Michele Horrigan

Michele Horrigan lives and works in Askeaton, Co. Limerick. She studied art at the Städelschule, Frankfurt. Recent exhibitions of her artworks include PUBLICS Helsinki; Schloss Britz, Berlin; Tenerife Espacio de las Artes; Lismore Castle Arts; EVA International, Limerick and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin. Since 2006 she is founder and curator of Askeaton Contemporary Arts, facilitating artist experimentation and residencies in rural County Limerick. Many artworks made in this context have subsequently been presented throughout the world in exhibitions, art biennials and film festivals. She is editor and publisher of A.C.A. PUBLIC, with over twenty titles exploring the many meanings between art and the public realm. In 2024, she curates the 22^nd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts in Galway, entitled The Salvage Agency. Opening in November, this citywide exhibition and public programme considering the agency and role of art in contemporary ecology and environmental study.

Patrick Bresnihan

Patrick Bresnihan is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. He has a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin (2012) and an MPhil in History from Cambridge University (2007). He works across the interdisciplinary fields of political ecology, science & technology studies, and environmental humanities. His research looks at the contested politics of water, land, and energy in Ireland and how these speak to broader questions of colonial and postcolonial development, capitalist political economy, and environmental justice. His recent book, All We Want is the Earth. Land, Labour and Movements beyond Environmentalism (Bristol University Press, 2023), was co-written with Naomi Millner. 

Emanuela Ferrari

Emanuela Ferrari is an Environmental Campaigner and PhD researcher in Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. As a campaigner with FutureProof Clare, she is fighting against the rampant industrialisation of the Shannon Estuary and the proliferation of polluting industries in the area. Together with FutureProof Clare she has lodged successful legal challenges against An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant permission for the expansion of the Aughinish Alumina Refinery’s dumping site, which would have potential detrimental effects on the wildlife in the area, not to mention the effects on human health.

Neal White

Neal White is a UK artist based in Brixton, London. His art practice engages with the ongoing impact that science and technology have in shaping our relationships to one another and to the environments we live in. His practice is socially situated, engaging with people from amateur enthusiasts to scientists and activists alongside systems from bias algorithms to the remote sensing of post-natural organisms. White aims to extends our perception of the world through fieldwork, digital media and site-specific installations within and beyond the gallery or museum. White established the Office of Experiments in 2004, an artist led organisation developing critical research projects with artists, architects, activists and academics, as well as a range of enthusiasts and independent collaborators.