The National CollegeVisual Culture Staff
Dr Maebh O'Regan
Lecturer in Visual Culture
maebh[AT]indigo.ie
Maebh is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where she completed a B.A. degree in History of Art and Classical Civilization. She continued her education in Maynooth College studying for an additional B.A. subject (English 1997) and completing a Higher Diploma in Education the following year. In the autumn 1998 she commenced a Ph.D. study of the Irish Victorian Painter, Richard Thomas Moynan, completing her doctoral thesis in May 2002. She has been lecturing in the National College of Art and Design since January 2000 and Griffith College since September 2006.
Maebh has a specific interest in Irish art practice and has written a number of studio profiles and essays for exhibition catalogue.
Select Publications:
Irish Arts Review, Richard Thomas Moynan: Painting Privilege and Poverty, December 2006.
Irish Arts Review, Book Review on Norman Garstin Irishman and Newlyn Artist by Richard Pryke, June 2005
Contributing Editor of Thoughtlines 7, (Double Issue of the National College of Art and Design's Graduate and Postgraduate research journal), Military Manoeuvres the Making of a Masterpiece, published April 2004
Irish Art Dealers Association Yearbook 2004-5 Richard Moynan and the Family Muse. Published October 2005
Circa magazine: On-line essay on the studio practice of the pastel artist, Mary Burke.
Eire/Ireland. (American Academic Journal)Richard Moynan, Irish Artist and Unionist Propagandist, June 2004
Exhibition Catalogue: Semi Detached Reflections, Essay on the work of the contemporary pastel artist Mary Burke, July 2004.
Exhibition Catalogue: A Turn in the Road, Studio profile of the painter of Niall Wright, October 2007.
Dictionary of Irish Biography, Edited by James Maguire, Entry on Richard Thomas Moynan.
Publications for the Inland Waterway Association (IWAI) on The Church at Pullagh, (June 2003) Carving History at Barley Harbour (Autumn 2003) The Art of Bridge Building (March 2004)
