Curatorial

CURATORIAL WORK

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Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World

Dovecot Studios, June-September 2022.
I initiated and curated this retrospective celebrating the centenary of British artist Alan Davie.
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Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World

Exhibition includes works for all eight decades of Davie's artistic practice. Including excerpts from free-form jazz records made under the Alan Davie Music Workshop and a tapestry and rug collaboration with Dovecot Studios.
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Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World

Introduction to the exhibition features a 1949 monotype from which the exhibition takes its title, and a selection of personal photographs of the artist with friends.
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Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World
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Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World

I commissioned an accessibility document for prospective audiences with Autistic Spectrum Disorder with artist Annabel Stogdon.
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Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World Catalogue

Example pages from the exhibition catalogue, written and produced by myself. Designed by Julia Syrzistie
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Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World Catalogue
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust 'Decade by Decade' film
Link to the video here
British Art Network Emerging Curators Group

Selected Member 2020-2021, programme run jointly by Tate and Paul Mellon Centre for British Art
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Emerging Curators Group

Discussions with curatorial staff of the Bluecoat, Liverpool.
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Emerging Curators Group

Discussion with Daniel Pih of Tate Liverpool on institutional support of emerging artists.
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Mrs Jay and W Gordon Smith Publication

Researched and wrote short biographies of all 160 artists in the W Gordon Smith Trust collection for this publication.
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Mrs Jay and W Gordon Smith Publication

Currently for sale at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh.
Previously on sale at Open Eye Gallery.
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Mrs Jay and W Gordon Smith Publication Review

Review of publication in the Herald Magazine.
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John. E25

Edinburgh College of Art, March 2019.
Co-curated work of nine artists.

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John

Edinburgh College of Art, March 2019.
Co-curated work of nine artists.
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John

Curated series of events, including a film screening and press view.
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54321. Sculpture Court

Edinburgh College of Art. March 2019.
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The Salon, EMBASSY

Curated Members show whilst a temporary committee member of artist-run space EMBASSY, Edinburgh.
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The Salon
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Cured Meat. Fire Station

Edinburgh College of Art, March 2018. Small group show, co-curated.
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Cured Meat
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Cured Meat
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PAINTING PAINTING, Tent Gallery

Two person exhibition of expanded painting, Brandon Logan and Siobhan McLaughlin. Edinburgh, 2016.
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PAINTING PAINTING
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PAINTING PAINTING
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Common Threads, Glasgow School of Art

Curated group exhibition connecting based in Glasgow and Edinburgh whose work interroagtes their sense of space. 2017
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Common Threads

Organised performance programme and fascilitated discussion on sharing sense of place
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Common Threads

A quiet space in the exhibition to contemplate
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Common Threads
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Running up That Hill, St Margarets House

Edinburgh, 2017
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Running Up That Hill
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