Projects

Bealtaine Festival 2022 – In(ter)dependence

Flikkers: Come As You Were

Flikkers: Come As You Were the Age & Opportunity Bealtaine Festival Commission for 2022 supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. A series of events remembering and celebrating the Flikkers Disco era at the Hirschfeld Centre and the generation who were there. Flikkers invites older LGBTQ+ people to dance and celebrate this seminal period of social and cultural activism. 

Curated & produced by artist-curator Francis Fay and journalist, activist and DJ Tonie Walsh. Project Advisors: Tonie Walsh & Julianne O’Malley. Curatorial Support: Monica Flynn (Visual Art Curator, Bealtaine Festival)

Bealtaine & LIVESTOCK: Land Workings

Presented by Bealtaine Festival and LIVESTOCK as part of Longford Live & Local.

Land Workings – from the land and to return there, a new work by artist Nigel Rolfe, curated by Francis Fay, supported by the Arts Council and Creative Ireland Longford. (20:00) Sat 14 May @ Corlea Trackway Visitors Centre, Co. Longford.

Power, Nigel Rolfe 2022.

Bealtaine: Roots & Shoots

Fingal Arts, Tyrone Guthrie Centre & Bealtaine Festival Artist’s Residency 

Inaugural Artist’s Residency awardees Una Sealy and Thomas Brezing in conversation with The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Director Eimear O’Connor on Sat. 28 May , 2022, Bealtaine Festival YouTube.

Fingal Arts in partnership with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig and Bealtaine Festival.

Bealtaine 2021 – In(ter)dependence

Ceara Conway, How Are You, the Bealtaine Festival Visual Art Commission for 2021

Bealtaine at Home 2020 – Visual Art Curator

Visual Art Curator Bealtaine Festival At Home 2020 – present

Cafe Society Leitrim 201

Spark Artist Residency at Cafe Lounge Carrick-on-Shannon supported by Leitrim County Council and Leitrim LEO, funded by the Arts Council.

Hospitality 2015

A collaborative project with Open Circle Women’s Community Art Collective and Kilkenny County Council , a CREATE Artist in the Community Scheme supported by the Arts Council.

Circulation 2013 Blackchurch Print Studio, Curated by Paul McAree.

The Hearth, The Market Studios 2012, curated by Moran Been-Noon.

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After Completion – The Highlands Gallery, Oct 2012. Curated by Aoife Ruane and Helen Horgan as part of the LFTT Library exhibition.

The Author of Unusual Papers, group show, The LAB Gallery 2011. Curated by Claire Behan including fellow artists Diana Caramaschi, Colleen Lambe and Susan Thompson. Image installation shot horoscope chart for the exhibition, mixed media floor vinyl and acrylic shapes.

About

Monica Flynn is a curator,  based in Dublin, Ireland. Her work involves curation, collaboration and production of socially engaged projects, exhibitions and events.

This work aims to engage others in dialogue or shared experience.  Shifting between performance, event making and artist-curator roles, Monica is interested in the connection between the individual, society and our belief systems, asking questions about collective agency.

Recent curatorial work include: the exhibition In Trust In Gratitude In Hope at the Laois Arthouse, Stradbally (Dec 21 – Mar 22) and the visual arts programme for Bealtaine Festival (2019 – to present). Supporting presentations such as: a new commission for Bealtaine Festival 2021 from artist Ceara Conway How Are You a music and scent based gift for family carers; LIVESTOCK: Viral curated by Francis Fay with virtual presentations by artists Day Magee; Olivia Hassett and El Putnam.

Other selected projects include: BREATH a performance by artist Ceara Conway with Damer House Gallery for Culture Night 2016; co-curation of Still, We Work: Representations of Women and Work (June 2015) with Hollie Kearns and Rosie Lynch (Workhouse Union) Callan, on behalf of the National Women’s Council of Ireland. Developed by project curator Valerie Connor and commissioned by the NWCI to coincide with the anniversary of the 1913 Lock Out, Still We Work involves specially commissioned works by artists Miriam O’Connor, Vagabond Reviews, Anne Tallentire and Sarah Browne and toured Ireland in 2015; a role as curatorial co-ordinator of Lived Lives: A Pavee Perspective (Nov 2015) by artist Dr. Seamus McGuinness (GMIT) and Prof. Kevin Malone, School of Medicine (UCD).

Monica holds an MA Visual Arts Practices from IADT, Dun Laoghaire (2008) and has over 20 years experience in Arts and Cultural Management (UCD, 2000).  As a co-founder and co-director of The Market Studios, Dublin (2007 – 2014), which she established with Claire Behan and Deirdre Morrissey, she has an abiding interest in artist-led initiatives.