2025
Sarah Long + Kate Hynes
Barry Gibbons + Lauren Conway
Tara McGinn + Cillian Finnerty
The Collision Project is an initiative by screen service that facilitates collaborative pairings between early career artists. It celebrates the open-ended, playful and process-driven experimentation of artists working in tandem.
We are delighted to be running it again this year in special partnership with STARLING in Limerick!
Three pairs were carefully curated by a four-artist panel. Pairs were matched based on thoughtful commonalities and exciting divergences.
Pairs have been connected virtually, and are undertaking a remote collaboration over four months, beginning in March 2025.
Each pair will develop a collaborative artwork. These works will be installed at an exhibition at STARLING in Limerick in July 2025!
Sarah Long
and Kate Hynes
Sarah Long is an artist based in Cork. Her work focuses on suppressed female archetypes, the politics of representation, nationhood, and myth through the lens of feminism. She creates autofiction that she translates across painting, performance and text. Long uses the framework of the landscape to comment on the female condition. Her first novella, W/w, was published by Bloomers in 2024. Recent solo shows include South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel (2025) and group shows include Periodical Review 14 at Pallas Projects/Studios (2024-25) and At first / I was Land (2025) at Backwater Artist Group.
Kate Hynes is an artist from Dublin, her practice exists at the meeting point of the material and the digital world. Paint and code are not the most comfortable bedfellows. Neither nessecarily are motherhood and modernity. But the lived contradiction between these elements is where her practice flourishes.
Barry Gibbons
and Lauren Conway
Barry Gibbons is an artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland. His work examines the spaces between drawing and experimental animation, often in collaboration with musicians. Loops of movement and dynamic rhythms are generated through a re-imagining of the Rotoscope process, engaging both analogue and digital modes of production. He has been a studio member of The Complex (Dublin, Ireland) since 2020.
He is a graduate of the BA Fine Art at the Technological University Dublin (2011), Professional Masters of Education at the Limerick School of Art and Design (2016), and MFA Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design (2020). Recent projects include participation in ‘Magnetic Observatory’ (Mart Gallery, Dublin), ‘Warszawa’ with musicians Gareth Quinn Redmond and Albert Karch, and the music video ‘Future 87’ with The Bonk. In 2022 he received the Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. He is currently Assistant Lecturer in the Painting Department, School of Fine Art, at the National College of Art and Design.
Lauren Conway graduated from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dún Laoghaire in 2021 and has also studied at the University of the Arts Helsinki and the Royal Hibernian Academy School. In 2021 she was the recipient of the RHA Graduate Studio Award, The DLR/IADT Emerging Artist Bursary, and The Dock/IADT Graduate Award for her graduate exhibition A Great Public Meeting. In 2024 Conway was in residence at Studio Voltaire, London, developing a new body of work The Healing System which was the subject of a solo exhibition at the RHA, Dublin 2025. Exhibitions include All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, Dublin Castle, Dublin, (2025), Draw a Card, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (2025), Things Changed, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, (2024), Remembering the Future, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow, (2023), A Great Public Meeting, The Dock, Leitrim, (2022).
Tara McGinn
and Cillian Finnerty
McGinn's practice is a process of excavating the layers of language within aesthetic values and architectural tradition of interiors, and re-layering the contemporary, historical and erotic allegories of these elements. Like baking a cake with the leftovers of another cake, they use mould making and produce casts into object-based outcomes that employ replication, repetition and mimicry. By treating text and image as one and the same, they intuitively aggravate the symbolic malleability of media, re-coding vernacular forms and blurring conventional definitions; the literal and the visual become queer companions in this process. They like to refer to this blended approach as a form of “perverting”; reclaiming a space for informal artistic practice to have a dark sense of humour and strange playfulness. They produce sculpture, installations, interventions, texts and performances as outcomes yet practice a continuity of change within these works, never quite finishing anything and always leaving open ends gaping.
Cillian Finnerty is an artist based between London and Co. Mayo, working primarily in installation and sculptural assemblage. His practice makes extensive use of found text, audio, and objects to produce diagrammatic arrangements that deliberately muddy meaning and narrative, with property, social arrangements, and labour as recurring subjects.
Cillian is a graduate of the Fine Art programme at NCAD (2016) and School of the Damned (2024). Recent presentations of his work include Several Small Motors (Pallas Projects, 2025), Remains (Greatorex St, London, 2024), and Permanent Mirage with Coilin O'Connell (Radion, Amsterdam, 2024).
screen service is a service-oriented artist collective supporting early career artists with screen-led practices in or from Ireland. We are committed to providing a platform for experimentation and connectivity.
We curate and facilitate projects that encourage the development of media practice across various manifestations. We are based online, and work with artists in Ireland, and Irish artists living abroad. The model we sustain is artist-run, peer-led and reliant on and propelled by the creative practitioners we work with.
STARLING is a platform and threshold for both local and international artists and projects. Emerging out of a vacant shop in the historic medieval quarter of Limerick city, STARLING is led by artist-curators Ailbhe W. Drohan (Ireland) and Teresa Collins (Ireland / Aotearoa New Zealand).
We believe in supporting critical and thought-provoking contemporary artists and projects. Our approach to programming values non-traditional modes of exhibition making, collaborative process and community focused relationship building.
Images, courtesy of the artists:
1.Sarah Long, Looking for the Fern Flower, 2025, installation view, ‘I will not flower’. South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, 2025. Photo: Dara McGrath
2.Kate Hynes, It was gone, watercolour animation, 2024
4.Lauren Conway, A quiet that doesn’t feed you, oil on canvas, 100x40cm, 2024
3.Barry Gibbons, Pet Shapes No. 3, Graphite on paper, 21 x 14.8 cm, 2020
5.Tara McGinn, Domestic Fossils (or matriarchal lineage) 2021, exhibited in group show Soft Listings 2024 curated by Silvia Koistinen at Catalyst Arts, Belfast, photo credit: Simon Mills.
6.Cillian Finnerty, Several Small Motors, (detail view), 2025, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Curated by Ellen O’Connor, Bronagh Gallagher, Alex Keatinge and Olivia Normile.
Visual design by Cian Pawle-Bates.
Drawing by Olivia Normile.
This project is funded by the Arts Council and in partnership with STARLING, Limerick.
