Curator's Tour: Clare Gormley
Saturday 12 Nov 2022
12pm - 1pm
TULCA Gallery
Join Clare Gormley for a walk around the TULCA Gallery to hear about the development of the TULCA 2022 programme.
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: TULCA Gallery, MetLife, Hynes Building, St Augustine Street, 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