Visual Artists Café | Curator and Artist Networking Event at Linenhall Arts Centre (29 September)

The Bolay artists and Curator café and clinics limited to 24 artists -12 with studios based in Mayo and 12 from any other counties in Ireland.  The event will comprise of both a group networking workshop and an opportunity for individual clinics with curators.

Closing date for registrations: Monday 22nd September –  5pm

Curators include :

Alannah Robins

Alannah Robins maintains a dynamic artistic practice, based between Ireland and Sweden. A graduate of NCAD, Alannah has won several commissions and awards. She is the founder and director of Interface Artist-in-Residence programme in Connemara. Located in an old salmon hatchery, Interface offers opportunities for artists to explore intersections between scientific research and art in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Aisling Clark

Aisling Clark is a Dublin-based Curator. She was Provost’s Fellow in Curating 2023 at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, where she developed Unearthing Empire, a public programme connecting Ireland’s colonial past and present. Her recent research has focused on (de-)constructing nationalism: exploring architect Herbert Simms’ social housing in the Irish Free State, published by Mirror Lamp Press, and architect Michael Scott’s role in shaping the arts and culture of Modern Ireland, which will appear in a forthcoming monograph published by UCD’s School of Art History & Cultural Policy. In 2025, she curated the exhibition False Start → at GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford and is assistant curator of Out of the Strong, Came Forth Sweetness, at the former Science Gallery building, Dublin.

Dr Marianne O’Kane Boal

Dr Marianne O’Kane Boal is a well-known curator and writer on art and architecture. She has written extensively on these subjects over the past 25 years.  She writes for the Irish Arts Review, Circa, Perspective, Living Design, Visual Artists Newsletter and Architecture Ireland. She has curated over 50 exhibitions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Marianne completed her PhD in Social Research at Atlantic Technological University Sligo in 2023. She is President of the Irish Section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and Expert Advisor on Art for the Ministerial Advisory Group on Architecture and the Built Environment in Northern Ireland. She has been delivering webinars and professional development workshops for Visual Artists Ireland for over fifteen years since 2009 on curating, creative proposals, presenting work, writing about practice and public art. She is presenting at ‘Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley’ in February 2025 at the Aldous Huxley Centre, Zürich, her paper entitled ‘Symbolism and significance of food and sleep in Brian O’Nolan’s At Swim Two Birds and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World’. She has also presented at conferences in Prague, Chile, Belfast and Dublin.

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