Mary McCarthy is originally from Skibbereen. She studied Arts Management in UCD and became interested in the visual arts through working in a large art gallery on a J1 in New York for a summer.

She worked at the Irish Museum of Modern Art for four years, she was appointed director of the National Sculpture Factory in Cork in 1996, and after this she went on to work for the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

She was the deputy director overseeing Cork’s successful European Capital of Culture bid for 2005 and remained in that role for its year long term.

She is now the director of the Crawford Art Gallery and has been since February 2018. We talk about the importance of art institutions in civic spaces, the planned redevelopment of the Crawford Art Gallery, inclusivity and civic engagement in planning and desdigning a city and much much more.

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