Meg takes helm at Galway Arts Centre

Megs Morley has been appointed Director/ Curator of Galway Arts Centre in the city.

Having been recently appointed Head of Visual Art at Galway Arts Centre, she applied via an open process for the position of director. According to the board, she was appointed because she offered “a renewed vision for the Arts Centre that brings together her extensive strategic work with her ambitious and internationally recognised curatorial leadership and experience”.

The Director of Strategy Implementation at NUIG, John Caulfield who is on the board of the Arts Centre said, “Megs has an impressive record of engaging with contemporary art and artists at local, national and international levels”.

He stressed that the board was committed to supporting her as “she leads our efforts to develop the Arts Centre’s venues and resources, support artist development, widen access to culture and bring the highest quality art and performance to Galway”.

The new director said she was “excited to develop a renewed vision for the Galway Arts Centre, one that builds on the organisation’s 35-year legacy as a creative hub and one that reimagines its role as a vital centre of ideas and artistic practices that explore the complexities of an everchanging and evolving contemporary Ireland”.

Her appointment came, she said, during a period when there was “a groundswell of dynamic female leadership across the arts in Ireland”.