Engage Art Studios was incorporated on 9th July 2012 as a Limitied Company. Company Number: 515928. On July 14th 2016 Engage Arts Studios moved its status to Company Limited by Guarantee. Engage Art Sudio Company Limited by Guarantee, Trades as Engage Art Studios.

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The Members of the company are Michaële Cutaya, Cecilia Danell, Michael Minnis, Megs Morley, Ruby Wallis and Austin Ivers

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Board of Directors

Cecilia Danell is Company Secretary. She has been a studio member of Engage Art Studios since 2009. She is represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.  Recent solo exhibitions include: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (2020, 2019), the RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin (2019), Galway Arts Centre and The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon (2017). Residencies include Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2020) and The Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Norway (2016). She was a 2017 recipient of the Arts Council Next Generation Award and has received several Bursary and Project awards from the Arts Council. A publication on Danell’s work was launched in 2017 with an essay by Sue Rainsford. She is represented in the collections of the Irish State, Trinity College, Wexford County Council, Galway City Council and Motala Municipal Council, Sweden. 

Michael Minnis is an artist and educator based in County Clare, Ireland. Born in Belfast, he received an MA from the Ulster University and was awarded a PS1 Fellowship in NY, in 1995. Since then he has been evolving an art practice through exhibitions and public interventions. Michael has had a wide variety of experience in curation and art administration, co-curating, ARC, Temporary Public Art Commissions, Dublin and an exhibition of the work of British artist, Lindsay Seers for the Gallery of Photography, Dublin. He has been a Board Member of the Gallery of Photography, Dublin and is a Co-Founder of Flax Art Studios, Belfast. He is currently undertaking a Practice Based PhD at Ulster University. Michael taught on the BA and MA Art Programmes at GMIT, Galway from 2001 to 2019 and recently took up an appointment as Lecturer in Fine Art, at Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT, Limerick.

Ruby Wallis is an award winning artist who completed her PhD in Fine Art Practice at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. She also has an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales. She was nominated for the Prix Pictet Award and won first prize at The Claremorris Open Exhibition. Wallis was selected for Belfast Exposed Futures and is preparing for a solo show in 2016. She lectures in Visual Culture at Griffith College, Pulse College and The Burren College of Art.

Blaise Drummond was born to Irish parents in Liverpool in 1967 and studied Philosophy and Classical Art at the University of Edinburgh before attending the National College of Art and Design in Dublin for a Joint BA Honours in Fine Art Painting and the History of Art. In 1998 he graduated with an MA in Fine Art Painting from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.  His work, mostly realised in the form of painting, drawing and sculpture/installation, is centred around ideas of the natural world, landscape and its representation, architecture and design. In 2006 he also began an on-going collaboration on a body of printed work with the Paris based publisher and master printer, Michael Woolworth.  In 2016 he began working with the Italian design company Magis, with whom he has been producing a series of screenprint editions.
He has had numerous exhibitions in galleries around the world and a number of museum shows dedicated to his work, including the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany in 2009 and Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, France in 2006. Recent projects include a collaboration with Louis Vuitton on an artist book, The Arctic , and the public art commission, A New Path to the Waterfall, for the Children’s Hospital at the Royal London, UK. His latest shows were A History of Hope at Galerie Loevenbruck in Paris in November 2018 and Chagrin Falls at Engage, Galway in July 2019  . His work is held in numerous museum, public and private collections around the world and he is a 2019 winner of the Fondation Colas Prize for Painting in FranceHe lives in the middle of rural Ireland in Tang, County Westmeath where he tends his garden with his wife, Síabhra Durcan and their four children, Sonny, Bea, Arthur and Søren

Conor McGrady is Dean of Academic Affairs at Burren College of Art. As an artist he has exhibited internationally, with one-person exhibitions in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago and Zagreb, Croatia. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York, The Jerusalem Show VII: Fractures (Qalandiya International Biennale), Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-0 Ark Underground, Sarajevo-Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Editor of Curated Spaces in the journal Radical History Review, his writing has appeared in Ruminations on Violence (2007) State of Emergence (2011), State in Time (2012) and The Design of Frontier Spaces (2015). He lives and works in the Burren, Ireland.