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Elaine Agnew is a renowned music animateur, much in demand for her innovative and creative work with people of all ages across a broad field of work that includes education, community and healthcare. Elaine has been involved in the Music for Me programme since it began in 2005. She worked with children and young people in the Dolphin House Homework Club on an ongoing basis for a number of years with Nick Roth. Her work has taken her to America, Iceland, Indonesia and throughout Ireland and the UK. She is the Artistic Advisor of Music Network's Continuing Professional Development Programme and she co-programmed and managed Play, the 2011 Summer Music programme at The Ark in Dublin. She is a commissioned composer at the 2012 BBC Proms.
Kang Hyun Ahn is from Korea and studied at Seoul National University before completing an MA at Slade School of Fine Art, London. She was included in the prestigious "Bloomberg New Contemporaries" exhibition in 2004. She was resident in studio 468 in Rialto in 2005 developing a dance performance project involving Irish dance and local neighbours while in the studio. She also worked with a group of young people from the former Fatima Mansions on the Bury My Heart Festival. She exhibited her work 'Hell to all my new Neighbours' from Dublin in the 'Korean Young Artists 2006' in Seoul, Korea. In 2007 and 2008 she held residencies in Dresden, Germany and the Palais De Tokyo, Paris. She currently lives in the USA.
Anne-Maree Barry graduated from the NCAD, Dublin in 2004 with an MFA in Media, having already studied sculpture at The Limerick School of Art and Design. At the Darklight Film Festival, Dublin 2006 her experimental short film Covered Road was the winner of the Best Irish Short award. Anne-Maree is working with the Rialto Twirlers, a majorette group. The project combines an experimental short film, live performance and workshops. She aims to broaden her practice in order to fade the borders between art and everyday encounters. Anne Maree was recently awarded a grant from the Arts Council for her project with Rialto Twirlers.
Terry Blake studied in Limerick and at NCAD, where he completed a H.Dip. in Community Arts Education. He is working with the Rialto Youth Project while resident at studio 468. Terry has already worked with youth organisations in the local area on arts projects. In 2005 he began working with the St Michaels Youth Project completing a mock-u-mentary drama film with a group of teenagers. A second video project followed on from this. He has also worked with the Bluebell Youth Project.
Joe Coveney Joe Coveney completed his M.A. in Fine Art Sculpture from the Winchester School of Art, England in 2006. He has worked as a freelance arts facilitator since 2005 working with various organisations including: the National Gallery, the Lab Gallery and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. His creative work involves interconnectedness and embodied learning, adopting a process based approach to making work, letting future activities be guided by the current, employing a wide range of materials and media to explore these themes. In 2010 he was awarded the 'Emerging Artist Award' from the Royal Hibernian Gallery. He has exhibited widely and attended international residencies, most recently in New York, Berlin and Iceland. http://www.josephcoveney.com/
Pia Dunne Pia Dunne has been performing professionally as a singer/songwriter for over a decade and has shared a stage with diverse acts such as Aslan, Sinead O'Connor, Radio Tarifa, Wally Page and some of the best jazz musicians in Ireland. She is currently working on the Music for Me programme with children and young people from St. Michael’s Estate, Inchicore where she teaches singing and piano on a weekly basis. Pia’s own work is a fusion of jazz, soul and alternative pop and recently released her debut EP.
Grace Dyas is one third of THEATREclub. Grace is a writer, a director and sometimes she produces things or makes new things happen. Grace is interested in making work about the city and our souls. She chooses to make theatre because it offers the opportunity for live discussion between artists and audiences. She is motivated by the idea that theatre can start conversations that start ripples toward social change. She is currently in residency at Studio 468 run by Common Ground and Rialto Development Association, where she is working with Rialto Community Drug Team to develop a theatre workshop program for people in addiction. She is also currently working with The Family Resource Centre, Dublin City Council and Common Ground in St Michael’s Estate Inchicore to develop a new show called HISTORY currently in development with THEATREclub and due for full production in 2013. Most recently, she devised and directed THE FAMILY at Project Arts Centre in January 2012. Grace has completed the Abbey Theatre's New Playwrights programme and has been shortlisted for the Stewart Parker Trust Award.
