Aisling Prior was the founding curator/director of Breaking Ground, the art commission programme in Ballymun, (01-’08), where she produced over 40 projects including Jochen Gerz “amaptocare” Jeanette Doyle “Portrayals”, Seamus Nolan “Hotel Ballymun” Adam Chodzko “Around” and work by Desperate Optimists, Andrew Kearney, Paul McKinley, Paddy Jolley and others. She curated the international exhibition and conference “Art in the Life World”. After graduating from UCD with a degree in Philosophy, she lived in Paris, where she organised a retrospective of Irish Cinema at the Centre Georges Pompidou. She was the founder of the Galway Film Centre, (’88-‘90) and the director of the Sculptors’ Society of Ireland (VAI), (’91-‘97). She holds an MA in Visual Arts Practices, IADT(’04-’05)

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