Bridget O’Gorman is an artist and writer working with text, live event, video and sculpture. Her career includes group and solo exhibitions and her works are held in public collections including the OPW and The Arts Council of Ireland. Recent projects include ‘The Skin Reads the Room’, Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, IE, 2025, ‘Supernatural Bread’, Project Arts Centre, IE, 2022, ‘On Slowness’, Auto Italia UK 2021, ‘The Legacy of Gesture’, FACT & DaDa Fest UK, 2019. Over the past four years she has been supported in disability-led research by Arts Council England, A-N, and the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2023 she developed an ambitious new body of sculpture and text entitled ‘Support | Work’ as part of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland.
Lyónn Wolf is a trans, working class, visual artist, educator & writer making work intentionally shaped by economic necessity. They engage forms of recycling, thrift & ephemera, resulting in soft modularity, wild archiving & performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation & authorship. Lyónn has developed a trilogy of works since 2014 dealing with queer economies and spatial politics. The Re-appropriation of Sensuality, Sex in Public, and Domestic Optimism have been exhibited through various iterations at: The Project Arts Centre Dublin, The Grazer Kunstverein, Steirischer Herbst Festival Graz, NCAD Gallery Dublin, Dundee Contemporary Arts, District Berlin, Den Frie Center Of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, nGbK Berlin, Archive Kabinet Berlin, Survival Kit Festival Riga and De Appel Amsterdam among other places. Lyónn is co-founder of The Many Headed-Hydra (TMHH), aqueous-decolonising collective since 2015 working on long term critical and poly-vocal projects across the seas that connect Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iceland, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania and beyond. Lyónn is founder of The Reading Troupe – Disruptive Pedagogy, workshop and zine series since 2013. Disruptive pedagogical engagements include: National College for Art and Design Dublin (2020), Colomboscope Festival Sri Lanka (2019), CCA Glasgow (2019), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2018), Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2018), Gasworks, London (2017), Klöntal Triennale (2017), The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2017), The Universität der Künste Berlin (2017). Lyónn recently published a book of artist writing with Scriptings Berlin, Archive Books Berlin/Milan 2021 & Eeclectic Publishing, they were recently a fellow with the Berliner Förderprogr.
Deep Time is a nonconforming, collective research project. Invoking the notion of cosmic time amassed through geological formation, the project seeks to prompt new dialogues around how we contextualise time and its relationship to creative productivity. Initiated by artist and writer Bridget O’Gorman who gathered a research group of five practitioners, including D Mortimer, Deirdre O’Mahony, Libita Sibungu, Onyeka Igwe and Taey Iohe. Responding to ongoing interest in sustaining an art practice in a disabled body, slowness, alongside an overt acknowledgment of support and interdependency–in human, non-human and often unseen contexts–forms an integral foundation of Deep Time. www.deeptime.ie/
