Caitlín Gallagher Caitlín Gallagher lives in Co. Donegal. She started painting as a painter and decorator and worked all around Ireland. Later, she attended art classes and completed a Fine Art Painting course at the University of Ulster at Belfast. Back in north-west Donegal Caitlín says she ‘has the rugged landscape, Atlantic Ocean and Donegal weather’ for inspiration.

Joseph Urie Born in Glasgow in 1947, he studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and the Royal Academy School, London. Awards received include the British Institute Prize, Farquhar Reid Major travelling scholarship, Vincent Harris Prize, D. M. Morgan Prize and the J. van Bueren Wittman Prize. He has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. Selected collections are in Dundee Art Gallery, BBC (Scotland), Edinburgh City Arts Centre and Sir John Sainsbury Company Collection.

Abigail O’Brien O’Brien has won many awards for her work, which is in both private and public collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and the Volpinum collection in Vienna. She is currently producing a series of works with the theme of the Seven Sacraments. In this, she uses a variety of media including sculpture and photography.

Andrew McMorrine After studying at Glasgow School of Art, he has lived in the Hebrides since 1973, teaching and painting. He is currently principal teacher of art at Portree High School and lives on Skye. He has exhibited in Edinburgh, Inverness, Perth and Dublin and has work in the collections of the Western Isles Council, Grampian Health Board, Edinburgh City Council and the Scottish Office as well as in private collections in Europe and the USA.

Steven Campbell Recent projects include a large exhibition on Scotland’s Poet Laureate, Edwin Morgan, at the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. There is a planned show of major new works for 2002 at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. He wants to continue to explore the huge area of collaboration which exists among artists in ‘this small but creatively diverse country’.

Shane Cullen Shane Cullen is a Longford-born artist now based in Dublin. He has had many solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. His series of work ‘Fragmens sur les Institutions Républicaines IV’ has been exhibited throughout Europe, and in San Francisco, Toronto and New York. In 1995 he represented Ireland at the the Venice Biennale. He has completed artist residencies in PS1 in New York, France and Budapest.

Kevin MacLean Born in Arbroath in 1966, he now lives in Edinburgh. MacLean worked collaboratively with Edward Scott using elements from the land to illustrate an anthropomorphic world. He developed his solo work from this starting point drawing mainly on Celtic myth and legend. His work frequently shows the ordinary in an out-of the-ordinary-way.

Norman Shaw Norman Shaw was born in Ullapool in 1970. He has an MA and MPhil from Edinburgh; and a PhD from Duncan of Jordanstone College in Dundee.

John McNaught John McNaught was born in Glasgow in 1966. He was brought up on Benbecula and Skye, and is now based in Cromarty. Specialising in relief printmaking and artists’ books, his solo shows include: ‘The Argentina Debacle’, ‘Not Donald MacDonald’ and ‘Mind Your Head’ (an archive of Craig Dunain Psychiatric Hospital).

Stephen Lawson Born in Glasgow in 1942, he was raised and schooled in Inverness. He studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art and Colorado University. Since 1984, after thirteen years teaching sculpture Lawson has worked using hand-made cameras, mostly via landscape, both in Scotland and the USA. He has had works in the National Photography Collection, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Kelvingrove, Inverness and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Hughie O’Donoghue Hughie O’Donoghue was born in Manchester in 1953. His monumentally scaled paintings explore themes of history, memory and identity and are represented in museums throughout the world. Recent individual exhibitions have taken place at the Rubicon Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy and Irish Museum of Modern Art. The artist was the inaugural Resident Artist at St John’s College in Oxford (2000).

Anna Davis Anna Davis graduated from Grays School of Art and Design with a first in Drawing and Painting. She moved to North Uist in 1990 where she continued to work as an artist. She has had solo exhibitions at An Lanntair, An Tuirean and Taigh Chearsabhagh Art Centre and various shows throughout Scotland. Davis now lives in Edinburgh.

