Fine Arts

Meet the director: Anna O’Sullivan of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny

Anna O’Sullivan, director and chief curator of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, discusses her love of New York, the artist she would most like to collect and what she would have done in another life

Anna O’Sullivan, director and chief curator of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny: ‘In another life I might have been a working artist or a film critic’

Anna O’Sullivan is the director and chief curator of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny. Prior to joining the Butler Gallery in 2005, she spent over 20 years in New York, first as curator of performance art at the avant-garde arts venue Franklin Furnace and then as director of the Robert Miller Gallery.

O’Sullivan has worked with many internationally renowned artists and artists’ estates to realise projects and exhibitions and has written numerous essays on Irish ...