Emerging Curator 2025 | Aisling Clark

emerging curator exhibition 29 March – 27 April 2025
We are delighted to announce that Aisling Clark has been awarded the GOMA Waterford Emerging Curator Award for 2025. This award provides a platform for emerging curators to explore and engage with contemporary visual arts, culminating in a month-long exhibition at GOMA Gallery, Waterford.

Aisling Clark is a curator based in Dublin. She was the Provost’s Fellow in Curating 2023 at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, where she developed Unearthing Empire, a public programme connecting Ireland’s colonial past and present, and assisted on exhibitions by Irish and international artists Liz Magor, Uri Aran, Amanda Coogan and Bassam Issa Al-Sabah.

In 2024, her research has focused on (de-)constructing nationalism: exploring modernist architect Michael Scott’s role in shaping Ireland’s arts and cultural landscape, with UCD’s School of Art History & Cultural Policy and the Irish Architectural Archive, and architect Herbert Simms’ social housing in the Irish Free State, which will appear in a forthcoming essay published by Mirror Lamp Press.

Her broader curatorial interests include commoning, labour particularly from a care/feminist standpoint, nature and climate, and digital/online spheres. She has previously worked on exhibitions with the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, Gay Health Network, Ireland, and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, among others.