Curating | Discover Art - Get Inspired Today

Andrew Cranston, ‘What a Man Does in the Privacy of His Own Attic is His Affair’, 21 February to 25 April, International Project Space (IPS), Birmingham

2008

George Henry Longly ‘Mass Damper’, 25 September to 1 November, International Project Space, Birmingham

Steven Claydon ‘The Ancient Set’, 3 July to 9 August, International Project Space, Birmingham

Ian Kiaer and Sara MacKillop, 13 March to 19 April, International Project Space, Birmingham

David Osbaldeston ‘Another Shadow Fight’, 24 January to 1 March, International Project Space, Birmingham

2007

Freee ‘How to Make a Difference’, 27 September to 3 November, International Project Space, Birmingham

Sue Atkinson ‘Greenham Work 1983 to 1986’ Terry Atkinson ‘Irish Work 1983 to 1986’, 26 April to 25 May, International Project Space, Birmingham

Aline Bouvy and John Gillis, 1 to 31 March, International Project Space, Birmingham

Chris Evans ‘Militant Bourgeois: An Existentialist Retreat’, 18 January to 17 February, International Project Space, Birmingham

2006

Mark McGowan ‘TV News’, 16 November to 16 December, International Project Space, Birmingham

Bill Brandt in Bournville, 4 to 26 May, International Project Space, Birmingham

Hans Aarsman ‘Useful Birmingham’ 14 January to 10 March, International Project Space, Birmingham

2005

John Russell ‘Geniess’, 21 April to 28 May, Norwich Gallery

2003

Marc Camille Chaimowicz ‘Jean Cocteau’, 11 September to 25 October, Norwich Gallery (assisted Lynda Morris)

Group Exhibitions

2020

‘Artists Against Homelessness: Insiders and Outliers’, St Mungo’s fundraiser at Christies, London

2017

‘Integration Alone is Not Enough: Selected works of British Concrete Poetry 1960–1980: Curated by Andrew Hunt’, 3 February to 24 March, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

Rochelle Goldberg, Veit Laurent Kurz, Stefan Tcherepnin, Hanna Törnudd ‘Ante Phylloxera’, 7 October to 11 November, Jelly, Broad Street Mall, Reading, and South Street Arts Centre, Reading, Reading International

Matt Copson and Alastair MacKinven ‘Eggy and Seedy’, 14 February to 13 May, Munchees Café, Butter Market, Reading, with subsequent events across Reading, Reading International

2016

‘The Green Ray’ curated by Andrew Hunt, featuring Danai Anesiadou, Anna Barriball, Ant Farm, Juliette Bonneviot, Matt Copson, Phil Coy, Jeffrey Dennis, Adham Faramawy, Travis Jeppesen, Nicholas Mangan, Xavier Mary, Mike Nelson, Lisa Oppenheim, Daniel O'Sullivan, Katrina Palmer, Yuri Pattison, Elizabeth Price, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Mathew Sawyer, Michelle Ussher, 27 February to 10 April, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2011

‘Thames Delta’ 16 April to 30 June, Focal Point Gallery and Beecroft Art Gallery

‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’, 4 July to 27 August, Focal Point Gallery / Hayward Touring Exhibition

2008

Late at Tate: ‘!WOWOW! and Plastique Fantastique’, Friday 4 January, Tate Britain

2007

‘The Affirmation’ curated by Andrew Hunt, including Paul and Steven Claydon, Chris Evans, Robert Garnett, Babak Ghazi, Mark McGowan, Goshka Macuga, Elizabeth Price, Mandla Reuter, and Tris Vonna-Michell, 7 November to 15 December, Chelsea Space, London

‘Neighbourhood Watch’ curated by JJ Charlesworth, Andrew Hunt and Robin Klassnik, 24 to 27 August, Nettie Horn Gallery, London

2006

‘The Stars Down to Earth’, selected by Andrew Hunt, 24 June to 22 July, The Nunnery/ Bow Arts Trust, London

