As an experienced curator I have been responsible for every component of creating an exhibition including: ideation, research, crafting of exhibition text, securing of sponsorship, sourcing of artifacts, procurement and engagement with subject area experts, framing, graphic design, construction, fabrication, installation and all forms of press and public communications.
As Curator-In-Residence, I curated the work of 175 artists and makers, occupying a 60,000 sq foot space in West London. At its heart an experimental creative community, providing rare and desperately sought after artist studios, performing arts programming, as well as educational initiatives.
Each month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project and Visual AIDS Artists Registry.
“While some cultural institutions briefly touch upon the theme of sex, the outright and unwavering inclusion of the topic is rare. By avoiding sex, a museum or gallery space can become a clinical and sanitized repository for a collection of works, but in this selection, the idea of the "collection" is charged through its association with sex. Overtly sexual objects, erotic art pieces, a lover's hair or even sexual experiences can all be collected. Even the amassing of tattoos, both traditional and erotic, can be considered a process of collecting, as well as an analogous sexual experience, with someone giving and another receiving the art form.
Beyond the overtly sexual items found in collections, new meanings emerge when the implication of sex is tied to an object. A collection of pills, syringes, viles of blood and condoms is transformed when connected to sex in a post HIV/AIDS world. This selection of "collections" from theVisual AIDS archive is an exercise in perception for the viewer, curated with the unabashed implication of sex and sexuality.”