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Dorothy Cross
Aleana Egan
Justin Fitzpatrick
Merlin James
Elizabeth Magill
Brian Maguire
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Isabel Nolan
Liliane Tomasko
Paul Winstanley

 

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Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in   

Selected Works

Selected Works Thumbnails
Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in
Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in
Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in
Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in
Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in
Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in

Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in

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Aleana Egan
little shell, small gift, 2024
mixed media on canvas
73 x 108 cm / 28.7 x 42.5 in
Aleana Egan 

little shell, small gift, 2024

mixed media on canvas

73 x 108 cm / 28.7 x 42.5 in   
Aleana Egan
little shell, small gift, 2024
mixed media on canvas
73 x 108 cm / 28.7 x 42.5 in

Aleana Egan
little shell, small gift, 2024
mixed media on canvas
73 x 108 cm / 28.7 x 42.5 in

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Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed
Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed
Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed
Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed
Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed
Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed
Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed

Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed

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Merlin James
Doorway and Stair, c.1984
acrylic on canvas with timber frame
86.5 x 80.5 cm / 34.1 x 31.7 in
Merlin James
Doorway and Stair, c.1984
acrylic on canvas with timber frame
86.5 x 80.5 cm / 34.1 x 31.7 in
Merlin James
Doorway and Stair, c.1984
acrylic on canvas with timber frame
86.5 x 80.5 cm / 34.1 x 31.7 in

Merlin James
Doorway and Stair, c.1984
acrylic on canvas with timber frame
86.5 x 80.5 cm / 34.1 x 31.7 in

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Elizabeth Magill
With the Inhabitants, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11.8 x 15.7 in
Elizabeth Magill
With the Inhabitants, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11.8 x 15.7 in
Elizabeth Magill
With the Inhabitants, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11.8 x 15.7 in
Elizabeth Magill
With the Inhabitants, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11.8 x 15.7 in

Elizabeth Magill
With the Inhabitants, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11.8 x 15.7 in

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Brian Maguire
Arizona 11, 2022
acrylic on canvas
200 x 275 cm / 78.7 x 108.3 in
Brian Maguire
Arizona 11, 2022
acrylic on canvas
200 x 275 cm / 78.7 x 108.3 in
Brian Maguire
Arizona 11, 2022
acrylic on canvas
200 x 275 cm / 78.7 x 108.3 in
Brian Maguire
Arizona 11, 2022
acrylic on canvas
200 x 275 cm / 78.7 x 108.3 in

Brian Maguire
Arizona 11, 2022
acrylic on canvas
200 x 275 cm / 78.7 x 108.3 in

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Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in

Inquire
Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in
Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in
Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in
Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in
Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in
Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in
Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in

Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in

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Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (reflecting the shape of a shift), 2024
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 193 cm / 76 x 76 in

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (reflecting the shape of a shift), 2024
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 193 cm / 76 x 76 in

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Paul Winstanley
Landscape with Clouds, 2024
oil on panel
56 x 42 cm / 22 x 16.5 in

Paul Winstanley
Landscape with Clouds, 2024
oil on panel
56 x 42 cm / 22 x 16.5 in

Inquire
Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in

Dorothy Cross
Whelk Madonna, 2024
cast bronze with white patina, edition of 4 + 1AP
27 x 12 x 12 cm / 10.6 x 4.7 x 4.7 in

Aleana Egan
little shell, small gift, 2024
mixed media on canvas
73 x 108 cm / 28.7 x 42.5 in

Aleana Egan
little shell, small gift, 2024
mixed media on canvas
73 x 108 cm / 28.7 x 42.5 in

Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed

Justin Fitzpatrick
Perfume Pollen Plasma, 2024
oil on linen, oak frame
140 x 180 cm / 55.1 x 70.9 in
142 x 182 x 2.6 cm / 55.9 x 71.7 x 1 in framed

Merlin James
Doorway and Stair, c.1984
acrylic on canvas with timber frame
86.5 x 80.5 cm / 34.1 x 31.7 in

Merlin James
Doorway and Stair, c.1984
acrylic on canvas with timber frame
86.5 x 80.5 cm / 34.1 x 31.7 in

Elizabeth Magill
With the Inhabitants, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11.8 x 15.7 in

Elizabeth Magill
With the Inhabitants, 2024
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm / 11.8 x 15.7 in

Brian Maguire
Arizona 11, 2022
acrylic on canvas
200 x 275 cm / 78.7 x 108.3 in

Brian Maguire
Arizona 11, 2022
acrylic on canvas
200 x 275 cm / 78.7 x 108.3 in

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses I, 2018
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton, 4/5 from an edition of 5 + 2AP
212 x 165 cm / 83.5 x 65 in

Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in

Isabel Nolan
For elsewhere, 2024
painted mild steel
260 x 146 x 1 cm / 102.4 x 57.5 x .4 in

