Night Logic – echoes & entanglements – features the work of our second year MFA students in the Studio Art and Art & Ecology programmes.  From December 6-11, our Study Abroad Undergraduates will have their end of semester show, Wherever you are is called Here, alongside first year postgraduate Open Studios, in both the Gallery and Barn studios.

Elana Morchower is an artist specializing in woodcut printmaking. Their lived experience as a Queer person growing up in the Southern US has pushed them to explore alternative worldways where multiple truths can exist – the beautiful, the strange, and the in-between. Morchower reflects in particular upon the ‘othering’ of Queer and additional marginalized identities, and how this relates to similar ideas imposed on ecological systems. Morchower is interested in connecting fantasy to reality, highlighting the ability to ignite change through world-building. 

Morchower holds a BFA in Studio Art and Urban Environmental Studies from Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, United States (2024) and is currently pursuing an MFA in Art and Ecology at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland (anticipated graduation 2026). They live and work between Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Ballyvaughan, Ireland. Morchower has worked as a teaching artist at the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell, GA, the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Birmingham, AL and the Magic City Art Connection’s Imagination Festival in Birmingham, AL. They have exhibited work throughout the Southeast United States in Birmingham, Alabama; Atlanta, Georgia; Woodstock, Georgia, and more recently in Ballyvaughan and Galway, IE, including in community-based fundraisers for Palestine. Morchower’s work has been supported by a residency at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Their work has also been featured on an album cover and was published in and awarded by The Western Border Literary and Arts Magazine.

Karen St Pierre is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans collage, photography, and abstraction. Working with layered imagery and spatially responsive installations, she constructs mythic, feminist-inflected narratives that foreground ecological perception and the relational intelligence of the natural world. Her recent work deepens this trajectory by approaching memory as an archaeological terrain where fragments are revealed, examined, and reconsidered, an inquiry that continues to guide her current direction.

Her work has been exhibited internationally across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, with notable presentations including On the Move at the EPIC Museum in Dublin; The Intuitive Eye at G.A. Gallery in Tokyo; Free Range at the Byrdcliffe/Kleinert Gallery in Woodstock, New York; and the 2024 ELIA European Emerging Artists Showcase. She has completed residencies at the Royal College of Art in London and the Vermont Studio Center. St Pierre divides her time between Woodstock and Dublin and is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at the Burren College of Art, University of Galway. She holds a BA in Art History from Columbia University and an MA in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in California.

Alongside her studio work, St Pierre has contributed to the arts through curatorial and administrative roles, including long-standing work with the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, producing online master classes for The Juilliard School, and editing interdisciplinary art-and-neuroscience content for the Rubin Museum of Art’s Brainwave series. Her practice is rooted in the belief that image, gesture, and myth carry lasting power to expand inner experience and collective cultural imagination.

Sarah Vandermeer (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, performance, and writing. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2012 with a degree in sculpture, developing a practice rooted in narrative-driven, immersive projects. After relocating to New Orleans in 2013, Vandermeer served as scenic designer for Intramural Theater and founded the production company All of Them Witches with two other artists, where she acts as creative director and production designer for numerous music videos for both local and nationally acclaimed artists. She has exhibited widely, designed book and album covers, and been featured on the cover of Current Affairs magazine. At Burren College of Art, her focus on ecology expands her practice while remaining informed by her theatrical and narrative strategies from New Orleans.

Vandermeer’s practice explores magical thinking, environmental unease, and the emotional charge of environments. She draws on psychogeography and folklore, painting spaces that act as psychological thresholds, where memory and human waste intersect. Her atmospheric, surreal work uses colour and texture to guide perception and reveal the uncanniness of the natural world. Her background in theater informs her work, where she uses sculptural elements to highlight the theatricality and artifice of our understanding of magic and place.  Her work asks how we perceive magic and questions what we call natural; it examines the tension between what we see and what we feel. Each piece invites viewers to navigate these spaces, reclaiming imaginative agency.