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tara byrne: dit, school of art design + printing, research scholar

 

 

 

biographical details

 

Tara Byrne is an arts consultant based in Cork and Dublin. Most recently she was Director of the National Sculpture Factory, where, between 2002 and 2008, she developed a range of artists' services and international opportunities, as well as commissioning national and international projects, conferences and publications including desIRE; designing houses for contemporary Ireland (2007 conference and publication) and Cork Caucus; on art, possibility and democracy embed link (2005 event and 2008 publication).

She has worked with and commissioned many artists and curators, including Inigo Manglano Ovalle, Ciara Moore, Bik van der Pol, Kenji Endo, Sean Lynch, Annie Fletcher, Charles Esche, Sarah Browne, Apolonija Sustersic, Static, Maria Eichhorn, Eoghan McTigue, Shane Cullen, Andrew Stones, Daphne Wright and Johnny Hanrahan, Jordan Baseman, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Pierce, Art/not art, Surasi Kusolwong, Catherine David, Seamus Nolan, Sorcha O'Brien and Elli Caamano, Paul O Neill, Sarat Maharaj, Mick O Shea, Stephen Brandes, Phil Collins. Before her Directorship at NSF, she worked as Artists' Support Executive at the Arts Council of Ireland, Alternative Entertainments (Tallaght), Irish Museum of Modern Art and National College of Art and Design. She completed a BA in History of Art and English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin in 1991 and a Higher Diploma in Arts Administration from UCD in 1993. She is a former board member of CIRCA, the Visual Arts Journal in Ireland and a member of IKT Curators' Forum.

 

 

 

research interests

Tara is currently (January 2009) initiating research into aspects of 'creative cities' rhetoric and cultural planning. A detailed description of this work will be posted later in the Spring Semester.


 

 

 

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