She curated “Lines of Sight”, an exhibition of political works from the Israeli Digital Art Archive which was part of EVA International, 2012 (
www.eva.ie) including the work of Avi Mograbi, Yael Bartana, Artur Zmijewski, Nurit Sharett, Adrian Paci, Amir Yatziv, Dor Guez and Fillipa Cesar.
Morley was the curator of the Tulca Contemporary Art Festival 2011, “After the fall”, a large scale multi-venue exhibition and discussion programme that queried artists’ responses to the international and national context of economic recession, political collapse and social upheaval.
In addition she worked on a number of collaborative film works and public art commissions with artist Tom Flanagan, including a feature length experimental documentary entitled “Aughty” which premiered in July 2012 and “Post –Fordlandia” a filmic exploration of Henry Ford’s failed utopian town Fordlandia, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, which premiered in the Galway Arts Centre June 2011, and has since been shown in the Centre du Pompidou, Paris as part of Rencontres Internationale (2011), and the Model, Sligo (2012)
From 2008-2010 she worked as Public Arts Officer for Galway City Council where she was commissioned a series of significant multi-disciplinary and participatory public art projects across Galway City.
As part of on-going examination into artist-led and collective practices in Ireland over the last 40 years, in 2006 she developed The Artist-led Archive, an archive and touring exhibition of documentation relating to over 80 past and present Irish artist-led initiatives from the period 1970- 2008, which is currently housed in the special collections of the National Irish Visual Arts Library. (
www.nival.ie)
As part of the Artist-led Archive National tour (2006-2009) she coordinated a series of public symposia that included presentations by Julie Ault (Group Material NY), Julie Crawshaw (Midwest.co.uk), (G126), Brian Patterson (A.R.E., The N.IRE workshop of F.I.U. established by Joseph Beuys), and Lise Skou (the Young Danish Artworkers Union U.K.K.).
