Annual Craft Curators’ Day 2009
15 September 2009
Speaking at this event:
Andy Horn
Craft Curators’ Day Chair
Exhibitions Manager, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Website: http://www.bmag.org.uk/events
Andy Horn is Exhibitions Manager at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery where he has been in post for eleven months. He is responsible for a programme of nine exhibitions a year across three spaces which total over 1500 square metres. Previously he was Exhibitions Organiser for Craftspace, Birmingham, a national craft development agency. In this role he initiated and developed a series of touring exhibitions and related participatory projects, working with a series of museum, gallery, community and academic partners. Most recently he initiated Taking Time – Craft and the Slow Revolution, working with the maker Helen Carnac as co-curator. This exhibition will launch at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on the 16th October 2009 before beginning its national tour.Diana Hatton
The Art of Commissioning
Diana Hatton
Website: http://www.publicartonline.org.uk
Public Art Associate, Public Art South West
Diana Hatton is a freelance public art consultant and associate adviser for Public Art South West (PASW). PASW is the public art development agency for the southwest region, offering advocacy, development, training for artists and commissioners, advice and support and information. PASW contributes to national and regional policy development, manages the UK-wide PROJECT initiative with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and Arts & Business, and works closely with ACE, government offices, local authorities and architectures, as well as public realm professionals, artists and makers.
The PASW website www.publicartonline.org.uk is a unique international intellectual resource. The site provides a research-based forum for debate, offers news, links, opportunities, case studies and an archive section.Documents related to this talk
Lucy Bayley
From the Studio to the Collection
Lucy Bayley is the Curator of National Programmes at Contemporary Art Society (CAS). At CAS Lucy initiated the Professional Development Membership scheme now known as the National Network. Having developed the first year of programming and established a committed membership of arts professionals she is now working with the Head of Programmes to devise a highly strategic programme for the National Network, which will enable sustained development across the sector. This programme includes inter-regional and international events and symposia generated from a collection context.
Website: http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org
She also works directly on the CAS’s Acquisitions Programme and has specialist knowledge of the acquisitions policies of all CAS’s ninety member collections. Lucy studied History of Art at Sussex University, specialising in Contemporary Indian and Contemporary British Art. She has previously worked at The Drawing Room, Peer and the Serpentine Gallery. From 2005 to 2006 she ran her own gallery in London, One small step. Linked to a production company, One small step focused on providing a platform for emerging artists. Through 2006-2007 she wrote a weekly Art Round Up for The London Paper.Documents related to this talk
Brigid Howarth and Susie O'Reilly
Museumaker: Taking cross-sector working forward
Brigid Howarth
Website: http://www.renaissanceeastmidlands.org.uk/our_work/museumaker
museumaker
Brigid Howarth is the Director of Brigid Howarth Consultancy Ltd (set up in 2000). The consultancy specialises in creating integrated long term strategies and action research projects for clients across the cultural and creative industries: some of these are programmes that are nurtured for up to five years, whilst others are shorter, with immediate impact. The company employs a range of specialist consultants and has networks across the sector. The company works in many regions, in rural and urban environments, and also internationally. Current projects include the Visual Arts Strategy for the Royal Parks in London, Public Art Strategy for the North Kent Coast and the Marketing Strategy for Contemporary Crafts in the North East. Her background is in publishing, managing artist’s studios and running maker development programmes at the Crafts Council.
