‘Working with a Creative Producer’ is an online workshop that will detail the ways artists can work with a creative producer. A creative producer in an emerging role within the visual arts whose function sits somewhere between a curator and a project manager. They can work with artists in many ways but often support the production of new work through fundraising, logistics, admin and managing relationships while involved in the creative elements of an artist’s practice.
Creative producers often work independently from institutions and can work with artists across projects, working strategically over a sustained period of time. In this session, Ní Fheorais–who has worked as a creative producer as part of her work as an independent curator over the past five–will provide insight into how artists can build relationships with creative producers and the role they can play in your practice.
About the Facilitator
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer based between the UK and Ireland. She was the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts staging exhibitions, public programmes and printed matter responding to the legacy of mass psychiatric incarceration in Ireland entitled honey, milk, and salt in a seashell before sunrise. She’s the author of the upcoming book There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybirt Business Park (2026) published by Askeaton Contemporary Arts. She’s currently co-directing the film Going to Ballinasloe with artist Sarah Browne.
Ní Fheorais has written for publications such as frieze magazine, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal, and Paper Visual Art, among others. She has contributed to public programmes at Paul Mellon Centre, Chelsea School of Art, Rietveld Academie, Konstfack University and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin on subjects ranging from curatorial practice, writing on medicine and disability and access in the visual arts. She has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA’s 41st Platform Commission, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform Award 2023.
Her work is supported by the creative production supports initiative field:arts in her role as Associate Producer and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Email Aoibhie director@sample-studios.com to book your place.