Making a mark on the city

The EVA event has again made top class sculpture and other art accessible at several locations in Limerick, writes Tina O’Sullivan

EVA is Ireland’s longest running international art event. Located in Limerick city, it has been an annual art festival since 1977. This year it is titled After the Future and is the first show in the new biennial format.

Annie Fletcher is the invited curator and she also works in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, in the Netherlands as curator of exhibitions. “I always say I’m this interesting mongrel,” says Fletcher. “I’ve been living in the Netherlands for 15 years, but I started my career in visual arts in Ireland. I did History of Art in Trinity, then worked in the Douglas Hyde Gallery as an assistant curator. I’m from Carlow and I went to the Netherlands in 1995/96 and most of career has been there, but I’ve worked frequently in Ireland.”