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Weekend Plans

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 Rachael Thomas - Nan Goldin Welcome to the Rachael Thomas blog. Rachael is from Dublin in Ireland. Find out more about her and her love of contemporary art here. Here is an article about her work with Nan Goldin written by Ida Panicelli.  For Nan Goldin’s first solo exhibition in Ireland, “Weekend Plans,” curated by Rachel Thomas, the artist’s iconic slideshow, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1985, inevitably sets the tone. It’s impossible to avoid the impact of her most famous work, a record of Goldin’s harrowing life from 1970 to 1985, featuring an assortment of family, friends, and lovers. The slideshow is intimate, built around a narrative arc and accompanied by an upbeat sound track, from Maria Callas to the Velvet Underground.  This closeness is palpable and heightened by the intensity of the artist’s subjects: sex, drug abuse, parties, booze, domestic violence, and AIDS sufferers. We are witnesses to a raw reality, called into its crude, dark glamour––we are mesmerized. Goldin
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Rachel Thomas Bio

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 Rachel Thomas Welcome to the Rachel Thomas blog. Rachel Thomas is the Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin. Thomas is a Leonardo fellow at Trinity College Dublin, contributor to the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World programme at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the European judge for the Rise Art Prize for young artists. Thomas is a mentor and guest lecturer a Goldsmiths University. Thomas has curated various exhibitions including solo surveys of Philippe Parreno, BhartiKher, Frank Bowling, Nan Goldin, Pierre Huyghe, Etel Adnan, HélioOiticica, HaroonMirza, TinoSehgal, the American Fluxus and feminist artist Eleanor Antin, Thomas Ruff, Karen Kilimnik, MargheritaManzelli, Willie Doherty, Sophie Calle and Mark Manders. She initiated and organized with Philippe Parreno the seminal group show of post relational aesthetics ‘.all hawaiieNtrées / luNarreGGae’ (2007), artists included Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, CarstenHölle
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