CV

Curator, Art Organisations

2010 - 2013 Studio75 London, East London Art Gallery
2008 - present Creative-City Ltd. Participatory Arts organisation
1997 - 2008 Luna Nera Site Specific Art, International Art Organisation

Curated Exhibitions and Projects

2018 #TimeToAct PSVI Film Festival, BFI Southbank

2018 Art and the Urban Symposium, Senate House London

2016 Women on Screen, Hackney Picturehouse

2012 Night of the Black Moon, site-specific video outdoor multi-screen installation

2012 The King's Land Site Specific mural project, Laburnum Street Hackney London. 

2010 Films About Cities: London and Helsinki TINAG Festival London

2011 "rip it up, mash it up, stick it up!" Studio 75 London

2011 Prospero's Library, Book Art. Studio75 London

2008 Schematic: Eric Raymond. Canada House London

2008 Schematic: the machine that moves us, SPACE London

2008 "Postindustrial Baroque" Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

2008 "The Newspaper House: Sumer Erek" Gillette Square, London  and Liverpool Biennial

2004 "Interconnection," National Centre for Contemporary Art St Peterburg Kronstadt Residence, Russia.

2003 "Cross Encounters," National Centre for Contemporary Art St Peterburg Kronstadt Residence,  Russia.

2003 "The Derelict Sensation" St Pancras Chambers (Midland Grand Hotel), St Pancras Station, London

Guest Lectures / Papers

The National Gallery, London 2018

London Film and Media Conference 2016

South London Arts Forum 2014

University of Valencia School of Fine Arts 2008

University of Valencia School of Fine Arts 2006

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2006

British Art Show 06 Symposium, Nottingham 2006

Accademia dell Arte Roma 2005

University of Victoria Canada 2005

Champ Libre, Montreal, 2004

Hull Time Based Arts, Critical Platform, 2004

Ruskin College. Oxford University 2003

Selected Commissioned Publications

"Apocalypse Colour" Colour and Film Blog BAFTSS 2018
"Painting, Cinema, and The Exchange of Cultural Value", The London Film & Media Reader Vol. 5, ed. Phillip Drummond, London Consortium Publishing, 2017
Art History for Filmmakers Bloomsbury 2016
Review: Frieze London – a good education in how the art market works A-N 17 Oct 2013
Nam June Paik: Retrospective" A-N Feb 2011
“I Am Here ” Critical Cities vol. 2 ed. Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield, Myrdle Court Press 2010
"Stefanos Pavlakis: Artist of the Month" Axis Sept 2010
“Over site? Site Specific Art Today” Arts Professional Jan. 2010
“Overflow: Ima Pico and the digital mural” Catalogue essay for Overflow, an exhibition by Ima Pico, Milton Keynes Contemporary 2009
Schematic catalogue essay 2008
“Interconnection” in Triangular Wheel vol.4. 2006. Editor Mikhail Pogarsky
“Interconnection: Life and Art in a Forgotten Russian Town” published Crosswalk vol1 issue 2 2005
“Intervention & Imagination in the Fragmented City: Luna Nera in Belfast” 2005
“Art as Collective Cultural Action: art groups and collaborative practices” published Contexts, autumn 2003
“Lab Rats for Art” article in Year 01 Forum winter 2002
“Artist Initiatives in Moscow” article in Variant 15, Summer 2002
“Framing the 20th Century” article in Year 01 Forum spring 2002
“Media and the Spectacular Society” Hypermedia Research Centre 1998

Awards

Canada Council for the Arts, Critics and Curators Award

I have sought and received funding from the Canda Council, British Council and Arts Council of England, as well as many private foundations. My artistic research projects have been funded by the AHRC.