‘Writing in Strobe’ curated by Andrew Hunt featuring Terry Atkinson, Fabienne Audeoud and John Russell, Aline Bouvy and John Gillis, Pavel Büchler and Nick Thurston, David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan, Steven Claydon, Anne Collier, François Curlet, John Cussans, John Latham, Jacques Lizene, Adam McEwan, M/M Paris, Jonathan Monk, Dan Perjovschi, Steven Shearer, The Thirteenth Collective, Matthew Thompson, Sue Tompkins, and Eva Weinmayr, 30 March to 6 May 2006, Dicksmith Gallery, London

2005

‘EASTinternational 2005’ selected by Gustav Metzger, 2 July to 20 August, Norwich Gallery and Norwich School of Art & Design, (assisted Lynda Morris)

2004

‘Like beads on an abacus designed to calculate infinity’ curated by Andrew Hunt, featuring over forty artists including Mark Beasley, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, John Sell Cotman, Kaye Donachie, Richard Hughes, Christian Jankowski, Jiri Kovanda, Friedrich Kunath, Simon Ling, Jan Mancuska, David Musgrave, Olivia Plender, Elizabeth Price, John Russell, and Emily Wardill, 16 April to 16 May, Rockwell, London

‘EASTinternational 2004’ selected by Neo Rauch and Gerd Harry Lybke, 3 July to 21 August, Norwich Gallery and Norwich School of Art & Design, (assisted Lynda Morris)

2003

‘EASTinternational 2003’ selected by Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild, 5 July to 23 August, Norwich Gallery and Norwich School of Art & Design, (assisted Lynda Morris)

2002

Slimvolume Poster Publication 2002, featuring works by invited artists, November, Vilma Gold, London

2001

Slimvolume Poster Publication 2001, featuring works by invited artists, December, Austrian Cultural Forum, London

Co-Curated Exhibitions

2024

Tris Vonna-Michell, ‘Vonna-Michell’s House’, 20 September to 1 December, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, (co-curated with Anja Casser)

Karen Barbour ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’, 18 October to 14 February 2025, Moon Grove, Manchester, (co-curated with Simon Grant)

2019

‘Sof’ya Shpurova: Low Human Activity’, 1 November to 13 December, Holden Gallery, Manchester, (co-curated with Alastair Mackinven)

2018

‘C. R. McBerny’, 29 April to 13 May, Zwinglisalon, Berlin; 5 December to 28 February 2019, Manchester Central Library, Manchester (co-curated with Veit Laurent Kurz)

2017

‘The Critic as Artist’, 7 October to 27 January 2018, Reading Museum, Reading International, (co-curated with Michael Bracewell)

2016

‘Concerning Concrete Poetry’, 5 February to 3 April, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (co-curated with Anja Casser)

2015

Jeffrey Dennis ‘Ringbinder’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, (co-curated with George Vasey)

2011

‘Orbitecture II: Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent’, 18 April to 18 June, Focal Point Gallery, (co-curated with Cedar Lewisohn)

‘Orbitecture I’, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, (co-curated with Cedar Lewisohn)

2008

‘Zodiac 3000: Merlin Carpenter, Alastair MacKinven, Dan Mitchell, Josephine Pryde, and Rachel Reupke’ curated by Dr Robert Laing (Dan Mitchell) and Karen Novotny (Andrew Hunt), 26 April to 31 May, International Project Space, Birmingham

2002

‘FAIR’, 19–24 March, Royal College of Art, London (co-curated with fellow students, including Stuart Comer, Roos Gortzak, Helen Legg, November Paynter, Joanna Stella-Sawicka, and Emma Robertson)

2001

David Lamelas, 18 January to 25 March, Camden Arts Centre (co-curated with fellow students, including Stuart Comer, Roos Gortzak, Helen Legg, November Paynter, Joanna Stella-Sawicka, and Emma Robertson)

Commissioned Exhibitions

2011

‘Anti-Photography’, curated by Duncan Wooldridge, 17 January to 2 April, Focal Point Gallery

2009

‘Let’s Take Back Our Space: Robert Morris, Marianne Wex, Cerith Wyn Evans’, curated by Mike Sperlinger, 6 October to 14 December, Focal Point Gallery