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (reflecting the shape of a shift), 2024
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 193 cm / 76 x 76 in

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (reflecting the shape of a shift), 2024
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 193 cm / 76 x 76 in

Paul Winstanley
Landscape with Clouds, 2024
oil on panel
56 x 42 cm / 22 x 16.5 in

Paul Winstanley
Landscape with Clouds, 2024
oil on panel
56 x 42 cm / 22 x 16.5 in

about the artists

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DOROTHY CROSS
b. 1956, Cork, Ireland
Lives and works in Connemara, Ireland

Working in sculpture, film and photography, Dorothy Cross examines the relationship between living beings and the natural world. Living in Connemara, a rural area on Ireland’s west coast, the artist sees nature, the ocean and the body as sites of constant change and flux. Her works harness this fluidity and generative power, staging unexpected encounters between plants, animals, body parts and everyday objects, resulting in strange, hybrid forms that range from the lyrical, sublime and meditative, to the erotic, humorous and playful. In two new sculptures presented at Frieze, a child’s hand captures a gold-plated scarab beetle (a potent symbol of rebirth, transformation and the afterlife since Ancient Egypt), and the shell of a sea snail plants itself onto a religious figurine (swallowing up and entering a strange symbiosis with the Virgin Mary). Full of pathos, vulnerability, and at times humour, these works demonstrate Cross’s ongoing engagement with the legacy of Surrealism and instinct for fostering a compelling dialogue between objects and creatures.

Dorothy Cross has exhibited in museums including MoMA PS1; ACCA, Melbourne; Tate, St Ives; ICA, Philadelphia; Modern Art Oxford; Turner Contemporary, Margate; the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and Camden Arts Centre, London. Cross is currently working on an ongoing project titled KINSHIP, a ritualised journey returning a mummified body from Ireland to Egypt, and resulting in a new publication published on 10 October with contributions from Edmund de Waal, Max Porter, Ahdaf Soueif and more. Current/forthcoming exhibitions include the Hayward Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: Art and Motherhood (various venues across the UK, 2024–2025) and Chatsworth House (2025). Cross has recently shown at Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2024); Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK; Cinili Hamam, Istanbul; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (all 2023); The Model, Sligo; Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas; girls, girls, girls, curated by Simone Rocha, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland; PAC Milano; The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (all 2022). Cross has participated in the Venice, Istanbul and Liverpool biennales.

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ALEANA EGAN
b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland

Working with sculpture, painting and film, 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. Creating atmospheric shifts that feel open-ended, or in a state of flux, Egan articulates 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. Recent solo exhibitions include Material Flux, a two-person exhibition with Isabel Nolan at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda (2024); Lismore Castle Arts, Co Waterford (2024); Kerlin Gallery (2023); Void, Derry (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021) and NICC Vitrine Brussels (2020). 

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JUSTIN FITZPATRICK
b. 1985, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Montargis, France

Justin Fitzpatrick works with painting, sculpture, text and, most recently, video to explore human consciousness through the prism of biology. He presents us with elaborate and fantastical paintings of mysterious figures and mutating forms; sinewy lines evoke art nouveau detailing, fused with gothic and macabre elements. Much of his work contains figurative elements transformed into static, infrastructural ones: the bodies of men become mechanical, forming spaces to inhabit or transit upon. Highly stylised musculoskeletal structures seem visible through the skin, while ornate, vegetal forms and insects link his subjects to the earth, or point towards the interconnectedness of different species. Fitzpatrick’s work is informed by the science around cellular structures (in particular, mitochondria), metaphysical poetry, mythologies, and an array of archetypal figures, often viewed through a lens of class and sexuality.

Born in 1985 in Dublin, Ireland, Justin Fitzpatrick attended St. Oswald’s School of Painting in London from 2004–2007 and earned his MA in Fine Art Painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015. Current and forthcoming exhibitions include Arcanes, Rituels et Chimères, FRAC Corsica (4 July – 19 October) and A Musical Instrument, the artist's first solo exhibition at Kerlin Gallery (24 October – 23 November). Recent solo exhibitions include Ballotta, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris (2024); Ballotta, Seventeen Gallery, London; Mitochondrial Abba, Margot Samel, New York (both 2023); Alpha Salad, The Tetley, Leeds; Angiosperme Telephone, Sultana Gallery, Paris (both 2022).