Susie O’Reilly
museumaker
Since 2000, Susie O’Reilly has worked as an independent consultant focusing on building innovative partnerships to develop the creative and cultural economy in the UK and abroad. A particular focus of her work is brokering cross-sector collaboration. Besides working with Brigid Howarth to develop the national roll-out of museumaker – the MLA, Arts Renaissance and Arts Council partnership which is enabling museums and makers to work together to unlock the creative potential of museum collections – current projects include developing the New Ways of Curating community of interest with Jim Grevatte. (www.newways of curating.co.uk). New Ways of Curating brings curators and archivists from the Wedgwood Museum Trust, Sandwell Museum Service, Compton Verney and The New Gallery Walsall together with contemporary visual artists, educators and academics to explore the concept of curatorship as a collaborative artform. Prior to setting up independently, she was Head of Formal Education at the V&A, following on from leading an EU funded action research programme for the British Council to demonstrate the contribution the contemporary arts can make to the development of civil society and a post at the Crafts Council, where she led the Council’s campaign to retain craft in the National Curriculum.Kirstie Hamilton
Contexts for Commissioning at Museums Sheffield
Kirstie Hamilton
Website: http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk
Head of Exhibition Programming, Museums Sheffield
Kirstie Hamilton is Head of Exhibition Programming at Museums Sheffield and is responsible for a varied exhibition programme across three venues (Millennium Gallery, Graves Gallery and Weston Park Museum). Kirstie started working in Sheffield in 1999 as a Visual Art Curator.Alice Kettle
'Looking Forward to the Past': a commission for Winchester Discovery Centre
Alice Kettle
Website: http://www.alicekettle.com
Textile Artist
Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile artist based in the UK. She has established a unique area of practice by her use of machine stitch, consistently and on an unparalleled scale.
She is Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University, Honorary Fellow of the University of Winchester and on the panel for ACE South East for Artists Taking the Lead for the Cultural Olympiad.
Her solo show Allegory will start its tour in November 2009 at the Craft Study Centre, Farnham. She is also exhibiting in the Florence Biennale in 2009 and the European Prize for Applied Arts in 2010.Kate Stoddart
Vision On: Commissioning textiles for Nottingham Castle Museum and Gallery
Kate Stoddart
Website: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/professional-development/for-curators/spark-plug-curator-awards/view/kate-stoddart
Freelance Curator
Kate Stoddart is a freelance curator specialising in the visual arts, with 20 years experience of exhibitions, events, interpretation & publications. She currently advises and mentors artists and organisations how to develop, as well as research, write, fundraise and run projects. She has worked in a commercial gallery, a museum and art gallery, an arts centre, an auction house and on an artist led festival.
Recent projects include the development of a contemporary textiles collection, and solo exhibitions by Catherine Bertola and Philip Eglin at Nottingham Castle Museum, 2007 and Quiet Sound, Fermynwoods, 2006. Independent since 2007, she has been working with 78 Derngate, the only Charles Rennie Mackintosh house in England, developing a contemporary craft presence through exhibition, commissions and retail.
She is currently working with Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, researching a project in which artists with craft concerns will respond to aspects of the site*. She is a member of Fleet, a regional group of independent curators and producers.
*Funded through a Crafts Council Spark Plug AwardDocuments related to this talk
Helen Brown
New work by Edmund de Waal: a commission inspired by Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Helen Brown
Website: http://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk
Curator, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
New work by Edmund de Waal: a commission inspired by Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum’s Arts and Crafts Movement collection
Helen Brown has worked at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum since 1986 in a number of different roles, including, until 2006, curating the decorative art collections. Since 2006 she has been Collections Manager and Curator of Fine Art. She has a long interest in studio pottery and in 1998 organised the major touring exhibition Pots of Life about the history of Winchcombe Pottery.Chris Knight
Creative Conditions: How has commissioning enabled and hindered the creative process?
Chris Knight
Website: http://www.siapplied.com
Metalwork Artist and Director of Si Applied Ltd
Chris Knight studied silversmithing and jewellery at Sheffield City Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, between which he worked as a Designer Goldsmith in the USA. In 1992 he established a studio on London’s South Bank, which he relocated to Sheffield in 1995.
Known for his functionally and visually provocative silverware, Chris is represented in many public and private collections including the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sheffield Museums & Galleries and the Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.
His practice has diversified into the design of architectural and public artwork. Commissions for which are sited in Blackpool, Gateshead, Basingstoke, Sheffield, and Leeds. In 2002 Chris formed Si Applied Ltd, a partnership with Brett Payne and Keith Tyssen, through which they designed the region’s largest individual piece of public art, the Cutting Edge in Sheaf Square, Sheffield. Knight has instigated several situations concerned with the development of metalwork within Sheffield such as the Sheffield Assay Office Starter Studio Program.
Chris is a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ and a part time senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Previous roles include Chairman of the Association of British Designer Silversmiths.Documents related to this talk
