Documentation of Public Programme | TULCA 2024
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to share the public outcomes and online documentation of its 2024 programme, The Salvage Agency curated by Michele Horrigan.
In the penultimate instalment of our festival roundup, we spotlight a series of artist talks and tours from the TULCA 2024 programme. Continuing its strong partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA hosted four artist talks in November 2024, held at ATU Wellpark Road and the Galway City Museum.
All talks and tours were recorded and are now accessible on the TULCA website as an educational resource.
Featured artists include Michele Horrigan, Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, Michael Holly, and Sean Lynch.
Curator’s Gallery Tour
Michele Horrigan
Join Michele Horrigan for a walk around the Printworks Gallery to learn about the development of the The Salvage Agency programme.
Artist Talks Series | ATU
Michele Horrigan
Michele Horrigan is an artist and curator, and the founder of Askeaton Contemporary Arts since 2006. She has facilitated over one hundred projects focused on site-specific, ecological, and social practices, including residencies, exhibitions, and publications in rural County Limerick. Many of these artworks have been showcased globally in exhibitions, biennials, and film festivals.
Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty
Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists living and working in the North-West of Ireland. They use performance, video, sound installation and storytelling, along with a detailed research process, to convey visions of transience and resistance. Their recent work tests the possibility of creating a new narrative identity for Ireland that will acknowledge our struggles, admit our complicities and build our capacity for solidarity.
Michael Holly
Michael Holly’s moving image work bridges documentary film and the art world, often featured on Only in Askeaton, an online platform created by Askeaton Contemporary Arts during the COVID-19 lockdowns. His explorations cover topics like curator Lucy Lippard’s 1985 exhibition Divisions, Crossroads, Turns of Mind, and writer-artist Adrian Duncan’s decade-long study of Bungalow Bliss, a series of affordable house designs that shaped Irish architecture.
Sean Lynch
Sean Lynch lives and works in Askeaton, County Limerick. He represented Ireland at the 2015 Venice Biennale. His solo exhibitions include City Hall Melbourne (2023), Edinburgh Art Festival (2021), and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2019). He has held fellowships and taught at universities across the UK, US, and Canada, and is a graduate of Stadelschule, Frankfurt. Lynch regularly exhibits at Dublin’s Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and co-presented a 2024 exhibition at The Complex with Laura Ní Fhlaibhín. He also works with Michele Horrigan at Askeaton Contemporary Arts, an artist-led initiative since 2006.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1-17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland
Video documentation: Jonathan Sammon
Photography: Ros Kavanagh