The Phoenix Vol.38 No.13

THE PHOENIX JULY 3, 2020 19
SOCIETY H STAGE H SCREEN H SEX H SOUNDS H SPORTS H SIGHTS H SOCIETY
synonymous with trainer Dermot
Weld, who has been Moyglare’s
principal trainer since its
establishment, with the team
combining for a host of topclass
victories both at home and
abroad, most recently landing
the Irish St Leger last year with
Search For A Song.
This year, however, there
has been a shift in policy, with
trainers Joseph O’Brien, John
THE BOARD of the Glucksman
Gallery in University College
Cork (UCC) has been beefed
up by the arrival of heavyweight
legal eagle Richard Martin.
And there have also been other
changes courtesy of a new
constitution.
Richard Martin is the
managing partner of Ronan
Daly Jermyn and specialises in
entertainment and media law.
He is also a UCC graduate,
which presumably helped
when it came to
filling the board
vacancy. His other
directorships
include Cork
University
Hospital, the
Cork Chamber of
Commerce and
the Barrymore
Trust, which was
established by
sculptor Ken
Thompson to
develop the castle
as a cultural and
tourist centre.
Last year, the Glucksman
board also saw a new arrival
in the form of the glamorous
Tarka Russell, whose latest
gig is at the Timothy Taylor
Gallery. She was recently
appointed director there
and is overseeing the sales
and curatorial programme
at the gallery’s new London
headquarters in Mayfair. Tarka
is the daughter of Mary Jane
and Philip Russell, formerly
of the impressive Dunkathel
House in Glanmire.
The board of the Glucksman
Gallery is chaired by former
gallery owner, the Londonbased
Lawrence O’Hana,
who is described as managing
director of an art investment
advisory outfit called ayfair
Art Partners. Formerly of
Lehman Brothers, he managed
the infamous bank’s corporate
charitable foundation. (Lehman
Brothers was where Lewis
Glucksman, whose funds helped
build the eponymous gallery,
made his fortune.) O’Hana is
Oxx and Jessica Harrington all
being added to the Moyglare
roster of trainers.
While Weld still appears to be
the main man, with the majority
of the string under his care, the
addition of new trainers to the
team does suggest that a more
even spread of Eva Maria’s
powerful squad of bluebloods
will be the norm in the years to
come.
CHANGES AT THE
GLUCKSMAN GALLERY
Richard Martin
married to Irish artist Laura
Gannon and sits on the board
of Fluxus Art Projects, an
Anglo-French art charity where
Kristin Scott Thomas is
honorary patron.
Apart from assorted UCC
heads, including president
Patrick O’Shea, the other
Glucksman board members
are Doyle Hotels’ Paula
Colgan, artist and lecturer
Brian Fay and American art
writer Nicholas Fox Weber
of the Josef and
Anni Albers
Foundation.
Recently, the
Glucksman board
voted to adapt
the constitution
of the gallery,
with the main
focus being the
emphasis on the
education aspect
of the institution.
This is presumably
linked to the tax
relief available
to donors to cultural bodies
involved in education. The
new memorandum and articles
of association notes first
and foremost that the main
object of the Glucksman is “to
research and educate through
the visual arts”. Previously, the
main object was “to operate the
Lewis Glucksman Art Gallery”.
The new document also
highlights the aim of enabling
“the advancement of education
through student and public
participation in its artistic and
educational programmes”.
The gallery now also has
some impressive sounding
new “subsidiary objects”, such
as providing “a cultural space
for the scholarly investigation
of visual culture” and acting
as “a beacon of culture for
independent thinking” no less.
A more mundane change
is the removal of the article
that stated that “directors shall
not be required to retire by
rotation”, which should help
ensure plenty of new faces in
the years to come.