2010

‘Infermental’, curated by George Clark and Dan Kidner with James Richards, 19 July to 4 September, Focal Point Gallery

2008

‘Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy’ curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, 13 November to 19 December, International Project Space, Birmingham

2007

‘13; Alighiero e Boetti, Daniel Buren, Peter Fillingham, Ceal Floyer, Giuseppe Gabellone, Elizabeth Kent, Dave Muller, Chris Ofili, Claes Oldenburg, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul Thek, Maija Timonen, Richard Tuttle’ curated by Henry Coleman and Rupert Norfolk, 5 July to 4 August 2007, International Project Space, Birmingham

2006

Aleksandra Mir and Robert Orchardson, curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade, 9 September to 28 October, International Project Space, Birmingham

Public Commissions (Permanent and Temporary)

2018

Veit Laurent Kurz ‘Built on Waters of Love, Peace and Wisdom’, part of ‘As You Change, So Do I’: mural, 33a Guildford Street, Luton, 8 April to 16 December 2019 (permanent public commission installed April 2019)

2017

Jeffrey Dennis ‘The Luton Host’, part of ‘As You Change, So Do I’, 29 June to 1 October, Bute Street (opposite the Hat Factory), Luton

Yuri Pattison ‘Flights overhead, (portmanteau of global and local)’, part of ‘As You Change, So Do I’, 30 March to 2 July, easyHotel, Bute Street, Luton

2016

Polly Apfelbaum ‘Any Dream Will Do’, part of ‘As You Change, So Do I’, 9 December to 19 March 2017, poster sites across Luton town centre

Scott King ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ and ‘Mother and Child (Luton)’, part of ‘As You Change, So Do I’, 1 September to 31 December, Culture Wall and sites across Luton town centre

2013

Tris Vonna-Michell, Tiles and Tides, 30 September 2013 onwards, Permanent Public Commission for Focal Point Gallery

Allen Ruppersberg, Questions and Answers No. 1, 30 September 2013 onwards, Permanent Public Commission for Focal Point Gallery

Mike Nelson, AN INVOCATION – Five Hundred and Thirty Books from Southend Central Library, 30 September 2013 onwards, Permanent Public Commission for Focal Point Gallery

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Curtain for Focal Point; Seating for Focal Point; Three-part Screen for Focal Point, 30 September 2013 onwards, Permanent Public Commission for Focal Point Gallery

Scott King ‘Excerpts from A Better Britain’, 30 September to 30 October, Offsite Project, Focal Point Gallery

2012

Jeremy Deller 'Sacrilege', Priory Park, Southend-on-Sea 4/5 July, Focal Point Gallery (Offsite Public Artwork)

Mark Titchner ‘ENDS THOU’, 5 May to 8 July Focal Point Gallery (Offsite Public Artwork)

2011

Kai Althoff and Yair Oelbaum ‘There we will be buried’, 3, 4 and 5 November, Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea

John Russell, ‘Angel of History: I Can See for Miles’, 12 September to 22 October, Focal Point Gallery (Offsite Public Artwork)

Morag Keil, ‘Public Hanging’, 4 July to 27 August, Focal Point Gallery (Offsite Public Artwork)

Symposia

2025

‘Ancestral Avant-Gardes’, 21 March, Manchester School of Art. Organiser of the major one-day international conference led by Claire Bishop, featuring presentations and discussions by Claire Tancons, Lucy Wright, Yinka Esi Graves, Grace Ndiritu, and Adrian Heathfield

2019

‘Painting: Funny Peculiar’ Symposium’, 6 June, Manchester School of Art. Organiser with Amy Sillman of the one-day international symposium examining contemporary painting through the lenses of humour, abstraction and diagrammatic thinking. Including international artists and scholars including Sillman, Melissa Gordon and Robert Garnett for presentations and a panel discussion

2018

‘Writing Painting / Painting Writing’ Symposium, 22 March, Manchester School of Art. Organiser of the symposium exploring the relationship between painting and writing through presentations and panel discussions. Including art critic and writer Barry Schwabsky, artist Allison Katz and curator and write Andrew Hunt, examined connections between contemporary painting, criticism, literature and artistic practice