Curation & Projects
Documentation of shows & projects
Amass Collective’s Alt+Space, 2024
LTB Showrooms, Coventry
The conceptual territory of a curator is still within the sphere of established institutions and thus has embedded cultural authority. The work in Alt+space teases out the improbable concept of having a gallery in a private space such as inside a home, and then making an incongruent conceptual (imagined) space by mixing different value systems of the two spheres into one. The permanent marker scribbled omissions on non-consented collaborations within Making a big zine about a no show, parody the potential implications of showing even the concepts of ideas in a public space, due to authorship of intellectual ownerships – a curatorial dilemma within Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of the oedipal structure.
[Un] settled, 2024
Community exhibition at Stryx JQ, Birmingham
‘[Un] settled brings together three projects focused on Chinese people at different stages of the migration journey.’ – Stryx JQ
Lines of incidences, 2024
Solo show at Stryx JQ, Birmingham
The solo show, Lines of incidences was shown at Stryx JQ. The plurality of the title is a multiplicity in interpretations of visual language and the titles of individual works in the show. The inspiration of the title is from a phenomenon in physics. The works in the show address the virtual-digital-physical dilemmas of imagery and interrogate the origin of the artworks.
Amass Collective’s Aftermath Two & the closing event, 2023
Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Information about the installation, On sight off sight at the closing event: ‘Shown at the closing event of Amass Collective’s Aftermath – Asylum Art Gallery, based in the West Midlands. The materials used to suspend the photographs (e.g., wool, cable ties), questions the translation of material items in the photographs (e.g., the blankets depicted in one photo), into gallery spaces with industrial characteristics that was once a disused space. There is also a dimension of off-site work being brought into the space, juxtaposed with works created on-site. ‘On Sight, Off Sight’, is a pun to explore the eye sight of photography, and is transferred onto something that’s three-dimensional; even becoming something that’s harvested for digital consumption away from the physical site.
Stryx Studio Holder’s Show, 2023
Stryx Minerva Works, Birmingham
The studio holders show at Stryx is an annual exhibition where the studio holders of the space show work together, and is open on a Digbeth First Friday event.
Inhale Exhale, 2014
Curation project at University of Staffordshire, formerly Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
Inhaled Text
‘Rebirth’ of the ideas 10 years onwards, in 2024: Inhale Exhale was a university project at Staffordshire University, curated by artists and first year BA Fine Art students: Jasmine Lee, Damian Massey, Tia Campbell, Abigail Davidson, Sarah Gorman, Mitchell Hughes, Jake Morrey, and Amy Staton. The ‘hospital’ thematic show is a response to the artists’ individual ideas around birth and death; growth and decay. It also reflects the architecture of hospital and academic spaces. Such spaces are often places of healing the self, but are also places associated with trauma.
The ‘waiting room’ at the entrance of Inhale Exhale represented a state of uncertain flux in the show. A space of waiting to be seen, waiting to see what’s happening, and waiting for results.
Exhaled Text
Original text in 2014: The exhibition was organised into an image of a hospital ward consisting of a reception area at the entrance and overall a sterile environment which the artwork was incorporated into. The hospital ward environment for Inhale Exhale was most suitable because it seemed to be a central piece which tied all the artworks together as a whole and made the viewers have a sense of what the exhibition was about as soon as they walked into the gallery space.
