Exhibitions and ProjectsI have a particular interest in the following fields: feminism and art practice by women; new media and time-based practice; sculptural and sonic investigations of space; experimental narrative texts; artists moving image and context-specific arts practices, particularly political/activist, heritage and environment.
My interest in curating developed as an art student in the 1980s, and after graduating I went on to curate exhibitions and projects at the artist-led space The Commercial Gallery and off site at Commercial Too. From 2003 - 2005 I was co- Gallery Director at Space Studios, programming the Triangle Gallery alongside Alice Sharp. In 2006 I formed the curatorial partnership Day+Gluckman with Eliza Gluckman, which we ran until 2017. In 2016 we co-founded A Woman's Place Project CIC. Eliza continues to support as a Founder Director, whilst I am developing the organisation as Director and Curator. |
Freddie Robins, He's Behind You, 2011. Commissioned for Fifties, Fashion and Emerging Feminism exhibition.
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A Woman's Place
A Woman’s Place is a contemporary arts, heritage and education project where equality provides the contextual backbone. The two year programme includes new artists commissions, exhibitions (including Liberties 2015 & 2016) , a film and events programme, and a study day.
In 2018 Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Lindsay Seers, Emily Speed, Alice May Williams and Melanie Wilson were commissioned by curators Day+Gluckman for A Woman’s Place Project to realise new work at National Trusts’ Knole in Kent. The works highlight the progression towards female equality through the stories of the women who have contributed to the spirit and history of Knole. Home to the Sackville family for 400 years, Knole is the setting for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
Encountered throughout the house and grounds A Woman’s Place at Knole was open to the public from 17 May to 4 November 2018. For more information, click here.
In June 2016 the project became A Woman's Place Project CIC. As a result of a successful application to Grants for the Arts the 2 year project has been supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. and the National Trust (Trust New Art programme and Knole). Other project partners included Turner Contemporary (Margate) , Jerwood Gallery (Hastings,) Depot Cinema (Lewes), New Hall Art Collection (University of Cambridge), Universities of Sussex and Brighton, Royal Pavilion & Museums (Brighton and Hove), Kent County Council and Quiet Down There.
Huge thanks to all of our partners, to the artists and our audiences who have made this project such a success. .
We continue to develop and fundraise to support the organisation going forward.
Day+
Gluckman
Day+Gluckman are feminist curators who have a reputation for working with artists with a rigorous approach to practice. Our aim is to establish long term relationships with artists and initiate opportunities to exhibit, explore, curate and commission. We have curated over 30 exhibitions and worked with more than 200 artists.
From 2008 - 2016 we programmed and curated Collyer Bristow Gallery in Holborn, London and have worked with arts and heritage organisations including museums, National Trust and the Canal and Rivers Trust.
We have particular interests in those practices which challenge conventional readings of fine art, and work with artists across media and artforms. Our exhibitions have ranged from group exhibitions resulting from conversations, with artists and between ourselves, echoing shared themes and interests, to major projects looking at specific concerns.
From 2008 - 2016 we programmed and curated Collyer Bristow Gallery in Holborn, London and have worked with arts and heritage organisations including museums, National Trust and the Canal and Rivers Trust.
We have particular interests in those practices which challenge conventional readings of fine art, and work with artists across media and artforms. Our exhibitions have ranged from group exhibitions resulting from conversations, with artists and between ourselves, echoing shared themes and interests, to major projects looking at specific concerns.
Liberties
Collyer Bristow Gallery, London , July - October 2015
The Exchange, Cornwall October 2016 - January 2017
Guler Ates, Helen Barff, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Jemima Burrill, Helen Chadwick, Sarah Duffy, Rose English, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alison Gill, Helena Goldwater, Joy Gregory, Margaret Harrison, Alexis Hunter, Frances Kearney, EJ Major, Eleanor Moreton, Hayley Newman, Freddie Robins, Monica Ross, Jo Spence, Jessica Voorsanger, Alice May Williams and Carey Young
2015 marked 40 years since the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in the UK, a law that aimed to change the landscape of our society. Curators Day+Gluckman have been exploring these themes for their project A Woman’s Place which questions and addresses the contemporary position of women in our creative, historical and cultural landscape through contemporary art.
