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Alex Synge is an Irish graphic designer working under the studio name The First 47. The studio specialises in design for print, web and visual identity for a wide range of clients in the cultural, commercial and academic fields. The First 47 has worked with Ireland at Venice, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Kerlin Gallery, EVA International, FRUIT SHOP, Annex, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and more. Established in Dublin, the studio is currently based in Belfast.
Shane Malone-Murphy is a technician and sustainability consultant at Kunstverein Aughrim. He is also a Wicklow-based artist, who graduated with a first-class honours degree in Sculpture and Combined Media From The Limerick School of Art and Design. His work concerns itself with the entanglement of the human experience with landscape on both the personal and cultural realms. His work specifically takes note of the impact of grief upon one's experience of the environment. His practice is committed to harnessing the power of grief as a catalyst for ecological and social change. By understanding grief in a broader context, he aims to expose its potential to drive meaningful shifts in our relationship with the environment. Malone-Murphy holds a studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Jackson Byrne is a mediator at Kunstverein Aughrim. He is also an artist based in Wicklow. He works with a variety of media, combining video, photography, digital game-design and drawing. He explores techniques of combining drawing and video work, as well as using digital environments to create narrative films. He is particularly interested in ideas of reality and looking at the possibilities of the advancements of artificial life and the impact it could have on humanity. He has taken part in Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology group exhibitions such as New Translations (2019) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Propositions (2022) at IADT Campus.
Heeyun Hwa was a Researcher for Kunstverein Aughrim in 2024. Hwa studied ceramics (B.F.A.) and recently completed an M.F.A. in Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. She crafts works with tangible materials derived from conceptual ideas. Her sculpture, research, and installation intertwine with her narratives in a larger context of propaganda, ideology, and social structure. She is especially interested in monuments and symbolic objects (gestures), which portend a spatial discourse for understanding real events. After moving to Germany from South Korea, her work increasingly focused on public interventions and installation, considering monuments and their effects on the public. Her practice explores peace and sociopolitical landscapes, including how political ‘materials’ can be delivered outside of a political context.
Christina Simmerer was an Associate Producer for Kunstverein Aughrim in 2022. She is a cultural producer currently based in Graz, Austria. She was production curator at Grazer Kunstverein for over five years, and was a central part of the team at Club Hybrid, an experimental, practice-based initiative, dedicated to generating discourse around architecture, urban participation, city development and hybridity. Situated on the outskirts of Graz, Club Hybrid is an active intervention: during the season it questions the existing conditions of current planning politics and explores and discusses ways in which the current limitations of space can be stretched and reinterpreted - an urban and applied practice of (beautiful) living and producing.
Spirit Guides: Kunstverein Aughrim is guided by the humour, vision and patience of Moira Brady Averill, Ernst Fischer and Vincent O’Connor.