Mark Ellison is an experienced musician, teacher, and audio engineer/producer. He plays a variety of instruments and specializes in electric guitar. Mark has worked on the Music for Me programme since 2008. He currently works with the children and young people in Fatima Homework Club, teaching and facilitating them to play guitar and keyboard through song learning and composition. As teacher and collaborative artist working with community arts groups, his goal is that his students feel capable of generating their own work and learn the patience needed to finish the job. He believes in life long learning.
Robbie Harris Robbie Harris is a bodhrán player and percussionist. He is Co-director of the Big Bang Festival of Rhythm which celebrates diverse styles of drumming from around the world, but also rhythm as it affects other art forms such as dance, voice and visual art. As musical director of The Rhythm Corporation he has led a twenty strong drum corps at International sports events in Croke Park and Aviva Stadium Dublin. Over the years he has recorded and performed with many world renowned artists. He has also worked with many theatre companies in Ireland. Robbie has worked with Common Ground on the Music for Me programme on an ongoing basis for a number of years. He taught percussion to groups of children and young people in various different homework clubs across the Canals Communities.
Jamie Hendrick has been involved in Rialto Youth Project since he was eight years old and has engaged in visual arts groups ever since, including thr Mapping Project, Dolphin Art Groupand most recently What’s the Story? Collective. He has engaged in many public talks and written articles about the significance of art in his life. In 2008 he started volunteering with Rialto Youth Project and is also involved in the Hemispheres Project (European Youth Action training). In 2011, Jamie took up a residency in studio 468. In November 2011, Jamie relocated to Australia.
Cellist Jane Hughes comes from Derry and studied at the D.I.T. Conservatory of Music, Dublin, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow, and in Leeds. As a freelance musician she has performed internationally with the RTE Concert Orchestra, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, The Irish Film Orchestra and Opera North in Leeds. Jane was resident at studio 468 in 2005; during this time she worked with local singer song-writers and Congolese musicians. This culminated in a performance at an intercultural concert at Aras Mhuire Hall in Inchicore organised by the Canal Intercultural Community Centre.
Lisa Marie Johnson works as a performance artist and facilitator in social and community contexts. She studied Speech and Drama Theatre at DIT and she recently completed a course for facilitators in 'art and conflict' at the Cross Border Centre, Dundalk. She has facilitated workshops with a diverse range of groups including teenagers, women's groups, artists, children, and teachers. She is a freelance practitioner of 'Theatre of the Oppressed', a form of theatre developed by Brazilian director Augusto Boal. Lisa Marie has performed at Tulca arts festival, Galway, Eigse 06, Carlow, EVA+ 06, Limerick, and the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray. With Seamus Nolan she co-curated the events programme at Hotel Ballymun in 2007. Beyond the Bark; Marino Institute of Education; and Froebel College of Education Thomas Johnston Thomas Johnston holds a BA Irish Music and Dance, a Specialist Diploma in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship (Centre for Teaching and Learning, UL) and is currently completing his doctoral research in the area of Irish traditional music in post-primary music education in Ireland. He teaches on various music programmes and at the Irish World Academy (UL) and St Patrick's College (DCU). An uilleann pipes and whistle player, Thomas has recorded with many musicians over the years and has toured extensively with performances and workshops across Europe, Australia, Canada and North America. As a Community Musician, he works predominantly in Early Years settings in Ireland where his most recent project was Ting Voices, an early years muisc pilot in partnership with Common Ground Arts Organisation, Early Childhood Ireland and The Base (Ballyfermot, Dublin). He has also co-facilitated Junior Music Hub, and early years music project in partnership with Learning Hub Limerick. Thomas has experience working in a professional teaching, workshop and performance capacity with various organisations such as The Ark, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Muisc Network, Glór, Arad Goch Theatre, Púca Puppets, Beyond the Bark, Marino Institute of Education and Froebel College of Education.
Dancers Megan and Jessica Kennedy are known collectively as junk ensemble. Aside from junk ensemble both dancers have worked internationally with other dance companies. They worked with Ferrini Youth Club and Fatima Homework Club during their residency at studio 468. They devised a project called 'Circus Freak', a performance in which the twins performed bizarre stories from the travelling carnival, investigating the glittery façade of circus performers. Jessica Kennedy won Best Female Performer Award for the Dublin Fringe Festival 2006 for 'Circus Freak'. Another production, 'The Rain Party', was awarded the Jayne Snow Award for Excellence and Innovation at the Dublin Fringe Festival Awards 2007. Megan and Jessica Kennedy perform in The Abbey Theatre's 2008 production of Romeo and Juliet.
