We are delighted to announce the FOLKLIFE Resident Artists are Jane Cassidy, Breda Burns and Rajinder Singh.

Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Galway. Trained in music and visual art, Jane’s main interests lie in immersive audio-visual environments, multi-sensory work and synesthesia. Jane has been working with Mayo Artsquad since January 2022  researching Bealtaine and The National Museum of Ireland – Country Life collection as a theme, diving into ancestral knowledge, our connections with natural cycles and traditions from our past. 

Breda Burns is an audio/visual artist based in Westport, working in a variety of media and interdisciplinary projects with narratives and layers that reveal themselves in different ways. Breda will work alongside Jane Cassidy and Mayo Artsquad to explore the theme of Bealtaine.

Established in 1997 with FÁS support, Mayo County Council’s Mayo Artsquad has continued to provide excellent training in community arts skills for fifteen participants annually.

On April 30, FOLKLIFE artists in residence Jane Cassidy and Breda Burns, in collaboration with Mayo Artsquad, will present new works on the grounds of The National Museum of Ireland – Country Life.

Dr Rajinder Singh a movement artist and choreographer, will work with a group of artists drawn from The Linenhall Arts Centre’s Creative Café. Over the coming weeks, they will collaborate to develop a simple body-based choreographic guide to the spaces at The National Museum of Ireland – County Life.

We are delighted to welcome the artists participating in the project with Rajinder Singh as writer Alice Kinsella, visual artist Alice Maher, musician and composer Breda Mayock and visual artist Nuala Clarke.