aemi announces new Board of Directors
Published date: 25 Nov 2024
aemi is thrilled to announce the establishment of our new Board of Directors; Maeve Connolly, Oisin McClenaghan, Niamh O’Donnell and Grace Weir, who generously volunteer their time to support us and provide valuable counsel throughout the year. We are also very pleased to confirm aemi’s new status as a CLG in 2024. We very much look forward to working with our new Board of Directors throughout 2025 and beyond.
aemi Board Member Maeve Connolly
Maeve Connolly (she/her) is a writer and researcher based in Dublin, where she teaches on the BA in Art at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She is the author of TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (Intellect, 2014) and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect, 2009). Her current research focuses on changing cultures and economies
of art and media practice.
aemi Chair Oisin McClenaghan
Oisin McClenaghan (Chair) is a partner at international law firm Ogier and is based in Dublin. He has extensive experience advising on the structuring, offer and sale of investment instruments and investment products, the provision of investment advice, mergers and acquisitions of investment fund groups and other financial services. Oisin is a member of various industry working groups and contributes to industry publications and consultations.
aemi Board Member Niamh O’Donnell
Niamh O’Donnell is Director of Irish Theatre Institute an all-island resource organisation for theatre artists and makers. Niamh has over 33 years’ experience in the arts and cultural sector, she has worked with many leading organisations including: Poetry Ireland and Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre as Director, Project Arts Centre as Executive Producer, The Gallery of Photography, Black Church Print Studio (an artists’ resource organisation for Fine Art Print), and Arthouse Multimedia Centre. A passionate advocate for the sector, Niamh has served on Boards of established and emerging companies including Dublin Fringe Festival, CoisCéim Dance Theatre; Theatre Forum Ireland; and The National Campaign for the Arts.
aemi Board Member Grace Weir
Grace Weir represented Ireland at the 49th International Venice Biennale and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. She was an Artist-in-Residence in Trinity College Dublin (2012-2015) and had a major solo exhibition ‘3 different nights, recurring’ at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2015-2016). In 2019 she was commissioned by The Institute of Physics (UK and Ireland) to create an installation ‘Time Tries All Things’ for the inaugural show in their gallery in London. Recent solo shows were ‘The history of light’ at Solstice Arts Centre in Ireland (2023) and a solo show ‘For every line, a point not on it’ at Galleria Alessandra Bonomo in Rome, Italy (2023-2024). Her work ranges from film and video art to photographic, painting, installation, web projects and lecture-performances. One area of Weir’s work is her unique approach to research, based on encounters with specifics such as certain objects, books, artworks; particular locations and sources or from conversations with philosophers, scientists and practitioners from other disciplines. She has made over 30 artist films and video works, underpinned by the particular entities, locations and theories under her scrutiny, whether cultural, scientific, or philosophical.
