Eve Olney is an academic whose interdisciplinary field lies within exploring cultural themes through ethnographic research and experimental film practice. Her PhD project (undertaken at Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice DIT) explored alternative cultural systems of evaluation within a private music collection and involved reconceptualising conventional archival techniques within an experimental ethnographic film practice presenting film as archive. Her current research involves an ethnographic study of The National Sculpture Factory (Cork) as a living archive where the organisation is explored as a 'nexus of social relations'. She is also currently coordinator  of Contextual Studies and P/T lecturer at Master of Architecture programme (MArch), Cork Centre for Architectural Education (UCC/CIT).

 

Fiona Woods is a visual artist whose practice has long been concerned with questions of public-ness and common interest, and how those continue to matter or materialise in an increasingly post-public world. Her work often explores marginal or hybrid situations, taking the form of actions, images and publications, made individually and in collaboration with others. On the Borderlines of the Present arises from Woods' current participation in the National Sculpture Factory's Im/Plants programme (Cork, 2015). Other forthcoming and recent works include; one kind and another, forthcoming publication (2015); Action on the Plains, (US, 2014); Yak Yak, co-curated with Ian Tully (AUS, 2013). Woods is the recipient of a number of Arts Council of Ireland awards. She is a lecturer at Limerick School of Art & Design. www.fionawoodsartist.wix.com/collectionofminds

 

The National Sculpture Factory (NSF) is an organisation which provides and promotes a supportive and enabling environment for the making of art and the realisation of creative projects in Cork, Ireland. We actively support artists and their practice through residencies, lecture programmes, cultural exchanges, masterclasses and professional development workshops. nationalsculpturefactory.com/