Interdisciplinary Artist

Visual and socially engaged artist Rhona Byrne, based in Dublin, works across performative and social sculpture, making sculptural spaces, installations, relational objects, drawing, video and photography. Often responding to a site or context, her practise is connective, with a collaborative and cross-disciplinary approach.

Her projects are ongoing explorations into the complex multi-dimensionality of physical and social space and the unstable emotional conditions of place and affect. Her works invite a spatial embodied and connective experience and an inquiry into the material world. 

She graduated with a BFA Sculpture NCAD in 1994. Rhona has exhibited and has been commissioned extensively in Ireland and internationally and has been supported with numerous awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. Rhona has undertaken several artist residencies internationally. 

Rhona work is in the collection of The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland, Fingal County Council, Facebook, Microsoft, Beaumont hospital, NUI Maynooth, The Rollercoaster society America and private collections. Rhona is currently a part time assistant lecturer in LSAD Sculpture and Combined Media. 

“This is a signifcant opportunity to not only make connections in NYC but offers artists expert technical support in an exciting and vibrant creative community. It fosters new fabrication techniques, peer feedback, and the potential for prototyping larger-scale sculptures and projects.

International artists' programs are crucial because they democratize artistic development by providing access to resources that are often financially prohibitive. These opportunities expand professional networks, increase global visibility, and offer artists critical infrastructure - studio spaces, specialized equipment, and expert guidance - that can fundamentally transform creative practices. By removing economic barriers, such programs enable artists to explore new methodologies, collaborate internationally, and develop work that might otherwise remain unrealized.” - Rhona Byrne

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Interdisciplinary Artist

Corban Walker (b. 1967, Dublin, Ireland) gained recognition for his installations, sculptures, and drawings that relate to perceptions of scale and architectural constructs.  His local, cultural, and specific philosophies of scale are fundamental to how he defines and develops his work, creating new means for viewers to interact with and navigate their surroundings.

Walker represented Ireland at the 54th Venice International Art Biennale in 2011. He received the Pollock Krasner Award in 2015

Corban spent 12 years based in New York, where he was represented by Pace Gallery. Since he returned to Europe in 2017, he has worked with many cultural institutions that have exhibited his installations across the continent. In 2002, The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork presented a survey of his work, “As Far As I Can See”. In 2023, he produced his first monograph of the same title, including texts by Christian Viveros Fauné and Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith.

“WORKS is a vital instrument for artists to get an opportunity to experiment, collaborate, learn techniques at the very high end that are otherwise unavailable or prohibitively expensive. 

We live in a global village. If it's accessible, then it is essential to learn from experiences in other parts of the world. New York is an obvious location to maximise that experience. 

Powerhouse Arts program has a lot to offer any artist. An opportunity to work in that environment would be an enormous benefit to an artist who normally works alone in an isolated condition. With the new facilities available, it's a wonderful opportunity to explore." - Corban Walker

Mixed Media Artist

Marc Lambrechts (b. 1955, Lier, Belgium) currently lives and works in New York City, United States, and in Meyreuil, France.

 Lambrechts’ early studies in printmaking took place at the Higher Sint-Lucas Institute in Brussels, Belgium, after which he obtained a scholarship to study in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Upon returning to Belgium, he started working as a visual artist in charge of graphics and displays at the Center for Brussels Amateur Theater.

His prints soon received widespread acclaim, which led to collaborations with Moving Space Gallery in Ghent. In 1983, he moved to New York City and continued practicing printmaking at the Pratt Institute.

It was in New York he started to paint and quickly acquired attention. The first breakthough came with being selected to exhibit at the Soho Center for Visual Artists in a show sponsored by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Representation by Tibor de Nagy Gallery came next. His first solo exhibition with the gallery was featured in Art News.

Lambrechts has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe over the years.

 His work is currently featured in private, corporate, and institutional collections worldwide, including The Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, NC), Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece, Proteck Pharmaceuticals (Bern, Switzerland), David and Lucille Packard Foundation (Los Altos, CA), the Edward Albee Collection, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT, deaccessioned), the Province of Antwerp (Belgium), Flemish Community, Davidsfonds Nationaal (Belgium), Gemeentekrediet (Belgium), Stichting Paulus Dommelhof, Eindhoven (Holland), and Princess Madeleine of Sweden. He also served as guest professor at the Higher Institute for the Arts in Antwerp, Belgium.

Lambrechts’ work is chronicled in Willem Elias’ Aspects of Belgian Art After 1945 and Twenty Five Years of Graphic Art in Flanders, and has been reviewed in well-known periodicals such as Art News, the New York Arts Magazine, the New York Times, Arts and Entertainment, Le Soir, and Kunst and Cultuur, and others.