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Rebecca Blake
Rebecca has 15 years experience working internationally in cultural programming, education and design with a range of high profile institutions like Tate Britain & Tate Modern, V&A, The Royal Drawing School and The Irish Architecture Foundation.
My practice involves participatory art projects including live performance, gaming, music, fashion design, architecture, spoken-word and radio with a view to inspire a greater sense of identity, ownership and citizenship.
ruby.rebeccablake@gmail.com
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Sharon Carty
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Sharon Carty)
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Brian Cregan
Brian is a visual artist/educator with a background in photography and film-making. His work explores our relationship to landscape, natural history and the built environment. He also facilitates regular photography/art workshops and residencies
with children and young people across a range of different settings including schools, libraries, galleries and museums.
bpcregan@gmail.com
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Avril Crotty
Avril has significant experience working in the performing arts & live event management industry, becoming a Director before 30. With qualifications from MTU Cork School of Music, University of Westminster, UCD, NUI Galway and Pulse College,
Avril has a drive for knowledge and education. So much so that she even tried radio broadcasting during Lockdown. As a musician, Avril has performed nationally and internationally as a cellist, performing in places such as Whelans,
The Dublin Fringe Festival and The Late Late Show. As a conductor, she has worked with the Dublin Symphony Orchestra as well as being the founder of Ériu Orchestra.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Avril Crotty)
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Mairead Crowley
I am a Drama Teacher and facilitator who specialises in Process Drama. I use an interactive and immersive approach to teaching and learning that uses drama techniques to explore and engage with various themes, concepts, and issues.
marscrowley@gmail.com
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Jane Cummins
Jane Cummins is a visual artist and educator based in Dublin. She graduated from the MFA Photography programme at the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University in 2017. Since then, she has facilitated visual art workshops with children
and young people inside and outside educational settings. Her work incorporates alternative processing techniques and focuses on themes like identity and selfhood.
j.a.cummins.jc@gmail.com
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Aoife Delaney
Aoife is a creative producer and project manager whose experience centres on producing arts and culture projects within community contexts. She has a keen interest in the transformative and unifying powers of arts and culture for communities
and young people. Aoife has worked with a variety of community organisations in South London and is currently based in Dublin, where she is completing a master's degree in Digital Humanities and Culture.
aoifedelaney.contact@gmail.com
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Róisín Dexter
I am a musician, ecologist and life coach. I studied music in the Lyon Conservatory followed by ecology in Trinity College Dublin. I have performed extensively as a soloist, choralist and creative facilitator. As well as my role as a Creative
Associate, I work as a choir director and life coach. I am currently developing my practice as a Creative Climate Coach, drawing on the Arts to resource communities to take climate action. I live in Dublin with my husband and three
children.
roisindextercoaching@gmail.com
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Catherine Doorley
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Catherine Doorley)
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Lisa Dowdall
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Lisa Dowdall)
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Declan Gorman
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Declan Gorman)
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Heather Gray
Heather Gray is a socially engaged interdisciplinary artist based in Dublin 3. Gray has a deep interest in working with Young People in an educational setting. Heather’s areas of expertise are creating large scale public participatory
art works as a socially engaged practice and facilitating student led approaches to co-creation. Gray is a founding member of the art collective Hi-Vis Witches who use a range of participatory art strategies including performance and
creative workshop elements in their work.
heathergray.art@gmail.com
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Fiona Harrington
Fiona Harrington is a visual artist and arts educator. She studied Fine Art Painting and Textile Design and she specialises in handmade lace. She has been involved in arts education for over twenty years and sits on the education panel
for the National Gallery, IMMA, the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and has worked as part of the Artists in Prisons scheme.