Nevan Lahart studied at Limerick School of Art and Design and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). He worked with the Rialto Community Drug Team whilein residence at studio 468. He subsequently completed a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Nevan Lahart exhibited in the 2004 and 2005 Eurojet Futures exhibitions at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and in Eigse, Carlow, and EVA+, Limerick, in 2006. In 2007 he had a solo exhibition, Static TV, at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and in 2008 was a participant in the Art in the Life World exhibition in Ballymun.
Kathryn Maguire, currently in residence in studio 468, lives and works in Dublin. She has a Bachelor in Fine Art Sculpture from Cork College of Art & Design, a Diploma in Arts Participation & Global Development from the Cork Institute of Technology and a Master of Art in the Contemporary World from NCAD, Dublin. She has participated in several group exhibitions, most recently in Infinite City project in Hack the City; Science Gallery, 2012, O Diamond Diamond, Units 3 & 4 Joyce Street, D.C.C. in 2012 and Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, 2011. Kathryn Maguire's practice is informed and challenged by philosophical writers and thinkers. She uses text, sculpture, video, and installation work in which she has explored various forms of Wandering. Maguire's work has also included a wide variety of Community Arts & Participatory projects. She recently worked with PHD student Corelia Baibarac and team on Infinite City project for Interactivos12 Dublin, which is part of Hack the City an exhibition in Science Gallery, Dublin. She is presently exploring another workshop with Hack the City in Interstitial Intersections proposing a derelict site in the Rialto area which will be conceptually re purposed, based on its previous use and history. This will inform her stay at 468 as she is also currently researching the histories of Immigration, Brick Fields and Market Gardening within the 468 environs and, and how she can re purpose and possibly align that in her residency time. http://kathrynmaguire.net/, http://intoparadiseregained.wordpress.com/
Anne Marie McGrane studied at DIT and at NCAD where she completed a H.Dip. in Community Arts Education. She has worked as an arts facilitator with the Rialto Community Drugs Team, the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, and the Base Youth Centre, Ballyfermot. While resident at studio 468 she developed a shadow puppet project with the Rialto Community Drugs Team.
Jennie Moran began her residency at studio 468 in April 2010. Her residency continued until January 2011 during which time she pursued her work in which she sought to create opportunities for hospitality. She studied sculpture at the NCAD, Dublin and has continued her learning through residencies in Iceland, Italy, and Argentina. She was Artist in Residence at Airfield, Dublin, in 2008, resulting in the solo exhibition, A Space That Gives You The Possibility To Think Something Else. More recently she was Artist in Residence at the Killruddery Film Festival, Wicklow. Her projects have been facilitated by a Dublin City Council Art Bursary in 2006, an Arts Council Project Award in 2007 and an Arts Council Artist in the Community Award in 2009. She has worked with Kildare County Council, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Galway University Hospital Arts Trust, and the curators/cultural consultants Marjetica Potrc, Sally Timmons and Sarah Searson. She is part of the collaborative projects Hope Inherent and Poetic Geographies. http://www.jenniemoran.com/, www.homeinherent.com and www.poeticgeographies.com
Jonathan Myers has been involved with Rialto Youth Project since he was eight years old engaging in a continuous series of art processes over 13 years. He first participated in theMapping Project, a joint visual arts programme between The Irish Museum of Modern Art, three community youth projects and Common Ground. He was then in a local visual art group in Rialto who explored their relationship to their local area manifesting in sculptures and murals including a public mural in Philadelphia. He then became a core member of What's the Story? Collective, an interdisciplinary group of youth workers, young people and an artist. Following this durational engagement with group processes, Jonathan had a residency in studio 468 where he led his own creative exploration into labels that are used to identify people from marginalised communities. Jonathan’s primary interests are in current affairs, societal issues, blog writing, creative writing and socially engaged arts. He also has his own blog:
Dara O'Brien is a composer, instrumentalist and music educator and is currently completing a Phd in Indian classical music at UCC. He has extensive experience composing and performing music for contemporary dance and is co-director of Shakram Dance Company. He has also worked with film and performs guitar and Indian classical sitar. As an educator, Dara lectures in Indian classical music at UCC and works as a music therapist in the area of autism. As part of Common Ground’s Music for Me programme, Dara worked with young people from Fatima Homework Club and Dolphin Homework Club. He taught guitar, facilitated song-writing and ensemble work and helped orchestrate a number of large group performances.
