Aoife Tunney

Aoife Tunney is the Officer for the Culture Desk at the Creative Europe Desk based in the Arts Council of Ireland.  She also practices as an independent curator, project manager and arts advisor based in Dublin. She is currently co-curator of IN CONTEXT 4, South Dublin County Council’s public art programme (2016-2019), and is co-project manager / co-curator of a major public art commission for the Central Bank of Ireland (2016-2020). Additionally she is the programme curator of Illuminations Gallery research and offsite programme at Maynooth University. In 2014 she was the Artistic Director of Vestibule an outdoor public art exhibition and satellite programme of exhibitions and events. The Arts Council of Ireland selected her for their Curator in Residence programme in 2013. In 2012 she was funded by Culture Ireland as the Artistic Director of All Humans Do, an exhibition which travelled to White Box Gallery in New York and The Model in Sligo. She was the curator in residence at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and The Model in 2011 and sat on the curatorial panel for TBG+S in 2010.