The World Was All Before Them
TULCA Festival
The Lifeboat Press
English
Curated and commissioned by Clare Gormley.
Edited by Stephen Connolly.
Softcover
112 pages
170 x 240 mm
2022
ISBN 9781916222878
Commissioned by Clare Gormley for the 2022 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and edited by Stephen Connolly, The World Was All Before Them features new work by seven writers: Simon Costello, Dane Holt, Miriam Gamble, Michael Magee, Padraig Regan, Trenna Sharpe and Sacha White.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/the-world-was-all-before-them?_pos=6&_sid=fc6737be0&_ss=r)
About the Curator
Clare Gormley is a curator and researcher from and based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is Head of Programmes and Partnerships at Belfast Photo Festival, where her recent projects include the curation of Zanele Muholi’s first solo exhibition on the island of Ireland (2021), and major forthcoming commissions with artists including Kensuke Koike (2022) and Hannah Starkey (2023).
Clare is also the co-founder and Director, alongside Anna Liesching, of the Northern Irish Art Network (NIAN), a research, commissioning and curatorial platform supported by Tate, Paul Mellon Centre and British Council. Current and recent NIAN projects include a collaborative symposium with The Courtauld on ‘Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories’; forthcoming exhibitions at Golden Thread Gallery and Ulster Museum; and a collaborative project with the African Artists Foundation to develop critical discourse around Northern Irish and Nigerian art practice.
Previously, Clare was Assistant Curator at The MAC, Belfast, where she worked across the visual arts programme, curating a range of exhibitions including the group show, ‘On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art’ (2019) and Ambera Wellmann’s solo exhibition ‘UnTurning’ (2021). Prior to this, Clare held curatorial and research positions at institutions including TATE; Pangolin London; Catalyst Arts; and Islington Exhibits, and has worked as an independent curator for organisations such as PS² and Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast.
Clare is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA), and the Glasgow School of Art (BA) and is Alumni of Tate’s Emerging Curators Group and the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive programme.
(source: https://www.tulca.ie/events/2022/11/12-3)
About the Editor
Stephen Connolly is a writer, editor and designer from Belfast. He is a founding editor of The Lifeboat Press, where he has published new work by Michael Magee, Paul Muldoon, Susannah Dickey, and Leontia Flynn. In 2022, he was appointed as the first Festival Curator at Listowel Writers’ Week, the oldest literature festival in Ireland.
(source: https://www.bocaslitfest.com/speaker/stephen-connolly/)
About the Festival
Since 2002, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts has captivated Galway city and county with an eclectic display of Contemporary Art. TULCA is a multi-venue, artist-centered festival of contemporary art that works with Irish curators to present innovative exhibitions that provoke and energise audiences into the world of the Visual Arts.
tulca.ie
(source: https://www.tulca.ie/mission)
About the Publisher
The Lifeboat Press is an independent publisher of poetry and non-fiction based in Belfast. Their recent publications include Sure Thing by Paul Muldoon, Oh! by Susannah Dickey and Queering the Green: post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry, edited by Paul Maddern.
lifeboatpress.com
(source: https://www.tulca.ie/the-lifeboat)
