My curatorial interests include collaboration and working in partnership to bring communities together, using fiction as a starting point for exhibition making, and art in the public realm and working site responsively. I am interested in researching the domestic space through a curatorial lens, and how curating and photography are linked as well as advocating the arts in policy and place making.
I am currently working as an independent Curator and Artistic Director in the West Midlands, London and Mumbai. My key projects include being the curator of ITV Creates, now in its third year ITV Creates profiles UK based artists and their responses to the ITV logo as the main channel idents; curator of St. Pancras Wires, a new public art project in St. Pancras Station; Artistic Director of The Show Windows, a public realm project for Coventry City of Culture and Coventry BID; and a consultant / project manager for various creative projects. I am also the co-director and co-founder of SqW:Lab, an international fellowship for creatives in Mumbai.
I obtained an MA in Critical and Contextual Art Practices from Birmingham City University (2006) and started my curatorial career as founder and curator of TROVE, an independent art gallery in Birmingham (2009 to 2013). Other informative positions included being the Arts Service Manager for Camden Council, where I realised several large scale programmes and projects specifically Camden is…, Camden’s London Borough of Culture bid where they were awarded a Cultural Impact Award (2017). I was also the Fair and Expo Manger and Curator for Sluice__, a London art fair and international expo hosted in Brooklyn (2013–2017); and prior to that was an Associate Producer at mac birmingham (2011-2012).
I am currently working as an independent Curator and Artistic Director in the West Midlands, London and Mumbai. My key projects include being the curator of ITV Creates, now in its third year ITV Creates profiles UK based artists and their responses to the ITV logo as the main channel idents; curator of St. Pancras Wires, a new public art project in St. Pancras Station; Artistic Director of The Show Windows, a public realm project for Coventry City of Culture and Coventry BID; and a consultant / project manager for various creative projects. I am also the co-director and co-founder of SqW:Lab, an international fellowship for creatives in Mumbai.
I obtained an MA in Critical and Contextual Art Practices from Birmingham City University (2006) and started my curatorial career as founder and curator of TROVE, an independent art gallery in Birmingham (2009 to 2013). Other informative positions included being the Arts Service Manager for Camden Council, where I realised several large scale programmes and projects specifically Camden is…, Camden’s London Borough of Culture bid where they were awarded a Cultural Impact Award (2017). I was also the Fair and Expo Manger and Curator for Sluice__, a London art fair and international expo hosted in Brooklyn (2013–2017); and prior to that was an Associate Producer at mac birmingham (2011-2012).
