Enjoy an evening of music and recitals from Steve and Deirdre’s collaborations together.

This special night celebrates Steve’s current exhibition in the arts centre Tempest, featuring twenty paintings in a response to Steve’s time working on Deirdre Kinahan’s play ‘Tempestsa’. During 2023/24, Steve was commissioned to write the score and perform in the play. The first run of the play was in Dublin and he was ensconced in a hotel for fifty nights in Temple Bar. 

“Deirdre’s play ‘Tempesta’ is a meditation on war. Early in the play’s run the war started in Gaza and the war in Ukraine was now going on for several years. I started to read ‘Boys in Zinc’ by Svetlana Alexievich, a fantastic book that captures the futility of war, and together, all this fed into the visual.” Steve Wickham.

An award-winning playwright, Deirdre is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s elected affiliation of outstanding artists. She collaborates with artists and theatres all over the world, is literary associate to Meath County Council and has a large canon of regularly produced plays to her credit.

Steve Wickham is an accomplished violinist, and was a long time member of the Waterboys. Steve has recorded on over 100 albums and performed live with various artists including U2, Bob Dylan, REM, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Sinead O’ Connor and many more. After a stint recording in the west of Ireland in the 1980s Wickham discovered his spiritual home and moved with his young family to Sligo. He lives close to the Leitrim Sculpture Centre where he regularly makes prints following several workshops with Welsh artist Pete Williams. When covid arrived and Steve was off the road from touring he chose to return to Fine Art at YAADA in the Atlantic University Sligo. Steve is married to the Artist Heidi Wickham.