ATU Wellpark Road
Galway, H91 DY9Y
Tuesday 22 October 2024
2pm - 3.30pm
TULCA’s Artist Talks Series returns for this year’s festival programme The Salvage Agency curated by Michele Horrigan. Continuing its longstanding partnership with ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will host the popular curator’s talk in ATU Wellpark Road on Tuesday 22 October at 2pm.
The TULCA Artist Talks Series will continue throughout the festival run with presentations by three exhibiting artists every Tuesday beginning on 5 November 2024. This year’s series will take place at ATU Wellpark Road and Galway City Museum.
Join us to gain insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The Salvage Agency. Curator Michele Horrigan will discuss the festival's theme and the curatorial principles that have shaped her selection of unique artworks and events.
Michele Horrigan
Michele Horrigan is an artist and independent curator. Since 2006 she is founder and curator of Askeaton Contemporary Arts, facilitating artist experimentation and residencies, exhibitions and publication production in rural County Limerick. Over one hundred projects have been realised with a particular interest in contemporary art engaged in site-specific, ecological and social practice. Many artworks made in this context have subsequently been presented throughout the world in exhibitions, art biennials and film festivals.
Since 2014, she is editor and publisher of A.C.A. PUBLIC, a publication venture with over twenty titles exploring the many meanings and relationships between art and the public realm. Michele has curated exhibitions and public programmes at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow; EVA International - Ireland’s Biennale of Contemporary Art, Limerick; Kunstvlaai Biennial for Experimental Art, Amsterdam; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Lismore Castle Arts; Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin and The National Women’s Council of Ireland, amongst others. Exhibitions of her artwork have been presented at Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin. In addition, her writing, essays and articles have been commissioned for, among others, Mousse Publishing, Winter Papers, Paper Visual Art Journal, Dundee Contemporary Arts and Bomb Magazine.
Michele studied art at the University of Ulster, Belfast and the Städelschule, Frankfurt. She is a member of IKT, the international association of curators of contemporary art, and an active collaborator with New York’s Independent Curators International. In 2022 she was presented a Civic Award by Limerick City & County Council in recognition of her ongoing curatorial work in Askeaton. In 2024 she will present the activities of Askeaton Contemporary Arts at the Curatorial Forum held at EXPO CHICAGO on the theme of Curating and the Commons. She continues to develop artistic and curatorial projects for PUBLICS, Helsinki, Flat Time House in London, Schloss Britz in Berlin, and The Model, Sligo.
The talks are free and open to everyone, but advance booking is necessary.
Access:
We aim to ensure that our event is accessible to all individuals interested in attending. If you have access related questions, please contact info@tulca.ie
ATU Wellpark Road
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