A passionate and gentle guiding through experiences of art and architecture—searching for stories together.
With a background in both art and architectural history, I have worked with many art and architectural periods, partners and institutions, and festivals.
As guide and arts facilitator at the National Gallery of Ireland for a number of years, I researched and developed a variety of bespoke tours, talks, and lectures, examples of these can be found below.
Recently as curatorial fellow at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art in the USA, I developed and delivered programmes relating to their Irish Art collection and an exhibition I co-curated on the artist Walter Osborne.
Work with the National Gallery of Ireland and various partners and festivals in Ireland:
National Gallery of Ireland Exhibitions Tours
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life (2018)
Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns: Between Paris & Pont-Aven (2018)
Curious Creatures: Frans Post and Brazil (2018)
Canaletto and the Art of Venice (2018-19) (Key Guide)
Making their Mark: Irish Painter-Etchers & the Etching Revival (2019)
Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art (2019) (Key Guide)
Nathaniel Hone: Travels of a Landscape Artist (2019)
Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios: (New European Graphic) (2019)
The Voyage of Italy: 200 Years of Travel Guides (2019-2020)
Sorolla: Master of Light (2019)
Moment in Time: A Legacy of Photographs. Works from the Bank of America Collection (2020)
Jack B. Yeats: Paintings & Memory (2021-2022)
Giacometti: From Life (2022)
Turner: the Sun is God (2022-23)
Annual Turner Exhibition
Annual Portrait Prize
Through the National Gallery of Ireland I have been one of the official guides to the Merrion Hotel Art Collection
Pop-Up Talks
Sansovino through the eyes of Canaletto
Kathy Prendergast, Atlas
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Preparations to Celebrate the Birth of the Dauphin of France in the Piazza Navona
JMW Turner, Ship Against the Mewstone
Gabriele Münter, Girl with a Red Ribbon
Dorothea Lange in the Bank of America Collection
Ciorcail Comhrá
In-conversations in Irish on a variety of artists, themes, and exhibitions.
Specialised Archival Tours
First World War Artists in the Gallery, tour developed and offered for schools in conjunction with an archival exhibition Perspectives: World War I Stories from the Gallery
Gallery 'Grand Tour’, offered in conjunction with an exhibition from the Sir Denis Mahon archive Voyage of Italy: 200 Years of Travel Guides
Lectures and In-Conversations
Constructing Canaletto's Views, in-conversation talk with Dr Conor Lucey and Aoife- Marie Buckley
Canaletto and the Art of Venice, Illustrated Lecture Series developed in partnership with Dublin Libraries
Creative Careers Day at the National Gallery, Invited Speaker
Festivals and Partnerships
Frayed Festival (comedy tour)
First Fortnight Festival
Irish Architecture Foundation Open House Festival
National Drawing Day
Irish Architecture Foundation Members Tours