Curator directory

The Axis curator directory supports and profiles the work of curators based in the UK and overseas who regard curating as an artistic, social and critical undertaking. This international resource for artists and arts professionals enables online dialogue between curators and UK artists, brokers opportunities and raises awareness of contemporary art.

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We are looking for creative curators based in the UK and overseas who are developing projects with emerging and mid-career UK artists. The directory will give you an online profile, access to curator opportunities and networks of curators and artists.

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Lee Weinberg

Independent curator

Short Curriculum: Born in Haifa, Israel, 1980. Live in London. Work in London and Israel.

Education: BAFA at Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts (2002-2003).
BA in French Literature and Fine Art at the... more

Katherine Daley-Yates

Independent curator
Programme Co-ordinator, Situations

I am an emerging curator based in Bristol and have worked for Situations since 2006, currently holding the position of Programme Co-ordinator. My practice incorporates independent projects alongside my work at Situations. I enjoy... more

WW Gallery

Independent curator
Director/Curator, WW Gallery

WW is a not-for-profit artists' run project space in a converted Victorian terraced house in Hackney, East London.

WW's Debra Wilson and Chiara Williams are both practising and exhibiting artists and have also curated a number of... more

Penny Sexton

Curator of Exhibitions,Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM)

I have worked as a curator for over eight years and have over 15 exhibitions under my belt. I am currently based at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter as the Curator of Exhibitions; I was previously the Curator of Modern... more

Sozita Goudouna

Independent curator
Founding Director, Out of the Box Intermedia

Sozita Goudouna is the artistic director of Out of the Box Intermedia company and is working as associate editor for the academic journal STP Studies in Theatre and Performance and contributing editor for the contemporary literature... more

Emily Druiff

Independent curator
Director , Peckham Space

As a curator I am concerned with artworks that develop new models of participation and public engagement as a motivating factor to their production.

As Director of Peckham Space... more

Paddy Hartley

Independent curator
Curator, Brahm Gallery

Paddy Hartley is a curator and event organiser who devises and delivers the exhibition programme for Brahm Gallery Leeds as well as independent projects.

Originally trained in ceramics at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, he developed an... more

Matthew Withey

Independent curator

Matthew Withey is an art historian, curator, lecturer, events manager and occasional artist with fifteen years' experience working for art galleries and other respected cultural institutions in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the north of England. As a... more

Diana Ali

Independent curator

I was born in Manchester and work as a visual artist and curator. My work involves participants' responses from the local to the global with my current projects exploring these concerns. I experiment with instructional methods and exchanges of... more

Ross Dalziel

Independent curator

My curatorial practice has stemmed from my work as an artist interested in cross discipline collaboration.

I am keen to respond to site and context drawing on my own experience and others work, considering boundaries between... more

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