Rosie O’Reilly is a visual artist, maker and designer working in textiles and installation art. She has a BA in Philosophy and Sociology from Trinity College Dublin and a BA in Fashion Design from the University of Glamorgan. Moral philosophy, systems theory and sustainability are some of her specific areas of research.

Since 2003 she has regularly participated in solo and group exhibitions, most recently NLA III at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, 2013; Dublin Fringe Festival, 2013; and an exhibition at the Science Gallery Dublin, 2013-2014.

His work also focuses on the development of site-specific and action projects, for presentation outside the exhibition space: in the street and in temporary spaces. She is also interested in participatory DIY, and has curated spaces for Dublin Contemporary (2011), Castle palooza Music and Arts Festival and Electric Picnic Music and Art Festival (2009 – 2011), always fusing art and design for live performance pieces.

O’Reilly is designer and creative director of We are Islanders Art & Fashion House and director of Re-dress Ireland and Better Fashion Week Dublin. Between 2008 and 2014 she has curated exhibitions in the area of design and social and environmental action and coordinated conferences and educational programmes on design, fashion and activism.

Alicia Jiménez is a visual artist. She works in the field of installation and the creation of interventions, didactics and strategies to promote creativity and dialogue. She graduated in Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country/ Euskal Herrico Universitatea (UPV/ EHU), Bilbao, and completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Granada on the Creative Process. He then specialised in video and digital art at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She has received specific training in subjects based on the social integration of artistic practice and in new artistic languages and image studies, audiovisual production, new technologies and creation in real time. He has also trained in artistic criticism and the construction of the gaze.

Since 1998 he has had several solo and group exhibitions in different exhibition centres and museums. During this time, his work has been contextualised both in public spaces and in independent art circuits, and he has also participated in editorial projects. At the same time, he has organised independent curatorial projects: Micasa’05, Barcelona 2005, C21, Gijón 2002, and Radiografías (2009) for the Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Educación y Universidad Popular del Ayuntamiento de Gijón, the latter as a member of the collective 2clavos.

Between 2006 and 2013 she directed and coordinated the artistic programme of El hervidero, with actions aimed at giving visibility to independent art circuits. She currently investigates new forms of cultural production through the interdisciplinary platform Atycas and continues to be linked to the Asociación Cultural El hervidero with initiatives such as PAM crianza creativa.

Her artistic work investigates the connections between the micro and the macro, the social, the natural, the material and the ephemeral. He questions and offers alternatives to established forms of perception and sociability, finding himself increasingly comfortable in living contexts and independent projects.