Emma Fearon

Emma Fearon is an Irish English curator.  Fearon studied Art History and Visual Culture and has an MA in International Contemporary Art: Business & Curation.  During this time, she undertook an internship at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, before staging two art exhibitions for the deaf community in a bilingual format (British Sign Language & English) as seen on BBC Radio (The Art of Signing Hands; a bilingual exhibition (2022), Inter-Diaspora (2023,Flare Wave Festival). She also co-curated I still dream that dream (2022), supported by Zolforosso while undertaking the British Pavilion fellowship at Venice Biennale, before working as Curatorial Director of Flare Arts (2022-2024). Currently, Fearon is completing a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture by Practice, specialising in ‘Radical Access; dignified access for transcultural understanding. 

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) raised in a deaf environment and between two communities in the UK/North of Ireland, Fearon takes interest in working across communities sensitively, through creative access and dignified entry points to cultural histories.