Noel Sheridan Noel Sheridan is an artist who has exhibited work in Ireland and overseas since the late 1950s. A recent exhibition has been a partial retrospective show at the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery in Dublin. The Four Courts Press has recently published a book On Reflection based on his work.

Michael Kane Born in Dublin in 1935, Michael Kane still lives there, with intervals spent in Spain, Italy and Switzerland. He attended the National College of Art and also studied printmaking. He has had many solo shows in Dublin, London, Zurich, including a retrospective at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1995); his first was at the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery in Dublin in 1960.

Tom Fitzgerald Since retiring as head of the Sculpture department in Limerick School of Art and Design, he has devoted his time to public and private commissions. He has exhibited in many national and international shows and his work has been included in important public collections in Ireland. Critic Aidan Dunne has written: ‘Fitzgerald is a formidable Limerick sculptor who has carved out a distinctive, muscular style for himself.’

Brian Connolly Brian Connolly is a Northern Irish multi-media artist whose works often relate to ‘place’ or ‘context’. He creates 2D work, installation art, performance and public sculpture. The artist has exhibited and performed internationally and created public sculptures in Ireland and Italy. He is currently an associate lecturer at the University of Ulster at Belfast.

Mick O’Kelly Mick O’Kelly lives in Dublin and works parttime at the National College of Art and Design. He graduated in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design and completed an MFA in the California Institute of the Arts. He has presented his artwork in museums and galleries in Frankfurt, Paris and Santa Monica as well as in non-conventional sites.

Mary Montgomery Mary Montgomery was born in March 1955 in Arivruaich, Lewis, the youngest of three children. She has had two books of poetry published by Coiscéim in Dublin: Eadar Mi ’s a’ Bhreug, 1988 and Ruithmean ’s Neo-Rannan, 1997. She lives in Balallan in Lewis and has two children.

Joanne Breen Born in Wexford, tapestry artist Joanne Breen studied and lectured at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Her work explores the traces and tracks left by man’s interaction with the landscape. Since 1990 she and her sister, calligrapher Frances Breen, have collaborated on a series of works interpreting Scottish and Irish Gaelic poetry and song.

Shane Cullen Shane Cullen is a Longford-born artist now based in Dublin. He has had many solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. His series of work ‘Fragmens sur les Institutions Républicaines IV’ has been exhibited throughout Europe, and in San Francisco, Toronto and New York. In 1995 he represented Ireland at the the Venice Biennale. He has completed artist residencies in PS1 in New York, France and Budapest.

Eileen Coates Born in England in 1946, Eileen Coates moved to Ireland in 1978. She studied Ceramics at Limerick School of Art and Design and received an MA from the National College of Art and Design. She explores repetition, scale and space using ceramics and mixed media. She has had solo exhibitions in Belfast, Dublin and Limerick and group exhibitions in Japan, Australia, USA, Germany, Scotland and Ireland.

Neil MacPherson Born in Elgin in 1954, he studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Royal Scottish Academy Young Artist and the Royal Scottish Academy London Scottish Award, and has exhibited in Glasgow, London, Toronto, Sweden and Brussels. Selected public collections are in Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, Contemporary Art Society, Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow, BBC.

Frances Walker Born in Kirkcaldy, she studied at Edinburgh College of Art. She is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and the Society of Scottish Artists. Walker spent two years as a visiting teacher of art in Harris and North Uist, then twenty-seven years as a lecturer in drawing and painting at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen. She lives and works in Aberdeen and spends part of the year on the island of Tiree.

Katherine Boucher Beug Katherine Boucher Beug received a BA from Northwestern University, Illinois in 1969. She went on to study for two years in Hamburg, Germany before moving to Ireland in 1971. Since then she has worked with painting, printmaking, drawing and making artist’s books, and has exhibited her work in group and solo shows.

Will Maclean Born in Inverness in 1941, he has had solo exhibitions in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Museum of North Dakota and McMaster University Canada. Public collections of his work are in the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Yale Centre for British Art, USA, the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador and Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow. He is represented by Art First – London and New York.

Stan Clementsmith He graduated from Glasgow School of Art (DA) and Jordanhill College of Education. He was Designer in the Audio-Visual Unit, Jordanhill College of Education until 1969, then a full-time lecturer at the School of Design, DJC University of Dundee. Clementsmith was Research Artist in Residence at the Kaywon School of Art and Design in South Korea 1997. He retired from the university in September 2000.

Flòraidh MacKenzie Born in South Uist, she is a recent graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and of the Gaelic Television course at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye. She is currently working in Glasgow as an art department assistant for TV. Her most recent work, indefinable by any one medium, reflects her fascination with the relationships between people and the landscape.

Ian McCulloch Ian McCulloch was born in Glasgow in 1935 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with works in many public collections. Among his commissions are paintings for the Italian Centre and Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. Since 1994 he has been Fine Art fellow at Strathclyde University.

Gus Wylie He has a Masters degree (MA) in both Fine Art (painting) and Photography from the Royal College, London. He previously worked at the University of Westminster, the Royal College of Art, and was Professor of Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. At present he teaches at the London Institute. He is also working on drawings and watercolours for an illustrated children’s book of his childhood memories of East Fife during the Second World War.

Bridget Flannery Born in Cork in 1959, Bridget Flannery studied at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. Her paintings are made using layers of pigments, paint, wax and collage and are rooted in the Irish and Scandinavian countryside. She exhibits in Ireland and Europe, and lives and works in Carlow.

Scott Kilgour Born in Scotland in 1960, he attended Glasgow School of Art. He moved to New York in 1983 and currently lives there. Kilgour has had several one-man shows in New York and around the USA. He presented the ‘Interspace’ exhibition at the GSA as part of the UK City of Architecture and Design programme in 1999.

Helen O’Leary Helen O’Leary was born in Wexford. She has been a recipient of numerous awards, including the Pollock Krasner Award and the Joan Mitchell Award for painting. She graduated from the Art Institute in Chicago with Bachelor and Master degrees in Fine Art. She has exhibited internationally and is currently an associate professor of art at Penn State University in the USA.

Donald Urquhart Donald Urquhart was born in Bankfoot, Perthshire in 1959 and studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art. He has exhibited widely, both internationally and throughout Scotland, and has numerous awards including a major Artist’s Award from the Scottish Arts Council in 1998 and the artist’s residency programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. He works in Edinburgh.

Patricia Looby Tipperary artist Patricia Looby has spent twenty years exhibiting in Ireland and abroad. In May 2001 she held her first solo exhibition in Dublin entitled ‘Harvester’, and it toured to Ennis and Clonmel. Her work has been part of several touring shows of Irish art including in Amsterdam (1985), Cracow (1993) and Aarhus in Denmark (1996).

Ronnie Hughes Born in Belfast in 1965, Hughes has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and has participated in group exhibitions worldwide. His awards include residencies at PS1, New York, Banff Arts Center, Canada and Bemis Arts Center, Nebraska. His work is held in many collections including both Irish Arts Councils and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Marian Leven Marian Leven was born in Edinburgh in 1944. She studied at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, and was the winner of the Noble Grossart/ Scotland on Sunday painting prize in 1998. She has had solo exhibitions at An Tuireann, Portree; An Lanntair, Stornoway and Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist. Public collections of her work are in Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery; Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie; and Paintings in Hospitals.

William Brotherston William Brotherston was born in Edinburgh in 1943. He first studied History and then Sculpture. Since 1971 he has been teaching at Edinburgh College of Art and making sculpture. He makes sculptural images typically combining geometric abstraction and references to visible things.

Edward Summerton Edward Summerton’s most recent and successful work has been exhibited internationally in the form of paintings, sculpture, artists’ publications, site-specific and sound installations, photography, editions of postcards, collaborations and video projections. He is currently a Fine Art lecturer at the University of Dundee.