Siobhan McDonald’s multifaceted exhibition PASSAGE explores Dublin’s deep history as a mutable landscape shaped by water, cosmology, and human intervention. Through film, sound, painting, and sculpture, the exhibition investigates how the city’s shifting ground holds memory and resilience.
Fulcrum Arts is pleased to present Sam Shoemaker: Mushroom Boat, a collection of works developed in relation to the artist’s August 2025 crossing of the Catalina Channel in a kayak made of mushroom mycelium. The exhibition’s central feature is the mushroom boat itself, which was built by the artist and stands amid the artifacts of its development, including extensive documentation of its fabrication, testing, and eventual use on open water.
‘Perceiving Reality: The Enthalpy of Existence’ traces a decade long investigation by British artist Alexander James Hamilton into the behaviour of light, matter, and perception as thermodynamic systems. Spanning the Siberian projects ‘Oil + Water’ (2013–2016) and ‘Empirical Research & Evidence’ (2021–2023), the work unites scientific observation with aesthetic consciousness. Through analogue photography and sustainable material practice, Hamilton visualises entropy, equilibrium, and environmental change as intertwined conditions. The resulting corpus proposes that perception itself functions as empirical instrument: a form of energy exchange in which to observe is to participate in creation.
Siobhán McDonald is an Irish artist based in Dublin. In a practice that emphasizes field work and collaboration she works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. Through painting, film, sound and sculpture McDonald explores Dublin Port as a gateway of exchange—reimagined as a porous space of interspecies cohabitation. This haunting journey along the wetland—located on the edges of the port—is a breathing, living system that is able to respond to sea level rise.
Tessa Campbell Fraser is a British painter and sculptor based in Oxfordshire UK. Born in Edinburgh, she studied at Chelsea School of Art and afterwards established herself as one of the country’s leading animal artists. Her exhibition, ‘Whales- a Deeper Dialogue’ seeks to unravel the interspecies communication between man and animal that is currently a hot topic in scientific research.
Danielle DeLeo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Florida International University and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, using genomic techniques to study the evolution of bioluminescence and vision in the deep sea. “My additional projects harness the power of genomics to better understand how marine invertebrates respond and adapt to both natural and anthropogenic environmental conditions.”
Andrea Quattrini is a Research Zoologist and Curator of Anthozoa in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology. She studies the ecology and evolution of corals and associated communities, and often focuses her questions on those that live in the most poorly studied environment on earth—the deep sea. Andrea strives to work on projects that directly connect with resource managers in order to help effectively conserve vulnerable marine ecosystems in the face of global ocean change
Nicolás M. Morato is a PhD Candidate in Chemistry, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana
His areas of interest are : Mass spectrometry, ambient ionization (e.g. DESI, paper-spray, touch-spray), bioanalysis, forensic chemistry, high throughput analysis.
Peter Matthews is an English artist who works exclusively along the coast, in the ocean and occasionally, over the last few years, creeping inland into the mountains and deserts. As a landscape-based artist, his work explores a direct and lived experience with time, place, space and the physical and spiritual relationships with nature. He does not work from a studio and therefore his works and process of being out in the landscape challenge and seek balance with the elements of the ever-changing climate, earth and extended universe.
Robertina Šebjanič is an artist whose work explores the biological, chemical, political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and the impact of humanity on other organisms. Her projects call for the development of empathetic strategies aimed at recognising the rights of other (non-human) species.
Dr Alexandra Schnell is a Research Fellow of Darwin College and a Research Associate in the Comparative Cognition Lab at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests centre on complex learning and memory mechanisms in animals and how these abilities have evolved across diverse taxa. Her primary model species include cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish, and squid) and corvids (members of the crow family) but she also has experience working with elephants, freshwater fish, and juvenile crocodiles. In addition to her interest in cognitive evolution, she also has an interest in sensory ecology, neuro-ethology, sentience, and welfare. She currently holds a Newton International Fellowship funded by the Royal Society.