Fine Arts

Meet the curator: Eamonn Maxwell

The contemporary art curator, mentor and adviser, who has organised many important exhibitions globally, loves to spend time in his childhood home of Whitehead in Co Antrim

Eamonn Maxwell: the art curator, mentor and adviser has ‘several hundred records on vinyl dating from early Led Zeppelin and David Bowie right up to Pillow Queens and Emma Ruth Rundle’

Eamonn Maxwell has worked as a curator and adviser in the visual arts for more than 20 years. He has curated numerous exhibitions across the world, including the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011. From 2009-2016 he was director of Lismore Castle Arts, where he programmed significant exhibitions by leading international and Irish artists.

He established the Emerging Artists programme during his tenure as university curator, University of the Arts London, and he ...