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STUDIO 1 – Vacant

STUDIO 2 – Niamh Butler

Niamh Butler (b. 1988, Ballinasloe, Ireland) is an Irish multidisciplinary designer & artist based in Athlone. After graduating from the University of Plymouth with a Masters in Architecture she designed beautiful award-winning family homes with Brennan Furlong Architects in Dublin. Niamh has worked on the tangible alongside the intangible: clothes, rugs, interior spaces, buildings, homes, edible gardens, social constructs such as land ownership and planning laws. Her goal is always to bring more beauty, order and harmony into the world through the design and making of clothes, textiles, homes and habitats.

She is currently naturally dyeing onto reclaimed and locally abundant cotton, linen and wool with slow processes that are nurturing to people and our water ecology.

STUDIO 3 – Paul Flaherty

Paul Flaherty is an emerging Irish visual artist, primarily working in painting and drawing. Born in Dublin in 1996, he began his third level education studying engineering technology in AIT Co. Westmeath and continued this interest of technology when he transferred his direction to the Fine Art program at IT Sligo where he graduated in 2021.

Paul’s artistic concerns are to do with the overlap of technology and humanity and the dichotomy of the digital era. Through paintings and drawings the artist explores the idea of digital dualism and living different experiences between physical and digital spaces. As experiences are being translated to the digital space, themes of loneliness and isolation surround the artwork.

STUDIO 4 – Robert Nugent

Robert Nugent is an emerging multidisciplinary Irish artist working out of Westmeath. Studying in MTU, UCC and ATU in Fine Art and Education, he has particularly honed his skills in Drawing and Printing.

Robert’s work is mainly concerned with contemporary iconography and graphic depictions of figures and objects. Working with drawing and painting, Robert depicts figures and objects that are somewhat autobiographical, drawing from his diverse interests and experiences.