Megs Morley is an artist and independent curator whose projects primarily deal with how specific social and political situations are represented in art, and with strategies of artistic resistance that include self-organisation, intervention and collectivism. She holds a BA in Fine Art from LSAD and a MA in Visual Art Practices (curatorial pathway) from MAVIS, IADT.
She is currently curating "Lines of Sight", an exhibition of political works from the Israeli Digital Art Archive that will be exhibited as part of EVA International, 2012 (www.eva.ie) including the work of Avi Mograbi, Yael Bartana, Artur Zmijewski, Nurit Sharett, Adrian Paci, Amir Yatziv, Dor Guez and Fillipa Cesar.
Most recently, Morley was the curator of the Tulca Contemporary Art
Festival 2011, “After the fall”, a large scale multi-venue exhibition
and discussion programme that queried artists' responses to the
international and national context of economic recession, political
collapse and social upheaval, including: Chto Delat, Jessie Jones,
Gareth Kennedy, Seamus Nolan, Kristina Norman, Gregory Sholette, Lia
Perjovschi, Amie Siegel and many more. (see www.tulca.ie)
In addition she is currently working on a number of collaborative film
works and public art commissions with artist Tom Flanagan, including a
feature length experimental documentary entitled "Aughty" due to
premiere in July 2012 and “Post –Fordlandia” a filmic exploration of
Henry Ford’s failed utopian town Fordlandia, in the heart of the
Amazon rainforest, which premiered in the Galway Arts Centre June
2011, and has since been shown in the Centre du Pompidou, Paris as
part of Rencontres Internationale (2011), and the Model, Sligo (2012)
In 2010 she curated the "Documentation Archive" and the Film Screening
programme of the DORM exhibition (the Model, Sligo ) which attempted
to present moments of artistic resistance in collective practices
through protest, civil disobedience, intervention through documents,
archive materials, works and films of 23 international artists
collectives including; CoBrA, the Situationists, REPO-history,
Temporary Services, and Atlas Group.
From 2008-2010 she worked as Public Arts Officer for Galway City
Council where she was commissioned a series of significant
multi-disciplinary and participatory public art projects across Galway
City.
As part of on-going examination into artist-led and collective
practices in Ireland over the last 40 years, in 2006 she developed The
Artist-led Archive, an archive and touring exhibition of documentation
relating to over 80 past and present Irish artist-led initiatives from
the period 1970- 2008, which is currently housed in the special
collections of the National Irish Visual Arts Library. (www.nival.ie)
As part of the Artist-led Archive National tour (2006-2009) she
coordinated a series of public symposia that included presentations by
Julie Ault (Group Material NY), Julie Crawshaw (Midwest.co.uk),
(G126), Brian Patterson (A.R.E., The N.IRE workshop of F.I.U.
established by Joseph Beuys), and Lise Skou (the Young Danish
Artworkers Union U.K.K.).
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