The Five Lamps Interview With Neilí Conroy
For Neilí Conroy, acting is in the blood. Her father was a successful actor, and her mother ran a children’s theatre company and puppet theatre in the 1980s. They were, in her words, ‘very alternative and bohemian types’. She grew up surrounded by books and caught the acting bug at primary school. Today, Neilí is […]
#FiveLampsArtsChats – Wren Dennehy – Dublin’s Premier Non Binary Drag Entity
In this interview Marcela Parducci chatted with Wren Dennehy who is a non-binary queer performer, producer and drag artist. They are originally from County Kildare but based in Dublin. They are the founder and producer of Queer Cabaret and the producer of Drag Storytime, which is a storytelling session facilitated by drag artists and whose […]
#FiveLampsArtsChats – Jeanette Lowe – Photographic Artist
Jeanette Lowe is a visual artist from Dublin who works mainly in photography. For the past 10 years, she has worked as a full-time artist, but prior to that, she worked in communication and IT, and she also has a background in marketing and design. ” Photography has run right through my life, I have […]
#5lampschats – Breda Jackson
Breda Jackson is an artist who studied in NCAD and Trinity College Dublin before getting involved in multimedia design. In the last few years, Breda has moved away from this to focus full time on her art. She works mainly in the community and is heavily involved with The Mud Island Community Garden. She speaks […]
#5lampschats – Tara Kearns
Five Lamps Chats is a new series of conversations between the Five Lamps team and local artists that we carried out over lockdown. We chat about various topics from their current work, inspirations, and how people can get involved in the arts in Dublin. For the first in our series, we had a natter with […]