Maeve O'Hara Maeve O’Hara is a freelance percussionist who works with the National Symphony Orchestra and the RTE Concert Orchestra. She also sings with Anúna. A former resident of the Rialto area, Maeve has been a musician in Common Ground’s Music for Me programme since 2010 and has worked in a variety of community settings across the Canals area.
Seoidin O'Sullivan Visual artist Seoidin O'Sullivan studied at Technikon Natal in Durban, South Africa and at NCAD, Dublin. While resident at studio 468 she worked with the Rainbow Neighbourhood Group and was also instrumental in setting up the South Circular Road Community Garden. She exhibited with Slavek Kwi and Gillian Kane, at Pallas Heights, Dublin. 'Trespass' a project by Seoidin and Aoife Desmond recently received funding from the Arts Council . The two artists will go to Thailand in late 2008 with their project to participate in a residency at The Land Foundation.
Christopher Reid studied at NCAD and at Dublin City University. At studio 468 he developed a documentation and storytelling process with elderly people in Rialto Day Care Centre. Christopher has an ongoing interest in narrative and storytelling, working with text and video. He made a major public text installation on the front of City Arts Centre, Dublin, in 2002. He undertook a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2004 and exhibited in EVA+ 06 in Limerick.
Nick Roth moved to from London to Dublin in 2001 and has since become one of the most active musicians on the Irish and European music scene, working as a saxophonist, composer, educator and producer. He has been involved in the Music for Me programme with Common Ground since its inception in 2005 and taught and facilitated music tuition in the Dolphin House Homework Club on a long term basis with Elaine Agnew. As a composer much of his work is informed by the ongoing dialogue between traditional music and its contemporary interpretation. He also has a deep fascination with patterns and form in nature, with recent works exploring mathematical models of bird flocking behaviour, and the role of chaos theory in the movement and production of sound in water. He has worked in three continents with many of the world’s leading contemporary artists and has written works for numerous ensembles in Ireland and abroad.
Eamon Sweeney began his musical studies on the violin, picked up a guitar while in his teens and subsequently studied classical guitar at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. While there he was exposed to the Baroque guitar, igniting his fascination with the instrument and inspiring his doctoral research into the guitar’s role as a continuo instrument in the court of Louis XIV, an unexplored area of French Baroque music. Eamon is a member of the Early Music duo, Tonos, with soprano, Róisín O'Grady (www.tonos.ie). He teaches and performs extensively in a variety of genres and styles, including giving broadcasts, lectures and seminars in Ireland and abroad. He is also committed to the provision of Community Music, Early Years Music and Music in Healthcare Settings.
Fiona Whelan Fiona Whelan studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin , and completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Arts Education there in 2003. Fiona later completed the MA Art in Public at the University of Ulster, Belfast. She undertook her first residency at studio 468 in 2004 during which time she began collaborating with Rialto Youth Project. Following this initial phase of work, Fiona developed a long term collaborative relationship with Rialto Youth Project, supported by Common Ground, working alongside youth workers and young people to develop and produce work. Since 2007 they have focused on a three year project entitled What's the Story? http://www.section8.ie/
Jeong Hyun Kim + Dong Myoung Lee Dancers Jeong Hyun Kim and Dong Myoung Lee are both members of the improvisation group, Improad Badac, based in Seoul. Jeong Hyun Kim studied choreography at the Korean National University of Arts having previously studied film and French literature. She has choreographed dance pieces and works for theatre, film and also for public spaces. Dong Myoung Lee studied dance at Yong in University. He has performed both dance and musical performances. While resident at studio 468 in Dublin from November 2009 to April 2010 the dancers held workshops with staff from the Rialto Community Drug Project and with children from Generation Text.
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