Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Aine Philips, Visual and Performance Artist, Curator, Head of Sculpture at the Burren College of Art.

Dr Aine Philips is a visual artist, writer, curator and academic originally from Dublin, living in County Clare. She is Head of Sculpture at BCA since 1999. She exhibits multi- media performance works and sculptural installations in Ireland and internationally since the late 80’s. She has created art work for diverse contexts: public art commissions, the street, club events and gallery exhibitions including TROUBLE Festival Les Halles Brussels, City of Women Festival Ljublana, NON Festival Bergen, Kyoto Art Centre, The Stanley Picker Gallery and Performance Space London, Judith Wright Centre for Art Brisbane Australia, Tazquartier Vienna, Moving Image Gallery and The Kitchen New York, National Review of Live Art Glasgow, Mozovia Art Centre Warsaw Poland.

In Ireland, she has presented work at The Lab, Irish Film Centre, Project, Arthouse, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, EV+A Limerick, Galway Arts Centre, and the Kilkenny Arts Festival among others. She writes for Performance Art Journal (New York) and Visual Artists Ireland Critique Supplement. In curatorial work, she has selected Irish artists for international exhibitions and festivals and she curates performance art events in Ireland since 2005.

Her work is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Clare Arts Office and Culture Ireland. She completed a practice based PhD at the National College of Art and Design Dublin in January 2009 entitlte Live Autobiography.