Re-envisioning her stars

Stella Feehily is a playwright and screenwriter. Duck, Stella’s first full-length play premiered in an Out of Joint and Royal Court co-production at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, before playing at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, the Royal Court Theatre and The Peacock Theatre, Dublin. Since then she has written O Go My Man (Royal Court Theatre) Catch (written with four other female playwrights) at the Royal Court, Dreams of Violence (Soho Theatre), Bang, Bang, Bang (Royal Court) and This May Hurt a Bit (a play about the National Health Service), which toured nationally before opening at the St James Theatre, London. Other works include  How To Get Ahead In Politics - Arts Theatre, and adaptations of Love And A Bottle for LAMDA's long project, Coppélia for Ballet Ireland and Claudio Tolcachir’s The Omission of the Family Coleman, performed at the Theatre Royal Bath in March 2019. For Irish National Opera she wrote the libretto for Close, a short opera composed by Hannah Peel.

Radio plays include Sweet Bitter for Lyric FM, Julia Roberts’ Teeth for Radio 3 and All of These Things for International Arts Partnership.

Television includes developments with BBC3, Blue Ink, Expectation and FilmNation. She is developing a film with Picture Locked Pics about surfing set in 1980s Ireland.

Aura Satz is an artist who works in film, sound, performance and sculpture. She has performed, exhibited and screened her work at Tate, London; Hayward Gallery, London; 2016 Biennale of Sydney; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; High Line Art, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kadist, San Francisco; Sharjah Art Foundation; Rotterdam Film Festival; Onassis Stegi, Athens; and Sonic Acts, Amsterdam. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection, London; Hayward Gallery project space, London; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Dallas Contemporary; ARTIUM, Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Titirangi; and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA. She recently completed her first feature film 'Preemptive Listening' (2024), which premiered at MoMA, showed at Tate, and won the New Vision award at CPH:Dox festival. She has taught at the Royal College of Art since 2014.

Anna Von Mertens is a visual artist and author. She received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Public Understanding of Science and Technology book grant in support of Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, published by the MIT Press in 2024. The book is an expansion of Von Mertens’s 2018-2019 exhibition at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, which travelled to the University Galleries of Illinois State University and Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in 2023. She received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studied dark matter as a structuring force in our universe, and a United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Arts. Her labour-intensive artworks use material intelligence as a lens to see science and history and have been widely exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Berkeley Art Museum; RISD Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery; Aspen Art Museum; Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, and National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design in Oslo, Norway. The artist is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon.