Get Together 2025 | Artists Speak

Adam Stead

Adam Stead is a Visual Artist, Agriculturalist and Lecturer at the South East Technological University. Currently Stead is undertaking an interdisciplinary research-based PhD between Art and Agriculture. As a visual artist and researcher Stead has worked collaboratively on commissioned work exploring contemporary agricultural land use, ecology and the environment. Stead works in a variety of mediums to articulate and explore these concerns including sculpture (through the exploration of reclaimed materials, often sourced from dairy farms), film, digital media and print. 

Esther O’Kelly

Esther O’Kelly is a visual artist working primarily in paint. Inspired by the intersection of landscape, abstraction, and folklore, her work explores disorientation and discovery across time and place. She graduated with an honours degree from the NCAD in 1998 and has exhibited widely since. Her paintings are held in private collections nationally and internationally. Esther has received support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the British Council, and Jerwood. She works from her studio in Belfast.

Ishmael Claxton

Ishmael Claxton, a New York-born, Dublin-based visual artist, is known for powerful series like Migration/Integration and Capall Gang. A co-founder of the ÍOVA Club, he has helped shape Ireland’s photo scene. In 2025, he was selected for Shutter Hub OPEN at Cambridge and Arles Art-ICON. His recent highlights include major exhibitions, awards like the TLP Edition (2024), and a groundbreaking 2024 collaboration at the National Concert Hall blending photography and live music.

Jamie Burke

Jamie Burke is an Irish visual artist based in Ennis, Co. Clare who works through the mediums of photography and video. The themes he explores are isolation, mystery, nature and urban decay. He creates suggestive narratives in his work in order to leave specific elements open to interpretation for the viewer. His work also have an obscure and dystopian atmosphere which adds a sense of surrealism.

Kathy Tynan

Kathy Tynan is an artist based in Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include Meantime (2024) & Soft Fascination (2022), Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin; Keep some steady friends around (2022), Dunamaise Arts Centre & Luminous Twitch (2019), The Lab, Dublin. Recent group exhibitions include Faigh Amach, Temple, Bar Gallery (2025) & Golden Fleece Award 21 Years (2022) Solstice Arts Centre. Tynan is a resident of The Dún Laoghaire Baths Studios. She is a lecturer in TUD & NCAD and is represented by Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.

Marie Hanlon

Marie Hanlon was born in Kilkenny, she holds an MA in ‘Art in the Contemporary World’ from NCAD and a BA in English and Art History from UCD.  Her concerns are political and environmental and her work is mainly in video and sculptural installation. Recent exhibitions: Water – More or Less, The LAB Gallery, Dublin and Uillinn, West Cork (2021 – 2022). Salt / Water, College Lane Gallery, Howth (2023)‚ LAST ACT, LCGA (2024). Forthcoming; LAST ACT, The MAC, Belfast (2025/26).

Michael Wann

Born Dublin, 1969; Sligo based.

Solo exhibitions include Ashford Gallery, RHA, Cross Gallery, Dublin, The Model, Sligo, Custom House, Westport, Solstice, Navan, Solomon Fine Art, Dublin. Selected for RHA’s Annual since 2004; awards include AXA Insurance Drawing Prize, 2006, ESB Sean Keating Prize and RHA Silver Medal, 2016, Tom Caldwell Drawing Prize, Inaugural Rowel Friers Perpetual Trophy, RUA, 2010, Merit Prize, Golden Fleece, 2012.Collections include Boyle Civic Collection, Waterford Municipal Collection, Office of Public Works, Mayo County Council., Fingal County Council, AXA Insurance, Ballinglen Archive, Niland Collection, National Gallery of Ireland.

Taïm Haimet

Taïm Haimet is a French-Syrian artist based in Galway. Coming from an Arab identity intertwined with the memory of colonialism , displacement and war, her work focuses on stories told from the point of view of ‘Otherness’: off-centre narratives in the Global Imperial context, as to who gets to tell the story of the world. Her work insists on grief as an act of re-humanization, restoration, and a rediscovery of the sacred value of the human experience.