Experience

Curated Place

• United Kingdom
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creative Director

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  Curated Place is a creative production company and gallery founded to manage the best in contemporary creativity to meet the needs of public institutions, private collectors and the commercial world. Whether developing new gallery spaces, unique exhibition experiences, original commissions or responding to bespoke briefs Curated Place are able to deliver the finest that the creative world has to offer. Clients include: The British Council, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, JWT, The Netherlands Business Support Office, Arrdman Animation, Manchester Art Gallery, Salford University, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Marketing Manchester, MIDAS, Sabbath Bikes, Mere Golf & Country Club, Cube Gallery Manchester, Imagine Publishing, ILEX publishing, Corridor Manchester, Raw Design Agency, Creative Concern and Peter Saville



FutureEverything

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Director

  • May 2011 - May 2012

  Building on the success of 2011's move to central Manchester brokered a long-term relationship with MOSI/National Science Museums, professionalised process and procedure in-house and delivered the most successful iteration of the long running festival. A revamped programming and marketing strategy saw higher quality and higher impact commissions than ever seen at FutureEveryhting before with the conference selling out for the first time ever. Headliner music shows filled some of the biggest venues in the city and the entire festival reached audiences previously out of reach of the festival.2012’s festival celebrated the participatory culture that is changing our world. For the first time in the festival’s history, the conference sold out. This successful event was documented in national, local and international media and saw an increase in ticket sales of over 200% on the previous year. Four members of the Curated Place team helped produce this event.The art programme comprised an exhibition at the Museum of Science & Industry, participatory artworks from Blast Theory and Lawrence Epps, and the Handmade digital craft fair at Victoria Baths.The music programme featured Amon Tobin’s ISAM (Live), Matthew Herbert’s One Pig, Dieter Moebius, Tim Hecker and many more at venues including Islington Mill, St Philiip’s Church, Manchester Cathedral and the RNCM.The conference was hosted by the Museum of Science and Industry and explored the interface between technology, society and culture. It featured speakers including Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Carlo Ratti, Rohan Gunatillake, Fiona Courage (Mass Observation Archive), Ed Vaizey MP, Rufus Pollock, Bill Thompson (BBC), The John Peel Centre, and Adrian Hon amongst others.

• Festival Producer

  • Nov 2010 - May 2011

  Transformed niche digital festival into sell-out city centre celebration of digital culture.Music headliners included Steve Reich, Das Racist, Beach House, Warpaint, and live film scores by Rob da Bank (King Kong) and 65daysofstatic (Silent Running).Emotional computing, the digital self and the integration of digital technology within our cities were topics on the agenda for the two-day FutureEverything Conference at 4 Piccadilly Place. Guest speakers included James Bridle, Kars Alfrink, Sue Thomas and Juha van ‘t Zelfde.4 Piccadilly Place also formed a second creative arts hub with exhibitions and events. Elsewhere in the city visitors experienced Handmade’s creative hacking workshops at Victoria Baths and an interactive artworks. The Data Dimension art exhibition looked at ways in which artists and individuals can creatively visualise, personalise and make sense of streams of data.Highlights included Nicolas Felton’s Annual Reports of everyday personal interactions, Nadeem Haidary’s posters revealing the nutritional content of food in art and presentations from Google and BBC Data Art projects



Urbis

• Brazil
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curator / Project Manager

  • Nov 2006 - Sep 2010

  Curator, producer and project manager: Homegrown: The story of UK hip hop Hidden Manchester Urban Gardening Hacienda 25 FAC491 Curator, producer and project manager: Homegrown: The story of UK hip hop Hidden Manchester Urban Gardening Hacienda 25 FAC491