Kevin Gaffney (Artist)
Kevin Gaffney is an artist filmmaker from Dublin, based in Belfast. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011 with an MA Photography and Moving Image, and was awarded the first Sky Academy Arts Scholarship for an Irish artist in 2015. He was an UNESCO-Aschberg laureate artist in residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Changdong Residency in South Korea (2014) and received the Kooshk Artist Residency Award to create a new film in Iran (2015). A monograph of his work, Unseen By My Open Eyes, was published in 2017. He is currently a PhD researcher at Ulster University.

His work is part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council of Ireland’s collections and has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally, including: Cork Film Festival (2016 & 2018); European Media Art Festival (Germany, 2016); the 10th Imagine Science Film Festival (New York, 2017); and the Korean Queer Film Festival (2018). Solo exhibitions include: CAI02 Contemporary Art Institute (Japan, 2014 & 2018); Block 336 curated by Kathleen Soriano (London, 2017); Ormston House (as part of EVA’s Public Programme, 2018); and the Crawford Art Gallery (Cork, 2020). See more details here.

Sara Greavu (Discussion Moderator)
Sara Greavu is a curator, writer and organiser based in the north of Ireland. She has held senior curatorial roles at Outburst Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry and VOID, Derry as well as working independently. In CCA she initiated programmes such as the two-year Esmee Fairbairn residency programme Our Neighbourhood that engaged with local communities of place and communities of interest, alongside artists Sarah Pierce and Sarah Browne. Independent projects have included Knowledge is Made Here, an alternative pedagogical project for young people produced in partnership with the artist Andrea Francke.

In her role as Queer Arts Development leader in Outburst Arts, she is devising and delivering a new year-round artist development programme and public programme that will extend Outburst Queer Arts Festival’s reach and depth of engagement with constituents and artists, and create opportunities for learning, conversation and collaboration in our queer communities and beyond. She is interested in how art can recognise broader social structures, compassing art and artists in relation to these other fields of inquiry and other axes of power and privilege. She has a PhD from Ulster University and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the University of Bergen.

This online talk will be conducted in the format of a live stream webinar hosted on the IMMA zoom platform. Register your place with zoom to receive webinar details and information on attending. Click the ‘Register Here’ button on the top of this web page to complete registration and receive details.

In advance, you can view Everything Disappears from 21 July 2020 here.