Alexandra Thompson BA [Hons]

Ten years old, an unreasonably heavy and somewhat battered second hand Nikon SLR camera held tightly in both hands…

All I wanted to do was point my lens up to the sky – the abstract beauty of the cloud formations and the ethereal light fill – a comparable beauty hard to find, especially to my young eyes. But then I stopped looking at the sky for a while, though I was bound to return….

You don’t always need to look up; the omnipresent beauty and abstract delight in natural form is in abundance.  We think it’s all abstract, of course, but it’s far cleverer than that. There is a truth in nature and a nature to the truth around us. And such findings and translations, through our own clear sight, can be transformational…

A photographer my whole life..my joy is in the search for the abstract beauty in the everyday world…

Much of my work reflects my fascination with the untamed and intractable visceral qualities of water. 

Ellen Murtagh

Ellen Murtagh is a self taught artist living in East Clare.

Inspired by her surroundings and imagination "sometimes  things just demand to come out !"

She experiments with mixed materials and mediums which can result in either a happy accident or just a big learning curve ....!                 “My challenge is completing a piece once I have the bones of it down.”

Peter Binder

"If you are a person inclined to walk into an exhibition, nothing I could possibly say will change that."

www.peterbinder.net - Visual Catalogue & Portfolio

Picture from "(sub-)urban planning" series will be part of Aistear Exhibition.