About Me

Alongside my curating career, I have supported artists, arts professionals and organisations through mentoring, workshops and organisational change

Current and upcoming news about talks, ideas, and thinking, can be found on my social media posts.

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Time out . Seaford Head, Sussex . 💚
Time out . Seaford Head, Sussex . 💚
📅 Save the date for Open Studios 2025! Join us once again for our biggest event of the year and explore the studios of the artists, designers and creative businesses who work inside Phoenix Art Space. The building is currently home to 120 professio
📅 Save the date for Open Studios 2025! Join us once again for our biggest event of the year and explore the studios of the artists, designers and creative businesses who work inside Phoenix Art Space. The building is currently home to 120 professional artists at all stages of their careers. Learn about their practices, processes and ideas and gain insight into the surroundings that serve to support and inspire them. Open from Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 May, 11am – 5pm Preview Evening: Friday 16 May, 6pm - 8.30pm Everyone welcome, suggested donation £2. @visit.brighton @artinbrighton 📷 Illustration: @consbea _
@foster_grant Home to My Teenage Bedroom is listed as a ‘must see’ in a-n @anartistsinfo this month👍🙏🔥 - thanks Team !! @phoenix_artspace @visit.brighton #brighton #art @artinbrighton Photo: 1. Bernard G Mills 2. My own #Repos
@foster_grant Home to My Teenage Bedroom is listed as a ‘must see’ in a-n @anartistsinfo this month👍🙏🔥 - thanks Team !! @phoenix_artspace @visit.brighton #brighton #art @artinbrighton Photo: 1. Bernard G Mills 2. My own #Repost @laurencehill with @use.repost ・・・
Huge thanks to @foster_grant for a walkthrough of his exhibition ‘ Home to my teenage bedroom’ @phoenix_artspace lat night. Each time I visit the exhibition I have a new encounter, and Grant beautifully articulated the influences that in
Huge thanks to @foster_grant for a walkthrough of his exhibition ‘ Home to my teenage bedroom’ @phoenix_artspace lat night. Each time I visit the exhibition I have a new encounter, and Grant beautifully articulated the influences that inform his work, the timelines the works cover and the intersecting layers. Literary, musical and artistic influences, characters from his Trinidadian background, dreams, fantasies, present and absent parenting, DADA and Worthing pier are just a few of the references he spoke to. 🙏 At Phoenix Art Space now . Free and open Wednesdays to Sundays 12-5. Check out our website for more info , link in my bio . #art @artinbrighton #Brighton @visit.brighton
☕️🫖🧋🎂🧁🥙🥪- huge potential to make your mark - and cake - @phoenix_artspace 👀⬇️ ・・・ Café Opportunity at Phoenix Art Space! We’re inviting Expressions of Interest from catering businesses or social enterprises to take over the caf&
☕️🫖🧋🎂🧁🥙🥪- huge potential to make your mark - and cake - @phoenix_artspace 👀⬇️ ・・・ Café Opportunity at Phoenix Art Space! We’re inviting Expressions of Interest from catering businesses or social enterprises to take over the café at Phoenix Art Space, a key hub for creativity in Brighton & Hove. We’re looking for an operator who can: 🔹Provide a high-quality, seasonal food and drink offer 🔹Operate 7 days a week (9am – 5pm) 🔹Manage their own staff and be a Living Wage employer 🔹Collaborate on events Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 24 March 2025 Pop-up café launch: May 2025 To apply, send your proposal to Lucy Day, Executive Director: lucyday@phoenixartspace.org More details: visit the ‘News’ page on our website. #BrightonCafe #BrightonHospitality #SussexBusiness #CafeOpportunity #IndependantBrighton
Time out . Seaford Head, Sussex . 💚 📅 Save the date for Open Studios 2025! Join us once again for our biggest event of the year and explore the studios of the artists, designers and creative businesses who work inside Phoenix Art Space. The building is currently home to 120 professio @foster_grant Home to My Teenage Bedroom is listed as a ‘must see’ in a-n @anartistsinfo this month👍🙏🔥 - thanks Team !! @phoenix_artspace @visit.brighton #brighton #art @artinbrighton Photo: 1. Bernard G Mills 2. My own #Repos Huge thanks to @foster_grant for a walkthrough of his exhibition ‘ Home to my teenage bedroom’ @phoenix_artspace lat night. Each time I visit the exhibition I have a new encounter, and Grant beautifully articulated the influences that in ☕️🫖🧋🎂🧁🥙🥪- huge potential to make your mark - and cake - @phoenix_artspace 👀⬇️ ・・・ Café Opportunity at Phoenix Art Space! We’re inviting Expressions of Interest from catering businesses or social enterprises to take over the caf&

What I’ve Achieved

Portrait @sarahweal

Board

Board Director Devonshire Collective/VOLT Gallery & Project Space (2020 -ongoing, Chair of the Bard 2021 - 2025)

Founder Director and Curator at A Woman’s Place Project CIC (2016 -2023 )

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Project Consultant to House Biennial, Brighton (2019)

Clore Leadership Short Course Alumnus (Clore50 2017)

Day+Gluckman curatorial partnership (2006 - 2016)

Consultant to the Link Up artists professional development programme for Deaf and Disabled practitioners, Shape Arts (2006 - 2007)

Advisor to organistions including:
a-n – The Artists Information Company, Artquest and Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

Director of Training and Resources and Co-Director Exhibitions, SPACE Studios, London (2003 - 2005)

Visiting Practitioner for University of the Arts (Wimbledon College of Art) and the University of Brighton

Commissioned writer on visual arts practice and exhibitions

Guest selector for Opens, Commissions and Awards

I have a background in successful fundraising for organisations and individuals, and for my own personal development and interests

I regularly support individuals and organizations with funding applications, with a high rate of success.

Success Stories

“Highly professional, pragmatic and rigorous, combined with a generous, compassionate and open spiritedness….genuine care for those you work with …..”

— Mentee. 2021

Some Background

I initially trained and practiced as a sculptor, graduating from Norwich School of Art in 1989. As an art student in the 80's I was profoundly influenced by the works of Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois as well as the more overtly feminist works of Helen Chadwick, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer.

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​When the 90's kicked in I was involved in the artist-led activity that was active in and around the East End of London, which created important opportunities for larger-scale installation and experimentation, discussion and collaboration.

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After 25 years of living in London I moved with the family to the idyllic South Downs countryside,….…and got a dog.

Images:

South Downs. Photo. Lucy Day

Portrait @sarahweal

Alinah Azadeh, craftivism workshop image. Courtesy of the artist

Zoe Papadopoulou, Nuclear Dialogues, yellowcake and geiger counter,2010. Courtesy of the artist

Background images:

Photo booth image of Lucy c. 1992

Root catalogue

The dog