Collecting the 'Now'
Thursday, 10 May: Biographies
Hannah Crowdy is head of curatorial at National Museums NI, having held previously the role of the organisation’s first interpretation manager. She is a former social history curator who has worked in a range of independent and local-authority museums in England. A mentor for the Museums Association’s Associateship scheme, and a graduate of the Museum, Library and Archive Council’s ‘Rising Stars’ programme, she was the Northern Ireland Representative for the Museums Association from 2011-14 and currently serves on their Ethics Committee.
Joanna Finegan is assistant keeper of Digital Collections at National Library of Ireland and has previously worked in the Printed Books, Prints & Drawings, and Outreach departments of the Library.
She has co-authored this paper with colleagues Della Keating and Maria Ryan. Della Keating initiated web archiving in the NLI in 2011 and prior to that worked in different sections across the NLI as well as the National Archives of Ireland. Maria Ryan is the NLI web archivist and joined the NLI in 2016 having previously worked on the Abbey Theatre Digitisation Project at the James Hardiman Library in the National University of Ireland Galway.
Johanne Mullan is collections programmer and former national programmer at the Irish Museum of Modern Art where she has curated and facilitated over 150 touring exhibitions from the IMMA Collection throughout Ireland. Johanne has commissioned site specific projects and performances by artists. She co-curated the touring Altered Images exhibition which explored access to the Visual Arts for the visually impaired and contributed to the Arts & Disability Shift in Perspective publication. Johanne manages the IMMA Collection online and is part of the National Cultural Institutions Inspiring Ireland project team. She has written extensively on artists from the IMMA Collection and recently contributed an essay to the RIA Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume V: Twentieth Century publication. Johanne previously worked as manager of the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.
Daniel Breen joined Cork Public Museum in 2002 and has been acting curator since August 2016. He has a Bachelors Arts degree in History and Archaeology from University College Cork (2001) and two Master of Arts degrees in European Historical Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (2002) and in Museum Studies from UCC (2015).
In his fifteen years of experience in the local authority museum sector, Daniel has seen first-hand the challenges and issues facing the Irish museum industry especially since the economic downturn. Since September 2016, Daniel has overseen the museum’s progress through the Heritage Council’s Museum Standards Programme for Ireland. He also works on many of Cork City Council’s creative and cultural committees and forums including the 1916 Commemorations and Creative Ireland. Daniel has co-authored many books on Cork history.
Eamonn Maxwell is a curator and cultural consultant, and works with The Arts Council of Ireland as collection adviser. Since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts, Maxwell has been involved in over 60 exhibitions in UK, Ireland and Europe, including curating the Irish Pavilion at 2011 Venice Biennale. Whilst curator at University of the Arts, London, he founded the Emerging Artists Programme which helped to give many artists important exposure to their practice. Aside from working with international artists, he has also advised some of the leading contemporary art collectors and has expertise as a board member for not-for-profit organisations. Between 2009 – 2016 he was director of Lismore Castle Arts, where he programmed exhibitions by leading international and Irish artists, He has been a lecturer at Crawford College of Art and Design, Gorey School of Art and University College Dublin.
Ele von Monschaw is, since 1999, employed as Easel Paintings conservator-restorer at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) having previously worked at the MUMOK Vienna and the German County Museums Karlsruhe and Oldenburg.
Ele holds a Master’s degree of Fine Art in Conservation for Easel Paintings and has also been trained in the field of polychrome wooden sculptures and contemporary painted objects.
The conservation activities of the National Gallery were the base for Ele’s active advocacy on the board of the Irish conservation body, the Institute of Conservators-Restorers of Ireland. She is also a contributing member of International Institute of Conservators (IIC) and the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA).
Corinna Gardner is the senior curator of the Design, Architecture and Digital Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Corinna leads the collecting and exhibition programme for contemporary design and holds responsibility for the museum’s Rapid Response Collecting activities. In addition, Corinna is also part of the team developing the curatorial strategy for V&A East, a new museum and collections centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London.
