Upside Down & Underground

Isadora Epstein makes performances from her research of art history and mythology. Living and working in Dublin, Epstein has had recent performances at the Hugh Lane Gallery, IMMA, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, and Cork Midsummer Festival.

Amie Egan is a fashion designer and emerging costume designer for visual art currently based in The Complex Studios, Dublin. Alongside her fashion design practice, Amie began working within a visual art context. She collaborates with a number of visual artists to create costumes and props that enhance visual art, dance, theatre, short films, and music performances. Her approach is experimental while informed by an appreciation for cultural and historical sources. Amie has collaborated with artists such as Isadora Epstein (visual artist), Eimear Walshe (visual artist), Sonia Shiel (visual artist), Jessie Keenan (dance artist) and Frank Sweeney (filmmaker). Her work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), the Hugh Lane Gallery, NCAD Gallery, Visual Carlow, the Mermaid Arts Centre, the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), the Cork Film Festival, and Club Hybrid in Austria.

Stéphane Béna Hanly is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Dublin who over the past ten years has exhibited throughout Ireland and abroad in Europe using media including sculpture, performance, video and sound often combining them in the hopes of conjuring an environment that nurtures any sentiments the audience may encounter. His work has manifested in many different ways but can find a common thread linked to embracing the many ways people can experience and develop in their surroundings.

Davy Kehoe is a composer, and music producer based in Dublin, Ireland. He is best known for his releases on the Wah Wah Wino record label; Short Passing Game (2017) and The Pilot (2019). His music explores experimental and motorik soundworlds and embraces hypnotic and playful forms of improvisation. Davy is also an experienced sound recordist, working primarily through field recordings and site-specific collaborations.

Aoibhinn O’Dea is a dance artist working across the dance, music and visual arts field. She has been recipient of the dance bursary and agility awards and her work has been supported by Light Moves, Bell Table, VISUAL, Carlow Arts Festival, Dance Limerick, UL Concert Hall, Temple Bar Gallery, Music Town (The Complex), IMMA, Dance Ireland, Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic, Altogether Now, among other venues and festivals.

Paddy Critchley is a painter and singer from Laois. Within his practise he incorporates things like his background in painting and decorating, sign painting, music and song and other oral traditions.