Our Team
Conor McTernan
Senior Marketing, Partnerships & Programme Manager
Conor oversees all marketing & content strategy for AVA brands & management of the internal team. He leads on partnerships, conferences programming & the day-to-day of putting our projects on the international stage.Emmett Costello
Senior Programmer & Curator
Emmett is an event curator, producer & marketer who has worked across the Northern Irish & UK creative sectors for over 8 years. Working with AVA, he has led on programming, partnerships & marketing across events in Belfast, London, Manchester, Dublin & Glasgow. He is now the lead on artist curation & programming.
Senior Programmer & Curator
Emmett is an event curator, producer & marketer who has worked across the Northern Irish & UK creative sectors for over 8 years. Working with AVA, he has led on programming, partnerships & marketing across events in Belfast, London, Manchester, Dublin & Glasgow. He is now the lead on artist curation & programming.
Saoirse Doody
Junior Producer
Saoirse is a junior event producer and freelance artist from Belfast.
Having done set decorating for Paramount Pictures as well as fulfilling event management and artist liaison roles for clubs and festivals in Belfast and London, Saoirse's abilities are wide-ranging, making her an asset to any creative team.
Junior Producer
Saoirse is a junior event producer and freelance artist from Belfast.
Having done set decorating for Paramount Pictures as well as fulfilling event management and artist liaison roles for clubs and festivals in Belfast and London, Saoirse's abilities are wide-ranging, making her an asset to any creative team.
Charley McDermott-Edwards
Designer
Charley is the designer at AVA Festival, having joined in 2023.
He has had a varied career as an animator, artist and ‘motion-first’ designer having worked for Boiler Room, Amazon Music and Cashmere Radio in addition to his freelance clientele across TV and broadcast industry. Charley works to implement forward-facing motion and design into AVA’s campaigns with an eye fixated on the digital arts community. To this end he has collaborated with external studios to work on AVA’s campaign, executing studio-led design practice for AVA’s visual identity.
Additionally Charley works as a digital artist with an experimental and explorative workflow, creating experiments in CG art using Cinema 4D.
Designer
Charley is the designer at AVA Festival, having joined in 2023.
He has had a varied career as an animator, artist and ‘motion-first’ designer having worked for Boiler Room, Amazon Music and Cashmere Radio in addition to his freelance clientele across TV and broadcast industry. Charley works to implement forward-facing motion and design into AVA’s campaigns with an eye fixated on the digital arts community. To this end he has collaborated with external studios to work on AVA’s campaign, executing studio-led design practice for AVA’s visual identity.
Additionally Charley works as a digital artist with an experimental and explorative workflow, creating experiments in CG art using Cinema 4D.