Image description: A head shot of Iarlaith Ni Fheorais. Iarlaith is a white woman with long curly brown hair, wearing silver framed glasses and a grey wool coat. She is standing in a foggy field.

TULCA 2023 Curator: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais


Curator Biography

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer based between the UK and Ireland. She is an Independent Producer with field:arts, working closely with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. Recently she has curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence at VISUAL Carlow as part of Carlow Arts Festival and collaborated with Emma Wolf-Haugh on a new film commission for Ulysses 2.2. In previous roles she worked at Tate Modern and Britain as Assistant Curator of Young People’s Programmes and was the co-director of Basic Space from 2016-18.

As a writer she has written on the work of Jesse Darling, Manuel Solano and Lorenza Böttner for Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and has an art and access column with Visual Arts News Sheet. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, Arts and Disability Ireland and Goldsmiths University.

Committed to improving access in the arts, she is currently developing an Arts Council England funded access toolkit for curators and producers. She is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design and is currently studying at the Dutch Art Institute.  

“I’m delighted to be spending more time at home in Galway this year as the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA. Growing up in Galway, TULCA was a formative experience of art for me and I am honoured to have been invited to be part of the festival, especially following on from last year's powerful programme by Clare Gormely. 

I look forward to learning and reflecting together with artists on how our lives have been shaped by medical and carceral histories in the West of Ireland and elsewhere. I am also excited to create a more accessible experience for artists and visitors.”

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, TULCA 2023 Curator

TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise will run in November 2023 across multiple venues in Galway city and county.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Image: Tomás Eyzaguirre