PPS/PVA Visual Art Writing Commission 2023 recipient Sara Damaris Muthi

Pallas Projects and Paper Visual Art announce Sara Damaris Muthi as the 2023 recipient of their annual writing commission for early-career writers.

This award is the third of an ongoing series, aiming to encourage, develop, and support new and ambitious critical writing in the context of contemporary visual art in Ireland, and to afford the recipient the opportunity to reflect on and publish work on their specific area of interest.

The commission is part of Pallas Projects' ongoing curatorial project Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) and together with the selected works is intended to further discourse on the contemporary moment in visual art in Ireland, while also building a record of art practice, projects, and concepts over time. These are commitments shared by Paper Visual Art Journal and this new critical initiative represents a welcome opportunity to collaborate across organisations. Awardees receive a professional fee and editorial input and support from Pallas Projects and Paper Visual Art, and their text is published in the printed exhibition publication, and online on the PVA website.

About Sara Damaris Muthi

Born in Transylvania and based in Dublin, Sara Damaris Muthi is a curator and writer. Currently a curatorial assistant at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, she spent three years teaching in the department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin She has exhibited annual commissions since 2018 with themes ranging from metaphysics to migrant identities. Her recent writing practice explores the intersections of Evangelicalism and Western visual culture. She is the recipient of Black Church Print Studio Emerging Curator Award 2022.

Sara was just announced as curator of visual art at Brown Mountain Diamond, an experimental artist-run art space in deep rural Ireland.

Exhibitions include: Backgarden Trilogy, Goethe-Institut Ireland (2023); Material parables, Draíocht (2023); Loveyou my sweaty, The Library Project (2023); Hot glue, Platform Arts; The Complex (2022); .pptx, Void, Derry, (2021); Foreignments, The Lab (2020); Post-Dance, Project Arts Centre (2019); Anticipation: Actualisation, NCAD Gallery (2018).

The PPS/PVA Visual Art Writing Commission is supported through Arts Grant Funding by The Arts Council