Governance

EVA International Biennial of Visual Art CLG was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee on 6 March 2012. The company operates under the registered business name ‘EVA International’ with the company number: 510483. Click here for current organisational policies.

Board of Directors
Laura Fitzgerald (appointed December 2021)
Brian Haugh (appointed March 2017, Treasurer December 2017)
Michael McLoughlin (appointed October 2022)
Kerstin Mey (appointed March 2020)
Chris Mooney-Brown (appointed November 2023)
Andrew Mulcahy (appointed October 2024)
Marta Sławińska (appointed March 2020)

International Advisory Panel (2024 – 2027)
Hoor Al Qasimi
Ben Eastham
Ioana Leca
Nora O Murchú

International Advisory Panel (2012 – 2022)
Omar Berrada
Annie Fletcher
Emily-Jane Kirwan
Paul O’Neill

Biographies / Board of Directors
Brian Haugh is head of Valuation and Financial Modelling at BDO. Over the years he has travelled widely across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas and spent a number of years living in Wellington, New Zealand. During these travels Brian has been inspired by the people, places and cultures he has encountered, in particular by the manner in which communities are shaped by their environment. Brian returned to Limerick in 2012 and had been involved with a number of community and not for profit endeavours in the city. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Brian has also acted as financial advisor to a number of not for profit organisations around financial management and governance.

Andrew Mulcahy is an accountant who began his career with PwC in the US and Ireland, before transitioning into human resources consulting and recruitment advisory services; a field he has worked in for over 20 years and currently with his own firm, FTR Ltd.  He has been involved in a number of charities in Limerick over the years, including St Martins Youth Centre Kileely and as a founder of The Blue Box Creative Arts Therapies.  A Cork native, he is passionate about promoting his adopted city of Limerick and advocating for the thriving arts and creative community.

Marta Slawinska holds a BA (Hons) in Industrial Design and a MA by Research in Cultural Geography. She completed a Summer School in Urban Studies organised by Vienna University and City University New York, and the European Cultural Foundation Moving Communities Idea Camp. She has held positions across voluntary, private and public sectors working as a designer, researcher, curator and cultural facilitator. She worked on Limerick’s bid for the title of European Capital of Culture 2020; on local implementation of Creative Ireland Programme with Limerick City and County Council; and on several projects and exhibitions at Ormston House, where she also led a cross-cultural project World Recipe Exchange. Since 2020, Marta is employed in the International Office at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Originally from Poland, Marta has lived in Ireland since 2005.

Michael Mcloughlin is a visual artist, who has been making soundwork, drawings, video and sculptural installations since the mid 1990’s. Much of this artwork has as sociological inquiry at its core and frequently examines mechanisms of social interaction and infrastructures that support it. Michael lectures in Fine Art in Limerick School of Art & Design and is Joint Programme Leader of both the MA in Fine Art and BA in Sculpture & Combined Media.  His work has been commissioned and purchased by many public and private institutions/collections. Within the last five years he has made site specific work in Limerick (Cumann: An Audio Map of Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art) Drogheda (Cumann, Droichead Arts Centre; Beyond the Pale, Highlanes) and in Dublin (Rest Here, UCD Sutherland School of Law; Ocean Wonder, Resort Revelations, Portrane) He was the inaugural UCD College of Social Science & Law Artist-in-Residence (2015) and Artist in Residence with Dublin City Council 2017/18; Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia in 2019; Rūcka, Cēsis, Latvia, 2019/20; PRAKSIS Oslo, Norway, 2018.  Michael was Artist in Residence in Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown (2017-2019) where he recently presented a major body of work Mulhuddart Satellite in 2018. In 2021 he installed permanent sound-based ‘memorial’ in Cēsis, Latvia.  In autumn 2022 he submitted his doctoral thesis at UCD School of Sociology entitled Artmaking, Orderliness & Organisational Procedures; Sense-making Adjacent to Art Commissioning Processes in the Public Realm.

Professor Kerstin Mey was born and educated in Berlin, Germany. She studied for an MA equivalent in Art, and German language and literature at Humboldt University and completed a PhD in Art Theory and Aesthetics there. Since September 2020 she has headed up University of Limerick as Interim President. Before joining UL as Vice President Academic Affairs and Student Engagement and Professor of Visual Culture in 2018, she held academic positions in universities in Germany and the UK. These included the research strand lead for ‘Art and its Locations’ in Interface, Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design, and Director of the Research Institute Art and Design, University of Ulster; as well as the Directorship for Research and Enterprise at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Most recently, before moving to Ireland, she served as Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, London, UK.

Laura Fitzgerald is a visual artist working in drawing, painting, installation, video, and text. A graduate of both the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and Royal College of Art, London, she is a recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary Award (Arts Council of Ireland) for 2021-22. Recent exhibitions include participation in the 39th EVA International with ‘Fantasy Farming’ (2020) at Limerick City Gallery of Art, the site-specific mountain-based artwork ‘Cosmic Granny’ (2019) in Inch, Co. Kerry, and ‘Lucian’s Neighbours‘ (2018) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. In Spring 2023 Laura will participate in the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts residency program in Omaha, USA.

Chris Mooney-Brown has held senior management and leadership positions in the visual arts sector in Wales and the UK, pursuing a mission to improve infrastructure and conditions for artistic practice. He led the visual arts organisation g39 in Cardiff which championed the circular economy in many of its practices, and made company-wide efforts to become a zero-waste venue. Chris recently compiled a business proposal for a Library of Things at g39 to enhance its commitment to the local community and the sharing economy. Having relocated to Ireland in 2022 he has worked as a freelance consultant for charitable organisations, alongside studies for a MScs in Voluntary and Community Sector Management at University College Cork.

Constitution
Please click here to view EVA International’s Constitution (Memorandum and Articles of Association). EVA’s Constitution is currently being updated in accordance with the Companies Act 2014.

Financial Statements
EVA adheres to the Charities SORP when compiling the company’s accounts. Please click here to view EVA’s most recent set of audited accounts.

Governance Code
EVA is committed to adhering to best practice in financial reporting and principles of good fundraising.

Organisational Policies 
Click here to view EVA’s current policies on Artists’ Pay & Renumeration, Child Protection, Privacy, and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

Salaries
The Director/CEO’s salary falls within the range €55,000 – €65,000 per annum.