WHAT IS A CREATIVE PRODUCER?
What is a Creative Producer?
Event organised by Kunstverein’s Creative Producer Programme
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow
11am–5:30pm, Tuesday 3 February 2026
Take our Questionnaire on Creative Production
Kunstverein is thrilled to partner with Mermaid Arts Centre for a day of conversations focusing on the role and function of the Creative Producer in the visual arts in Ireland. The term Creative Producer is largely undefined and yet rapidly evolving. This event marks a moment of reflection, inviting practitioners and professionals to interrogate and problematise the term, in public. It will bring together curators, producers, programmers, production managers, artists, technicians, arts administrators, directors and other practitioners working in the field of contemporary visual arts production.
Schedule
Morning (11am–1pm):
- A series of ten-minute-takes from individual contributors responding candidly to the question ‘What is a Creative Producer?’
- Two thirty-minute paired conversations between selected contributors.
Lunch will be served on the stage. Lunch hour will feature interactive elements, a creative producer questionnaire, and a chance for informal chatting.
Afternoon (2:30–5:30pm):
- A series of breakout sessions for which the audience will be divided into groups of 6-10 participants for facilitated, group-based activities (e.g. breakout rooms, short walks, focus sessions, Q+As etc). Each group will have one Facilitator and one Reporter.
- An interview marking the launch of a new podcast series.
- A chaired panel discussion (featuring Reporters from each breakout session) reflecting on key questions/themes/thoughts of the day
List of contributors
Lian Bell, Rachel Botha, Sarah Browne, AlanJames Burns, Vaari Claffey, Maeve Connolly, Lizzie Crouch, Michelle Darmody, Fatoumata Gandega, Sara Greavu, Kerry Guinan, Francis Halsall, Léann Herlihy, Joanne Laws, Sophie Mak-Schram, Jennie Moran, Lynnette Moran, Aisling Murray, Sara Muthi, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Cian O’Brien, Nathan O’Donnell, Bridget O’Gorman, Mark O’Gorman, Aisling Prior, Mechu Rapela, Kate Strain, Ida Uvaas, Seán Ward, Amanda Wilkinson, Mick Wilson. Please scroll down for full biographies.
Tickets
To book your spot to attend the event, please register via Mermaid Arts Centre's box office here.
Access
Mermaid Arts Centre is located at Bray’s Civic Centre, just off Bray Main Street next to Bank of Ireland. The venue has step-free, accessible, inclusive bathrooms on the ground level. More information on the building and facilities can be found here.
The event will have ISL interpretation. A quiet room will be available throughout the day and attendees using the auditorium will be free to come and go. Please see Mermaid Arts Centre’s Autism-friendly ‘Know Before You Go’ here.
We have a small number of travel bursaries to contribute to attendee’s travel costs where required. If you are interested in applying for a travel subsidy in order to attend this event please email office@kunstverein.ie and we will provide further information.
Transport
We encourage attendees to consider using public transport or car-pooling where possible. Mermaid Arts Centre is a fifteen minute / 1.1km walk from Bray Dart Station. Alternatively you can use the L1, L2 and L12 buses to bring you from Bray Station (stop 4168) to Main Street Methodist Church (stop 4170). Mermaid Arts Centre is a three minute walk from there.
Please note: there is no free parking and accessible car-parking options are limited.
If you have any questions about the building or wish to flag any special requirements please contact Mermaid Arts Centre’s Box Office for assistance and information. Please call 01 272 4030 or email info@mermaidartscentre.ie
The event is part of Kunstverein's Creative Producer Programme, supported by the Arts Council through the Creative Production Supports scheme, and by Wicklow County Arts Office through the annual Strategic Project Award Scheme.
Lian Bell is an artist working between artforms and in the blurry crossover between artist and institution. With a background in scenography, visual art, cultural project management, and social activism, she has worked for over 25 years with some of the most significant arts organisations and contemporary performance makers in Ireland. Lian studied at Trinity College Dublin, Central Saint Martins, and NCAD, and has received numerous awards for her work. She was Campaign Director of #WakingTheFeminists, the grassroots campaign that changed Irish theatre, and co-authored WTF Happened, the book about the campaign published by UCD Press in 2025.