In 2015, Corinna co-curated All of This Belongs to You, an exhibition about the design of public life and the role institutions play in shaping informed debate. Prior to joining the V&A in January 2013, Corinna worked at the Barbican Art Gallery, on exhibitions including OMA: Progress, Bauhaus: Art as Life, Random International’s Rain Room and Cory Arcangel’s Beat the Champ.
Joanna Finegan is assistant keeper of Digital Collections at National Library of Ireland and has previously worked in the Printed Books, Prints & Drawings, and Outreach departments of the Library.
She has co-authored this paper with colleagues Della Keating and Maria Ryan. Della Keating initiated web archiving in the NLI in 2011 and prior to that worked in different sections across the NLI as well as the National Archives of Ireland. Maria Ryan is the NLI web archivist and joined the NLI in 2016 having previously worked on the Abbey Theatre Digitisation Project at the James Hardiman Library in the National University of Ireland Galway.
Johanne Mullan is collections programmer and former national programmer at the Irish Museum of Modern Art where she has curated and facilitated over 150 touring exhibitions from the IMMA Collection throughout Ireland. Johanne has commissioned site specific projects and performances by artists. She co-curated the touring Altered Images exhibition which explored access to the Visual Arts for the visually impaired and contributed to the Arts & Disability Shift in Perspective publication. Johanne manages the IMMA Collection online and is part of the National Cultural Institutions Inspiring Ireland project team. She has written extensively on artists from the IMMA Collection and recently contributed an essay to the RIA Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume V: Twentieth Century publication. Johanne previously worked as manager of the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.
Daniel Breen joined Cork Public Museum in 2002 and has been acting curator since August 2016. He has a Bachelors Arts degree in History and Archaeology from University College Cork (2001) and two Master of Arts degrees in European Historical Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (2002) and in Museum Studies from UCC (2015).
In his fifteen years of experience in the local authority museum sector, Daniel has seen first-hand the challenges and issues facing the Irish museum industry especially since the economic downturn. Since September 2016, Daniel has overseen the museum’s progress through the Heritage Council’s Museum Standards Programme for Ireland. He also works on many of Cork City Council’s creative and cultural committees and forums including the 1916 Commemorations and Creative Ireland. Daniel has co-authored many books on Cork history.
Eamonn Maxwell is a curator and cultural consultant, and works with The Arts Council of Ireland as collection adviser. Since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts, Maxwell has been involved in over 60 exhibitions in UK, Ireland and Europe, including curating the Irish Pavilion at 2011 Venice Biennale. Whilst curator at University of the Arts, London, he founded the Emerging Artists Programme which helped to give many artists important exposure to their practice. Aside from working with international artists, he has also advised some of the leading contemporary art collectors and has expertise as a board member for not-for-profit organisations. Between 2009 – 2016 he was director of Lismore Castle Arts, where he programmed exhibitions by leading international and Irish artists, He has been a lecturer at Crawford College of Art and Design, Gorey School of Art and University College Dublin.
Ele von Monschaw is, since 1999, employed as Easel Paintings conservator-restorer at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) having previously worked at the MUMOK Vienna and the German County Museums Karlsruhe and Oldenburg.
Ele holds a Master’s degree of Fine Art in Conservation for Easel Paintings and has also been trained in the field of polychrome wooden sculptures and contemporary painted objects.
The conservation activities of the National Gallery were the base for Ele’s active advocacy on the board of the Irish conservation body, the Institute of Conservators-Restorers of Ireland. She is also a contributing member of International Institute of Conservators (IIC) and the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA).
Corinna Gardner is the senior curator of the Design, Architecture and Digital Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Corinna leads the collecting and exhibition programme for contemporary design and holds responsibility for the museum’s Rapid Response Collecting activities. In addition, Corinna is also part of the team developing the curatorial strategy for V&A East, a new museum and collections centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London.
In 2015, Corinna co-curated All of This Belongs to You, an exhibition about the design of public life and the role institutions play in shaping informed debate. Prior to joining the V&A in January 2013, Corinna worked at the Barbican Art Gallery, on exhibitions including OMA: Progress, Bauhaus: Art as Life, Random International’s Rain Room and Cory Arcangel’s Beat the Champ.