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York Street, Belfast Campus
BT15 1ED Belfast
United Kingdom
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Dr Clare Gallagher is Co-Director for BA (Hons) Photography, teaches MFA Photography and is a PhD Supervisor in the Art & Design Research Institute. Her research focuses on home and women's experiences, using art to challenge their invisibility. She also curates and speaks about marginalised voices and subject matter in the Northern Irish photography canon. Her new book, Subversive Mothers, Disturbing Domesticity, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2024.
Clare has taught since 2003 and has been a Fellow of the HEA since 2016. She studied in London, Canterbury, Toulouse and Belfast, earning a PhD on making visible women's work in the home. She has been External Examiner at the University of Sunderland and at IADT, Dún Laoghaire. Clare is a reviewing member of the Art & Design Ethics Filter Committee and was a member of Ulster University's Open Research & Innovation Research Strategy Group. She is a member of the Northern Irish Art Network and the House Collective and is on the Board of Directors of the Belfast Photo Festival.
She has exhibited her work internationally, including at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki and at Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, and her photobook The Second Shift was named in The Guardian's best photography books. She was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2021 and the Paul Hamlyn Visual Artists Award in 2023.
Clare has written for Visual Artists Ireland, the British Journal of Photography and contributed a chapter for Stephen Bull's key book A Companion to Photography published in 2020 by Wiley-Blackwell. She is also leading the Curating Activism strand of Frederick Douglass Week 2024 in Belfast.
Clare is Chair of Supervisors for Sarah Tehan's PhD on post-colonialism and photography, Ara Devine's PhD on post-memory and the Irish border, Elisa Valandro's PhD on memory and family archives, Aidan O'Neill's PhD on survivor-centred approaches to conflict-related sexual violence, and Selina Bonelli's PhD on photography, women and conflict. Clare also co-supervises Ashle Bailey's PhD on cultural trauma post-Troubles, Sarah Beatty's PhD on sexuality and body modification and Niamh Callaghan's PhD on the experience of murals in Northern Ireland.
Clare is inviting proposals for a PhD topic for Sept 2024, Photography and the Trace: indexical and temporal paradoxes, with Dr Frederic Huska
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
PhD, The Second Shift: making visible the unseen work of home
Master, MFA Photography
Bachelor, BA (Hons) Photography
Member
2020 → …
Board Member, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast Photo Festival
External Examiner, IADT
External Examiner, University of Sunderland
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Clare Gallagher (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Clare Gallagher (Speaker), Emma Campbell (Speaker), Richard Gosnold (Speaker) & Anna Liesching (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Clare Gallagher (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Clare Gallagher (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Clare Gallagher (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Clare Gallagher & Sean O'Hagan
6/01/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Clare Gallagher & Sean O'Hagan
17/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
13/07/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Clare Gallagher & Olga Yatskevich
20/02/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
16/12/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment