CHAIR

Amy Devlin is a Belfast based artist who has been a Co-Director of Platform Arts since January 2023. She has a BA and an MFA in Fine Arts from Ulster University. Through the medias of collage and stop motion, she explores the intersection between gender and consumerism. Creating a form of  “anti-advert” that parodies and critiques how the female body is used within consumerism to sell commodities, while simultaneously projecting capitalism’s fetishized views of women.

OUTREACH CO-ORDINATOR

Tarah McGonigle is a recent Art History and French graduate based in Belfast with a passion for learning and making, and facilitating spaces of community through creative practices. She was a recipient of R&A and University of St Andrews International Travel Scholarship Award 2022-2023 to complete a research project on the impact of art making as a tool to create positive social change in the USA and Argentina. She is currently heritage assistant at Eastside Partnership and working towards a Masters in Arts Management at Queen’s University Belfast.

OUTREACH CO-ORDINATOR

Ryan Allen is a visual artist from Belfast, specialising in lens-based processes. He finished his BA at Ulster University in July 2022, achieving a First class honours in Photography with Video. He also graduated from one year of International Studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Ryan became one of five recipients of RADAR for PhotoIreland. He joined the 2023 Futures Platform as one of five Irish artists, culminating in an annual networking event at the RCCPC. He now volunteers at Platform, with a passion to develop his curation skills whilst building relationships within the local arts scene.

OUTREACH CO-ORDINATOR

Emily Ní Laibheartaigh is an artist and naturalist based in Belfast. She graduated from Falmouth University in 2021 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art. She began her artistic career primarily as a painter but her practice has also included taxidermy, specifically skeletal articulation. Her focus in her work has always been in the natural sciences, and blending this with her own interests in folklore and history. The life force behind a lot of her inspiration is the community and people, which is why she joined Platform as a Co-Director in March 2024. She recently participated in the 2024 Feile Plein Air Landscape competition.

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Rachel Kavanagh is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Belfast. She graduated from BSoA in 2024 with a BA (Hons) and MFA in Fine Art. She is currently a studio holder at Flax Art in the Emerging Artist Program. She has been the recipient of the Alice Berger Hammerschlag Award, Platform Arts Graduate Award and longlisted for the RDS. She has participated in exhibitions across Ireland, the UK and the USA. Her practice is predominantly sculpture-based, focusing on concepts such as queer bodily discomfort and flesh objects.