Article29 Aug 2026Public
Before the labels go up
Members read this first: what I cut from the wall text the night before Harbour Light opened.
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About
Curatorial statement
Dublin, Ireland
Siobhán Mooney is an independent curator based in Dublin. She organises exhibitions of contemporary painting in Ireland and writes about how weather, labour, and looking settle into a practice.
She has worked with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, regional art centres, and artist-run spaces. Her writing appears in catalogues and as longer essays for the artists she works with — not as a substitute for the work, but as a way of staying with it.
Curator · Independent · 2014Full CV
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Exhibitions
Writing
Essays & notes
29 Aug 2026Public
Studio visit notes — Achill
Not a review. A few notes from the island before Harbour Light: three greys, a cheap notebook, the car as a studio when the wind got up.
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Painting after the weather
A municipal solo is not a victory lap. It is a chance to let a painter’s tempo — slow, scraped, weather-led — occupy a public room without being asked to explain itself in a wall text.
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Curriculum vitae
Exhibition history, education, and distinctions for Siobhán Mooney.
Education
- 2014MA Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD, Dublin
- 2011BA History of Art, Trinity College Dublin
- Selected Curatorial Projects
- 2026Harbour Light, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (Maeve Cullen)
- 2024New Ground, Pallas Projects, Dublin
- 2022Coastal Registers (co-curator), The Model, Sligo
- Writing
- 2026On painting weather, not weather reports — essay
- 2024New Irish Painting, RHA (catalogue note)