Nicky Gogan is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design Ireland and of EAVE 2008. In her college days, Nicky became involved in the dance music scene in the early 90's running club events in Dublin. This experience sparked an interest in collective collaboration with a community ethos, which led to her early practice of process filmmaking. The friends Nicky met and subsequently collaborated with (and many more along the way), have enabled her to spearhead numerous cultural events and organisations over the years, such as; Sink Digital Media, Darklight Digital Film Festival, DATA (Dublin Art And Technology Association), Wildlight Channel, Exhibit series at The Digital Hub, Offline Animation Residency and Still Films, where Nicky has been writing, producing, editing and directing animations, artist films, dramas and documentaries over the past 15 years (www.stillfilms.org).
Nicky’s love of animation has always been a strong theme in her curatorial and programming practice and now makes up a big part of her creative output in her work as executive producer and head of development at animation studio Piranha Bar, where she is co-creator on her first TV series IRL with NCAD classmate and creative director Gavin Kelly (piranhabar.ie). IRL marries animation and live-action on-screen while embracing retroscripting as part of the writing process - keeping creative collaboration at the project’s core.
Nicky’s current work at Still Films embraces her roots in documentary, where she most recently produced Vivienne Dick's film, New York Our Time. Nicky is currently working on a new body of work with long time creative collaborator Paul Rowley, a trilogy of thematically linked real-life stories from the past - harnessing their documentary sensibilities into works of scripted fiction.
(c) photo by Bríd O'Donovan