Dr Margarita Cappock
Margarita is a Curator and Art Historian. She joined Dublin City Council in 1999 as Project Manager of the Francis Bacon Studio Project at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where she was subsequently Head of Collections and Deputy Director until 2018 when she transferred to Dublin City Arts Office.
She has written extensively and curated several exhibitions on Irish Art. She has overseen major exhibition collaborations with international museums (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; BOZAR, Brussels).
She is the lead on a major project to digitally document the Public Art Collection of Dublin City Council and coordinates the Dublin City Arts Office Residency Programme. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History of Art and French, an MA in Irish Art and Architecture from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in History of Art (NUI).