Susan MacWilliam has been selected to represent Northern Ireland, with a solo exhibition, at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009. She has exhibited video and installation works in Ireland and internationally for over 15 years, including solo shows at Jack The Pelican Presents, New York and Gimpel Fils, London (2008). In 2007 MacWilliam exhibited in ‘Seeing Is Believing’ at the Photographers’ Gallery, London.

Willie Doherty (b. 1959 Derry, Northern Ireland). Doherty's work has, since he began exhibiting in the early 1980's, consistently addressed problems of representation, territoriality and surveillance, and the politics and rhetoric of identity, especially in his native Northern Ireland. Much of his early photographic work incorporated text and since the mid—90's he has increasingly worked in film and video installation.

Patrick Bloomer and Nicholas Keogh's previous projects include an exploration of Belfast sewers, a bin disco and an alternative portaloo. As part of The Nature of Things, Northern Ireland’s presentation at the 2005 Venice Biennale they constructed a gondola ‘Bin Boat’ made from skips, bathtubs and other recycled materials.

Ian Charlesworth received his MFA from the University of Ulster in 1998. In 2005—2006, he was a Northern Ireland Fellow at The British School in Rome.

Factotum was formed in 2001 by Stephen Hackett and Richard West. It publishes The Vacuum newspaper, runs a choir and has organised a number of exhibitions including the 'English' show in Belfast Exposed in 2005.

Seamus Harahan earned a BA in Fine Art in 1996 and an MFA in Fine Art in 2001 from the University of Ulster. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery in London; the Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague; Collective Gallery, Edinburg; the Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville; Viafarini, Milan; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; and Transmission Gallery in Glasgow.

Michael Hogg’s has a BA and MA in Fine Art and is Director of Flaxart Studios. He has worked on a number of public works including the bronze disc in the Gasworks and is interested in how locations and their history can suggest different imagery.

Sandra Johnston earned an MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, and a BA, Honors, in Fine Art from the Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury. She has given solo performances at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; TRACE Gallery, Cardiff; Beyond the Word Performance Festival at Las Casa Endendida in Madrid; the 2005 Venice Biennale; Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Trafo Gallery, Budapest; and Artspace, Norwich

Mary McIntyre is Reader in Photography lecturing on the BA (Hons) Fine & Applied Arts and MFA Fine Art courses at the University of Ulster at Belfast.

Mixed—media sculptor and installation artist Katrina Moorhead was born in Northern Ireland in 1971. She earned her MFA and BA from the Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot—Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

William McKeown’s work engages with the more delicate, indefinable qualities of nature, in particular the sky and the air above and around us, often with an emphasis on the emergence of daylight as experienced in the morning hours. McKeown’s work in recent years was defined by the artist’s highly crafted surfaces and meticulous application of thin washes of paint.

Darren Murray gained a BA Honors Degree in Fine & Applied Art from the University of Ulster in 1999. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin; and the Context Gallery, Derry. He’s been shown in group exhibitions at the 2005 Venice Biennale; the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; ARCO in Madrid; the Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague; and the Proposition Gallery in Belfast.

Aisling O'Beirn was born in Galway, Ireland and is now based in Belfast.

Her current work is concerned with exploring spatial politics encompassing subjects as diverse as the technologies behind space exploration to the very localised practice of nicknaming places and landmarks. Research takes the form of a constantly expanding collection of vernacular information ranging from urban myths, anecdotes, place nicknames and hand drawn maps gathered from various locations.

Richards was born in Cardiff in 1970. He was educated at the University of Wales, Cardiff, (BA fine art) before completing his M.Phil. studies ‘Representations of Representations’ at the University of Ulster, Belfast in 1998. His first solo exhibition, Corrective Perspective, was at the Context Gallery, Derry in 1996,as part of Beyond Borders Plus. Since that time he has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Britain⁄Ireland and internationally.

Alistair Wilson earned a BA in Fine art from the Bath Academy of Art and a MA in Sculpture from the Chelsea School of Art, London. He currently is the Course Director of the Master of Fine Art Course at the University of Ulster.