Professor Niamh O’Sullivan
Head of Faculty of Visual Culture
Professor Niamh O'Sullivan, Head of Faculty of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, is a graduate of University College Dublin and University College London. She writes on Irish, Irish-American and French art and popular culture. Her book, Aloysius O’Kelly: Art, Nation, Empire (2010) is published by Field Day/University of Notre Dame. She curated the millenium exhibition 'Re:Orientations. Aloysius O’Kelly: Painting, Politics and Popular Culture' at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, November 1999 - January 2000. She also has research interests in art education and museum education. She was Education Officer of the National Gallery of Ireland, Director of the MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management in University College Dublin and Chairperson of the Irish Film Institute/Centre. She was International Visiting Scholar to Roger Williams University, Rhode Island (2007), and is currently a Director of the Irish Museums Trust, and on the advisory committee of the Royal Irish Academy Irish Art and Architecture, vol 5. She won the Irish-American Cultural Institute ‘Award for Pioneering Irish-American Scholarship’ in both 1998 and 2003. She is currently working on a book on how others saw us, how British, French and American artists engaged with issues such as Irish emigration, revolution, religion and politics in the construction of an Irish national identity in nineteenth-century Ireland.