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Featured: The Accidental Archivist
A text funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund exploring the history and legacy of 33 Arts Centre which served Luton’s creative communities for over 3 decades through the lens of the Accidental Archivist project led by Paul Jolly.
Intro
Independent contemporary arts curator, researcher and consultant based in Sheffield and operating regionally.
Work
Demonstrable experience delivering cultural strategies, programmes, exhibitions and events regionally through the lens of people and places, as well as transforming and diversifying local arts engagement and leading teams with dynamism and sensitivity.
My curatorial practice is informed by interests in; the civic responsibility of arts and cultural organisations, co-authorship, alternative pedagogies and understanding and addressing the complex relationships between social class, structural inequality and representation.
A selection of featured projects below.
Project 01
Urban Form: Social Architecture & The Commons, Lincoln.
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Project 02
Innovation in Engagement Conference [digital].
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Project 03
Out & About Weekenders, Sheffield City Centre.
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Project 04
Mansions of the Future, Lincoln.
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Project 05
A Public Programme [publication].
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Project 06
Salon Public Programme, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
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Project 07
Class & Curating, published text.
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Project 08
Lincoln Live.
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Project 09
Heavy Water, Site Gallery, Sheffield.
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Project 10
Where it all started: TMT Projects, Luton.
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My CV
Previous positions include:
Co-Executive Director, Summer in the CIQ.
Deputy Programme Director, Site Gallery
Artistic Director, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln.
Public Programmes Curator, Bloc Projects Sheffield.
Curator, TMT Projects, Luton.
Arts Educator, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Additional collaborations include those with Age Friendly Sheffield, Amazon, The Children’s Media Conference; Corridor8; Delfina Foundation, London; DocFest, Sheffield; Freelands Art Foundation; Frequency Festival, Lincoln; Frieze Art Fair, London, Guest Projects; London; House of Absolute; HMP Lincoln; Luton Council, Montez Press Radio; Sheffield Council, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Syllabus; University of Lincoln; Oxford Brookes University; University of Reading; UK Antarctica Heritage Trust; Warp Films, Sheffield and Yorkshire Visual Arts Network (YVAN).
I am proudly on the board of Trustees for both Site Gallery, Sheffield and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and sit on the advisory board for DIY music and community space Gut Level, Sheffield.