TULCA 2022 Artist Talk Series | Pálás Cinema
Curator's Talk: Clare Gormley
Introduced by Lucy Elvis
Friday 28 Oct 2022
10am - 11.30am
Pálás Cinema
Tickets: book here
TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them curated by Clare Gormley.TULCA is delighted to continue its partnership with ATU Centre for Creative Arts and Media to bring to you our popular curator’s talk along with talks by three of this year’s exhibiting artists every Friday for 4 weeks starting 28 October 2022. This year’s talks series will be hosted by Pálás Cinema.
Gain an insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them. Curator Clare Gormley will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events.
Curator: Clare Gormley
Clare Gormley is a curator and researcher from and based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is Head of Programmes and Partnerships at Belfast Photo Festival, where her recent projects include the curation of Zanele Muholi’s first solo exhibition on the island of Ireland (2021), and major forthcoming commissions with artists including Kensuke Koike (2022) and Hannah Starkey (2023).
Clare is also the co-founder and Director, alongside Anna Liesching, of the Northern Irish Art Network (NIAN), a research, commissioning and curatorial platform supported by Tate, Paul Mellon Centre and British Council. Current and recent NIAN projects include a collaborative symposium with The Courtauld on ‘Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories’; forthcoming exhibitions at Golden Thread Gallery and Ulster Museum; and a collaborative project with the African Artists Foundation to develop critical discourse around Northern Irish and Nigerian art practice.
Previously, Clare was Assistant Curator at The MAC, Belfast, where she worked across the visual arts programme, curating a range of exhibitions including the group show, ‘On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art’ (2019) and Ambera Wellmann’s solo exhibition ‘UnTurning’ (2021). Prior to this, Clare held curatorial and research positions at institutions including TATE; Pangolin London; Catalyst Arts; and Islington Exhibits, and has worked as an independent curator for organisations such as PS² and Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast.
Clare is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA), and the Glasgow School of Art (BA) and is Alumni of Tate’s Emerging Curators Group and the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive programme.
Venue: Pálás Cinema, 15 Lower Merchant's Road, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
Parking: pay and display
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The World Was All Before Them
Curated by Clare Gormley
4 - 20 November 2022
Galway, Ireland