EMPATHY AND RISK - Key Persons
Amy Carter-Gordon is an award-winning knowledge exchange, innovation and cultural partnership curator, instigator and collaborator. She has extensive experience in cross-sector partnership working including Higher Education, Local Authorities, communities, third sector and private sector.
Amy is an accomplished cultural producer with international networks - curating, producing and directing high quality in-person and online engagement experiences, events, performances and exhibitions for diverse audiences and for public engagement with research outcomes.
Amy Carter-Gordon is a curator, festival producer and knowledge exchange coordinator
Billy is an artist featured in our screening programme.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Artist / Researcher / United Kingdom
Blue-Ren Marcus is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and curator based in London, working towards their BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. She is a in intern with curatorial office LOOKING FORWARD, and aspires towards a masters in curation.
Using video, writing, installation, painting and print, she examines semiotics in the contemporary world defined by Baudrillard as "hyperreal". She is particularly interested in the self coined phrase "structural fixation" as a practice of exposing structure as a thematic device, employing taxonomies and ordering mechanisms to frame a post-structuralist critique.
Blue is a part of a collective, where she curated and showed in the group exhibition called "Autopoietic Machine" at The Baths, London (Jan. 20th 2022).
Job Titles:
- Arts Manager / Curator / United Kingdom
- Writer and Researcher
Carolina is a curator, writer and researcher based in London.
Chandraguptha Thenuwara is an artist, academic and curator based in Sri Lanka
Chandraguptha Thenuwara is an artist cum activist whose body of work is dedicated to his plight to expose political corruption in Sri Lanka. In 1997 the artist began presenting his self-curated memorial exhibitions, presented on 23 July every year to commemorate ‘Black July'. The exhibitions began with a series of works titled Barrelism, his response to the change in the cityscape of Colombo during the war. A multidisciplinary artist, Thenuwara's works connect painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation made up of the juxtaposition of objects and witty paronomasias. His works metamorphose to represent current affairs using symbolism and themes approaching the subjects of conflict and adversity.
Danielle Arnaud is an active London-based established curator. She has directed Danielle Arnaud Gallery for over 25 years. Since the gallery was established in 1995 she has produced over 126 exhibitions, creating opportunities for more than 300 artists. In recent years the gallery has also opened residency and exhibition spaces in France and Italy.
Danielle Arnaud has consistently encouraged artists to develop their practice without the constraints of market or trends through a programme of curated exhibitions, solo shows, and projects, both within the gallery and the public realm.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Artist / United Kingdom
- Installation Artist
Artist David Cotterrell talks to curator Carolina Lio about his practice and the Empathy & Risk project's beginning.
David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across media and technologies to explore the social and political tendencies of a world at once shared and divided. Encapsulating the roles of programmer, producer and director, Cotterrell works to develop projects that reveal complexity, challenge linear narratives and embrace the quiet spaces that are overlooked as the sites for action.
Cotterrell's work has been commissioned and shown extensively in museums, galleries and the public realm within Europe, North America and Asia. He has worked in conflicted landscapes, has been a consultant to strategic masterplans, and has developed cultural and public art policy. He is Research Professor in Fine Art, and Director of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and represented by Danielle Arnaud contemporary art.
Further information can be found at http://www.cotterrell.com
Job Titles:
- Collaborating Artist & Film - Maker / United Kingdom
David Kew is a documentary and narrative film-maker based in London, UK
Job Titles:
- Director of Stages Theatre Group
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Curator and Researcher
- Project Management and Support
Freya Fletcher is a Researcher and Curat or with a specialist interest in the importance of wider community access to creativity and culture. She has curated virtual and physically exhibitions, ranging from independent shows to national art festivals.
Fletcher is committed to representing and optimising accessibility for diverse communities through artist practice. With a strong belief in curating collections that display under-represented movements and voices, Fletcher's work aims to present diverse perspectives, lead cultural conversations and support the creation of contemporary practice.
Freya Fletcher is a Curator and Researcher based in London.
Job Titles:
- Graphic Designer
- Artist
- Artist, Graphic Designer
Job Titles:
- Artist / United Kingdom
- Artist and Writer
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based on the inland waterways. Across 2021 - 2022 Harun was Designer and Researcher in Residence at V&A Dundee. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2023. Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here.
Recent commissions include I'll Bring You Flowers (2019), Survival Kit 10, Riga, Laughing Matter (2018) at Studio Voltaire, the performance 40 Temps, 8 Days (2017) at Tate Modern and Beacon Garden (2018 - 2020), a commission to co-design and community build a public garden in Dagenham, East London. This summer, Harun continues to develop and repair a garden for Mind Sheffield, a mental health support service, as part of the Art Catalyst research programme Emergent Ecologies.
Harun is currently exhibiting Dolphin Head Mountain at the Horniman Museum in South London, co-commissioned by Delfina Foundation. From 2019 - 2022, Harun was a trustee of the Black Cultural Archive.
Helen Cammock's video There's a Hole in the Sky was featured in our third Deptford Film Club event on February 12, 2022.
Helen Cammock was born in 1970 in Staffordshire. She lives and works in Brighton and London. Cammock explores social histories through film, photography, print, text, song and performance. She is motivated by her commitment to questioning mainstream historical narratives around blackness, womanhood, wealth, power, poverty and vulnerability. Mining her own biography in addition to the histories of oppression and resistance, multiple and layered narratives, reveals the cyclical nature of histories.
