Paul McAree is Curator/Director at Lismore Castle Arts in Co Waterford, which has hosted solo exhibitions by artists including Gerard Byrne, Anne Collier, Dorothy Cross, Camille Henrot, Rashid Johnson and Wilhelm Sasnal. Previously McAree worked at Breaking Ground, Tate Modern and Ikon Gallery Birmingham, and also runs an occasional commissioning project, FLOOD. He co-founded and directed Colony Gallery in Birmingham from 2007 – 2010. He has curated freelance projects, co-curating Traces at Kasteel Wijlre, The Netherlands in 2018, was curator in residence at Rua Red from 2014-2016, and curator in residence at Temple Bar Gallery, 2012-2013. He has been a peer review panel member for the Arts Council and local authorities, and is a Board Member for both Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh. Paul McAree releases improvised noise guitar music under the names To Blacken the Pages and The Ambient Service.