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MERLIN JAMES
b. 1960, Cardiff, Wales
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Merlin James approaches the history and legacy of painting with a highly considered and unconventional viewpoint. As commented by Artforum’s Sherman Sam, his work “has sought to rigorously problematise the experience of painting while simultaneously deepening its formal language”. Generally small in scale, his works depict diverse subject matter including vernacular architecture, riverside views, post-industrial landscapes, empty interiors, mysterious figures and scenes of sexual intimacy. Doorway and Stair was painted c. 1984, during a formative period as a graduate student at the Royal College of Art, London. At that time, the school was located in the Victoria & Albert Museum, allowing the artist to nurture a deep engagement with art history that continues to shape and inform his practice to this day. With loose brushwork, a muted palette and an idiosyncratic take on its architectural subject matter, the painting shows the hallmarks of the artist’s distinct style. 

Merlin James has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Venice Biennale, Wales Pavilion; Sikkema Jenkins, New York; KW Institute, Berlin; Kunstsaele, Berlin; CCA, Glasgow; Kunstverein, Freiberg; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; OCT, Shunde & Shenzhen; Anton Kern, New York; Philadelphia Art Alliance. Current/forthcoming exhibitions include Drawing the Unspeakable, Towner Eastbourne (5 October – 27 April) and Maureen Paley, London (14 November – 20 December). Selected international collections include Tate, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. An artist monograph, gathering 40 years of the artist’s work, was published in 2023.

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ELIZABETH MAGILL
b. 1959, Canada
Lives and works in London, UK and County Antrim, Ireland

Described by critic Isobel Haribson as “epic, enigmatic and evocative”, 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. Though they have a cinematic beauty, her paintings can also be eerie or unsettling: trees or telephone wires conceal the view; birds are silhouetted in the dark; rare human figures feel distant, phantasmal; colours feel subdued, or occasionally toxic. Magill’s complex and densely layered paintings are produced using various techniques, at times incorporating stencilling, screenprinting and collage, as well as the pouring, blending, dripping, splashing and scraping away of paint. Film and photography are also central to her research, shaping the way the artist looks at landscape, and infusing her approach to light, tone and atmosphere.

Elizabeth Magill has had 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; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art; and Ulster Museum, Belfast. Current/forthcoming exhibitions include Sacred Trust: Donations and their Legacy, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (from 10 April); Collecting Contemporary, British Museum, London, UK (Group, 25 April – 29 September) and Wilkinson Gallery, London (5 October – 10 November). Recent solo shows include Annelly Juda Fine Art, London (2023); Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2022) and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2021). 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.

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BRIAN MAGUIRE
b. 1951, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin 

Brian Maguire’s painting practice is driven by the struggle against inequality and violence, and the pursuit of justice. Compelled towards the raw realities of human conflict, Maguire approaches painting foremost as an act of solidarity, rehumanising his subjects and recentring the narratives of the disenfranchised. Social engagement plays a central role, leading him to work closely and interactively with refugees, survivors of warzones, incarcerated peoples, and local newsrooms in locations including Sudan, Syria, São Paulo and Ciudad Juárez. Maguire’s Arizona series of paintings presents images based on events at the southern border of the USA. Working alongside the Chief Medical Officer of Pima County, Maguire casts a light on the unsettling number of migrants who die attempting to cross the border around Tucson, Arizona. The unforgiving desert landscape is rendered in urgent, expressionist sweeps – drawing the raw and visceral nature of Maguire’s subject matter into a tension with the seductive, illusory nature of painting itself. 

Forthcoming solo exhibitions include a major retrospective at The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2024). Recent exhibitions include Converge 45, a biennial exhibition curated by Christian Viveros-Faune, Portland, USA; recent solo exhibitions include law of the land, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen; The Clock Winds Down, Kerlin Gallery (both 2023); In The Light of Conscience, Missoula Art Museum, Montana (2022); Remains, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2021–2022); Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (2021); American University Museum, Washington DC and United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA (both 2020); Rubin Center, Texas University, USA (2019); Art Museum Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (2019) and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2018). Maguire’s work is represented in the collections of Irish Museum of Modern Art; The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Museum of Fine Art Houston; the University of Chicago; Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag; Alvar Alto Museum, Finland and The Tia Collection, Santa Fe.

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AILBHE NÍ BHRIAIN
b. 1978, Clare, Ireland
Lives and works in Cork, Ireland

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain is an Irish artist working with film, computer-generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. Ní Bhriain’s work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene. These intertwined subjects are approached through an associative use of narrative and a deeply crafted visual language that verges on the surreal. She sidesteps directive positions and familiar binaries, exposing instead the layers of ambiguity and contradiction embedded in these fraught issues. The resulting worlds she creates are at once idiosyncratic, irresistible and unsettling. Ní Bhriain’s Jacquard tapestry The Muses I is a photographic collage fusing early colonial or ‘Orientalist’ photographs with images of damaged quarry walls. The colonial archive is considered here in its strange duality as both cultural record and cultural disruption – its surface intent of preservation belying a deeper act of destruction. 