Collyer Bristow Gallery, London , July - October 2015
The Exchange, Cornwall October 2016 - January 2017
Guler Ates, Helen Barff, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Jemima Burrill, Helen Chadwick, Sarah Duffy, Rose English, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alison Gill, Helena Goldwater, Joy Gregory, Margaret Harrison, Alexis Hunter, Frances Kearney, EJ Major, Eleanor Moreton, Hayley Newman, Freddie Robins, Monica Ross, Jo Spence, Jessica Voorsanger, Alice May Williams and Carey Young
2015 marked 40 years since the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in the UK, a law that aimed to change the landscape of our society. Curators Day+Gluckman have been exploring these themes for their project A Woman’s Place which questions and addresses the contemporary position of women in our creative, historical and cultural landscape through contemporary art.
Margaret Harrison, The Last Gaze, Liberties, The Exchange 2016
Collection: mima
Photo (c) Steve Tanner
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Works by over 20 women artists reflect the changes in art practice, within the context of sexual and gender equality, since the introduction of the Act. Some artists confront issues that galvanised the change in law whilst others carved their own place in a complex and male dominated art world. The exhibition presents a snapshot of the evolving conversations that continue to contribute to the mapping of a woman’s place in British society. Body, femininity, sex, motherhood, economic and political status are explored through film, photography, sculpture, performance and painting.
Liberties was the last exhibition that we curated for Collyer Bristow Gallery and the first for A Woman's Place Project CIC. |
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Present Tense
An exhibition of works that explore disrupted space: cultural, political, emotional and physical, selected from Phoenix Brighton studio artists. Curated by Lucy Day NORTH GALLERY 6 May – 4 June 2017 Open Wed – Sun 11 am – 5 pm Preview: Fri 5 May 6 – 8 pm This exhibition, located in a site of multiple artists practices and drawn from them, considers how ideas can transcend a physical space, yet are grounded through different forms of making and display. It brings into play an exploration of cultural and political space, opening up discussions around how individual lives and histories inform and shape the articulation of a practice. The exhibition offers a slice in time, a moment of shared connections and isolated thoughts. It encompasses drawings ; on paper and on the wall; discreet surveillance manifesting as photographs and kinetic video; sculpture and paintings that speak to absence and presence, actions and affirmation. Image: Oliver Hein, Still from A Sense of Place |
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Collyer Bristow Gallery 2008 - 2015
Major projects include Sinopticon (lead curator Eliza Gluckman, co-founded with artists Gayle Chong Kwan and Stephanie Douet ). The project unpicked the form and decorative narrative in chinoiserie to discuss value and taste, fantasy, replication and the stereotyping of images through contemporary art. The darker elements of chinoiserie’s historical routes; identity politics, racism, trade and production values, authorship and the contested territory of exoticism were also explored through a major exhibition across four venues in Plymouth in 2012and a later iteration at Danson House in Bexleyheath in 2013.. Today the project is curated, researched and continually developed under the umbrella of Day+Gluckman in collaboration with our partners.
Our current project, A Woman’s Place, is an arts, heritage and education project with female equality providing the contextual backbone. (See below or click on the link).
Our current project, A Woman’s Place, is an arts, heritage and education project with female equality providing the contextual backbone. (See below or click on the link).
Commercial Gallery + Commercial Too
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The Commercial Gallery was an artist led space, part of Spitalfields Arts Projects , set in pre- developed Spitalfields Market and ran from 1995 - 1999,. The space offered a platform for solo shows by unrepresented artists. We had a rapid turnaround programme, opening a new exhibition very 6 - 8 weeks. Artists who showed there included Cedric Christie, Almuth Tebbenhoff, Jamie Wagg, Clem Crosby, Marion Coutts, and Martin Fletcher amongst others. In 1996 we hosted the sculpture section of the Whitechapel Open 96, selected by Keith Ball, Richard Wentworth and Alison Wilding across both The Commercial Gallery and Commercial Too at Folgate Street, including works by Terry Smith, Ana Genoves, Keith Wilson and Janette Parris.
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Commercial Too was the generic name for a series of large-scale offsite exhibitions in temporary unused office and warehouse spaces. These included the infamous WheNever at Commercial Too, Greatorex Street London E1, sited in the former offices of the Federation of Jewish Synagogues and Kosher Luncheon Club. A series of openings included performances by The Hybrid Ensemble and film and sound work by Glimpse and Fructose. Artists were invited to create works throughout the different spaces, with a series of openings taking place during May – July 1997. A total of 58 artists exhibited work, including Heather Allen, Stuart Brisley, Keith Ball, Richard Ducker, Nicky Hirst, Tina Keane, Christiana Protto, Joshua Sofaer and Terry Smith,
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