Professor Tessa Giblin is the Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh and holds a Personal Chair in Contemporary Curating with Edinburgh College of Art. She has held curatorial positions in Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Aotearoa/New Zealand, where she was born and raised. While at Talbot Rice Gallery, she has curated and published books with Samson Young, Angelica Mesiti, Emeka Ogboh, Celine Condorelli, Jesse Jones, El Anatsui and Wael Shawky, and curated many group exhibitions that engage with the culture, politics and changing tides of the world around us. She was previously Curator of Project Arts Centre in Dublin 2006-16, guest curator of the 2015 steirischer herbst festival exhibition in Graz, Austria, and Commissioner & Curator of Ireland at Venice Biennale in 2017 with Jesse Jones’ Tremble Tremble, an exhibition that later toured to Bilbao, Adelaide, Singapore, Dublin and Edinburgh.