Serpentine, 2019-2021
Leading a team of internationally regarded curators and gallery management, working closely with Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chief Curator Lizzie Carey Thomas and Gallery Manager Mike Gaughan, overseeing projects in and out of the gallery and online with artists including Back to Earth, Cao Fei, Yoko Ono, James Barnor, Formafantasma, Sophia Al Maria, James Barnor, P Staff and Jennifer Packer, and a Pavilion by Counterspace.
Pandemic projects included Do It with Google Arts and Culture.
Does everyone leave the Serpentine thinking they worked there in a golden period of Serpentine history? The pandemic was not golden in any way, but I did get to work with incredible people across Exhibitions, Civic, Learning, General Ecology, Pavilion, Curators At Large, Live Programming and Art Tech team including Future Art Ecosystems.
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Fragment of Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Counterspace for Valence Library Radio Ballads curated by Amal Khalaf, Curator, Elizabeth Graham, Associate Curator, Civic Projects Layla Gatens, Assistant Curator, Civic Projects Natalia Grabowska, Assistant Curator, Exhibitions © Counterspace Photo: George Darrell
19 June 2021: Back to Earth Day as part of General Ecology curated by Lucia Pietriousti
Olafur Eliasson, Earth perspectives, 2020, The Earth viewed over the South Pole
P. Staff: On Venus, Installation view, Serpentine Galleries (8 November 2019 – 9 February 2020) Curated by Claude Adjil © 2019 Photo: Hugo Glenndinning.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries, initiated do it in Paris in 1993 with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, gathering recipes for artworks from twelve artists. The idea for do it (around the world) began when people quarantined due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Italian cities and elsewhere began making and sharing do its via social media in March 2020.
Yoko Ono, I LOVE YOU EARTH, 2021 Part of Serpentine’s Back to Earth project, installed to mark Earth Day 2021 at Mancunian Tower, Manchester, in partnership with ClearChannel. Photo credit Jan Koblanski
Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Sumayya Vally, Counterspace, Interior View © Counterspace Photo: Iwan Baan
Formafantasma, Cambio (Installation view, Serpentine Galleries, 4 March – 17 May 2020) Photo credit: George Darrell
DOSH by Jay Barnard was commissioned as part of the Listening to the City programme by Serpentine Education Alex Thorp, Curator, Education Jemma Egan, Assistant Curator, Education