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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Rachel Lois Clapham

Independent curator

I am a curator and writer who works at the interface of exhibitions, gallery education and the live. As a curator I work specifically with emerging contemporary artists and organisations who make socially engaged, participatory and live work.

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Edith Doove

Independent curator

I have been working as an independent curator for about twenty years, mainly in Belgium. From 1987 until 1993 I ran the not for profit exhibition space Parbleu in Antwerp. After this, I worked as a freelance art critic for national radio and the... more

Sara Bowler

Independent curator

I am an artist who periodically operates as a curator. Based in south west England, I have organised events and exhibitions in London, Shanghai, Caithness and, more recently, Cornwall, where I now live and work.

Bringing together artists... more

Paul Stone

Independent curator
Director, Vane

Paul Stone has been based in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1986, moving to the city to study Fine Art at Northumbria University, both on the BA and MA course. Having exhibited as an artist since 1990, he curated his first exhibition at Newcastle’s (now... more

Middlemiss & Fox

Independent curator
Curator, The Front Room Project at the Salt Gallery

For the last 4 years Louise and Marilyn have worked together as a joint curating team, whilst continuing within their own separate practice. Their different approaches, with backgrounds in design and fine art respectively, have merged and seen... more

Karen Gaskill

Independent curator

Karen Gaskill is a Curator, Researcher and Artist based in Manchester, UK. Her curatorial practice is interested in the ways that artists create sociality through the use of technologies, and the different ways in which this is manifest. She is... more

Gillian McIver

Independent curator

I am interested in issues surrounding the curation of moving-image based work, and in developing the role of the 'artist-curator' as opposed to the idea of the 'professionalised and certificated' curator.

It is my belief, based on... more

Peter Lewis

Independent curator
Director, MA Curating Contemporary Art, Leeds Metropolitan University

I have been an artist and curator since mid 70s. I worked with Paul Neagu after leaving Chelsea and St Martins Schools of Art, maintaining a studio whilst teaching. I started to organise exhibitions in 90s more energetically, with Runa Islam, Matthew... more

Rupert White

Independent curator

I am a curator working in the unique context of the county of Cornwall.

Cornwall, in the far South West of England, has long been a centre for the visual arts. As well as a distinctive maritime landscape it therefore also has a... more

Charlie Arnold

Independent curator

Charlie Arnold is an independent artist curator who since 2000 has created several touring exhibition projects in NE England highlighting interdisciplinary work by contemporary designer-makers and artists. These include, 'Fifties Frocks' textile... more

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