Rachel Botha is a curator, her expanded curatorial practice responds to the local context. 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. She 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. She 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.
| Sarah Browne is an artist concerned with spoken and unspoken, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. Her practice involves sculpture, film, performance and public projects, and frequent interdisciplinary collaboration. Browne’s recent solo projects include Echo’s Bones (2022: collaborative filmmaking project with autistic young people, responding to works by Samuel Beckett, commissioned by Fingal County Council); and Public feeling (2019: public art commission in South Dublin leisure centres). Her solo exhibitions include Buttercup, SIRIUS, Cobh, (2024), Report to an Academy, Marabouparken, Stockholm (2017), Hand to Mouth at CCA Derry~Londonderry & Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and The Invisible Limb, basis, Frankfurt (both 2014). In 2020 she curated TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, with a project titled The Law is a White Dog. Significant group exhibitions Browne has participated in include Bergen Assembly: Actually, the Dead are Not Dead (2019) and the Liverpool Biennial, with Jesse Jones (2016). In 2009 she co-represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy and their collaborative practice, Kennedy Browne. |
AlanJames Burns produces collaborative, interactive, socially engaged and site-specific exhibitions. The focal points of their artistic and curatorial practice are disability, climate change and the human mind. They are currently the Director of Disrupt Disability Arts Festival.
Vaari Claffey is an independent curator, researcher and writer based in Dublin, Ireland who recently launched 33rpm, a test-site for projects with artists. Known for her innovative and experiential projects, Claffey’s practice involves collaborating closely with artists and other practitioners to conceive and stage large-scale exhibitions, performance/screening events, filmworks and outdoor artworks. Claffey’s practice has often involved the establishment of speculative curatorial platforms. These include: 33rpm (2025–), Dirty Solutions, Exhibition Club with Isabel Nolan, Francis Halsall, Lily Cahill and Aphra Hill, (2023–), Gracelands (2008–), Isolation TV with Salzburger Kunstverein & others (2020–21). Exhibitions include Magnetism, Hazelwood, (2015) and The People’s Cinema, Salzburger Kunstverein with Seamus Kealy (2017). Film Projects include Why Be An Artist? with Oisin Byrne (2022) and This is Going to Take More than One Night (2010). Performance and Screening Programmes include I am the Beat at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019) and Resistance is Fertile at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2017). A podcast, Producing Strategies with Francis Halsall & Guests launches in February 2026.
| Maeve Connolly (she/her) is based in Dublin, where she teaches on art and media programmes at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She is the author of TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (Intellect, 2014) and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect, 2009). Other publications include contributions to Expanding Cinema: Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), Everything Is Somewhere Else(Paper Visual Art, 2020), Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989 (Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press, 2019) and Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her research focuses on changing cultures and economies of art and media practice. |
| Lizzie Crouch is a creative producer and academic researcher working at the intersection of science, culture, and art. She specialises in inclusive practice, and art–science collaborations that bring diverse forms of knowledge into dialogue, expanding how science is engaged in public and cultural contexts. She delivers engaging projects by navigating hierarchies and entrenched practices to integrate diverse forms of knowledge, expand creative approaches, and identify strategic opportunities that build on existing strengths. Her recent academic work, including PhD research, has deepened the theoretical grounding to her practice, while creating space to iteratively strengthen it through practice-based research. |
Dr Michelle Darmody is Executive Director of Kunstverein Projects and Programme Coordinator of the Creative Producer Programme. Darmody’s work spans art, food and sustainability education. She has overseen development of large scale cultural events such as Eat the Streets, for Dublin City Council and Summer Rising in IMMA, and more recently project managed an initiative funded by the Department of the Environment helping communities set up food sharing spaces called Our Shared Plate. Darmody completed her PhD through GradCam and the Culinary Arts Dept in TU Dublin, previous to that she studied art in MTU Crawford College of Art and Design and did a masters entitled the Art and the Contemporary World in NCAD. Darmody is on the board of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, as well as being an award winning writer for The Irish Examiner and author of Seed to Supper. She established The Cake Café and Slice in Dublin as well as setting up social enterprises such as Our Table. Arts based practice runs through everything she does.
