Creative Spark

Anna Marie Savage

A core thread that weaves through my work is a probing of identity, ranging from the personal through to the cultural and political sometimes albeit in a romanticized, reminiscent concept.
I always use photography as a starting point in an...

7 March 2023

Ilona Cigirova

Ilona Cigirova comes from The Baltic region of Northern Europe, a place with a longstanding tradition of crafts and textiles – Latvia. She is a fashion designer and artist. She graduated Clothing and Textile Technology at the Riga Technical Uni...

7 March 2023

Suzanne Carroll

Suzanne Carroll is a visual artist working primarily in paint. She graduated with a first class honours degree in Fine Art with Critical Culture from NCAD in 2021. Since graduating she has been awarded An Táin Arts Centre’s Emerging A...

5 August 2022

Jenny Slater

Jennifer Slater is the founder of Inklings Art. She has over 10 years experience of working with children, adolescents and families within a community child and adolescent mental health service.

5 August 2022

Cathy Fitzmaurice

Cathy Fitzmaurice is a visual artist based in Carlingford, County Louth. Originally from Galway, she studied printed textiles in The National College of Art and Design in Dublin and then furthered her education in the Dublin Institute of Technology w...

5 August 2022

Ciara Agnew

Having graduated from the University of Ulster with a Degree in Fine and Applied Arts (specialising in painting) in 2001, Ciara moved into Bridge Street Studios, Dundalk and continued to be a member till 2011. Ciara now works from her studio at ho...

5 August 2022

Michael Stafford

Michael Stafford is an Irish artist who graduated from Sligo IT with BA Honours Degree in Fine Art in 2004.. He also attended Dun Laoighaire Institute of Art/Design/Technology where he obtained a National Diploma in Fine Art.

Working mainl...

5 August 2022

Niamh Gillespie

Niamh Gillespie, creative Director of “Tidings” has been a member of Creative Spark since 2017. Niamh works is inspired by a mix of nature, heritage patterns and architectural forms to create New- Deco, contemporary, abstract pieces.

5 August 2022

Henry Kasozi

Henry joined the print studio in 2016, originally after graduating from Dundalk Institute of Technology with an Honours Degree in Communications in Creative Multimedia. His background is in graphic design. Having launched his brand FlingFire he no...

5 August 2022

Blathnaid McClean

Blathnaid is a Dundalk-based designer with a Bachelors in Fashion Design (NCAD), and a post-grad in Bespoke Tailoring (National Tailoring Academy, Dublin).

Her work is largely influenced by print and applied texture on fabric. She has prev...

5 August 2022

John O Connor

Born in 1957 in Dublin, graduated Dunlaoghaire Art College 1980. Awarded the Sir Alfred Beit award for painting 1980 and first prize in student section Claremorris Open 1980. Taught art in Dundalk from 1983 in O Fiaich College now retired. Member...

5 August 2022

Omin

Omin is a graphic artist with a 19 year history rooted in Graffiti with a BA Honours Degree in Visual Communications (DIT). His studio and mural work encapsulates the essence of graffiti with an appreciation for classic letterforms be they de...

5 August 2022

Grainne Murphy

Gráinne Murphy is printmaker and image maker from Dundalk . She is a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, where she received a BA Honours degree in Printmaking. She is a current Print Studio coordinator and technician at Creative...

5 August 2022

Tracy Fry

I’m a Dundalk based printmaker and painter but I also create personalised gifts on slate and work with ceramics. I like to create large collograph plates based on my local environment and I like to create abstract pieces based on texture in the...

5 August 2022

Bernhard Gaul

Bernhard Gaul is an Austrian born painter with a background in the theatre, based near Dundalk, Co. Louth, since 2005.

He studied theatre and literature at the university of Vienna with primary interests in learning through participation a...

5 August 2022

Alistair Livingstone

Alistair spent a large part of his life working as a designer and director, working internationally in the theatre, mainly as a designer of sets, costumes and lighting. At the same time he continued his own arts praxis, exhibiting a range of...

5 August 2022

Una Curley

The context

Úna is a mixed media artist, she grew up in Kerry but now based in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.
She studied at NCAD and graduated with a first class (Hons) degree in Textile Design/Art and Artefact. This was the c...

5 August 2022

Mary Goss

Mary Goss is a Newry based Fine Art printmaker. She obtained a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at the Southern Regional College, Newry Campus, in June 2013. She graduated with a First Class Honours classification in the BA (Hons) Fine Art d...

5 August 2022

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The context

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