I was contracted as a freelance curator by Queen Mary, University of London, to curate an exhibition for an AHRC-funded research project led by James Eastwood, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. I worked with James and his team to turn his archival research which grappled with complex and contested histories into an accessible narrative experience for a public audience. The exhibition was staged at SOAS's Brunei Gallery from September to December 2022. Click on the image for more information. 

This research fellowship enabled me to collaborate with scholars of queer performance at Central School of Speech and Drama to disseminate and develop my ongoing research project ‘Avril A: Housewife Superstar’ based on a family archive related to Manchester’s gay scene in the 80s and 90s. As part of the fellowship I also delivered workshops for MA and PhD students on archival and curatorial methodologies. 

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I am a regular guest lecturer at University of Sheffield and University of Liverpool and enjoy sharing my practical expertise with students as well as engaging them in curatorial theory. I also have a lot of experience presenting to academic audiences. For more information download my CV here. 

 Staging Difficult Pasts was an AHRC-funded project examining how theatres and museums shape public memory of difficult pasts. It was a collaboration between the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London and various other international institiutions and practitioners.

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As one of the research partners I worked with the Parque de la Memoria - Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism in Buenos Aires to explore connections between my curatorial practice and cultural memory in post-dictatorship Argentina. I delivered lectures and workshops to the museum, arts, human rights, and academic communities in Buenos Aires. My presentation 'Exhibiting Absence and Loss: Objects, Narratives and Trauma on Display' can be viewed here. An accompanying publication to which I contributed was published by Routledge in 2023.

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IMAGE: Federico Lo Bianco

I curated two critically-acclaimed exhibitions for Jewish Museum London in close collaboration with academic advisors Professors Anthony Bale and David Feldman at Birkbeck, University of London. The exhibitions were Blood: Uniting and Dividing (curated while working at the museum) and Jews, Money, Myth (in a freelance capacity). I worked with the academic advisors throughout the process - from concept to text writing to installation - to ensure that the exhibition accurately communicated complex histories and scholarly research in a way that could be absorbed by general audiences.

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