Deborah Madden is an artist, curator, editor and writer based in Dublin. She has a BA(Hons) in Visual Arts Practice from IADT in Dun Laoghaire and a Masters by Research also from IADT. She is the lead editor of Critical Bastards Magazine, and a member of the post-graduate research collective The Enquiry. She is a former Acting Curator of Project Arts Centre, and Assistant Curator of the Irish Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale 2017 (Tremble, Tremble by Jesse Jones). She has previously Visual Arts Co-Ordinator at The Joinery, a multidisciplinary arts space based in Stoneybatter.
Selected curated exhibitions, events and publications include My Front Precedes Me: The Enquiry@Venice, Research Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale 2017, Fault Bound Bodies by Caroline Doolin, Project Arts Centre, Hope, Issue 14 of Critical Bastards Magazine, Royu-Un Maru, Forms of Imagining, Project Press, Light Lines at Mermaid Arts Centre and Cloud of Unknowing by Gary Murphy and #AndHerPaleFireSheStoleFromTheSun by Nicola Whelan at The Joinery. She has received the Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2017 and 2018 as part of Critical Bastards Magazine. She has delivered lectures and been an invited speaker at public lectures in NCAD.

Fiona Reilly is an artist working in a range of media including object making and event based works. She is interested in the intersection of art and daily life, intrinsic to this is an evolving exploration of time, value systems and definitions of what constitutes work.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Arts Council of Ireland 16 X 16 Next Generation Art Award and an Arts Participation Bursary Award 2020. Recent work was presented at The Feminist Supermarket, Ormston House, Limerick, 2021, Tempo Incognitio, Depo,
Istanbul, Turkey, 2021, and Periodical Review X, 2020, Pallas Projects Dublin.
She was resident at
Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin 2017-2020. She is currently Artist In Residence at The Dock, Carrick –On-Shannon.