Jessica Rodrigues is a Brazilian-Irish multimedia artist based in Dublin, creating strange worlds shaped by dreams, nature, memories, and old tales. Working across fine art, tattoos, videos, and murals, the artist employs a surrealist language infused with magical realism to create visual stories that blur the limits between reality and myth.

Jessica spent eleven years as a tattoo artist, a period that permanently shaped her understanding of narrative. In that role, stories were entrusted and inscribed, a collaborative act that demanded integrity and a focus on the body as the first site for a visual tale. This experience remains the quiet anchor for all her work.

Jessica now builds worlds across painting, murals, and video, drawing from a well of dreams and old folklore to create images that feel both familiar and strangely new. The curiosity that guided her hand on skin now guides her interdisciplinary practice. It is a practice of genuine exploration, evidenced by an Artist in the Community Scheme grant for collaborative public work and features in 10 group exhibitions, including the group show Voice of Dreams for Visionary Arts.

Jessica’s work has been featured in Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal

See Jessica’s Instagram @artbyjroiz

Gillian has been painting since 2010 and is a graduate of Art & Design at BiFE where she studied full time. She is currently working on Visual Arts Practice (CEAD) at the National College of Art and Design, expanding her practice through sculpture and ceramics to further explore the themes of emotion, connection, and environment within her work.

With a love of travel, she has lived or spent some time working abroad in places such as London, France, Germany, South Africa, Australia, Finland, Spain and within Ireland (Galway, Limerick and Cavan) and now living in Dublin, the people, settings and atmosphere of these places subtly informs her visual language. Her work is rooted in reflection and sensory observation and weaves together an understanding of place, memory, and feeling.

She began exhibiting her work publicly in group exhibitions in 2025, showing in ‘Beyond Words: Art & the Unknown’ at Herman’s Modern & Contemporary, Dublin, ‘Emerging Perspectives’ at Reynolds Art Gallery, Dublin and at Signal Arts Centre, Wicklow. Her work reflects a deep curiosity about the relationships between people, place, and the shifting emotional landscapes they share. Gillian’s Instagram is gillianlambeart.

Viktoriia was  born in 2005 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Viktoriia  studied at the Kharkiv Professional Higher Art College of Kharkiv Regional Council, earning a Professional Junior Bachelor degree (2020–2024), and continued her studies at the Cavan Institute (QQI Level 5 in Art, Craft and Design, 2024–2025). Viktoriia’s work explores inner tension and quiet disquiet, capturing fleeting moments of stillness and anticipation.

Viktoriia was selected for the Cavan Arts Awards 2025 and has exhibited in the Summer Showcase Exhibition 2025 in Bailieborough and an exhibition for Culture Night 2025. Viktoriia currently lives and works in Cavan, County Cavan.

Hina Khan was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina uses miniature in her work as the intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation, videos and 3D.

According to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art, personality, and in terms of experimentation, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’

Hina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin, Laois, Mayo, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center, Create Ireland, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center, Mayo, and Stradbally Art house, Laois.

Hina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland, Create Ireland, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Hina’s art pieces were commissioned for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights (2022) and for States of Independence (2023). Both projects were f presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and funded by The Arts Council.

Hina says that ‘as an artist,  I am inspired by Sadequain, Michelangelo, Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’

Amna is a Cork-based Pakistani born visual artist and Associate Member of Sample-Studios, Art Nomads, Smashing Times and Angelica Network. She has recently been awarded the Cork County Council Creative Producer Residency, The Arts Council Agility Award and has been invited to exhibit her new work in IMMA, having exhibited her work recently in IMMA online and in Cork County Council’s online exhibition space. In addition to her active practice, she has worked as Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF, University of the Punjab (2004-2007). She recently established the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award, Professional Development Award 2020 and Dilkusha Award 2020.

Féilim James is a novelist, poet, and playwright from Dublin, Ireland. In 2024, his poem ‘Dream of an Atrocity’ was shortlisted for the New Irish Writing: Best Poetry category at the Irish Book Awards. He has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland on three occasions, including for his novel, Flower of Ash. Dublin City Arts Office granted him an Arts Bursary in 2021 to finish his poetry collection, I was a river, lost. He is the editor of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal.

Féilim’s fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing, Acumen, The Honest Ulsterman (upcoming), Abridged, The High Window, The Fiction Pool, Icarus, TOWER, The Galway Review, A New Ulster, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, Pendemic, Rant and Rave, Vox Galvia, the Smashing Times Newsletter, and Tales From the Forest. He has had four plays and two short films produced. Féilim’s work has been performed or exhibited in locations such as Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin (the residency of the President of Ireland); Dublin Castle; the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg; and Jean Monnet House, Paris, for an event by the European Observatory on Memories.

Féilim’s play Sole Flower, Spidered Soul (2023), about the relationship between James and Lucia Joyce, had its premiere run in the Pumphouse, Dublin Port, in October 2023, as part of Smashing Times’ Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Its director was Patrick Joseph Byrnes, who again directed when it had its second run, this time in The New Theatre, Dublin in June 2024, as part of Bloomsday Festival. In 2025, Sole Flower, Spidered Soul was added to the archive of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. Féilim’s play At Summer’s End (2019), about Ettie Steinberg, a real-life Jewish-Irish woman facing the horrors of the Holocaust, has been toured by Smashing Times to places such as Paris, Northern Ireland, and Áras an Uachtaráin, the residency of the President of Ireland.

Féilim’s Irish language writing, under the surname Ó Brádaigh, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards, including one for a collection of poetry. These awards are the most prestigious in Irish language literature. His work through Irish has appeared in Comhar, Feasta, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, Comhar Óg, Tuathal, and An Scríbhneoir Óg. Additionally, he has twice been selected for Fóras na Gaeilge’s Tutor Scheme.

Féilim graduated from the BA in English Literature and Psychology in Trinity College, Dublin in 2017. In 2020, he completed the MA in Writing in the University of Galway, studying under the likes of Mike McCormack and Arnold Thomas Fanning, and receiving a first-class honour. Visit his website here.

Mary Moynihan, MA, she/her, is an award-winning author of novels, poetry, films and plays, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays, poetry and short film scripts, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing, visual art and photography presented in galleries and online.

Mary established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin.

After raising four children, now adults, Mary dedicates her time to writing and creating photography and art (oils on canvas). Mary is a multidisciplinary artist and  regularly creates artworks that fuse painting, photographic imagery, poetical texts and film many of which are inspired by landscapes and seascapes especially of the seas and oceans around Ireland, and a reflection on what it is to be human. Mary regularly shares stories from historical memory through her artistic practice particularly in relation to stories of people who stand up for the rights of others.

Awards

Mary’s work has won a number of awards, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation, a GSK Ireland Impact Award, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award, a National Lottery Good Cause Award, an  Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Project Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work titled The Feeling Soul, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.