Organised by Clore Leadership
Voices from the Gallery: Curation
Clore Leadership is delighted to be partnering with Art Fund on an exciting new programme of activity focusing on change making and leadership in the galleries and museums sector. These sessions will inspire, inform and activate, showcasing best practice and exciting work taking place in galleries and museums right now.
The Webinar
In Voices from the Gallery: Curation, our speakers will share personal case studies from their work in the sector, highlighting their challenges and successes and offering actionable advice and tips. Topics will include curatorial practice and priorities; decolonisation and contested histories; the ethics of display and interpretation; embedding diversity in your collections and workforce.
The Speakers
Esther Fox is a Programme Director, Artist and Researcher, interested in exploring the synapses between science, art, heritage and ethics. In 2009 she was appointed by Screen South to lead the Accentuate Programme, creating opportunities for D/deaf, disabled and neurodiverse people to participate and lead in the cultural sector. Esther is currently working with over 20 Museums across England, developing a ground-breaking work placement programme, Curating for Change, for D/deaf and disabled people pursuing a curatorial career. She is also a Co Investigator on a major Arts and Humanities Research Council project, D4D using an arts based research approach.
Esther is on the Board of Trustees at Hastings Contemporary, sits on the Expert Advisory Group for Historic England and is a member of the UN PRPD Partnership Advisory Group.
Annabelle Campbell’s curatorial career began at the British Museum, working in Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, including Modern Curators Group. Joined Geffrye Museum as assistant curator after completing MA, and later worked as Curator of Twentieth Centre and Contemporary Collections. At this time she began doctoral research into institutional debates that underpin the development of museum collections of contemporary design, and was part-time lecturer at Kingston University on the then new MA Curating Contemporary Design, with Design Museum, and contributing lecturer for BA Design History and Art History.
Campbell moved to the Crafts Council in 2007 where she managed the exhibitions and loans team and programme and in 2013 became Head of Exhibitions and Collections.
Marenka Thomson-Odlum is a Research Associate at the Pitt Rivers Museum and a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow.
Her doctoral research explores Glasgow’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade through the material culture housed at Glasgow Museums. At the Pitt Rivers Museum, she is the researcher on the Labelling Matters project, which investigates the problematic use of language within the Pitt Rivers Museum's displays and thinking through ways of decolonisation through re-imagining the definition of a label.