A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Dawn Dudek's animation career began after she joined Toronto's TOPIX/Mad Dog studio as Director of Broadcast Animation.  After 5 years she moved to online media as Art Director and Animator at Maclaren McCann Interactive (MMI).  In 2001 Dudek relocated to France to focus on painting and has recently returned to be based back in Canada continuing her practice as a multi-disciplinary artist.  

Dawn has exhibited in Canada, the UK, Australia and throughout Europe, including twice at the prestigious Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the Carrousel du Louvre, followed by a solo exhibition of her Filmscapes paintings at the 63rd FESTIVAL DE CANNES. Dawn was Artist In Residence at the Fremantle Arts Centre (Jan. – June 2022/Dec – March 2022/23) and AIR at Sointula Art Shed on Malcolm Island, Canada for August 2022 and August 2023.

During these residencies, she continued to work on her project “Distance + Displacement,” which was exhibited at ECU Gallery 25 in Perth, Australia, February 2023, and won the acclaimed Fringe World Award 2023 for Visual Arts and Film.

Dawn was recently featured in Artlyst’s “Contemporary Artists in the Spotlight 2023”  and continues to assist Marine Education and Research Society with visual storytelling while working on her own creative projects. @dawndudek

Happiest in an interview or researching for a book, when someone invites her into their world to tell their story, Nico sees herself as an interpreter.

Nico Kos Earle is an independent curator and arts writer who spent her formative years in Paris and holds a degree in Literature with Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin. A member of the Critics Circle, she currently has an ongoing collaboration with the artist Andrea Hamilton, The Colour Project, Artlyst, A Quiet Lunch, and previously the Huffington Post. Focused on developing artists in early to mid career, curating the dialogue between studio practice, gallery, and audience, she regularly writes catalogue and title essays for Saatchi gallery, Ibid Gallery, Art Bastion, Cadogan Contemporary, JGM Art, Phoenix Arts, and for a wide range of artists like Nancy Cadogan, Deborah Tarr, Chris Levine, Simon Allison and Aigana Gali. Her most recent books include Joost Vandebrug's Cince Lei, and Emma Witter. 

She has curated numerous major group shows in the UK and the US, which include the meta themes: Botanicae, Sense of Place, DRIFT, SURFACE, Sacred Geometry, and ongoing iterations of BLUE for the Blue Marine Foundation since 2017, most recently BLUE MINDS 2021. Major public art projects include Simon Allison for Merck, and Hamish Mackie’s Goodman Fields Horses which won the Marsh Award. Nico is currently working on a series of poems for a book and short film segments as part of a wider project for ocean conservation. @nicokos