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Muine Bheag Arts is pleased to welcome graduates-in-residence Ciara Davitt, Nina Fitzgerald Graham and Mica Moroney. The artists will host a presentation of their work following their residency as part of the COMMUNE programme.

More information and booking here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/presentation-graduates-in-residence-23rd-august-5pm-tickets-1511008209229?aff=oddtdtcreator

Ciara Davitt is a multi-disciplinary artist based between Kildare and Dublin. She aims to create cycles of taking, giving and sharing through her work. Her graduate work, “did you know gold comes from the stars” emerges from research on the socio-political conditions of extraction and land. Speaking to the heavy contrasts present between the timescales of the landscape and human productivity, harsh and soft materials, and fast and slow processes, are used.

Acidity of the soil, field recordings, casts of her Dad’s fingers and reclaimed metal are some of the things implemented-drawing out a conversation around rupture, time, wealth distribution and social impact.

Nina Fitzgerald Graham is a multi-disciplinary artist recently graduated from Sculpture and Expanded Practice in NCAD. Her practice is firmly rooted in Dublin’s North Inner City, exploring community formation and alienation, and our sensitivities to the stranger – human and non-human.

She employs a multisensory approach in art-making, to create embodied experience of these seemingly intangible issues. She has an experimental approach to material and medium, working across sculpture, interactive installation and performance art, as well as food-art as a form of interactive sculpture and socially engaged practice. Her work has been presented at a variety of interdisciplinary showcases, such as Alternating Currents at the Complex, EVA International Biennial and OpenEar Festival. Her work is socially and environmentally engaged, produced in tandem with her activities as a community organiser, and DIY/grassroots collaborator.

Mica Moroney is an artist from Dublin and a recent graduate of Sculpture at NCAD. Working across photography, video, sculpture, and installation, her practice explores the intersection of the poetic and the political. She is interested in the physical traces left by time, neglect, and regeneration, and how these processes mirror broader social and environmental tensions. Drawing from nature, urban environments and the urgency of our political moment, she feels a responsibility as an artist to reflect these concerns in her work.

Muine Bheag Arts is pleased to present COMMUNE from 15th – 25th August 2025. Taking place in and around the Muine Bheag Community Centre, the programme unfolds as a collection of live events, workshops and public interventions.

COMMUNE is a site for assembling and disseminating ideas, emerging from a central studio and gathering space shared by artists, community groups, collaborators and graduates-in-residence. COMMUNE can be understood as a series of small collective actions and gestures which reach towards systems of support and connection.

COMMUNE is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Carlow Arts Office, Creative Ireland Carlow and Bagenalstown Creative Places