Paul McAree is Curator at Lismore Castle Arts in Co Waterford, which has hosted solo exhibitions by artists including Gerard Byrne, Dorothy Cross, Camille Henrot, Rashid Johnson and Wilhelm Sasnal.
He also runs an independent commissioning project, FLOOD, and has previously worked at Breaking Ground, Tate Modern and Ikon Gallery Birmingham. 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 is currently a board member of both Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
Paul McAree releases improvised noise guitar music under the names To Blacken the Pages and The Ambient Service.