Turner Prize 2025 – Curator Talk

Join us to hear from Yorkshire Contemporary Curator and Turner Prize Co-Curator, Michael Richmond, and Programme and Gallery Manager of South Square Gallery, Domino Panton-Oakley.

In their talks, Michael Richmond and Domino Panton-Oakley will discuss their careers in the arts and creative industries.

Sharing their experiences of working across a range of roles, from curating, to event production, to working with communities and heritage institutions, Michael and Domino will discuss various challenges and triumphs from their own practice to offer students a sense of the plethora of opportunities available to you after studying arts and humanities subjects at university. 

The talks will be followed by opportunities to ask questions.

This event is organised as part of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies' partnership with the Turner Prize 2025 and Bradford 2025.

Speaker biographies

Michael Richmond

Michael joined Yorkshire Contemporary in 2025, working in partnership to co-curate the Turner Prize at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, part of Bradford's UK City of Culture programme.

Prior to this, Michael worked on exhibitions at the British Museum and was Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, co-curating exhibitions Philip Guston (2023), Cezanne (2022) and Nam June Paik (2019), as well as working on acquisitions, collection displays and Tate Modern's community programme.

Domino Panton-Oakley

At South Square, Domino manages and curates the exhibitions and events programme, organising up to five main exhibitions a year, plus workshops for adults and kids, community exhibitions and more. Alongside this, she is the Project Manager of OUR TURN festival, managing the team of freelancers and acting as a mentor to commissioned artists.

Before joining South Square Gallery, Domino launched Cotton On MCR where she created exhibitions, workshops and art fairs in venues all across Greater Manchester to celebrate Manchester’s artists and art scene. She then opened up Neighbourhood Gallery, a gallery which aimed to encourage local people to be more involved in the arts.

Image

Cartwright Hall by Anthony Parkes. Source: geograph.org.uk. CC BY-SA 2.0.