I am the Visual Arts Officer for Galway Arts Centre. At the moment I am attempting to resolve the difference between how I currently operate and the way I want to operate as a curator in my job. I have carved out two shorter slots in my exhibition programme this year to work in the way I aspire to work in permanently. At present I am investigating the multiple roles and contexts of the curator, for example curators that work simultaneously at a local and international level. I am talking to curators who occupy these roles about how their curatorial objectives and strategies are realised in their practices.

In addition, I am considering my individual curatorial identity in relation to my current job role where I instigate and present exhibitions regularly. I am researching artists and curators who work in a site-specific context and also those who see the gallery space as a space for production and communication, not just a space where fully resolved work is displayed before a passive audience. At present I am examining the strategies employed by ‘Situations’ in Bristol and reading texts by Mary Jane Jacob. Alongside this sits my long-term interest in Heterotopic spaces, Utopia and ‘The Wrong Place’.