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.
| Sara Greavu is the Director of Fire Station Artists' Studios. Previously she has worked at Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry; and Outburst Arts, Belfast, as well as working as a curator, independent researcher, writer and organiser of independent projects with various grassroots cultural groups. She was the curator, alongside Project Arts Centre, of the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2024) with the artist Eimear Walshe. Independent projects include We realised the power of it, a research exhibition produced with artist Ciara Phillips and former members of the Derry Film and Video Workshop, which dealt with intertwined political and cultural initiatives in Derry in the 1980s. |
| Kerry Guinan, PhD, is an artist and researcher affiliated with the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPim). Her interdisciplinary practice spans installation, performance, participatory art, and networked art, with a sustained focus on critically exposing social and spatial relations within globalised systems. Her Postdoctoral project at CAPim, ‘Sensing Scales in Political Aesthetics,’ explores the capacity of artistic practice to conceptualise and make sensible political phenomena that operate at extreme spatio-temporal scales, such as high-turnover, globalised, production chains, international, tele-communication networks, and deep-time, geological activity. Guinan completed her practice-based PhD at the Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS), where she developed a critical methodology informed by Gothic Marxism, socially engaged art, and Brechtian theatre, to represent and reconfigure long-distance social relations in globalised production chains. |
Francis Halsall is a lecturer in Visual Culture at National College of Art and Design, Dublin where he is co-director of the Master Program: Art in the Contemporary World. He works on ideas of systems and their cultural and philosophical significance. His recently published book Contemporary Art, Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion (Routledge, 2025) just came out in paperback.
Léann Herlihy (they/them) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin. Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies. Léann Herlihy is a lecturer in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. They are the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award [2022], Visual Arts Bursary [2021, 2023, 2024, 2025] & Project Award [2024]. Select solo exhibitions include the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin [2022]; Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival [2022]. Select two person shows include pass the baton, Galway Arts Centre [2025]; False Start, GOMA, Waterford [2025]. Select group shows include EXPO CHICAGO, US [2026]; Innsbruck International Biennial, Austria [2026]; Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum of Modern Art [2025]; Dreamtime Ireland, VISUAL Carlow [2025]; Precarious Joys, Toronto Biennial of Art [2024]; The Salvage Agency, TULCA [2024]; The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International [2023]; Reflex Blue, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios [2023]. They are a Member Studio Artist [2024-27] at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
| Joanne Laws is an art writer, editor and researcher based in County Roscommon. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and a regular contributor to contemporary art publications including Art Monthly. As Editor of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet – Ireland’s bi-monthly publication for the visual arts – Joanne commissions new writing for an Irish arts readership. Joanne has worked in an editorial capacity on catalogues and monographs for various publishers, museums, and festivals including Thames & Hudson, Mousse Publishing, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Among other professional commitments, Joanne currently serves on the board of directors of The Dock and Leitrim Sculpture Centre, and is programme external examiner for the Fine Art Department at Atlantic Technological University Sligo. |
| Sophie Mak-Schram works across art, art historical research and radical pedagogies. They engage others in place-specific work around power, collectivity, knowledges and futures. This work is informed by personal and shared experiences of cultural difference, coloniality, race and gender. Often using the metaphor of the 'tool' - as a poetic and practical object - Sophie works with collaborators to make tools that can shift power, gather groups and offer ways of being in relation (to each other, to place, to institutions) differently. Recent projects include To Shift a Stone (2025-2026), commissioned by National Museum Wales and Chapter Arts Centre, Stretching Thresholds, Holding Streams (2024-2025) in collaboration with Jeanne van Heeswijk, commissioned by Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Switzerland and Blueprints for Studies (2024) co-curated with Rahel Sphörer at Zeppelin University, Germany. Sophie was Curriculum Redefined Lecturer of Art Pedagogies at the University of Leeds, Research Associate at CCA Derry-Londonderry and Perspective(s) artist between 2024-2025. Sophie is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University and part of BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries. |
Jennie Moran is a visual artist who uses the philosophy of hospitality to create opportunities for shared connection. Her practice is rooted sculpture, culinary arts and physical theatre. She started an art/food/hospitality project called Luncheonette in 2013 which operated as the canteen in NCAD in Dublin and won best café in Ireland at the Food & Wine awards. She has written a book entitled 'How to Soften Corners' about hospitality. Her artistic research is supported with an Arts Council bursary. She provides mentorship in holistic hospitality to creative organisations, lectures in universities and curates discursive events. She is chair of the Oxford Food Symposium and Dublin Gastronomy Symposium. She was recently awarded a research scholarship by the Getty Institute in Los Angeles. She won Best Emerging Voice at the Irish Food Writing Awards and is featured in the Irish Independent's Ones to Watch for 2025.
