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 and writer based in Belfast. She is Co-Director of Household, an arts organisation that supports high quality art in the public realm. Her current projects are Red Sky at Night, a night time festival of new commissions across the city of Belfast and UPHOLD, a not for profit commissioning platform for promoting and selling contemporary art.
Ciara was previously Curator of the Freelands Artist Programme through PS2 and recently co-curated the exhibition mother tongue with Alissa Kleist at the MAC with all 21 participating artists. She was Curator of Belfast Exposed Photography where she worked with local and international artists on new commissions including Bertien van Manen, Martin Parr, Michael Hanna and Jan McCullough as well as curating group exhibitions including How We Learn and Thresholds. During her time at Belfast Exposed 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. She recently co-authored (with Trish McTigue) the article, Home-made in Belfast: domesticity as creative practice in Northern Irish art and performance for the Irish Studies Review.
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.
