Category Archives: Visual & Thrive Reources

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 24

This new Our Thriving Tribe session is with JUNK ENSEMBLE. Junk Ensemble was founded in Dublin in 2004 by twin sisters Megan and Jessica Kennedy. The company is committed to engaging diverse audiences through the creation and presentation of brave, imaginative and accessible work that sheds light on important human issues relevant to society today. […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 23

This new Our Thriving Tribe session is with Monika Sapielak, born in Poland, studied in Germany and living in Ireland. Monika is an award-winning Cultural Professional with 25 years of work experience as CEO, Cultural Manager, Curator, Mentor & Educator with a strong focus on cultural diversity, social inclusion, equality and integration. Seasoned Project and Event […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 22

This sessions invited guests are Brokentalkers. Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan are the creative partnership known as Brokentalkers. They inspire audiences in Ireland and around the world with socially charged and form busting theatre since 2001. Initially founded by Feidlim Cannon, Damien Fenty, Gary Keegan and Faye Munns. Brokentalkers is currently led by co-artistic directors […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 21

This new Our Thriving Tribe session is with Friz, a Northern Ireland based artist who works in both traditional and digital mediums, currently focused on spray-painting. Her work largely revolves around the female form. It is a study in identity, who we are, where we come from and our connection to the natural world around […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 20

This Our Thriving Tribe session is dedicated to Collaboration! Networking / cross pollination opportunities. Across the examples provided by the AHEH partners networking is the most widely disseminated single strategy for encouraging and facilitating entrepreneurial growth… Page 21 Overview of the Arts & Humanities Entrepreneurship Hubs Contextual Review report – Rev 1.0: Research findings: an […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 19

This Our Thriving Tribe session, is dedicated to Time! How do you value your time? The curators of Our Thriving Tribe invited Arts professionals to respond to this question as part of research into entrepreneurship within the arts in Ireland. Each professional responded in their own unique way, some of these responses are shared in […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 18

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This sessions invited guest is Andrea Fitzpatrick, an artist, arts manager and curator based in Ireland. Andrea Fitzpatrick is an artist, arts manager and curator, with a strong interest in collaboration and overlapping disciplines. In 2015 she created the Chimera Art and Science programme to create a space for experimentation and collaboration between art and […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 17

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This sessions invited guest is Cathy Fitzgerald, an Eco Social Arts practitioner based in Ireland. My name is Cathy Fitzgerald, and I’m an Irish-based New Zealander living in rural County Carlow in Ireland these past 20 years. Since the late 1990s, I have been inspired by the emergent art and ecology field in visual culture, […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 16

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This sessions invited guest is Susan Buttner. Susan Buttner is an artist based in Ireland, concerned with bodily experiences of knowledge and power, identity, politics, alienation and difference. This practice involves sculpture, film, performance, painting, writing and collaborative projects. Recent group exhibitions include, Highlanes Gallery Open Submission, 2020, curated by Joy Gerrard, Sean Kissane, Jerome […]

Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Arts in Ireland – 15

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This sessions invited guest is Tadhg O’Sullivan. Tadhg O’Sullivan is a director-producer, editor and sound artist living in Ireland. His first feature film Yximalloo (co-directed with Feargal Ward) won the Prix Premiere at FiD Marseille in 2014. His second feature The Great Wall screened around the world, at festivals including RIDM, MoMA Doc Fortnight, FiD […]