EVA International: Platform Commissions
Sarah Durcan | Phillip McCrilly | Sharon Phelan | Frank Sweeney | Cliodhna Timoney | Amna Walayat
9 March — 27 April 2024
Matt Packer, Director of EVA International – Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art, will give a guided tour of our current exhibition the Platform Commissions on Saturday 16 March at 2pm.
The Platform Commissions by Sarah Durcan, Phillip McCrilly, Sharon Phelan, Frank Sweeney, Cliodhna Timoney and Amna Walayat are an initiative by EVA International – Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art – to support the production of significant new works by artists based in Ireland. Responding to the theme of citizenship, the artists for the 40th EVA International were selected by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir and Irish curator and art historian Pádraic E. Moore.
About Matt Packer
Matt Packer is Director of EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, where he has been in post since 2017. Previous roles include Director, CCA Centre For Contemporary Art Derry ~ Londonderry (2014–2017); Associate Director, Treignac Projet (2013-2016), Curator of Exhibitions & Projects, Glucksman, Cork (2007–2013).
In an independent capacity, he curated numerous exhibitions and projects including They Call Us The Screamers, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway (2017); and Disappearing Acts, Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway (2015) (with Arne Skaug Olsen). He was one of the international mentors on the What Could / Should Curating Do programme in Belgrade (2018, 2019), and has also written for numerous magazines, journals including Frieze, Kaleidoscope, and Concreta.
About EVA International
EVA International is Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. EVA leads in the commissioning and curating of contemporary art by Irish and international artists, culminating in a programme of artistic encounters, exhibitions, and education projects, that takes place every two years across venues in Limerick city and beyond. EVA was founded by artists in 1977 and it remains one of the longest running visual arts organisations in Ireland, with a history of working with some of the world’s most influential curators.