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work has been shown widely internationally, at venues including Broad Museum, Michigan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hammer Museum, LA; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Innsbruck International Biennial, Austria; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France and the 16th Lyon Biennale. Current and forthcoming exhibitions include An Experiment with Time, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (Solo, 31 May – 31 December 2024); Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland and The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (both solo exhibitions, 2025). Recent solo exhibitions include Kerlin Gallery (2023); CCA Glasgow (2022); VISUAL Carlow; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (both 2019), Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; and Sirius Art Centre, Cork (both 2018). Public collections include Dallas Museum of Art; MAC Lyon; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Trinity College Dublin; and The Arts Council of Ireland.

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ISABEL NOLAN
b. 1974, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland

A tribute to the fundamental ways humans bring the world into meaning, Isabel Nolan’s work responds to big, often abstract, ideas with intimacy and materiality. The artist’s practice is materially expansive, matching the scope and scale of her varied interests; encompassing architectural, steel sculptures, handmade objects, tapestries, water-based oil paintings, pencil drawings or texts. Working thus, Nolan looks for ways to sidestep the, often arbitrary, nature of authority, to like, or even love, the difficult and complex human world we’ve made. For elsewhere is a painted steel sculpture first made for Material Flux, a recent two-person exhibition with Aleana Egan at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda and responds to the architecture of the gallery, a former Franciscan church. 

Isabel Nolan has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence; Void Gallery, Derry; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Mercer Union, Toronto; London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, London; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Solstice Arts Centre, Navan; Kunstverein Graz, Austria; Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany and Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne, France. Her work has also been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Salzburger Kunstverein; Centre of Contemporary Art, Geneva; Artspace, Sydney; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea; Beijing Art Museum of the Imperial City, Beijing; EVA International, Limerick; Glasgow International; and the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Forthcoming exhibitions include Material Flux, a two-person exhibition with Aleana Egan, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda and Take A Breath, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (curated exhibition, 13 June 2024 – 17 March 2025). On 6 June, Nolan unveiled a new public sculpture commission in Temple Bar Square, Dublin.

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LILIANE TOMASKO
b. 1967, Zurich, Switzerland
Lives and works in London, UK

Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist begins her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, offering attentive studies of bedding and clothing, the intimate textures of our lives. Through the artist’s reflections, these prosaic materials open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming, articulating the creatively fertile space between ‘conscious’ and ‘unconscious’. Tomasko’s approach to abstraction is rooted, therefore, in the physical realm but ultimately transcends beyond it. Fusing material observation with intuition and association, the artist produces vigorous, imaginative expressions of familiar environments and psychological states. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories.

Tomasko’s current/upcoming solo exhibitions include Twofold, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (13 September – 19 October 2024). Recent solo exhibitions include The Artist’s Eye, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Name me not, CAB Burgos, Spain (both 2023); S P E L L O F T H E W O O D, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Evening Wind, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, USA (both 2022); Morpheus, Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany (2021); dark goes lightly, Château la Coste, France (2019); Caja de sueños, Museo MATE, Lima, Peru; 12 nights x dreams, ROCA Rockland Center for the Arts, New York, USA (both 2018); Mother-Matrix-Matter, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, USA (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Risky Business, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (2024); Austria–Germany Painting 1970 to 2020, Albertina Modern, Vienna (2023); Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown: from the collections of The Albertina, The Albertina (2022); Inventing Nature, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; From the Real: Liliane Tomasko & Sean Scully, Newlands House Gallery, Petworth House (both 2021) and Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2017).

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PAUL WINSTANLEY
b. 1954, Manchester, UK
Lives and works in London, UK


Paul Winstanley is a painter who uses the genres of landscape, interior, still life and figure painting to create works of conceptual rigour. The relationship of the viewer to the painting is often seen as central to the content of the work. In Landscape with Clouds, Winstanley looks towards early 19th-century painting of mountainous landscapes, and their exploration of the aesthetics of the sublime. Revisiting and reinventing this genre, the artist articulates the ways in which pictures mythologise reality.

Paul Winstanley has exhibited at Renaissance Gallery, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; New Orleans Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Blankton Museum of Art, Austin; Colby Museum of Art, Maine; Tate, Hayward Gallery, Barbican Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Academy, Estorick Collection, and Delphina Gallery, all London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Tate, Walker Art Gallery, both Liverpool; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendall; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Southampton City Art Gallery, John Hansard Gallery, both Southampton; Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham City Art Gallery, both Nottingham; Fondation del’Hermitage, Lausanne; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstverein Freiburg; Kunstraum, Potsdam; Esbjerg Kunst Museum, Denmark; Museum of Modern Art, Rome; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Artspace, Auckland and Museu de Arte de São Paolo. Current/forthcoming exhibitions include Kerlin Gallery (Solo, November 2024) and Collecting Contemporary, British Museum, London, UK (Group, 25 April – 29 September).