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, including the National College of Art and Design, 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 and Fotomuseum Antwerp's Trigger Magazine.
She has curated a number of exhibitions, most notably the inaugural exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, Foreword; the 12th edition of PhotoIreland Festival; and ENERGY: Redistributing Energy and Taming Consumption featuring 8 international artists for the FUTURES Photography Platform.
She is a member of the AICA International Association of Art Critics and IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.
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 occasional public output.
Portrait by Aisling McCoy