Post-Distance

Curator’s Review #1

BA (Hons) Art and Design, Yr3
Gareth Barnett, Andrew Gillespie

23/06/2021
5:00 pm
Online
BA (Hons) Art and Design, Yr3
2021
#Art and Design
#Fine Art
#Making Public
Event Link: tinyurl.com/2ktj5378
Black and White Photograph of Kim McAleese and Tom Ellmer. The image has had a photocopy style effect applied.
Curators Review 1

Join us for a curators review of the School of Art degree shows featuring Kim McAleese from Grand Union and Tom Ellmer from Ikon Gallery. 

All you need to do to attend is to click this link > https://tinyurl.com/2ktj5378 < at 5pm on Wednesday. The event is hosted as a Live Event on Microsoft Teams, this means that anybody can attend but that cameras and microphones will be turned off (apart from for the presenters). There will be a chat function so you will be able to ask the guest presenters any questions that you may have.

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Kim McAleese (she/her) is a curator originally from Belfast, now based in Birmingham, She is currently working as Programme Director of Grand Union, a gallery space and artists’ studios bringing the public closer to art and artists by hosting, sharing, listening, supporting, caring, conversing and exchanging. 

She is an alumnus of Curatorlab in Konstfack (Stockholm), and of the Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive programme. She is co-founder of Household, a collective of curators who organise public art projects in Northern Ireland and a previous co-director of Catalyst Arts. 


She is an Associate Lecturer at University of Birmingham and sits on the board of New Art West Midlands and is Vice-Chair of Outburst Queer Arts Festival. She is a juror for the Turner Prize 2021.

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Thomas Ellmer is the Assistant Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK. In this role he has contributed to the realisation of monographic exhibitions by Kristof Kintera, Meryl McMaster, Judy Watson, Hew Locke and many others. As well as, the survey exhibitions A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s and The Aerodrome. In a freelance capacity he has curated exhibitions by Ed Florance at Flatland Projects, Hastings; Paul Schneider at Turf Projects, Croydon and co-programmed the 2018 festival Alt-Age: Designing Belief at the Design Museum, London. He is a Trustee of the Public Picture Gallery Fund; a fund supporting Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to make new acquisitions of artwork. He contributes to magazines including Art Monthly and Sculpture Mag.

Grand Union
Black and White photograph of Kim McAleese. Kim is standing in front of a white wall. Kim is a white woman. She has a short fringe and long wavy hair. She is wearing a black top.
Ikon Gallery
Black and White photograph of Thomas Ellmer standing in front of a tiled wall. Thomas has short hair and is wearing thick rimmed glasses. He is wearing a dark jacket with a fold down collar.