Wed. 22 Oct. 2025, 11.30am
Admission Free
We invite you to join us for an artist talk with Miriam de Búrca, whose work forms part of Inheritance. De Búrca uses the luminous technique of verre églomisé to transform acts of protest into gestures of resilience. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from de Búrca about her process and ideas within the context of this exhibition.
This talk is open to all as we reflect on what we inherit and what we choose to carry forward.
About the Artist
Miriam de Búrca studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, and at Ulster University Belfast where she received an Award of Excellence for her practice-based PhD in 2010.
De Búrca works with film, photography, installation and drawing, examining the socio-ecological legacies of patriarchy and colonialism through a feminist, de-colonial lens. Through the mimicry of imperialist aesthetics and methods of knowledge-gathering, she interrogates her subjects as if performing forensic examinations, turning the scrutiny back on the scrutinisers.
Her drawings and film and video works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is represented by the Cristea Roberts Gallery, London and has works in the collection of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Golden Thread Art Gallery; Arts Council of Ireland; the British Museum; Mead Gallery at University of Warwick, Coventry; National University of Ireland; Trinity College Dublin; Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork, Katrin Bellinger Collection; as well as in several private collections. Her drawing has been published in Phaidon’s Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing, 2021, in Irish Art 1920–2020: Perspectives on a Century of Change, eds. Yvonne Scott and Catherine Marshall, 2022, most recently in Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art, ed. Yvonne Scott, 2023 and The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art, ed. Susan Owens, Yale University Press, 2024.
Miriam de Búrca lives and works in Galway, west of Ireland.
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