublin in 2013 and The Way Things Are at Sydney Non Objective in 2010. He is currently a lecturer at IADT, Dublin.
