Bairbre-Ann is Curator of IMMA Horizons at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with responsibility for IMMA’s Health Partnerships. She previously led IMMA’s Art & Ageing initiatives, championing inclusive and dementia-aware engagement and fostering key partnerships with IMMA collaborators such as Age&Opportunity, Global Brain Health Institute, Mercers Inst. for Successful Ageing (St James Hospital) among others.
Before this, while working as Curator of Education at Butler Gallery, Bairbre-Ann became a founding member of the Azure network of dementia inclusive galleries and museums, alongside IMMA, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Age&Opportunity and the Erasmus+ funded European project ‘Museums, Art and Alzheimers’. She initiated IMMA Horizons in 2023, exploring how creativity and arts experiences can enhance health, wellbeing and quality of life.
