ASKEATON native Michele Horrigan takes the reins this year for the 22nd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts in Galway showing throughout Galway City and County in November 2024.
Since 2002, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts has captivated the city and county with an eclectic display of contemporary art. TULCA is a multi-venue, artist-centred festival of contemporary art that works with Irish curators to present innovative exhibitions that provoke and energise audiences into the world of the visual arts.
Exhibitions take place in both gallery and non-gallery spaces, featuring projects and events across urban and regional contexts.
Michele Horrigan is an artist and independent curator.
Since 2006 she is founder and curator of Askeaton Contemporary Arts, facilitating artist experimentation and residencies, exhibitions and publication production in rural County Limerick. Over one hundred projects have been realised with a particular interest in contemporary art engaged in site-specific, ecological and social practice. Many artworks made in this context have subsequently been presented throughout the world in exhibitions, art biennials and film festivals.
Michele told Limerick Post, “I have been a firm admirer of TULCA for many years and have enjoyed watching it grow and encompass the city and county and take its place in the local, national and international art scene. I look forward to working with artists, places and communities that shape its unique vision as the west of Ireland’s most renowned visual arts festival.”
