Curator (Independent) 07/2022 – Present

Project: Crafted Selves: The Unfinished Conversation – Fife Contemporary

Crafted Selves: The Unfinished Conversation takes its title from a continuing discourse between curator Cat Dunn and the 13 Scotland based artists featured – What does it mean to have a dual identity, and how is this sense of self reflected in work being made by Scottish craft artists today?

Working in sculpture, painting, ceramics, textiles, installation, moving image films and creative writing responses, the artists all in some way carry a dual identity. Many have a sense of their own self born from having a cultural heritage which is both Scottish and one which is rooted in another cultural home. The show also explores other dualisms and expressions of identity, including artists who express their, sexuality, disability, or trans and non-binary selves through their work. The exhibition started at St Andrews Museum, and tours to Kirkcaldy Museum and Gracefield in Dumfries.

Curator (Independent)11/2022 – 03/2023

Project: Bacchanal: Le We Be Free – Dundee University Museum

This research-based exhibition investigates the history of carnivals and their links to identity for people living in and coming from the Caribbean regions. The Caribbean Carnival has a complicated history

Curator (Independent) 05/2022 to 09/2022

Project: Love & Legacy: Our Grandmothers for Cabbage Arts Resilience Programme 2022

This was a joint research project by Barbadian Scot curator Cat Dunn and South Korean artist Joy Baek that featured stories of grandmothers from different cultures and time zones. The exhibition acted as a work in progress sharing ongoing research surrounding the traditions and changing roles of grandmothers in South Korea and Barbados with specially commissioned artworks by South Korean artist Joy Baek. A series of conversations and aural archive between Dunn and Baek examined the intergenerational and intercultural exchange of stories, language, traditions, emotions and memories, though conversation Dunn and Baek explored the similarities of race and culture.

CURATOR (INDEPENDENT) 10/2020 to 30/11/2021

Project Harbinger, Glasgow, Glasgow

Harbinger is a physical and digital exhibition about marginalized communities dealing with the climate crisis in line with COP26 which is on the 1st -12th November 2021.

CURATOR (INDEPENDENT) 01/2020 to 08/2020

Project NOWYOUSEEUS, Glasgow, Glasgow

NOWYOUSEEUS – an online exhibition about Identity, social justice and social choreography and the effects of racial bias against women with Afro-Caribbean textured hair – Glasgow 2020

CURATORIAL INTERN 01/2020 to 06/2020

Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow

Curatorial Project: Assisting with Palimpsest of Voices workshops for the students, guardians and teachers at Oakgrove Primary School. I assisted with full set up of the workshops and worked with the students to produce sketches and clay pieces which would go on to become part of the project’s outcome for Glasgow International.

Research: I worked in the office and researched all aspects of the area surrounding the whisky bond including creating historic archives of past businesses for GSS and The Whisky Bond.

CURATOR (INDEPENDENT) 11/2019 to 04/2020

In/Visible – The Hunterian Project, Glasgow, Glasgow

In/Visible: “In/Visible” The Hunterian Collaborative Project:

This project focused on dance and performance, one of the most significant and developing art historical fields this century. “A new performance turn” has emerged, its correlations with shifts in performance, discourses, and broader society, especially in today’s world of divisive politics. This project was extremely important within the current political climate, especially within the context of the Windrush generation, and Brexit, and the current feeling of imposed isolation The Hunterian Art Gallery, April 2020

CURATOR (INDEPENDENT) 09/2019 to 12/2019

Project: Reclamation, Glasgow, Glasgow

Reclamation –A site specific event with Artists Ashanti Harris and Georgia Robenstone

The aim of Reclamation was to disrupt the notion of a safe space, as propagated by the frameworks of educational institutions. By initializing performance and interactions with the site of Rockvilla School- the ruin of a Victorian school building designed at the same time as the development of teacher training. Safe space as seen through the lenses of feminism and post-colonial theory, referring to the specificity of being a person of colour, and/or woman, within spaces of education and related knowledge power structures, 2019.

