CREATIVE PRODUCERS 2025–2027
The six participants of our Creative Producer Programme 2025–2027 are Aisling Murray, Fatoumata Gandega, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Nathan O’Donnell, Rachel Botha, and Seán Ward.
Aisling Murray is a Creative Producer and Cultural Programmer with over 10 years’ experience covering exhibitions, festivals, literature, spoken word, theatre and dance. She is the founder of Ireland’s art and technology festival, Beta Festival, which critically engages with technology's impact on society through exhibitions, discussions and performance. Murray recently produced the Ireland pavilion exhibitions for Expo Osaka 2025 and was Head of Programming at Science Gallery Dublin (the founding Science Gallery in the international network) up until its closure, where she produced creative programmes converging art, science, technology and society from concept to full realisation in Ireland and internationally. Murray is interested in work at the intersection of art, society and technology with specific interest in immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, industry collaboration and socially engaged work. She was a mentor for Arebyte’s Hotel Generation programme 2025 for the next generation of digital artists in the UK.
Fatoumata Gandega is a writer, filmmaker, curator, and artist based in Dublin. Her practice addresses identity, displacement, and belonging themes, centring voices from diasporic, Muslim, and Black communities. She employs a collaborative and participatory approach with groups to co-create work that reflects their authentic experiences. Inspired by interdisciplinary approaches, Gandega integrates visual arts, film, cultural archives, and oral histories to challenge dominant narratives and reimagine the possibilities of representation. Her approach is rooted in storytelling, using narrative to explore questions of social justice, inequality and resilience. Gandega is the recipient of the Create & Fire Station Catalyst Residency Award, the National Talent Academy First Credit Short Film Award and the National Council Youth of Ireland SPARK Mini Grant Scheme. Fatoumata is the current Curatorial Fellow 25-26' with Superprojects, NCAD Access and Sirius Arts Centre.
Iarlaith
Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer who is currently an Independent Producer at field:arts, working with artists Bridget O’Gorman, Ebun Sodipo and Lyónn Wolf. Ní Fheorais was the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Art and curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence of VISUAL Carlow in 2022. She has written for publications such as Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and Girls Like Us and Paper Visual Art, and has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA’s 41st Platform Commission, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform Award 2023. Alongside her curatorial and writing practice Ní Fheorais regularly engages in collaborative artistic projects, currently co-directing a film with artist Sarah Browne on the drawings of the artist known as J.J. Beegan. She is the author of the Access Toolkit for Art Workers and has a forthcoming book on the MedTech industry in Ireland commissioned by Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick and If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam.
Nathan O'Donnell is a writer and curator who works in the fields of experimental publishing, artists' writing, and participatory practice. He is one of the coeditors of PVA (Journal + Books) and he also regularly makes publications through artistic collaborations, commissions, and public art projects. O’Donnell has been a curatorial associate on several projects at IMMA since 2018 and he also works across other organisations and institutions. He lectures on contemporary art and experimental publishing at NCAD and Trinity College Dublin.
Rachel Botha is a curator, her expanded curatorial practice responds to the local context and investigates how people perceive their social framework. She holds a BA in History of Art & Architecture from Trinity College Dublin, and a MA in Visual Culture & Critical Studies from Technological University Dublin. Botha was the Provost’s Curatorial Fellow at The Douglas Hyde, Trinity College Dublin, a co-director of Catalyst Arts, Belfast, and the Emerging Curator in Residence at the Kilkenny Arts Office. She was appointed the Emerging Editor of Bloomers Magazine, and the Early Career Curator in Residence at the Regional Cultural Centre and Glebe House & Gallery in Donegal. Recently she was the Assistant Curator at Project Arts Centre, and supported the Irish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale 2024. Botha is currently the curator of the Tea Houses, a newly activated space to host a responsive public art programme situated by the River Nore in Kilkenny.
Seán Ward is a curator and researcher based in County Derry. His practice explores how colonial narratives may persist in cultural spaces, using curating as a method to engage with spatial justice, contested heritage, and the hyperlocal, and approaches curatorial work as both a research method and a tool for commoning knowledge. Ward holds a BA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he also studied with the Centre for Research Architecture. From 2023 to 2025, he was a Co-Director at Catalyst Arts, where he co-produced exhibitions, commissions, and public programmes. Ward currently works at CCA Derry~Londonderry, supporting public programmes and communications. His writing has appeared in Art Monthly and other independent publications. Across his practice, he continues to explore curating and writing as tools for situated, collaborative, and politically engaged cultural production.
(Photo at top by Finn Richards)
Kunstverein’s Creative Producer Programme is supported by the Arts Council through the Creative Production Supports scheme.
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