'Public Walkaround of MFA Fine Art' with Curator Aoife Ruane

Aoife Ruane is the inaugural Director of Highlanes Gallery, the Municipal Gallery for Drogheda and the North East. She has curated many exhibitions including solo touring exhibitions by artists including Joy Gerrard, Abigail O’Brien, Janet Mullarney, Teresa Nanigian and Mary A Kelly, and later this year, Brian Fay, as well as the recent, Nano Reid – Adamantine. She has co-curated thematic exhibitions including Re-Framing the Domestic in Irish Art (2013), Bristle: Hair and Hegemony (2017), Oidhreacht: Transforming Tradition (2019) and Elliptical Affinities: Irish Women Artists and the Politics of the Body, 1984 to the present (2019/2020). She has held posts at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and West Cork Arts Centre. She has served on the Boards of the Irish Museums Association and IADT.