Keeper of the collection

SEÁN Rainbird took the helm as director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin in April this year.

Rainbird has come from a directorial role in Staats galerie in Stuttgart, where he oversaw a large-scale building and fundraising project. He has previously worked as a curator of modern and contemporary art at the Tate Gallery in Britain.

The National Gallery of Ireland manages and houses the country’s collection of European and Irish fine art. There are 14,500 works in the collection, which dates from the early Renaissance to the 1950s.