Lynnette Moran is a Creative Producer and Festival Director specialising in Live Art, Theatre, Visual Art and Digital platforms; with distinct experience of producing collaborative and socially engaged arts practice and public art commissions. Lynnette is Artistic Director and co-founder of field:arts – a creative production support organisation funded by Arts Council Ireland. Lynnette is also the founding Festival Director of Live Collision International Festival, one of four core members of ANU Productions since 2013, and Lynnette has a long-standing working relationship with Amanda Coogan.
| 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 and is a jury member for Prix Ars 2026. |
Sara Muthi is a curator and writer. Born in Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania, and based in Dublin, her curatorial practice centres on research-led artist commissions developed in collaboration with arts and cultural institutions, with presentations in Ireland and Romania. Muthi is an Assistant Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, working across several significant exhibitions, including Hamad Butt: Apprehensions, in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, and curating a series of site specific performances across the museum site. In 2025 she was the guest Education Curator at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Since 2023 Muthi has been the Curator of Visual Art at Brown Mountain Diamond, an artist-run art residency space in deep rural Ireland. She is a member of AICA | International Association of Art Critics.
| Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer who is currently an Independent Producer at field:arts, working with artists Lyónn Wolf and Rouzbeh Shadpey. Ní Fheorais was the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and has written for publications such as frieze magazine, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal, and Paper Visual Art. She’s the author of the Access Toolkit for Art Workers and has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA’s 41st Platform Commission, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform Award 2023. 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, and has a forthcoming book on the MedTech industry in Ireland commissioned by Askeaton Contemporary Arts. |
Cian O'Brien is a prominent creative producer and arts leader who recently stepped down as the long-standing Artistic Director of Project Arts Centre to launch his own production and touring consultancy, COBA: Cian O'Brien Arts. In 2026 Cian is creative producer for the Ireland at Venice team alongside artist Isabel Nolan and curator Georgina Jackson. Cian works with a number of artists and organisations including Lauren Jones + Eoghan Carrick, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Safe to Create and the Irish Theatre Institute. Cian is an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at the School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin.
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 the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD.
| Bridget O’Gorman is an artist and writer working with text, live events, video and sculpture. Her career includes group and solo exhibitions and her works are held in public collections including the OPW and The Arts Council of Ireland. Recent projects include ‘The Skin Reads the Room’, Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, IE, 2025, 'Supernatural Bread', Project Arts Centre, IE, 2022, 'On Slowness', Auto Italia UK 2021, 'The Legacy of Gesture', FACT & DaDa Fest UK, 2019. Over the past four years she has been supported in disability-led research by Arts Council England, A-N, and the Arts Council of Ireland. She is a portfolio artist with field:arts curator and producer, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. In 2023 they developed an ambitious new body of sculpture and text entitled ‘Support | Work’ as part of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland. |
Mark O’Gorman has been the inaugural curator and producer of visual art at The Complex, a multi-disciplinary arts centre in Dublin's north inner city, since 2018. The exhibition programme focuses on commissioning site-specific work with a prolonged developmental process and conversational approach with artists, often bringing artists together in carefully considered dialogue. Mark has curated exhibitions featuring Olga Balema, Vivienne Dick, Aleana Egan, Jaki Irvine, Sean Lynch, A.Mac, Dennis McNulty, Locky Morris, Devin T, Mays and Anne Tallentire, among many other exceptional artists. He co-curated Fly Floor in 2023 with Niamh O’Malley in partnership with the Ireland tour of Ireland at Venice at The Complex. He consistently guest lectures at the National College of Art & Design, Technological University Dublin, and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology. He co-edited the exhibition publication Vertices with Paul McAree, published by Lismore Castle Arts, and his writing has appeared in Paper Visual Art and The Visual Artists’ News Sheet.
