Blow photo is a creative platform dedicated to fine art photography. Blow photo magazine is a large format publication conceived, created, printed and published in Dublin, Ireland. The team are based in D-Light Studios, an old converted woollen mill that functions as a film/photography studio and event space. Since first being published 5 years ago, the magazine has been awarded ‘print of the year 2010’ by Irish Print Awards and was nominated for 3 consecutive years as ‘magazine of the year’ by the Lucie Foundation 2013-2015. Blow has been invited to present at some of the most prestigious fine art photography events in the world, including Paris Photo, Unseen Amsterdam and London Art Fair

and maps and plans is an animation studio based in Dublin, Ireland. Specialising in 2D animation, its goal is to tell original and moving stories designed for a cinematic experience, aiming mainly at young adult & adult audiences. With an experienced and award winning team with backgrounds in short film, TV series and feature film productions and maps and plans studio produces content missing from the world of contemporary animation.

Contact: hello@andmapsandplans.com

‘Native Events’ is a sustainable event production company based in Dublin, Ireland. Native Events adopts a sustainable and innovative approach to event production, energy planning, procurement and creative installations.

As Ireland’s first sustainable event management company, ‘Native Events’ uses a holistic approach to explore this gap in current market in emerging ethical event production, minimising environmental impact and use of alternative energy sources.

Flora Fauna Project is choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller and Stace Gill/THE SEI. Together they have been making immersive stage experiences, talks and workshops exploring our relationship to nature and environment, natural intelligence, evolution, metamorphoses, gender and sexuality, community and social dreaming since 2017. Their projects have to date been performed by professional dancers, by 80 ten-year old students in Ballyfermot, throughout theatre venues, libraries and cathedrals in Ireland and Sweden. The artists involved not only want to make work that entertains or comments, but inspires action for a more autonomous and sustainable world. Engaging audiences in conversations and open workshops is an integral element of the project.

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Feral Pen is a newly established artist studio based in Dublin's city centre as of 2022. While FP may be new, its founder Kat Ennis has been working in the arts scene for nearly a decade across events management, commissioned paintings & prints and producing her own written work amongst other arts administration odd jobs since 2013. Previously working under 'Kat Ennis Art' for the last number of years, she has taken the alias 'Feral Pen' on joining D-Light this past November.

Kat is a Mixed Media Artist and Writer based in Dublin, originally from Trim in Co. Meath. In addition to her art practice, her day job is as the full time Studio Manager for Tiny Ark, a creative video agency based in Dublin. She has previously worked as the Venue & Events Manager for The Lir Academy from 2018 to 2022 and has balanced a career in Events Management alongside her practice since graduating college (ITSligo, Fine Art, class of 2016). This career path led her to work in various production roles with festivals like Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, Body & Soul and many others over the last few years. She has recently showcased her first play as writer/producer at Scene + Heard Festival in February 2022 at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, and also her first solo art exhibition 'Hot Mess' in April 2022 at Block T Studios. Other credits to date include being selected for Dublin Fringe Festival's 'Fringe Lab 50' 2020 for promising young writers. She hopes to make her CV even lengthier under the name of Feral Pen and is thrilled to have it be done as a part of the creative hub that is D-Light!

Pop-Up Wholefoods is a collective that promotes the bulk buying club model – a simple, small-scale type of food co-op that maximises affordability and minimises waste.

The group relocated its pop-up co-op to the D-Light building in August 2019, continuing operations that began on Dublin’s Northside in 2012.

By sharing the small amount of work involved in running the co-op, its member-owners can access organic wholefoods and environmentally-friendly household and personal care items at the lowest possible cost. A limited number of openings for membership are currently available.

A composer/multi-disciplinary artist Stace Gill, choreographer/violinist/singer Maria Nilsson Waller, and producer Ross Dowling, are set to release their EP Golden Heron on March 9th, 2023. The alt-folk/electronica act has gained recognition for their work, including tracks featured in BBC/Hulu’s Normal People, Conversations with Friends, Sky’s The Rising, and Apple TV’s Truth Be Told. Their latest EP highlights a new musical dimension, combining folk and sparse acoustic elements. The Sei's creative process is inspired by nature, finding balance between technology and analogue techniques, and performance. Signed to Paragon Records/Dublin, The Sei continues to grow in music and multi-disciplinary arts circles internationally.

Martijn Tellinga (The Netherlands, 1974) is an artist, composer and occasional performer. His practice fuses elements of concert, installation and performance art. Drawn from a reduced formalist-seeming vocabulary, his work centres on the exploration of sound & listening to express ideas of space, place and process: their reciprocal production, contextual intertwining, and potential as a perceptual, performative and social medium. Much of his work is score-based. It includes a wide variety of conceptual actions and chance operations, probing the emergent field between intended and accidental occurrences.

In recent years he has been producing performance installations explorative of extreme duration, sound installation work investigating the practice of resonance tuning, and documentary pieces utilising principles of acoustic measurement and intervention style negotiations of site. With his research ‘Expanded Composition, Extended Musicality: An Inquiry into Musically Driven Installation Practice’, he is a funded Fiosraigh PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media in Dublin, Ireland.