Connecting with Curators is an online workshop for artists that will cover approaches to developing and building relationships with curators. This will include ways of effectively contextualising your work, the role of the curator in relation to your practice, methods of connecting with curators and building successful collaborations. This will be followed by a group conversation where participants will be invited to share their work and workshop ways of promoting your work and reaching curators.

About Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer and the author of the free online resource Access Toolkit for Artworkers. She is an Independent Producer at field:arts, working with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. She has previously curated the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence of VISUAL Carlow. As a writer she has written for publications including Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and Girls Like Us. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, KW Institute, Konstfack University, Royal College of Art and Arts and Disability Ireland.  She has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA Platform Commision 2025, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform 2023.

Accessibility

This event will take place online and will last 90 minutes. Please contact director@sample-studios.com if you have any specific access requirements.