Current Board
Niamh Birch
Niamh Birch is a multi-disciplinary artist from the West Midlands. Her practice interrogates the collision of queer and working-class cultures within industrial spaces, engaging themes of archive, identity, and legacy. Growing up in a small mining town outside Birmingham, Birch was shaped by a landscape marked by the remnants of industrial collapse. This environment continues to inform her interest in how histories of labour are preserved and where value is placed once industrial sites and communities are rendered obsolete.
Through metalwork, Niamh archives these entwined histories, preserving ephemeral moments of joy, struggle, and identity in a material form that embodies endurance and resistance. Paying homage to a family lineage of fabricators and welders.
Lauren Morrisson
Lauren’s work is an act of deconstruction and campaigning through community arts, activism and multimedia making.
With burning curiosity, she observers everyday life with a million questions, exploring the forces that shape identity, community, and society. Alongside her own multimedia practice she develops and leads creative workshops and participatory projects with young people and communities. Drawing on humour, playfulness and absurdity, her practice moves between socially engaged art, writing and performance, creating space for dialogue, empathy, and alternative ways to learn. It is her hope that the arts can become a platform for social change.
Nicola Kenny
Nicola Kenny is a radio maker and creative based in Belfast. She has a background in architecture, broadcasting and poetry. She currently works within media, making programmes about nature, ecology and social affairs. She approaches her creative projects with a deep curiosity about people, community and the threads that bind us together.
Tori Clarkson
Tori Clarkson is a film editor and filmmaker based in Belfast with a BA(Hons) in Filmmaking and Photography from the University of Leeds and has specialised in documentary film editing at York University, Toronto.
Tori currently works within documentary filmmaking and moving image, with a strong focus on geographical landscapes and human relationship to the land at an individual and societal level. She has been working as a film editor on BAFTA and Grierson award-winning documentaries and has directed a number of short-form films including PÚCA and SOMA through Northern Ireland Screen and BBC.
Community and public engagement within the arts is at the forefront of her practice, acknowledging the importance of the arts as a way to communicate with and understand each other better within society. Political and environmental activism are consistent themes throughout her work.
Previous Directors
Samar Nezamabad, Emma Quin, Seán Ward, Husk Bennett, Silvia Koistinen, Rachael Melvin, Marta Dyczkowska, Dominic McKeown, Cecelia Graham, Kate Murphy, Manuela Moser, Jen Alexander, Tara McGinn, Rachel Botha, Thomas Wells, Leah Corbett, Emma Brennan, Anne Mager, Edy Fung, Liam McCartan, Peter Glasgow, Siobhan Kelly, Conor Mullan, John Macormac, Michael Edgar, Alessia Cargnelli, Emily McFarland, Joey O’Gorman, Edel O’Reilly, Mitch Conlon, Mary Stevens, Michaela Butler, Jane Butler, Phillip McCrilly, Brígh Strawbridge, Iain Griffin, Amy Brooks, Alice Clark, Rob Hilken, Katrina Sheena Smyth, Alissa Kleist, Ruaidhri Lennon, David Mahon, Emmanuelle Nègre, Tonya McMullan, Eoin Dara, Nathan Crothers, Catherine Neill, Kim McAleese, Mark De Conink, Anne McAuley, John Cashin, Charlotte Bosanquet, Aideen Doran, Kate McCullough, Johanna Leech, Fionnuala Doran, Sara o Gorman, Rachel Brown, Brighdin Farren, Caelan Bristow, Colm Clarke, Benjamin de Burca, Fuyuka Shindo, Leo Devlin, Helen Sharp, Lucy Edwards, Jude Bennett, Meabh O’Donnell, Kim Montgomery, Brendan O’Neill, Phil Hession, Lurach Bredin, Cian Donnelly, Clive Murphy, Allan Hughes, John Mathews, Ursula Burke, Deirdre McKenna, Elina Medley, Justin McKeown, Cherie Driver, Fiona Ni Mhaoilir, Niall Mc Cabe, Julie Bacon, Grainne Cullen, Seamus Harahan, Elina Medley, Joanna Fursmann, Keike Twisselmann, Jane Anderson, Stephen Hackett, Stella d’Ailly, Phil Collins, Heather Allen, Ruth Jones, Dan Shipsides, Brian Patterson, Niamh O’Malley, Angela Darby, Eoghan Mc Tigue, Peter Richards, Susan Phillipz, Toby Dennet, Duncan Campbell, Dougal Mc Kenzie, Sandra Johnston, Siofra Campbell, Robert Peters, Derval Fitzgerald, Karen Vaughan, Eillis O’Baoill, Mark Orange