RUN OVER TWO VENUES : Main Meeting and programme point BRIDGE STREET BAR F23 PN20 start 11am

Curators taking part in the Visual Artists Café include :

Davey Moor
Davey Moor has worked as a curator since 2004, in a mix of independent and institutional roles, and has also written and lectured on art. Alongside the many freelance exhibitions he has produced, he was Head Curator at Monster Truck, 2008–2014; Director at Kevin Kavanagh gallery 2008–2010; Collection Manager & Registrar at the Irish State Art Collection in the OPW, 2010–2024 and Curator at the RHA 2024-2026. daveymoor.com

Dermot Browne
Dermot Browne is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and mentor based in Cork, Ireland. With a practice rooted in visual culture, he brings over two decades of experience in curating, exhibiting, and mentoring artists across Ireland. Dermot is the founder of Crane Visual and One Space Culture CLG, initiatives focused on accessible, regenerative arts engagement. His work bridges creative leadership, sustainability, and wellbeing, informed by training in Design Thinking, Conscious Leadership, and cultural entrepreneurship. Through a range of Embodiment practices, exhibitions, and one-to-one mentorship, he supports artists in navigating both practice and purpose in a changing (and challenging) cultural landscape.

Catherine Hemelryk
Catherine Hemelryk is a curator and Director of CCA Derry~Londonderry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and member of the British Art Network’s steering group. Catherine is a mentor, guest lecturer, editor, consultant and advisor. Under Catherine’s leadership, CCA was a Finalist for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 and during her time working at NN, Northampton, she led the organisation to achieve NPO status from Arts Council England. She was previously Curator at CAC Vilnius as well as working freelance with projects and curatorial residencies spanning Europe including GeoAIR Tbilisi, Sea Foundation Tilburg, Magacin Belgrade, Galerie Antje Wachs Berlin and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire.

Niamh Darling
Niamh Darling is a Dublin-based early-career curator, currently working as an Assistant Curator at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art and Ireland at Venice 2026. Niamh’s curatorial practice is concerned with how social norms are shaped and sustained in the precarious conditions of life under late capitalism. In her previous role as the 2024 Provost’s Fellow in Curating at The Douglas Hyde, Niamh curated Living Conditions, an event exploring the precarity embedded in the built environment, featuring new and existing works by Avril Corroon, Evan Kelly and Eva Richardson McCrea. In 2025, Niamh was Production Assistant to Deirdre O’Mahony on her forthcoming major new performance and moving image work. Niamh has also co-produced live performances and events including Miss Powder Vacuum in 2025 at The Douglas Hyde and Fringe was Here for Dublin Fringe Festival 2024. She was editor of Worlding, a publication featuring commissioned work by the 2024 Student Forum, and her writing has been published by The Lab, Visual Artist’s Newspaper and Paper Visual Art. She was recipient of the 2025 Agility Award.

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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