Image: Critical Practice Reviews during FUTURES Meet Up in Dublin, 2024. Photography by Evanna Devine
PhotoIreland has invited Mariama Attah, Julia Bunnemann and Ciara Hickey to contribute to the selection process of the 8th FUTURES Talent Call for artists. For the first time, the opportunity is open to include UK practitioners and the deadline is 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024.
Mariama Attah is a photography curator, writer, and lecturer with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories and understanding how photography and visual culture can be used to amplify underrepresented voices. Mariama is currently Associate Curator at Deutsche Börse. Her previous roles include Head of Exhibitions at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, UK, editor of Foam Magazine, curator at Photoworks, and commissioning and managing editor of Photoworks Annual.
Julia Bunnemann is a writer, researcher and Curator at Photoworks, a UK-based photographic platform. She is responsible for the curatorial programmes such as the Photoworks Festival, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, and wider curatorial partnerships. Having obtained her MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, Julia previously worked as Assistant Curator of the Triennial of Photography and as the curatorial assistant at Deichtorhallen House of Photography, one of Germany’s largest exhibition spaces for photography.
Ciara Hickey is a curator based in Belfast. She is a co-Director of Household where she is currently working on two new projects, UPHOLD and Artists in Neighbourhoods. Ciara worked at Hillsborough Castle as a producer where she commissioned new artwork for the Clore Learning Centre and initiated a series of co-created community programmes and public events. She was previously curator at Belfast Exposed Photography where she commissioned new work and delivered exhibitions with local and international artists. She initiated the Belfast Exposed Futures programme, designed to support early career artists develop and exhibit new work and brought this work to an international platform at Peckham 24 (London), Unseen (Amsterdam), CCI (Paris) and Landskrona Foto (Sweden). From 2008-2010 Ciara co-organised the art Space Delawab in her home, and has continued to pursue an interest in the domestic space as a site for contemporary art which was most recently explored in the group exhibition ‘House Taken Over’ (2019) curated with Nora Hickey M’Sichili.
The jury is tasked with identifying contemporary, lens-based artists, regardless of curriculum or experience, who have demonstrated dedication and serious intention in their practice. We strongly recommend for each applicant to review the practice of the previous Irish artists participating in the platform to understand this call better, as much as to find out more about the FUTURES Photography Platform.
Read the announcement of the call and full entry details in this post.
