Elizabeth Kilroy, currently based in Dublin and NY, is the Founding Chair Emerita of the New Media Narratives program at The International Center of Photography, NY. She is an adjunct Professor Photography and Imaging (DPI) in Tisch School of the Arts at New York  and MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media program at School of Visual Arts, NY. Prior teaching experience includes, ITP NYU (Graduate), CUNY and Temple University, PA.

She is a visual storyteller and creative technologist who has produced multiple interactive projects both personal and for clients including Magnum and Hack the Phot . Her work as a curator includes real time curation for Charlotte Cotton’s Public, Private, Secret and her essay on the subject is published in the book, Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self. She is the co-founder along with Daniel Dwyer, of Screen Arts School, Screen Arts Live and Screen Arts Media and Image Café.

Image Café is a participatory community and salon for visual storytellers, multimedia artists, filmmakers, writers, editors, and creative technologists. She believes there is a radical need for new forms of storytelling. Each new pivotal moment requires new skills, adaptation, and flexibility. In addition to launching The Corner of Scotsman’s Bay in June 2021 as part The Brightening Air Festival , sponsored by the Irish Arts Council, Elizabeth and Image will luanch THen Now, an online exhibition of the work of 12 global photgraphers in late June, 2021.

She explores work from web based immersive storytelling to audio landscapes, from filmmaking to photo essays to portraiture to the single image, and from books to zines. Her students expand the role of photography as a collaborative process, creating art and telling stories using a variety of new tools, platforms and opportunities for engagement

John Short has exhibited in galleries in Ireland, UK, China and throughout Europe. His artworks are in private and corporate collections in many other countries internationally. He is represented by Fine Art Galleries in Dublin, Edinburgh and London.

Born in Fife, Scotland, he graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal College of Art, London.

Whilst in college he was awarded the Royal College of Art Drawing prize for his sketchbook work and the Berger Colour Award. There then followed a successful period of working on drawing commissions for publications including The Sunday Times, Vogue Magazine and Homes & Gardens before relocating to Dublin where he became Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Imagemaking in DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) before making the decision to practice as a full-time artist based in Dalkey in South County Dublin.

He has been the recipient of awards in The Royal Hibernian Academy Summer exhibitions and recently awarded The Royal Watercolour Society, London, Artist’s Prize for innovation in the medium of Watercolour. Also the Presidents Award, Watercolour Society of Ireland.

John has represented Ireland in The World Fair EXPO in Shanghai, China and in The European Confederation of Watercolour Society this year in Krakow, Poland.

John works to date have been predominantly in drawing and watercolour painting but he continues to expand his creative visions into mixed media and sculptures.

Digital printing has allowed him to apply his quirky work into highly successful limited print editions on paper and fabric. Always experimenting and ‘looking’ through drawing in his sketchbooks has led to a highly original view of life in its many forms whether from field trips as distant as China and Australia.