Aleana Egan

b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland

Aleana Egan engenders psychological states through enigmatic arrangements of objects and forms. A meandering, sensuous line is carried from her sculptures into her paintings, populated by fragmentary shapes that hint at solid forms or gesture towards movement. The artist manipulates colour, surface, texture and density, layering thin, watery washes with thicker daubs. This interplay between lightness and dissolution, solidity and translucency creates atmospheric shifts that feel open-ended, or in a state of flux, allowing them to enter a symbiotic and mutable relationship with their sculptural counterparts, articulating a distinct worldview infused by literary, cinematic, and architectural references as well as memories imprinted deep in the psychic landscape.

Aleana Egan has exhibited at Sculpture Center, New York; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Landesmuseum Münster; The Drawing Room and Jerwood Space, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh; Leeds Art Gallery; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and IMMA, Dublin, and the Berlin Biennale. Current solo exhibitions include Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (23 March – 19 May 2024). Recent solo exhibitions include Kerlin Gallery (2023); Void, Derry (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021); NICC Vitrine Brussels (2020) and Farbvision, Berlin (2019). 

Callum Innes

b. 1962, Edinburgh, Scotland

Over the past 35 years, Callum Innes has developed a completely individual approach to painting that explores all the myriad possibilities of the medium.  By repeatedly applying and dissolving layers of paint pigment, rich in texture and colour, Innes exposes the fundamentals of the paint itself. Full of humanity and fallibility, his art strives for a balance between precision and imperfection, opacity and luminosity, contemplation and material presence. Recently Innes has continued to develop and refine his oeuvre by introducing colours of heightened intensity and depth and by advancing a new series of circular or ‘Tondo’ paintings, resonating with the history of art and redefining its contemporary potential. 

Callum Innes has been the subject of solo exhibitions at De Pont Museum, Tilburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Neues Museum, Nürnberg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the ICA, London; the Scottish National Gallery, and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Modern Art Oxford; the Whitworth, Manchester; IMMA, Dublin, and Château La Coste, Provence. His work can be found in the collections of Albright-Knox, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museé des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; National Galleries of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York and Tate Gallery, London. 

Elizabeth Magill

b. 1959, Canada

Elizabeth Magill’s highly idiosyncratic paintings present subjective and psychological takes on the landscape genre. Rich with kaleidoscopic patterning and fragmented forms, these vistas are embedded in place – usually rural settings on the edges of settlements – but transported through the artist’s imagination, memories, photographs or moods to be presented as something other: lush, visionary recollections of hills, lakes, hedges and skies glowing with ambient light. The term ‘inscape’ has been used to describe Magill’s practice: landscapes not based on direct observation, but imbued with a sense of interiority and reflection. 

Elizabeth Magill has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; PEER, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Milton Keynes Gallery; BALTIC, Gateshead; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Southampton City Art Gallery and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Recent solo shows include Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2023); Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2022); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2021, 2020); Pent House, Margate (2020); New Art Gallery, Walsall; 12 Star Gallery, London (both 2019); Ulster Museum, Belfast; Matt’s Gallery, London; the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (all 2018) and Limerick City Gallery of Art (2017). Magill’s work can be found in the collections of the Tate, London; the British Museum; the National Gallery of Australia; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; the Ulster Museum; the Crawford, Cork; the Government Art Collection, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain

b. 1978, Clare, Ireland

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain is an Irish artist working with film, computer-generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. Her Jacquard tapestry Interval I combines striking imagery of underground caves, architectural ruins, strange animals and archival portraits. Measuring almost 10 x 13 feet, this visually arresting work threads an imagined line between contemporary threats of extinction and ancient narratives of the underworld. 

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work has been shown widely internationally, with exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennale; Hammer Museum, LA; Broad Museum, Michigan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; CCA, Glasgow; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. In 2024, Ní Bhriain will exhibit at Innsbruck International Biennial, Kunsthal Gent, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Lismore Castle Arts. Public collections of her work include MAC Lyon; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Trinity College Dublin; The Arts Council of Ireland; and Office of Public Works, Ireland.