We are delighted to present the third annual Fire Station Artists’ Studios residents’ exhibition, FSAS Presents Incubator.
Participating artists: Lucy Andrews, Mark Buckeridge, Kian Benson Bailes, Cóilín O’Connell, Aideen Farrell, Paul Hallahan, Day Magee, Sorcha McNamara and Alice Rekab.
Incubator presents works in the public, communal and workshop areas of Fire Station Artists’ Studios, celebrating the studios as a crucial site of creative production against the current backdrop of eroding arts infrastructure across the city
In parallel with this show, Kian Benson Bailes will also have an open studio to mark the end of his residency with Fire Station Artists’ Studios.
Curated by Niamh Darling, the exhibition’s opening reception will take place on Wednesday 24 June at FSAS from 6pm, in tandem with the Fire Station Artists’ Studios Summer Party. Join us at 9–12 Buckingham Street Lower.
The exhibition will be on view daily on 25, 26, 29 and 30 June, and 1 and 2 July, from 2pm–5pm.
Poster: Carol Breen
About the Artists:
Lucy Andrews makes sculptures and site-specific installations. She is interested in the meeting of natural and human– made systems, and the places where those categories break down. Her work proposes a dynamic materiality which moves between the organic and inorganic, architectural and geological, grown and made. Andrews was born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and studied at NCAD, Dublin and The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. She has exhibited at The Complex, Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and The Leitrim Sculpture Centre. In 2025 her work was shown at Pallas Projects and at the Hear Here festival, Leuven.
Kian Benson Bailes is an Irish artist residing in the northwest of Ireland. His multifaceted practice explores rural Ireland, visual language and identity. Following his solo-exhibitions at Custom House Studios & Gallery, Mayo (2022), he had a solo-exhibition at Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2023) which then toured to RCC, Donegal (2024); Limerick City Gallery of Art and Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow (2025). Selected group exhibitions include: The Naughton Institute (2025); IMMA (2025); Pallas Projects/Studios (2024); The Dock, Leitrim (2024); Townhall Gallery, Cavan (2024); EVA International (2023); Periphery Space, Wexford (2023); Roscommon Arts Centre (2023); and The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo (2022).
Mark Buckeridge is an artist working in performance, sculpture, installation, video and sound. He holds an MFA from Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and is the co-founder of artist-run organisation Muine Bheag Arts in Carlow. Past exhibitions and projects include: performances at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019), Fylkingen, Stockholm (2023); solo shows at CCA, Derry (2022); PS², Belfast, (2022), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2019); Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam (2019); Pallas Projects, Dublin (2016), two-person show with Vivienne Dick, The Complex, Dublin (2024) and group shows at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, (2024), Agriculture Palace, Kaunas, (2022) and Outpost, Norwich (2019).
Cóilín O’Connell is an artist from Dublin. Through a process of collecting and editing found and original image, object and text his work considers antagonisms between the methodical and the poetic for proposing pasts, presents and futures. As Brass Neck Press he edits, designs, and distributes artists’ publications and zines. He studied Fine Art, Media in NCAD and completed a masters at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.
Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based artist with a BA in Fine Art and Visual Culture (NCAD) and MA in Fine Art (TU Dublin). Traversing disused railways and canals, Farrell gathers found materials to generate sculpture, photography, drawing and installations that explore ideas of ruin, extraction, and transformation. She has had solo exhibitions at Custom House Gallery (2023), Pallas Projects/Studios (2019) and Linenhall Arts Centre (2018); and group exhibitions at Draíocht (2026), A4 Sounds (2025), the Complex (2024). Awards include: Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme (2026, 2025); the Arts Council’s Agility Award (2021); Visual Arts Bursary (2021, 2023); and the FSAS Sculpture Award in 2021.
Paul Hallahan’s artistic practice primarily focuses on painting but commonly brings in moving image and sculptural elements to his works and projects. Hallahan’s work is based in the abstracted interpretations of the world around him, delving into various subjects but mainly exploring human interaction and relationship with nature and civilisation. Over the years, Hallahan has exhibited his works extensively, winning the Golden Fleece Award in 2018. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions with recent solo exhibitions including Hang Tough Contemporary (2023), The Dock (2022), The Complex (2020) and Roscommon Arts Centre (2020).
Day Magee is an artist, performer, and writer based in Dublin. Their practice centres the body in time and space, interrogating the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and enact, encompassing religiosity, identity, and illness. This manifests in oratory performances posed as speculative speech acts, along with texts, installations, workshops and artefacts across multimedia. Their work has been commissioned by/appeared in: Project Arts Centre (2026); Luan Gallery (2026); Trouble Festival, Brussels (2025); Mirror Lamp Press (2024); the Hugh Lane Gallery (2023); 126 Gallery (2023); Rua Red (2023); Limerick City Gallery of Art (2022); Pallas Projects/Studios (2022); Arts & Disability Ireland (2021); and TULCA Festival (2019).
Sorcha McNamara is a visual artist with an MA in Art + Research Collaboration (IADT) and a BA in Painting (Limerick School of Arts & Design). Her practice primarily uses discarded materials to form contextually-sensitive compositions across painting, installation and sculptural work. Recent solo exhibitions include: Linenhall Arts Centre (2025), Ballina Arts Centre (2023); The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo (2022); and Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin (2022). Selected recent group exhibitions include: VISUAL Carlow (2024); Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2024); and The LAB, Dublin (2023). Sorcha has undertaken residencies at Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024); Zaratan Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon (2024); Totaldobze Art Centre, Riga (2022); and Tangent Projects, Barcelona (2021).
Alice Rekab is a Dublin-based visual artist. Rekab takes their own mixed-race Irish identity as a starting point from which to explore experiences of race, place and belonging. Working across sculpture, film, painting, print and performance, their practice centres on processes of collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange. Following solo exhibitions in Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2023) and The Douglas Hyde, Dublin (2021-22), Rekab’s recent solo exhibition Mythlantics (2025-26) toured to SIRIUS, Cobh; Galway Arts Centre; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; and Limerick City Gallery. Their work was included in the Liverpool Biennial 2025 and is held in the collections of Trinity College Dublin, IMMA, The Cathal Ryan Trust and The Arts Council of Ireland.
Niamh Darling is a Dublin-based curator, currently working as an Assistant Curator at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art and on Ireland at Venice 2026. Niamh’s curatorial practice is concerned with how social norms are shaped and sustained in the precarious conditions of life under late capitalism. In 2025, she curated ‘Living Conditions’ at The Douglas Hyde, a programme exploring the precarity embedded in the built environment, featuring new and commissioned artwork and text. Niamh was editor of ‘Worlding’, 2024, and her writing has been published by The Lab, Visual Artist’s Newspaper and Paper Visual Art. She was recipient of the 2025 Agility Award and the Fingal Artists’ Support Scheme in 2026.
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