TULCA curator Valerie Connor

15/11/13

It was a great honor to go to a talk by Valerie Connor in the Fairgreen gallery space today, I got an email invite that it was opent to all TULCA volunteers as arranged by Gavin Murphy.
She was very forthcoming about all aspects of being a curator, so it was very helpful and interesting.  I'd love to curate an exhibition! 
She spoke about how she felt it was important to spend time visiting the city first (she lives and works in Dublin) before coming to any decisions on the direction and theme of the festival.

Friendships and 'getting on' with people, building kind,careful and respectful relationships are very important. This is needed in the whole multi-venue, press, volunteers and of course artists contacts.

Valerie has lots of experience, connections and ideas so she seems ideal for the job which started it's process in April and gathered speed and large input of energy by September.

As she teaches photography I thought she'd be horrified by these photo's I took after the talk; but she just smiled and said 'misty!'...very kind!