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Irene Murphy
Irene is a visual artist living and working in Cork city she is a founder member of the CAC and the Guesthouse.
She is a founder member of artists collaborative groups, Ideal State Agency and the YoYo Club, and is one of the trio in the Domestic Godless.
She is focused on the creation of new opportunities in video and collaboration and is at the moment in setting up a weekly open day for artists to meet. She is working also to develop links and exchange opportunities between similar organizations nationally and internationally.

Claire Guerin
Claire is a video and performance artist. She graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2006 and was awarded the Crawford purchase prize. She commenced working in The Guesthouse with artist Irene Murphy in 2005 before the building was renovated. Guerin and Murphy began the Tuesday Lunch initiative in 2007 in The Guesthouse, which evolved into a Sunday Lunch in 2009.
Claire Guerin’s myspace
Claire Guerin’s youtube channel

Colette Lewis
As a multimedia artist Colette’s practice is mainly located within various contexts in urban, rural, healthcare and social environments. Often her work is collaborative and participatory in nature. She works mainly with the medium of video, photography, sound recording and movement.

Mick O’Shea
Mick is developing a sound strand in the Guesthouse which aims to develop an awareness of sound as an art form by organising concerts, discussions, workshops, presentations and residencies. Also to encourage established sound artists and emerging artists to meet, work and collaborate together.

Matt Packer
Matt is an artist, curator, and writer; currently employed as Curator of Exhibitions & Projects at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork. Independent curatorial projects include Ice Trade, at Chelsea Space, London (2007) and Encore Pacifica at Kunsthall Bergen (2008). He writes regularly for CIRCA, Source, and Visual Arts Newsletter.

Trevor Joyce
Trevor Joyce co-founded New Writers’ Press in Dublin in 1967, and has lived in Cork since 1984, when he founded The Melmoth Press. He has been a director of the SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word since co-founding it in 1997. He has published over a dozen volumes of poetry, and has recently experimented with trans-disciplinary possibilities between language and music, performance, and the visual arts. He is a Fulbright scholar and a member of Aosdána, and is currently Visiting Fellow in Poetry to Cambridge University.