Curatorial

November 2021 – Present

16 Nicholson Street, Curatorial Collective & Gallery, Glasgow

Role: Curator

16NSt curatorial collective has been committed to power redistribution in the contemporary arts sector since 2016, with particular attention to female-identifying, queer and class-marginalised artists. We aim to challenge the sector-wide gender and class disparities in contemporary art discourses, labour conditions, professional opportunities, and cultural narratives. We support early career artists to develop and produce their first large-scale commissioned body of work for exhibitions. We foster ambitious, experimental, and critical artistic practice by curating publications, socially engaged workshops and art projects, and high-quality installations. 
 

• Develop and implement satellite programmes and community engagement to expand gallery programming, and develop participating artists' involvement and network

• Liaise with venues and developed community collaborations for itinerant, site-specific installations and exhibitions

• Assist with communications with existing communities, artists, and stakeholders; expanded digital reach to include new audiences and communities

• Content creation for digital assets, copywriting, and proofreading to ensure high standard of accuracy in presentation, attention to detail and thoroughness and clearly, clarifying requirements, responding to colleagues and stakeholders

• Grant writing, copyediting, and proofreading for various arts non-profit funding sources, ie. Creative Scotland, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Boost It Fund

• Production assistance for install/deinstall of exhibitions, liasing with technicians and organising exhibition documentation

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September - November 2023

Co-Organiser, "Ethical Engagements" PhD Researcher Training Series

Role: Co-organiser, Facilitator 

Developed and facilitated PhD researcher training event series on the theme of "Ethical Engagements" in community-based research with group of PhD researchers across three SGSAH HEIs. Lead organiser for  'Practicising Ethics' for Community-Engaged Research event, a PhD researcher training event delivered by Dr. Jane Rendell, Dr. David Roberts and Dr. Yael Padan (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL), consisting of lectures and an interactive workshop session delving into the ethics of community-engaged built environment research by sharing the 'Practising Ethics' open access project for built environment researchers and practitioners.

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June 2023

Curator, "Collaging the Artist Statement" Workshop

"Rupture: Rapture, Womxn in Collage" 16NSt at Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow

Role: Workshop Curator 

Curated and facilitated workshop on feminist histories of collage poetry, from Modernist poetry to expanded fields in contemporary practice, with 16NSt resident artists Hannan Jones and Gabrielle Lockwood Jones for "Rupture: Rapture, Womxn in Collage" Scotland's first survey exhibition of contemporary womxn's collage

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June 2023

Curator, "Making Home" 

ArchiFringe Festival 2023, Glasgow

Role: Curator & Film Programmer

Curated film screening and discussion event for Archifringe’s 2023 open programme titled: ‘Making Home: Glasgow’s Housing in Film & the Fight to ‘Save the Wyndford’​

 

November 2020 – November 2021

ARTILLERY, Contemporary Art magazine, Los Angeles (Remote)

Dual Role: Director of Development & Digital Engagement
Successfully launched the first digital publication of Artillery magazine (after 15 years in-print) by leading a comprehensive digital marketing strategy from conception to delivery, resulting in new advertising revenue streams and increased target audience engagement.

 

Liaised with editorial team to plan and curate digital marketing campaigns to better reach magazine’s audience of over 30k readers across Los Angeles across social media platforms reaching over 27k followers, weekly e-mail newsletters using Constant Contact, and on the Wordpress website, effectively increasing social media engagement by 25% respectively.
 

Role: Editorial Manager
Launched new, digital weekly review segment 'OutsideLA' to publish bi-weekly coverage of international exhibitions for Artillery online.

Duties:

• Coordinate editorial operations, timelines and procure/ manage freelance staffing to successfully implement and produce bi-weekly online content

• Utilize exceptional copywriting, copy-editing and proofreading skills to produce engaging and accurate editorial content for digital and in-print arts publishing

• Liased with galleries to attain photographic rights and crediting to ensure all digital information is accurate and copyright compliant

 

October 2021 – November 2021

Climate Fringe COP 26; Stop Climate Chaos, Glasgow

Role: Co-Curator

Co-curated window displays of banners from the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network at South Seeds in south Glasgow to support representation of the Global South during COP26; part of the Climate Fringe COP26 programme.

 

August 2021
Glasgow Artists' Moving Image Studios, Govanhill, Glasgow

Role: Production Assistant

Event production support, audience facilitation and promotional content production as volunteer with GAMIS' two-week community film programme working towards bringing arts back to the historic site of Govanhill Picture House.

 

May 2021 – October 2021

Smart Artist Hub

Role: Guest Curator & Open Call Judge

Open call judge artist selection Nov. 2021 digital exhibition: 'RESILIENCE'; curatorial exhibition summary

 

November 2020 – August 2022
Borough Road Collection Digital Archive, London, UK

Role: Digital Curator 

Curated and Facilitated a series of collaborative writing workshops. Orchestrated, programmed, and produced participatory, virtual workshops from event ideation to delivery with BRCA held at London South Bank University. Researched authored all workshop texts and promotional materials; Developed web platform (Hotglue, variapad) to host and facilitate co-writing workshops

 

January 2020 – December 2021

Contakt Collective, Post-Graduate Research Group

Role: Co-founder of post-graduate research group 'Contakt Collective' & Panel Curator of 'Radical Care in the Pandemic' London, UK. Headed the production of interdisciplinary research panel discussion events.

 

December 2019 – February 2020

Goldsmiths Visual Cultures Society, London

Curator "MAPPING WELL/BEING"

Curated and Produced exhibition and week-long series of mapping events connecting contemporary artists with students to map experiences of university ableism and well-being. Procured and supported participating contemporary artists for workshops; Provided exhibition texts; developed promotions and social media campaign; Programmed finale artist talk on 'crip art' and exhibition by artist Leah Clements; Curated, designed and installed exhibition displays.

 

August 2016- July 2019

Felton Early Intervention in Psychosis Outpatient Program, San Francisco

Role: Employment & Educational Support Specialist
Supported a caseload of 25 outpatient youth & young adults aged 16-30 struggling with symptoms of psychosis to develop and reach education and employment goals.

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Education

October 2022 – Present

Awarded AHRC DTP PhD Studentship, PT
Glasgow School of Art/ University of Edinburgh

 

September 2019 – August 2021

MA Contemporary Art Theory; Goldsmiths College, UOL,
Graduated with High Distinction; Final Result: 79

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Research

• Presented research at the Istanbul Bilgi University Film & TV Dept. annual conference ‘AT LAND AND SEA: TOPOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION AND THE MOVING IMAGE’ (May 5-6, 2023, İstanbul, Turkey)

• Awarded AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Studentship, Glasgow School of Art/ University of Edinburgh, PT October 2022 – September 2027

• Presented 'The Digital Image as Collective Practice' Twelfth International Conference on the Image; by The Image Research Network, Lisbon, Aug 2021

• Member of The Image Research Network

• MA Dissertation: High Distinction; Result: 78, April 2021

• Micro-Residency, The Bentway (Toronto) Initiative: 'Digital and/as Public Space' with The Virtual Care Lab , April 2021 – May 2021

• Journal Reviewer, Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN, November 2021 – Present

• PROVENANCE, Los Angeles Art Historical Column for ARTILLERY art magazine, September 2020 – October 2022

• Curating Data: Care, Commons and Networks, Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam , July 2020

• Stream Co-Organiser, London Conference in Critical Thought 2020, March 2020. "Critical Utopias” Stream