Dublin Fringe Festival Welcomes Áine O'Hara and Maïa Nunes as 2024 Associate Artists
Dublin Fringe Festival is delighted to announce Áine O'Hara and Maïa Nunes as Associate Artists for 2024.
In this capacity, they will concentrate on their respective creative endeavours while providing one-on-one mentorship to the broader Dublin Fringe community. Additionally, they will contribute to strategic planning, offer valuable feedback on festival processes, and play a crucial role in recruitment and open call selection processes.
With a wealth of experience between them, Áine and Maïa are poised to make significant contributions to the festival's future, and we look forward to seeing the impact of their involvement.
"The roles of Associate Artists at Dublin Fringe Festival act as catalysts for artistic and strategic growth and having artists as integral team members is pivotal. Áine and Maïa will not only enhance their personal projects but will also infuse the festival with fresh perspectives, enriching the entire community here at Dublin Fringe Festival. We are thrilled to have them on board." - David Francis Moore, Festival Director
Áine O'Hara is an award-winning visual artist, theatre maker and facilitator focused on creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and performance spaces. Áine's work spans mediums; she is interested in community building, accessibility and care.
Áine wants to create work which uplifts and supports disabled and chronically ill artists and audiences.
Áine's work has toured nationally and internationally and has been shown across the U.K and Europe. In 2020 they were the recipient of A4 Sounds We Only Want the Earth Project Award which culminated in a solo show The Patient will see you now at the gallery in December 2020. Áine was awarded the Next Generation Award from the Arts Council in 2022 and also received the Radical Spirit Fringe Festival Award for The Rest Rooms a programme and space that celebrated disabled joy and rest as resistance.
Áine is a proud member of A4 sounds artists studios and is the Equity and Access officer for Praxis: the artists union of Ireland.
Maia Nunes is an Irish-Trinidadian performance artist whose work weaves with voice, cloth, movement, sound and the land to create immersive and multi-textural performance worlds in the form of films, audio-sculptural installations and live performances.
Theirs is a liberation practice; a live process of re-membering the self in dialogue with the ancestral past. It unravels and re-imagines, using a transpersonal approach to usher catharsis and transformation.
Maia is a Next Generation Artist who has performed at ICA London, spoken at Tate Modern, exhibited at VISUAL Carlow and Crawford Gallery, Cork, and has work in IMMA’s permanent collection
