​Graduating from West Wales School of the Arts, Jade Butler is an Irish artist whose practice investigates environmental themes and the relationship between nature, society and capitalism. Jade has exhibited in annual exhibitions of the Royal Hibernian Academy, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Royal Scottish Academy and The Royal Society of Women. Jade's work is included in the collection of  The Office of Public Works.

Darren is a writer and artist, working with live performance, moving and still image. He is a member of Visual Artists Ireland where he served as regional art critic until 2022. His debut novel was selected for Dublin Art Book Fair 2025. And he also produced a debut collection of poetry last year. Darren lives in Kilkenny and has worked with An Chead Tine for a number of years, delivering what was the gallery's first solo show back in 2022.

Marco Di Sante was born in 1985 in Sora (Italy). He moved to Ireland’s capital in 2010 and has been living in Kilkenny since 2013. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Art from SETU Waterford and his final work was long-listed for RDS Visual Art Awards 2022 and selected for GOMA Graduate Award Exhibition 2022. He recently completed a Master in Fine Art at National College of Art & Design in Dublin. His work is multi-disciplinary and explores the contemporary relationship between nature and humans. The research is based on the understanding of what nature is and what our role is in it. Ancient and modern cultures inform Marco’s practice surrounded by organic and artificial elements. The response is often shaped by sculptural abstract representations of the happenings related to the living organisms cultivated in the studio. The idea of space and its use is structured in his method of work in order to create installations combining traditional and non-traditional disciplines and techniques. Marco’s passion for photography helps to document the process and create photographic works.

Mary Doyle Burke is a multi disciplinary artist from County Kilkenny who has a deep love of nature and the land. She works with natural materials gathered from the land to create sculptural work and paintings,  sometimes hybrid works. Gathering pigments from all elements of the land, she creates ink for painting organically and creates paper from plants. The research element of her work is a study of a comparison between organic and synthetic materials. While installing her artworks in the indoor studio or  with the outdoor land art, the consideration of space is paramount to her. The other is the use of materials, and she loves to gets lost in the handleability. The ancestors, the stories left in the land and their ancient culture sings the song of her art. Currently she is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and Kilkenny Arts Office for her research and creation of works in response to the Irish Boglands.

Kasia is in her 2nd year at An Chéad Tine Studios at No. 10 The Parade Kilkenny. In the last two years she has used her studio as a base to create and plan work for many of her eco-social arts projects. ​These include: Wilderland, a public art & community ecology project in Co. Mayo connecting people to their local environment through a 2-year programme of creative public engagement, embedded research, and site-responsive art in the landscape. ​ Know Your Hedgerow, a Kilkenny LEADER Partnership initiative designed to engage local communities with the biodiversity, history, and cultural significance of hedgerows in collaboration with the Acorn Project Forage & Light, a year-long seasonal sustainable art workshop series with collaborator, artist and forager Samuel Arnold Keane, for Mermaid Arts Centre in Co. Wicklow; Leave The Long Grass Grow / Lig don Chuise Fada Fás - a creative collaboration between Kilkenny artists and the Acorn Project, which brought artists and communities together to give voice to species facing decline in the biodiversity crisis; and many more. ​Her photographic projects and publications have been included in exhibitions (Axis Ballymun, TULCA) and book fairs (Limerick International Publishers Salon, Dublin Art Book Fair) and she has been awarded artist residencies at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Roscommon Arts Center, Butler Gallery, Cow House Studios and Grizedale Arts in the UK. She has facilitated workshops for arts organisations and educational institutions throughout Ireland and is on the artist panel for BLAST & TAP Arts in Education programmes. ​She holds a BA in Photography from TUDublin and an MA in Social Practice from the Limerick, School of Art & Design, TUS with First Class Hons.

Tia Vellani is a Kilkenny-based visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans installation, sound art, playable sculpture and jewellery. Informed by a background in molecular biology and music, her work brings together artistic and scientific methodologies to explore embodied experience, material inquiry and cross-disciplinary research. She produces multimedia projects that operate at the intersection of art, science and sound. ​Her solo exhibition, Just a Pear, was presented as part of the 2024 AKA Kilkenny Fringe Festival. Her first solo exhibition, What is the Sound of One Heart Dancing?, took place at the AKA Kilkenny Fringe Festival in 2021 and was supported by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Arts & Disability Connect Scheme. Tia has been an invited speaker at the Visual Artists Ireland Climate Café and the Art+Science Salon, and has lectured in postgraduate contexts at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. She has participated in artist residencies in Greece, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, and is a recipient of awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and the American Society for Microbiology. ​Tia holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of British Columbia and has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Miami and Teagasc in Ireland. Her work has been exhibited internationally across Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy and Spain. She is a member of Visual Artists Ireland, the Irish Music Rights Organisation, Artlinks and the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.

Róisín Maher is a Kilkenny-born, Cork-based maker working primarily in textile and glass. She is a graduate of the BA (Hons) in Contemporary Applied Art at Crawford College of Art and Design. Her practice is informed by an early engagement with animation, design and fine art, before a decisive shift towards craft in 2020. This transition marked the beginning of a sustained, material-led enquiry grounded in process, repetition and close attention to the physical properties of materials. ​Maher’s work investigates the relationship between the mental and the physical body, examining points of convergence between the spiritual and the apparent, the objective and the experienced. Drawing on personal encounters with illness within her family and her own later experiences of anxiety and panic, her practice situates the body as both a site of vulnerability and resilience. Textile and glass are employed as conceptual and structural agents through which states of tension, fragility and endurance are articulated. ​Her work has been exhibited nationally, including Past, Present, Future Perfect at the National Design and Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; EMERGE with Cork Craft & Design at MTU Crawford Gallery; and Lest We Salt the Earth, the 2024 Crawford Graduate Exhibition. Maher is a recipient of the EMERGE Exhibition Award 2024 and the Cork Craft & Design Graduate Award 2024.

Ross Stewart is a mixed media painter. His artwork is semi abstract; based on drawn studies but organically developed, focussing on the atmosphere and mood of the piece, rather than the representational form. His highly textured mixed media paintings suggest wide expanses of bog or moor, solitary trees or natural forms with vivid, intricate details submerged under glazes of earthy colours. Ross Stewart has exhibited across Ireland and the UK over the last 16 years and his work is held in public and private collections internationally.