She is interested in creating arts and cultural experiences that are accessible and inclusive for all communities, regardless of background, ability or financial situation. She began working as a creative associate for the Arts Council
in 2019.
fiharrington@gmail.com
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Valerie Haslam
Valerie is an artist, graphic designer and project manager, with over 25 years of visual communications experience in the design industry. Working with local communities, she strives to develop collaborations and relationships in the creative
industries, inspiring young people to deepen a love of the arts and creativity that is beneficial both to their wellbeing and self-confidence.
valerie.haslam@schema.ie
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Maév Kelly
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Maév Kelly)
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Mirjam Keune
Mirjam is a visual artist working in mixed media. She has an honours degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design. She works as an arts facilitator with children and adults in schools, community and hospital (Mental Health)
settings. When facilitating her emphasis is on process and experimentation while encouraging the creative potential of the participants.
mirjam.keune@gmail.com
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Deirdre Kilmartin
I have a background in Photography, B.A. Hons in Applied Social studies (Community and Youth Work) along with a Certificate in Youth Arts. I have over 20 years experience working with children, young people and their families in both an
after school and community setting. Photography and various creative arts has played a key role in my work, using photography to document and to create a visual record of the work as well as sharing my skills with children and young
people.
deirdrekilmartin983@gmail.com
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Joan Lyne
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Joan Lyne)
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Melanie May
Melanie has a Drama & Film Studies degree and a PGCE in Education. She was a secondary school Drama teacher in the UK. She also holds a Masters in Applied Psychology (TCD) and is currently studying a for a Masters in Psychotherpay. She
works as a writer and communications manager.
melanie@melaniemay.com
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Aoibheann McCaul
Aoibheann McCaul is an Actor, Drama Facilitator, Voice Over Artist, Writer & Theatremaker. Her passion for Creativity started from a young age, and was most notably nurtured in Dublin Youth Theatre where she learned the power of Drama
for Social, Personal & Artistic Development.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Aoibhinn McCaul)
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Gabriella McGrath
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Gabriella McGrath)
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Paula Mongey
Paula Mongey is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. She has a BA in Drama Studies and an MA in Arts and Engagement. Her background is in drama and art, with a focus on health & wellbeing. Paula's work has a participatory and collaborative
approach.
paulamongey@gmail.com
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Seamus Moran
Seamus is an actor, director, writer and producer working in theatre, screen and television, including TG4. He has also worked as a teacher, specialising in Special Ed and Resource and has performed, written and produced theatre for children.
seamusmoranca@gmail.com
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Nora Nic Con Ultaigh
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Nora Nic Con Ultaigh)
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Mary Louise O'Donnell
Mary Louise O'Donnell is a musician and composer who works in a variety of health, community and education settings. She specialises in harp performance and her practice focuses on exploring the instrument as a cultural symbol and medium
for the expression of contemporary musical ideas.
marylouiseodonnell@gmail.com
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Bethan Parkes
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Bethan Parkes)
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Karl Quinn
A graduate of Theatre Studies (Trinity College Dublin) and Post Graduate diploma in Arts and Learning (NCI), Karl is a Dublin based actor, writer, director, and applied drama facilitator with over twenty-eight years’ experience nationally
and internationally.
Karl is a freelance studio coordinator in RTE where his responsibilities included scripting, playout of radio programmes and voice-over on national radio and TV
karlwquinn@gmail.com
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Ciara Roche Power
I am an Educator, Arts facilitator, Theatre Maker and Creative project lead. Over the past 20 years, I have developed a unique multi pronged approach using creative practices in educational settings, to empower students to become active
learners and in the process develop skills, competences and confidence in their own abilities.
ciara.rochepower@gmail.com
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Vita Ryan
Bio coming soon.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Vita Ryan)
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Juliette Saumande
Juliette Saumande is a writer and translator of children’s books, with over 50 titles to her name including My Little Album of Dublin and My Little Album of Ireland (with Tarsila Krüse and The O’Brien Press). A Book Doctor, Creative Associate
for Creative Schools and creative writing teacher, Juliette is at heart a professional bookworm who loves using words, stories and books to help kids (re)discover and grow their creativity.
creativeassociates@artscouncil.ie (FAO Juliette Saumande)
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