Curation

Selected projects since 2010

From 2008 to 2022 I was the Visual Arts Manager for the Isle of Wight’s leading arts centre, Quay Arts. This is where I was able to cut my teeth and develop my curatorial work in collaboration, research and multidisciplinary approaches. From concept and physical installation to evaluation, I managed and curated a varied and engaging programme of contemporary visual arts. I worked with local, regional, and international artists, touring collections, heritage and archives, schools, volunteers, and community groups. This demanding and fast-paced role allowed me to work with numerous artists and arts organisations, producing work in galleries and unusual offsite spaces. Here I developed an eye for composition, movement between spaces and sharing the vision from diverse artists on how they wanted the public to engage with their work.

Here is a selection of some of the incredible visual arts projects I was able to work on whilst at Quay Arts, Isle of Wight:

  • 2021 ‘Dazzle & Disrupt’ – Lisa Traxler & Jeannie Driver (supported by Arts Council England)

  • 2018 ‘Punk’ John Armstrong and local communities

  • 2017 ‘The Isle of Wight as Six Walks’ – Richard Long (supported by Arts Council England)

  • 2017 ‘Must go down to the seas again’ – Open Exhibition & IW Heritage Collections

  • 2016 ‘Elevation’ – Paradox Paul

  • 2016 ‘Contemporary British Painting: Summer Exhibition’

  • 2016 ‘Holland’ – Mark Lotterman

  • 2016 ‘Impressions of War’ – Island artists, Young Carers IW, Zoë Barker, Joanna Kori, Shademakers, QuayCrafts and Ryde Arts

  • 2015 ‘Art of Democracy’ collaboration with Paradox Paul, Maya Malfatti Woods, John Armstrong & Ian Boyd, Daniel Roberts, Nick Martin and New Carnival

  • 2015 ‘The Drawing Process’ – Philip Schlee Collection on loan by Southampton City Art Gallery Collections (supported by Arts Council England)

  • 2014 ‘ARTIST ROOMS: Martin Creed’

  • 2013 ‘Art of Invention’ – Daniel Roberts and invited guests

  • 2013 ‘Transmission: Solent University’ – Fine Art, Design & Photography students

  • 2013 artSOUTH: Collaborations – Tom Hall, Roy Brown and Julia Flatman

  • 2012 ‘Lives of Spaces’ – Lisa Traxler

  • 2012 ‘360 Degrees a Panoramic Landscape’ – Young Curators & Studio Quay students and invited Island artists (supported by Ernest Cook Trust)

  • 2012 ‘Piers & Bridges’ – Tim Johnson & Chris Jenkins

  • 2012 ‘Standpoint’ – Open Exhibition

  • 2011 ‘Orbit & Orbit Offsite’ – Katayoun Dowlatshai (supported by Arts Council England)

  • 2011 ‘Hundred Seas Rising’ – Suki Chan (touring exhibition with aspex Portsmouth)

  • 2010 ‘Foolish Romantics’ – Matthew Burrows, Simon Burton, & The Baron Gilvan

  • 2010 ‘The West Collection: A Quay Vision’ (supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund)

  • 2010 ‘Faith’ – Pauline Pratt