Sian Costello is a multidisciplinary artist based in James Street Studios, Limerick City. Since graduating with a BA in Fine Art Painting from LSAD in 2020, Sian has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo shows, most recently with The Crush at PS2 Belfast, Hot Child at Ormston House Limerick (2024), and Baby Obey Me at Modern Animals, Zurich (2023), and Rapture of the Sisters at Detroit Stockholm and The Lord Mayor’s Pavillion, Cork (2021, 2022). She has participated in notable group shows such as Thread the Needle at Verduyn Gallery, Belgium (2023), girls, girls, girls curated by Simone Rocha at Lismore Castle Arts (2022), and Delta Gamma at Saatchi Gallery London (2022). Sian’s work has been the recipient of The Arts Council of Ireland’s Visual Arts Bursary (2023) and Agility Award (2021), as well as the Limerick Arts Office and Limerick City and County Council Individual Arts Bursary (2023). She has participated in multiple residencies at Malt Fabrikken, Denmark (2024) and Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr (2023) and her work has been profiled in the Irish Arts Review, Visual Artists Ireland Newsletter, The Guardian and The Art Newspaper. She is currently preparing for a solo presentation of her work at The Dock Arts centre, Carrick-on-Shannon.

Shen Han is a contemporary artist whose practice explores the intricate relationship between painting and the body. Through a process-oriented approach, he investigates how material, gesture, and perception intertwine in the act of painting. His work is marked by an openness of form, where the canvas becomes a site for physical engagement and cognitive reflection. Rather than working from a predetermined subject or object, Shen initiates each painting through gesture—building abstract pictorial spaces using elemental components such as color and line.

Antonio Kuschnir, born in Rio de Janeiro in 2001, lives and works in Bonn, Germany. He holds a Bachelor's in Painting from the Fine Arts Academy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EBA/UFRJ). Kuschnir had his first solo show at Macunaíma Gallery in 2019. In 2020–2021, he developed the series "Choro" and "Avalanche." The former was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Niterói (MAC) in 2022, making him the youngest solo artist in its history. "Avalanche" was exhibited at Galpão 808, Rio in 2023. Kuschnir’s work explores the contradictions between reality and fiction, blending personal and collective cosmologies in vibrant paintings. He is preparing solo exhibitions for 2025 in Genoa and Palma de Mallorca. His works are in the collections of MAC Niterói, the Cultural Center of Diversity - SP, and the Collection of the Presidency of Brazil.

Matti Schulz was born in Neubrandenburg in 1985. He studied from 2006 to 2016 Fine Arts at the HfBK Dresden and the University of Barcelona and completed his studies with a diploma and as a master student in the class of Prof. Carl Emanuel Wolff. The artist Matti Schulz uses a wide variety of media and techniques from sculpture and object art to drawing, painting and installation, while his subjects usually humorously address contemporary themes from public life or recent history. The social issues themes that he deals with are often adorned with absurd comments and titles and are characterised by a sarcastic and ironic view of the present, as in his bronze sculpture ‘Puking Cat’.