Hugh O’Donnell
makes performance/action art/installation and is interested in the found object.His drawing informs his performance work and practice in general.Notions of gender, sexuality, and the absurd appropriation of meaning onto various materials such as liver, buckets, large sticks, man boobs, anal cavities all seem to collaborate together to make art works. Hugh currently lives and works in Belfast where he obtained his degree and master’s degree in fine art from the University of Ulster Belfast. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in many different galleries and alternative spaces. He currently has a studio with ADHOC studio’s and works on the management committee of Bbeyond a performance art organization
Paul King
“There is the act of trying to communicate while at the same time not really wanting to or the inability to do so. There is miscommunication, misinterpretation and what seems as the impossibility to communicate with words. There is the wish to communicate coupled with hesitation and withdrawal. There is the state of trying to communicate while simultaneously not wanting or unable to fully express or to be wholly understood”.
Molloy understands the practical decisions and qualities of nature. Through light on nature a common ground is formed, within that we are offered an opportunity to question the human within its chaotic understanding of nature. A focus on approaching clarification informs her minimalist performances, which blissfully understands the flux of vulnerability and control, Molloy simply lets it breath as it approaches. Angela is currently going into the second faze of her masters in fine art the University of Ulster.
Anne Quail
is a multi-disciplinary artist utilising performance, lens-based media and drawing. Her practice operates in the gap/crossover space between art and life, taking everyday actions and objects (chopping onions for example) as the material presence from which she works a position between the familiar and the strange. Employing strategies of performative action, labour, recognition and mutation her interventions on the usual create a space for intimate investigation of the overlooked minutiae of detail that infuses our lives. This state of self-awareness she creates, extends our sensorium into our innate consciousness, disambiguating the unconsciously habitual and intuitive, making the implicit explicit.
Leo Devlin
Devlin
assembles visual equations as vehicles of data to assert a subject in
process. Provocative approaches and aesthetic adjustments to perception
of the body, foreground a practice concentrated on a series of natral
and visceral forces. Sensation and catharsis figure in an internal
didactic that responds to the immediacy of personal environments and
architecture. Devlin’s work and collations, sustain enquiries into a
measurement of the material and the immaterial possibilities of
mediation. Since graduating
in 2006 he has been an active contributer to the arts in N.I., and
exhibited at events and exhibitions both localy, national and internationally.