Aiming to keep a Sample of Cork arts in the public eye

Aoibhie McCarthy is the recently-appointed director of Sample Studios, one of Leeside's most important artists' spaces 

Aoibhie McCarthy, new artistic director of Sample Studios in Cork. 

Describing her new role as artistic director of Sample Studios in Cork as her "dream job", Aoibhie McCarthy has worked her way through the country's various galleries and arts organisations. Originally from Bray, she has come to Cork via Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Limerick and Waterford working at the National Gallery, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, the Galway Fringe Festival and Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford to mention just a few.

McCarthy, an arts graduate of Trinity College Dublin, will continue working part-time as the marketing and development manager of the Cork International Film Festival for the next two and a half months before focusing solely on Sample Studios.