Brigid O’Dea

Goilleann gach rud go mór ar Brigid. Tá tionchar aige seo ar a cuid scríbhneoireachta. Tá colún aici san Irish Times a dhéanann iniúchadh ar an míchumas dofheicthe (tá chronic migraine uirthi leis na blianta anuas) agus tá dúil aici sa scríbhneoirneacht do pháistí, an pictiúrleabhar ach go háirithe. Aimseofar téamaí cosúla sa dá mhodh seo; solas a thabhairt don rud dofheicthe, an réimse dathanna idir an dubh is bán, rudaí a dhéanamh go difriúil. Tá clos-scéalta dá cuid le fáil (as Gaeilge agus i mBéarla) leis an gcumann dramadóireachta Super Paua. Tá taithí aici éacaíocht a dhéanamh le daoine óga ó thaobh na litríochta is na scéalaíochta de. Nuair nach bhfuil sí ag cumadh scéalta, bíonn sí ag léamh. Déanann sí léarmhas leabhair don Irish Times, do Inis Magazine agus do Paper Lanterns Journal. Uaireanta, léann sí don phléasúir fhéin. Ar an oileán, beidh Brigid ag éisteacht, ag crú an nadúir agus ag díriú ar a cuid scríbhneoireachta do pháistí. Tá suim aici a bheith ag plé le daoine óga agus a bheith i dteaghmháil le caint an duine óig inniu. Abair haigh léi!!

Brigid is sensitive. This informs her craft as a writer. She has a column in the Irish Times that sheds lights on invisible disability (she’s had chronic migraine for yonks), and she’s mad about children’s literature, especially picture books. You’ll find overlapping themes in both genres; giving light to the unseen, the range of colours between black and white, doing things a lil differently. She has composed audio stories (both in Irish and English) for the drama group Super Paua. She has experience facilitating story-telling and literary workshops with young people. When she’s not creating stories, she reads. She reviews books for The Irish Times, Inis Magazine and Paper Lanterns. Sometimes, she reads just ‘cause she like it. On the island, Brigid will be listening, milking the nature and focusing on her writing for children. She’s interested in interacting with young people and learning how the kids talk today. Say hi!!

Vicky Langan

Is ealaíontóir í Vicky Langan atá lonnaithe i gCorcaigh a bhfuil a soláthar ag trasnú réimsí éagsúla a bhíonn ag forluí go minic, le fuaim, taibhiú, agus scannánaíocht ina measc. Scrúdaítear dlúththaifeadtaí den domhan nádúrtha, fuaimeanna pearsanta ón saol laethúil, agus dianghníomhartha fisiciúla mar spás ama ina ndéanann an corp ábhartha agus an domhan istigh céadfach mogalra. Mar thoradh ar a comhpháirtíocht scannánaíochta deich mbliana leis an scannánóir agus an criticeoir Maximilian Le Cain, taispeánadh scagthástáil agus cúlghabhálacha dá gcuid oibre ar fud an domhain. I measc na ngradam a bronnadh ar Vicky tá Gradam Ealaíontóra na Chéad Ghlúine Eile sa Cheol 2019/20 (Comhairle Ealaíon na hÉireann), chomh maith le sparánachtaí ó Chomhairle Ealaíon na hÉireann, Comhairle Cathrach Chorcaí agus Líonra Ceoil.

Caithfidh Vicky dhá mhí inleabaithe ar Oileán Chléire, ag taifeadadh agus ag doiciméadú na n-éiceachóras ilchultúrtha ar an taobh thoir-thuaidh den oileán. Ag obair go dlúth leis an éiceolaí fónta agus le ball de phobal an oileáin Michael Prime, fiosróidh Vicky an áit a dtrasnaíonn ‘fiantacht’ agus na flóra coimhthíocha atá ag fás ar ghairdín luibheolaíoch príobháideach Michael atá 14 acra i méid Trí mhachnamh a dhéanamh ar dhíchoilíniú luibheolaíoch, ar chomhoibriú idir-speicis agus ar éifeachtaí an athraithe aeráide ar Oileán Chléire, oibreoidh Vicky i dtreo cur i láthair / ceardlann a fhorbairt bunaithe ar obair shaol Michael, a chuirfear i láthair go príomha ias Gaeilge, le gur féidir le muintir an oileáin Gaeltachta tuiscint níos doimhne a fháil ar a gcomharsa príobháideach ach neamhghnách.

Vicky Langan is a Cork-based artist whose practice operates across several often overlapping fields, chiefly sound, performance, and film. Close recordings of the natural world, intimate sounds from daily life, and intense physical actions are explored as a temporal space where the material body and sensual inner worlds mesh. Her decade-long filmmaking partnership with filmmaker and critic Maximilian Le Cain has resulted in screenings and retrospectives of their work having been shown throughout the world. She is a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award for Music 2019/20, as well as bursary awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Council and Music Network. 

Vicky will spend two months embedded on Cape Clear, recording and documenting the multicultural ecosystems on the north-eastern side of the island. Working closely with sound ecologist and island resident Michael Prime, Vicky will explore the intersection of ‘wildness’ and the exotic flora growing on Michael’s 14 acre private botanical garden and nature reserve. Through reflection on botanical decolonization, interspecies collaboration and the effects of climate change on Cape Clear, Vicky will work towards developing a presentation/workshop based on Michael’s life’s work, delivered in the Irish language, so that residents of this Gaeltacht island can have a better understanding of their private but extraordinary neighbour.

Noah Rose

Noah is a sculptor based in County Galway. His interdisciplinary sculpture incorporates a wide variety of different materials, techniques and processes, and is developed in context, through research and dialogue. He has undertaken many commissions, installations, exhibitions and collaborative works for public space - across Ireland and internationally. He is an active learner of Irish and has explored the language through different formats in previous projects: Cóitheach (2017, collaboration with Selma Makela, as part of ‘Tír Sáile’ North Mayo Sculpture Trail), What Matter/Cén t-údar (2016, residency and solo exhibition: Leitrim Sculpture Centre) and The Museum of Interconnected Events/Músaem na dTairlúintí Idirnasca/El Museu d’Esdeveniments Interconnectats (2014, part of ‘Changing Tracks’ pan-European public art programme: Mayo, Northamptonshire, Girona) He is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Glasgow School of Art, researching the intersection of interdisciplinary sculpture, place and minority languages.

During my time on Oileán Chléire, I’ll be investigating the relationship of language, place and sculpture through a process of creating temporary sculptural-poetry in the landscape. I see the whole residency as a series of interlinked and equally important creative processes: the conversations I have and the connections I make on the island whilst improving my level of Irish, the original visual research in the landscape, the experimentation with found materials, the collaborative process of identifying and translating text in Irish and English, the transformation of this text into some kind of sculptural form, and then the placing of this work in its location - in a way which is sensitive to the environment, temporary and non-destructive. I envisage this as not just a single work but a number of connected temporal, ephemeral works spread out at different locations across the island. I’m really looking forward to spending time on the island exploring the landscape, learning the history and engaging with the contemporary culture of Oileán Chléire - through conversations, through research, and through engaging with the Irish language.