Cammock was the joint recipient of The Turner Prize 2019 and the 7th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Recent exhibitions include Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, (2022); Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale (2021); The Photographers Gallery, London (2021); STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021); Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (2020); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2020); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2019); VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019); Reading Museum, Reading, UK; Cubitt, London, UK (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at British Art Show 9, Aberdeen, Scotland (2021); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2020); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (2020); Somerset House, London, UK (2019); Hollybush Gardens, London, UK (2017 and 2013) and Firstsite, Colchester, UK. She has staged performances at Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2020); The Showroom, London, UK (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2017); Cubitt, London; VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland and the ICA, London, UK (2017).
Job Titles:
- Artist, Programmer
- Collaborating Artist / United Kingdom
Ian Gouldstone is an artist, programmer and filmmaker.
Ian Gouldstone is a BAFTA winning artist and filmmaker whose work incorporates games, animation and new media. He has shown work and held events internationally at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, The Eden Project, Cornwall, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Ars Electronica Linz, The National Videogame Arcade, Nottingham, The Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and SLEEPCENTER, New York.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Co - Director of a.MAL Projects
Jessica El Mal is co-director of A.MAL Projects, and was a speaker in our feedforward_morocco event.
Job Titles:
- Artist / United Kingdom
- Artist of English
Joyce Treasure was a part of our Screening Room Programme and of Deptford Film Club.
Joyce Treasure is a Birmingham-based multidisciplinary artist of English and Jamaican descent who draws on her mixed heritage to explore feelings of loss, absence, omission, presence, memory, recovery, and exchange. In 2012, she began to practice as a multidisciplinary artist working in layers and body forms to slice cultural and iconic imagery together using collage, print, acrylic, assemblage and film around the topic of identity. She employs notions of ‘the carnivalesque', feminism and decolonial thought to question colonialism, which seeks to examine ideas of dominance and power and celebrate culture.
Her current work seeks to interrogate colonial histories of trauma, resistance and survival to analyse parallels between different sites and locations using decolonial reasoning. She is interested in the intergenerational transmission of trauma as a site for healing and well-being.
Job Titles:
- Artist / Curator / Critic / Academic / United Kingdom
- British Artist
Keith Piper (born 1960) is a leading contemporary British artist, curator, critic and academic. He was a founder member of the groundbreaking BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students, mostly based in the West Midlands region of the UK.
His creative practice responds to specific social and political issues, historical relationships and geographical sites. Adopting a research driven approach, and using a variety of media, his work has ranged from painting, through photography and installation to a use of digital media, video and computer based interactivity.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Artist / United Kingdom
Lise Autogena (born Lise Mølgård Frandsen) is a Danish-born artist, who has lived in the UK since 1987. She was educated in glass and Fine Art (BA) at West Surrey College of Art, Art and Architecture (MA) (University of East London) and Fine Art Curating (MA) at Goldsmiths College.
Lise Autogena was a recipient of many awards for her work in glass, which has been exhibited internationally. In 1998 she was nominated for the Jerwood Prize for Glass. In 2004 she was a recipient of a four-year NESTA Fellowship from the National Endowment of Science Technology and the Arts for her large-scale multimedia installations.
Since the early 90's, she has worked in partnership with the artist Joshua Portway, developing large-scale performances and multimedia installations. These projects have used film, custom-built technologies and global realtime data to explore how economic, geographic, technological and societal systems we have created, impact on our human experience and sense of self in the world. These projects have been exhibited around the world such as Tate Gallery, Somerset House, Gwangju Biennial, ZKM, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen, Malmo Kunsthal, Trondheim Kunsthal and ArtScience Museum Singapore.
Lise Autogena is an installation artist and academic.
Malshani Delgahapitya is an Arts Manager currently affiliated with Stages Theatre Group, Lionel Wendt Centre for the Arts and Chitrasena Vajira Dance Foundation. Her work focuses mainly on supporting artists and arts organisation in project management and archiving. She has been involving in theatre since her childhood in a variety of capacities ranging from being an actor to a set designer to a producer. Her exposure to theatre led her to start working at international development agencies and corporate creative agencies that support the arts in Sri Lanka. Malshani has worked with arts organisations as an actor, a facilitator and an administrator across Sri Lanka in her personal and professional capacities since 2011.
Job Titles:
- Curator / Film Programmer / Writer / United Kingdom
Myriam Mouflih is a freelance curator, film programmer and writer. She was a speaker in our feedforward_morocco event.
Myriam Mouflih is a curator, film programmer and writer born in Casablanca and based in Glasgow. She currently works as Programme Co-ordinator for Africa in Motion Film Festival and is a Programming Fellow at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. Myriam also works for Scottish Contemporary Art Network and was previously on the committee of Transmission Gallery. Her current research focus is Artists' Moving Image from the African continent and the diaspora. In feedforward_morocco, she elaborates on her practice as a curator specialising in experimental film and documentary/archival film, spotlighting Moroccan cinema.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder / Advisor / Sri Lanka
Ruwanthie de Chickera is a playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and cultural activist.
Ruwanthie de Chickera is a playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and cultural activist. De Chickera has a strong belief in the practice, politics and philosophy of ‘devising' - a theatre approach of collective creativity and leadership that challenges existing structures of authorship, power-sharing and change.
Her award-winning film "Machan" has been screened in over 50 countries. De Chickera is artistic director of Stages Theatre Group, an ensemble theatre company that produces socially and politically conscious original Sri Lankan Theatre. She is an Eisenhower Fellow and head of Research and Writing of the Arts and Cultural Policy Desk in Sri Lanka, a citizens initiative, mandated to draft the National Arts and Cultural Policy for Sri Lanka
Stephen is a theatre director, cultural producer and a member of the British Council global leadership team
Thomas Vann Altheimer is a Danish film-maker and curator based in Tijuana, Mexico