Professional Positions Held

International fellow of the AAMC’s (American Association of Art Museum Curators) 2022 Professional Alliance for Curators of Color (PACC)

International Fellow with the AAMC Foundation Engagement Program for International Curators (EPIC) 2021

Committee member for Transmission Gallery, Glasgow – 2019-2021

Mentor with Empower Women for Change-Thistles & Dandelions Heritage Project, Glasgow. 2018-2023

Lecturer:

Visiting Lecturer – 2021 – Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

Visiting Lecturer – 2022 – Glasgow School of Art, Fine Art Critical Studies – Years 2-4

Visiting Lecturer – 2023 – Glasgow School of Art, PG Studies Elective (Masters) – Decolonising Strategies in the Arts

Visiting Lecturer – 2024 – Glasgow School of Art, PG Studies Elective (Masters) – Decolonising Strategies in the Arts.

Education

Doctoral Degree (In Progress) – University of Dundee

Postgraduate Degree with Distinction – Mlitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) (2020) Glasgow School of Art & University of Glasgow

BA Hons – Jewellery Design & Silversmithing (2019) Glasgow School of Art

Workshops:

Decolonising the Arts – Glasgow University’s Students of Colour Network, Glasgow –; Decolonising the Rainbow Flag – Glasgow University’s Students of Colour Network, Glasgow – October 2020; Introduction to Black Lives Matter, Glasgow Connected Arts Network, Glasgow; Palimpsest of Voices art, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow – June 2020

Collaborative Projects:

Hair: Untold Stories-(November 2022 -19 June 2022) The Horniman Museum -This new exhibition puts the substance before the style and unlocks the untold stories of hair. -https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/hair-untold-stories/

“At Home” Exhibition –2020: A Digital Exhibition – Thistles and Dandelions Heritage Group –Part of 23 volunteers on this project, with women from all over the world – gallery of modern art. blog; Thistles and Dandelions – “At Home”, a Digital Exhibition – https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/thistles-and-dandelions/

Pass the Mic – ongoing: BAME womxn selected as expert opinion writers working with media partners to develop skills to better represent womxn of colour

Forget Me Not House | Forget Me Not – The Forgotten Women 2020-2021- This project was an online creative project highlighting the missing narrative of women in house museums. The long-term goal of this project was to see change within house museums and the representation of the female voice. To have their voice permanently displayed whether through their archives or interpreting female narratives within the history of their sites.

Garnethill Community BLM Mural -2020: In response to recent international outpouring of support for Black Lives Matter, following the killing of George Floyd in USA, Scotland’s Black and Asian artists are stepping up. A Scotland wide Black Lives Matter Mural Trail will be popping up, with displays on multiple arts venues and sites across Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Inverness, with many more to follow.  The Garnethill Community are strong supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, and in solidarity with this movement the Garnethill Community Council is supporting the creation of this mural in collaboration with the Black Lives Matter National Mural Trail and part funded by The Glasgow School of Art Students’ Association and the Glasgow School of Art. Worked on a series of online collaborative design workshops, facilitated by Ursula Kam-Ling Cheng, in order to allow the local communities voice to be expressed through the mural.

Postcards for Solidarity –2019. Commissioned by Interfaith Scotland and created by Artist Iman Tajik, Postcards for Solidarity explores facets of shared humanity across the globe in the ace of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. Responding to the theme of connecting.

Panels and Seminars:

Speaker: The Axe Remember but the Tree Forgets panel discussion, Fife Contemporary and St Andrews University, St Andrews, Scotland; Panel Host- Curatorial Artivism for American Association of Art Museum Curators 2023; Speaker – Fife Contemporary 2022; Speaker – Glasgow Slavery Code – Mitchell Library 2022; Virtual Panellist: Climate Impact Fieldwork– AAMC Conference 2022; USA; Hair: Untold Stories – The Horniman Museums, London; Intersectional Panel Discussion: Being Queer and Black – Glasgow University’s Students of Colour Network; Intersectional Panel Discussion: Being a Black Woman in Society Today – Glasgow University’s Student of Colour Network; Intersectional Panel Discussion: Being Black in the Arts – Glasgow University’s Student of Colour Network