Dr Niamh Ann Kelly

Niamh Ann Kelly is Programme Chair of the BA in Visual and Critical Studies at DIT. She lectures in Critical Theory at the School of Art Design and Printing and contributes to the GRADCAM (Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media) programme (www.gradcam.ie). She obtained in 2010, a Doctorate cum laude for her PhD research thesis, titled History by Proxy - Imaging the Great Irish Famine, from the Amsterdam School for Cultural University of Amsterdam at the Analysis (www.hum.uva.nl/asca/). Niamh Ann graduated from NCAD (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) with First Class Joint Honours BA Degree in Painting and the History of Art (1997) and an MA Degree in the History of Art (1999) for her research thesis, The Creation of an Irish Visual Heritage: The Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Before working at DIT she taught at NCAD and IADT (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology). She has published chapters in academic books on the subject of memory and visual culture. Niamh Ann is also an art writer and researcher and freelance art critic, and has contributed to publications in Ireland and the UK, including Art Monthly, Irish Arts Review, Visual Artists Ireland, CIRCA, Source Magazine and to radio programmes on RTE Radio1, Lyric FM and BBC Radio 3. She is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), IAAH (Irish Association of Art Historians) and IMA (Irish Museums Association) and RICH (Research Institute for Culture and Heritage, DIT, http://rich.dit.ie/). She has written research texts and essays for many catalogues and publications, including for the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Limerick City Gallery; Office of Public Works; RTE (Radio Teilifis Eireann); Millenium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Milton Keynes Gallery, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki. Niamh Ann has given workshops, public lectures, talks and acted as chair in venues including the National Museum of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Limerick City Gallery of Art, the Ulster Museum, University College Dublin and University College Cork. In 2006 she edited a supplement in CIRCA “Art-Watching” (www.recirca.com/backissues/c116/project.shtml), and in 2007, she collaborated, with Brenda Dermody and Brian Fay, on a limited edition creative art book, Art-Watching, Dublin: DIT. In 2008, she co-produced, with Dr. Siún Hanrahan, 2MOVE:Ireland exhibitions in Belfast Exposed Northern Ireland and the Solstice Art Centre, Navan, Ireland, and a related Panel Discussion event in Belfast. The project received an Arts Council of Ireland Once-Off Project Award. She is currently working on a number of forthcoming publications: 2013, “Staging a Modern Journey: Famine Emigration in Memorial Culture”, Atlantic Studies, Special Issue: Irish Atlantic Migration and Memory: Transatlantic Recollections of Ireland’s Great Hunger and Exodus in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Routledge 2013, ‘Narrating Sites of History: Workhouses and Famine Memory' in Irish Cultural Memory vol 3: Two Cruxes in Irish Cultural Memory - The Famine and the Troubles, ed. Oona Frawley, New York: Syracuse University Press 2014, Artists’ Biographies, Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume III: Sculptors & Sculpture 1600-2000, ed. Paula Murphy, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy/Yale University Press 2014, ‘National Art Institutions’, Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume V: Twentieth Century Art and Artists, ed. Peter Murray and Catherine Marshall, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy/ Yale University Press

Contemporary Art and Art Criticism, Historiography of Visual and Material Cultures, Postcolonial Theory, Museology, Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Critical Theory.