She has ample experience in producing exhibitions and events, including curatorial work and project management, has vast and successful experience in personal and collective application writing for bodies like the Arts Council of Ireland and local councils. She has participated in portfolio reviews, acted as visiting lecturer, and also worked in an editorial capacity and translation for artists and other arts professionals, including work for The Routledge Guide to Photography and Visual Culture. Most recently, she curated the 2021 edition of PhotoIreland Festival and was the Centre Culturel Irlandais cultural producer resident 2022. She is a member of the AICA International Association of Art Critics.
Personal Practice
Julia is currently engaged in a long-term, practice-based research project, Terms of Consumption, which reviews and revises Irish cultural identity through contemporary visual arts practices that in turn engage in conversations around food histories and culture. The project is realised through curatorship, commissions, cooking, image-making and collecting, and an experimental communion of all of the above, with annual public output. Though the outcome focuses on Ireland, the research and context is global. This research has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Visual Arts Bursary. The Collectors series commissions have been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland's Visual Arts Project Award and is ongoing.
Portrait by Aisling McCoy