Leading photography curators Emma Chetcuti and Louise Clements will provide tips on approaching organisations, working with curators and getting photography exhibitions.
About the speakers:
Louise Clements
Louise is Artistic Director of QUAD, a centre for contemporary art, film and new technologies in Derby UK, since 2001, and Artistic Director/Founder of FORMAT International Photography Festival since 2004. An independent curator since 1998, she has initiated commissions, publications, mass participation, art, film and photography exhibitions. She is a juror, portfolio reviewer, workshop leader, speaker and award nominator throughout Europe, America and Asia.
www.derbyquad.co.uk www.formatfestival.com
Emma Chetcuti
Emma is the Director of Multistory, a community arts charity based in Sandwell, in the Black Country. They invite photographers and writers to make work with, for and about people’s lives in Sandwell and the Black Country.
From 2010 – 2014, Multistory produced ‘Black Country Stories’, an extensive photographic portrait and archive about life in the Black Country, with Martin Parr. The archive is complemented with films and oral histories.
The commissions run from anything between 18 months to four years, with the objective to make work with and for a local audience, whilst reaching a wider national audience.
—
Part of Autograph ABP’s Surviving as an Artist series. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Autograph ABP is fully accessible.
More Events in Greater London Listings MORE
The Music Is Black: A British Story – Exhibition
The Music Is Black: A British Story is a major cultural exhibition opening at V&A East Museum, offering…
Seeing the Potential
Seeing the Potential, an exhibition by artist Matthew Small, explores the importance of looking beyond appearances and present…
Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life
This major exhibition brings the work of Jamaican-born, West London-based sculptor Ronald Moody back to the city where…
A Language of Colour and Form
Award-winning Caribbean artist Venetta Nicole explores identity, belonging, memory and resilience through a vibrant visual language of colour,…
Disney’s High School Musical
Celebrating 20 years since Disney’s High School Musical became a global phenomenon, the Wildcats arrive in London this…
Black Limehouse Lives: The Black Experience and Parish Life Through the Lens of St Anne’s Records, 1730–1830
Discover the lives of Black people living in historic Limehouse through parish records documenting baptisms, burials, migration, employment,…
Come Mek We Larf
Prepare for an evening of big laughs and great company as acclaimed host Mr Cee brings together some…
The Afronauts
The Afronauts is a bold and imaginative play by Ryan Calais Cameron, inspired by the little-known story of…