Jean Tormey

Tate Liverpool

Jean Tormey is Public Programmes Curator, Tate Liverpool and has worked on the Public Programme linked to Peter Blake: A Retrospective; Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant Garde; The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China and Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People. Prior to this Jean undertook internships in the Education Departments of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2005), working on the Public Programme linked to The Eye of the Storm: Works in situ by Daniel Buren; Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim and Russia! and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005) working on the School and Family Programme related to the Museum of Modern Art collection displays and the Adult Programme on Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865–1885.

While teaching English in the British School, Rome in 2004 Jean did an internship at the Museo dell’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2004) and has worked in a freelance capacity in the Education Department at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (2001 – 2005) and the Doughlas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (1999 – 2001). Her qualifications include a BA in History of Art and French, Trinity College Dublin (2001) and an MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management, University College Dublin (2004).