| Aisling Prior is a graduate of Philosophy and English at UCD and of the Masters in Visual Art Practices at IADT. She was director of the Breaking Ground art commissions programme where she produced 40 innovative projects in Ballymun, Dublin as part of that area's regeneration. Breaking Ground has been widely recognised as the flagship of contemporary public art projects in Ireland. While working in Paris, she co-organised a major retrospective of Irish Cinema at the Centre Georges Pompidou. She was the founder director of the Galway Film Centre and was the Director of the Sculptors' Society of Ireland, (VAI). |
| Mechu Rapela is a member of Tenthaus collective. In organisational terms Mechu is the managing director. In the collectives terms, the driver. Mechu’s role at Tenthaus collective is to keep everyone to the destination they need to get, knowing when to push forward, step aside or stop to recalibrate the route. Mechu is an external curator at KORO and a member of Decolonial arts education research and practice research group at the Department of Teacher Education at NTNU. Mechu was born and raised in Cordoba, Argentina. She received her education at UiO, where she graduated with a MA in Art History. |
| Kate Strain is founding CEO and Artistic Director of Kunstverein Projects, Ireland. In 2022 she established Kunstverein Aughrim, a curatorial production office that accompanies artistic practice through creative production. From 2016–2021 Strain was Artistic Director of Grazer Kunstverein, Austria, where she curated a rolling programme of newly commissioned exhibitions and public projects. Prior to that she was Acting Curator at Project Arts Centre, Dublin; a participant of de Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam; a participant of the Young Curators Residency Programme at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and a graduate of MA Visual Arts Practice, IADT Dun Laoghaire and BA History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin. Strain collaborates on curatorial research and commissioning projects RGKSKSRG with Rachael Gilbourne and the Department of Ultimology with Fiona Hallinan. Strain is a member of IKT, the international association of curators of contemporary art, and regularly lectures in art history, curatorial practice and creative production. |
| Ida Uvaas is a dance artist from Larvik, Norway. She holds an MFA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and BA (hons) Dance Theatre from Laban in London, where she lived and worked for many years, before relocating to Oslo. She is interested in collaborative and multi-disciplinary processes, and her work is often site-, time- and/or audience specific. |
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. 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. 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.
Amanda Wilkinson opened her gallery in November 2017, having been co-owner of Wilkinson Gallery, and brought with her the artists she had worked with since 2003. Most of these internationally renowned artists had their first solo UK exhibition at the gallery. The program continues to highlight key historical positions which are little known to the wider art world, placing them in dialogue with contemporary artists whose work addresses adjacent themes. The gallery also represents several estates, working closely with them to develop both the artists' market and their legacy through collaborations with public institutions, major collections and prominent publishers aimed at broadening the appreciation of often overlooked practices. The cross-generational programme is complemented by a publishing practice under the imprint Brewer Street Press.
Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin. He is currently Professor of Art, Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary. Trained as both an artist and historian of art and design–with graduate degrees in art & design history; information technology and education; and visual culture. Having three decades of experience in higher arts education, research, development and leadership, he has worked in a wide variety of roles and institutions, including as: former Director of Valand Academy, Gothenburg (2012-2018); Fellow at BAK, basis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands (2018/2019); Editor-in-chief PARSE Journal for Artistic Research (2015-2017); Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Ireland (2007-2012); Chair of the SHARE network of 40 higher arts education institutions across 30-plus countries (2010-2014); and Head of Research, National College of Art & Design, Ireland (2005-2007).
