Curating
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catalyst + conduit + care
Curatorial Focus and Experience
feminism
art practice by women
new media and time-based practice
sculptural and sonic investigations of space
experimental narrative texts
artists moving image
context-specific arts practices
political/activist, heritage and environment
Curator/Producer Background
My interest in curating developed as a Fine Art student in the 1980s.
After graduating, I curated exhibitions and projects at the artist-led space The Commercial Gallery and off site at Commercial Too.
2003 - 2005 Co-Gallery Director at Space Studios, programming the Triangle Gallery and Director of Artists Professional Development.
2006 - 2016 One of half of the curatorial partnership Day+Gluckman.
2016 Co-founded A Woman's Place Project Community Interest Company with Eliza Gluckman
How I Can Work With You
Discuss
Research
Conversations
Identify commonalities
Embrace difference
Design
Create the space to imagine
Identify the opportunities and people
Develop the framework
Tell the story
Produce
Fund it
Make it
Promote it
Realise your ambition
“Be the architect, not the wallpaper.”
- (paraphrasing Gaylene Gould, 2021)
A Woman’s Place Projects
A catalyst and umbrella for cultural projects and advocacy where equality provides the contextual backbone
Day+Gluckman
Between 2006 and 2016 Eliza Gluckman and I curated over 30 exhibitions.
We programmed and curated Collyer Bristow Gallery, London 2007 - 2015.
We worked with more than 200 artists, arts and heritage organisations including:
The National Trust
V&A
Plymouth Museum and Gallery
Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange
Danson House (Bexley Heritage Trust) Canal and Rivers Trust.
Commercial Gallery /Commercial Too
The Commercial Gallery was an artist-led space, part of Spitalfields Arts Projects, set in the pre-developed Spitalfields Market.
It ran from 1995 - 1999 and offered a platform for solo shows by unrepresented artists.
Commercial Too was the generic name for a series of large-scale exhibitions in the temporary unused office and warehouse space.
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.
Throughout 1998 Keith Ball and I, as Commercial Too, concentrated on the production of ROOT, launched on 16 October 1998, with Jon Tye from Lo Recordings in association with Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth .
The Project involved an exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, and CD of work by leading contemporary artists and musicians including Angela Bulloch, Gavin Turk, David Bowie and Blur.
Present Tense
2017 Guest Curator Present Tense, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
An exhibition of works that explored disrupted space: cultural, political, emotional and physical.
Selected from Phoenix Brighton studio artists.
Images:
(Thumbnail and header image) Sonia Boyce, Devotional Wallpaper, 2008 - 2016, Liberties at The Exchange, Penzance. 2016
EJ Major, Still from Contact Sheet I, 2009. Photo. courtesy of the artist
Lindsay Seers, 2052 Selves (a biography), 2018 (c) Lindsay Seers / Keith Sargent, A Woman’s Place at Knole, 2018
Laura White, Broker, 2015. Photo courtesy of the artist
Invitation card for ROOT, 1998
Signage for Present Tense exhibition, 2017