Anne Kelly

Anne Kelly, cultural practitioner, is the Curator at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD, 2011-) where she operates the NCAD Gallery with particular emphasis on transdisciplinary integrated public programming aligned to institution-specific research directions, the commissioning of new work and the fostering of collaborative creative partnerships. Additionally, working cross-departmentally as a thesis tutor and lecturing on the School of Visual Culture elective programme. She is a National College of Art and Design, Dublin, BA Fine Art and Trinity College Dublin MSc Comp Sci Multimedia Systems graduate, and recipient of Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, CREATE: National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts, and County Council artist practice funding awards. Anne Kelly’s current research focus is on the potentialities within a commoning approach in establishing an operative critical spatial practice that functions as a site-specific framework toward public arts programming: exploring long and short social models inclusive of transdisciplinary participation networks engaging existing cultural infrastructures. She is a researcher on the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) - ESR for MSCA Rise Research Action: Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange, 2020-2024. SpaceX-RISE responds to the troubling rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies by engaging new publics and forging a culture that embraces diversity, difference, and discursive exchange within cities, towns and urban sites.