Iarlaith Ní Fheorais ~ Keywords: curating, writing, performance, access, pathology, medical history, Crip, disability, abolition, anti-ableism, place

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais (b. 1995) is a curator and writer based between Galway and London. As the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts she staged exhibitions, public programmes and a publication responding to the legacy of mass psychiatric incarceration in Ireland entitled honey, milk, and salt in a seashell before sunrise.

She’s the author of the book There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park (2026), a critique of the MedTech industry and the politics of healthcare in Ireland. She has an essay on John Broderick’s 1965 novel The Waking of Willie Ryan in the forthcoming Abolish Europe and is currently co-directing the film Going to Ballinasloe with artist Sarah Browne.

Ní Fheorais has written for publications such as frieze magazine, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal, and Paper Visual Art, among others. She has contributed to public programmes at Paul Mellon Centre, Chelsea School of Art, Rietveld Academie, Konstfack University and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin on subjects ranging from curatorial practice, writing on disability and medicine and access methodologies in the visual arts. She has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA’s 41st Platform Commission, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform Award 2023. 

Her work is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the creative production supports initiative field:arts through her role as Associate Producer.