Appointed to the Board in 2018

Catherine Marshall is an art writer and curator. She has lectured in Art History (1986 -96) at Trinity College, Dublin and taught courses at the National College of Art and Design and University College Dublin. She became founding Head of Collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1995 and was seconded from there to the Arts Council of Ireland in 2007 and later to the Royal Irish Academy.

Curatorial projects include; Views from an Island; Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Beijing and Shanghai, 2003, Kathleen Lynn, Insider on the Outside, Co. Mayo, 1916 Commemorative Project, at five locations in Mayo, 2016, Ain't I a Woman?, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, 2018, and many exhibitions of art from the IMMA collection at the Museums and all over the country. In 2014 she co-edited The Art and Architecture of Ireland, Vol. V, Twentieth Century, and Modern Ireland in 100 Art works, Royal Irish Academy, 2015.

he contributed to The Atlas of the Great Famine (2013), the Famine Folio series from the Irish Great Hunger Museum, University of Quinnipiac, and has published monograph essays on many Irish artists. She is a regular reviewer with the Dublin Review of Books.
She is Chair of the Art Committee of Bealtaine, the annual nationwide multi-disciplinary arts festival, sits on the Board of KCAT, the Irish American Cultural Institute, Common Ground, and the South Tipperary Arts Centre.