IFI announces its new director
The new Director of the Irish Gaelic Picture Institute has been announced.
Sarah Glennie will ingest up the status in autumn 2008.
Glennie has antecedently worked as Director of the Manikin Humanistic discipline and Niland Gallery and Commissioner of the Irish whiskey Pavillion at the Venezia Biennale 2005.
She has curated projects for PS1 MoMA, Fresh House of York, and Cork 2005 and held positions at the Henry Marianne Craig Moore Innovation and the Irish whiskey Museum of Bodoni font Art.
Commenting on Glennie's appointment, Eve-Anne Cullinan, Chairwoman of IFI, said: "Sarah has a wealth of experience in strategic cultural planning and of run and working in populace cultural institutions both in Emerald Isle and internationally. We are delighted to welcome Sarah Glennie to IFI to atomic number 82 ace of the country's well-nigh popular cultural venues into an exciting period in its chronicle."
Among the freshly projects to be undertaken by the IFI ar a renovation of the IFI eye in Dublin's Eustace Street; a collaboration with the Dundalk Constitute of Technology on a fresh adroitness for the Irish Photographic film Archive and a three-year strategy plan.
