If You Only Walk Long Enough

Ellie Berry is a visual artist living in Ireland. Her work focuses on outdoor experiences—exploring the landscape and the connections found there. She primarily works through walking: sometimes hiking in remote areas for days or weeks at a time, sometimes taking small steps through familiar places to see them anew. Documenting these experiences through photography, writing and video, her work combines personal experience with reflections and research into how we interact with our outdoor spaces. 

In 2021, Ellie completed a practice-led masters by research at IADT, in which she researched the power of representation of place in Ireland, and the responsibility of how we represent the environment. This research was grounded in her experience of walking 4,000km around the island.

Edy Fung works with the poetics of technology. Primarily composing and performing electroacoustic work as her alias Quantum Foam, she expands her noise semantics in her intermedia art practice, engaging with sound, text, image, video, installation, and exhibition-making. She experiments with the tension between notation and improvisation, digital and analogue, determinism and indeterminacy. Selected exhibitions, projects and performances include FACT, Liverpool (2021), STATIC Complex (2021), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021), Fylkingen, Stockholm (2021), Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2021), MUTEK ES+AR Hybrid (2021), Somerset House Studios, London (2020), Videotage, Hong Kong (2020), MUTEK, Montréal (2020), Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Derry (2020), GoldenThread Gallery, Belfast (2022, 2019), and CCA Derry~Londonderry (2021, 2018).

Leanne McDonagh is an Irish artist, teacher, and member of the Travelling community. She grew up on a halting site, experiencing first-hand the prejudices and misconceptions society has about Travellers. As an artist, she feels she has a unique opportunity to represent and record her community from within. Her work, which has been exhibited both nationally and internationally since its debut in 2015, features in both private and public collections.

She is currently working on a public sculpture funded by the Irish government, under the Percent for Art scheme. She also illustrated Why the Moon Travels, an award-winning short story book written by a fellow Traveller Oein De Bhairduin. Most recently, numerous pieces of her work were acquired by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, where they now form part of the National Collection of Ireland. 

McDonagh also works as the Traveller education coordinator with Munster Technological University, and is determined to use her educational experiences for the benefit of current and prospective students from the Travelling community. She established the Traveller Graduate Network in 2019, and is developing a work-experience program specifically for members of the Travelling community.

Moran Been-noon is a Dublin-based independent curator and visual artist. As a curator she is primarily interested in multiplatform group exhibitions. Her current focus is on feminist artwork created on the spectrum between contemporary art practice, and traditionally-feminine creative crafts. 

Moran is also a co-founder of angelica.network, an Ireland-wide network which amplifies the voices of artists based on the island of Ireland who self-identify as women or minority genders, from underrepresented cultural or ethnic backgrounds. 

Alongside her independent curatorial practice, Moran develops exhibitions, both online and in-person, for glór in Ennis as part of her 2020-2021 curatorial residency with glór. She has curated projects in gallery spaces and off-site for independent galleries throughout the island of Ireland. Recently she was invited to curate Host, a cross-border exhibition that took place in Dublin and Belfast, as part of Belfast International Arts Festival 2021. She produced and led creatively Platform Art Belfast’s in Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm in 2016, and a pop-up gallery in Electric Picnic Festival 2009. Her writing has featured in such publications as Circa Magazine, the Sunday Times Ireland, and Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet. She is an active participant in the Irish arts community, and worked in the past as a co-director at Platform Arts Belfast and Basic Space Dublin.