What Next? Developing a Practice: Curating, Contexts and Collaboration

This talk by Dr Emily Gray examines how creative practices develop over time, and the [uncommon] routes these journeys can take.

Drawing on a series of curatorial commissioning projects, it reflects on working in differing contexts, building experience and responding to shifting opportunities.

It also considers the relationship between practice and research, and how each informs and shapes the other over time.

About the speaker

Dr Emily Gray is a curator and researcher working across contemporary art and archives, with a focus on exhibition-making as research, feminist approaches, and emerging sensory methodologies. She has worked across artist residencies, festival, gallery and research contexts, including Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh Art Festival, Cooper Gallery, LUX, and Whitechapel Gallery.

She holds an MLitt in Curatorial Practice from Glasgow School of Art and completed her PhD at Nottingham Trent University in partnership with Bloomberg New Contemporaries. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Henry Moore Institute, where she is researching the work of Shelagh Wakely.

More information

No need to book.

Organised as part of the 'What Next' series of events for students in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

For more information, email Elspeth at E.R.Mitchell@leeds.ac.uk.

Image

Celia-Yunior, Shallow Breathing 1949-2019, working diagram detail, 2019. Commissioned as part of Not an Archive, Primary, Nottingham.