Noel Kelly (arts management)

Noel Kelly (born 1964) is an Irish art consultation and management specialist. He is currently CEO of Visual Artists Ireland.
Career
Noel Kelly is the former CEO of ETP Ltd., a project management company, and started The Art Projects Network , an Irish arts advisory business and website, with Alan Phelan in 2005. Kelly was deputy director and curator for Temple Bar Gallery and Studio in Dublin from 2005 - 07.
Since 2007 Kelly has been the CEO of Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) an NGO representing artists' rights. While at the VAI, he has published research that became responsible for identifying the poverty levels encountered by visual arts practitioners in Ireland. For example, he published Payment Guidelines for Visual Artists in Ireland and Payment Guidelines for Visual Artists in Northern Ireland. Both have been adopted as the industry standard for payment structures and have been put into policy by Dublin City Council.
He is a board member of the Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation, and was President of the International Association of Art Critics in Ireland from 2011 to 2017. Noel Kelly has also curated exhibitions in Ireland and internationally. In 2004, Kelly was appointed Cultural Program Director with The Slovenian Embassy in Dublin and co-curated the Slovenian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
Awards
In March 2008, he was elected a Fellow of The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) in recognition for his contribution to the visual arts.
Bibliography
*Kelly, Noel, Editor, Art and Politics: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe, (2004).
*Kelly, Noel, and Seán Kissane, Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts, Contemporary Visual Arts in Ireland 2000-2011. Dublin: Printed Project (2011).
*Kelly, Noel, et al. The Manual: Survival Guide for Visual Artists, Dublin: Visual Artists Ireland (2015).
*Kely, Noel, The Social, Economic, and Fiscal Status of the Visual Artist in Ireland 2016 , Dublin: Visual Artists Ireland (2016).

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