Join the four commissioned art historians exploring themes within the work of Norah McGuinness oeuvre on the occasion of Pioneer

Norah McGuinness - Pioneer

Friday 27th November 11.30am-1pm

This event will be ISL interpreted.

Join us for a series of gallery talks by the four art historians and academics engaged to reflect on Norah McGuinness work and life on the occasion of Pioneer, presented on the 125th anniversary of the artist's birth.

Places are €8 per person. Seating is limited and booking is essential.

Biographies:

Dr Fionna Barber is Reader Emerita in Art History at the Manchester School of Art, UK. She writes primarily on Irish art of the 20th-21st centuries with a focus on feminist art histories and her most recent publication was The Routledge Companion to Irish Art (2025) . Fionna is also an occasional curator, most notably Elliptical Affinities: Irish Women's Art and the Politics of the Body 1984-present with Aoife Ruane for Highlanes Gallery, 2019-2020.

Dr Kathryn Milligan is Assistant Professor in the History of Irish Art in Its Global Contexts 1800 to 2000, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century Irish art, with a focus on the depiction of Dublin in painting and print, and ideas and histories around the city as a site of exhibition, display, and artistic exchange.

Dr Róisín Kennedy is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. She is former Yeats Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland 2006-08. Her research focuses on modern Irish art and its contexts and has published extensively on this subject. Her monograph, Art and the Nation State, The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2021 and more recently she edited Visualizing the Celtic Revival. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland-selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe, Four Courts Press, 2024. She co-edited 'Ireland in Transition: Visual Culture, Technology, and Modernity in the Free State;, Éire- Ireland Special Issue, Spring Summer 2025 with Elaine Sisson.

Dr. Nathan O’Donnell is a writer, curator, and one of the co-editors of PVA (Journal + Books). He works across field and academy in relation to modern and contemporary art. His first monograph, on Wyndham Lewis’s cultural criticism, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2020 and he is managing the forthcoming scholarly edition of Lewis’s Blast (1914) for Oxford University Press. He has worked closely with several art and cultural institutions over the past decade; since 2018 he has been a curatorial Associate at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, working on educational and research programmes as well as curatorial projects. He has also been awarded artist’s commissions for performances, publications, and public art projects from Dublin City Arts Office, the Arts Council of Ireland, IMMA, Ormston House, and South Dublin County Council. He was writer-in-residence at Maynooth University 2021–22, and a Samuel Beckett Creative Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. He teaches on the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World at the National College of Art and Design, and is the curator of the 2026 Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

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