Meet the Guggerers!
Exploring our rich cultural heritage through songs, stories, art & discovery
Kate Murtagh Sheridan
Visual Artist, Ceramicist, Educator
Kate Murtagh Sheridan is a freelance visual artist and art educator living in Co. Leitrim. She specialises in ceramics, plasterwork and painting. Kate has a deep interest in Irish history culture and folklore and incorporates this where she can in all areas of her art and teaching practice. She is attracted to the hidden details that might go unnoticed.
Kate creates vibrant, highly-detailed pictures that are meticulously etched into plaster plaques using the sgraffito technique, layering colours and paring them back to reveal tiny details that would otherwise lie undiscovered. Crisp etchings of almost photo-realistic quality set into a dream-like atmosphere give these pieces a unique charm.
Fionnuala Maxwell
Traditional Singer, Researcher & Educator
Fionnuala Maxwell is a traditional singer, composer, researcher, and educator, based in Co. Leitrim. She continually strives to find ways to promote our rich cultural heritage and has done a lot of research into the area of traditional singing with a particular focus on passing the information and songs on to others through workshops and classes. She writes songs when inspired by local or personal events and many of those songs have been transmitted through the traditional singing realms and are sung widely at singing sessions.
She has also recorded two CDs of local songs and had the opportunity to record and perform with many well-known international artists. Her interest in her locality and its unique heritage inspires her and encourage her to develop projects that celebrate and showcase this incomparable cultural legacy.
Kate Murtagh Sheridan
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Fionnuala Maxwell