Sarah McAuliffe

© Ruth Medjeber Sarah McAuliffe is the Exhibitions Curator at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin. She carried out her undergraduate and master’s degrees at University College Cork (UCC), 2011 – 2015, and over the past 10 years has worked in numerous roles in the museum sector, from education programming and curating to marketing and fundraising.
Her expertise in Irish and international photography prompted the establishment of a collection of photography for the National Gallery of Ireland, where she worked as a Curatorial Fellow between 2018 and 2022. Sarah offers university talks and lectures on subjects such as, the role of the curator, contemporary art, and the history of Irish photography. She worked as a guest lecturer in the History of Art department at UCC between 2018 and 2022.
At the RHA, Sarah works with emerging, mid-career and established artists, largely based in Ireland on exhibitions and learning programmes. In addition to working within the museum sector in Ireland, she consults on exhibitions internationally, and works with private collectors in the United States and Europe on developing their collections.