Hello.

I’m an experienced Curator, Senior Producer and quiff-tipped ideas factory, based in Manchester, UK.

I’ve curated and produced over 80 exhibitions, multiple short films and two feature films. I draw upon a diverse background in curation, programming, production and new commissions - from visual art to film, live performance, broadcast, public realm, digital media and publishing. 

My practice aims to inspire wider public engagement, foster collaboration, and empower artists and audiences.  

As former Curator and Senior Producer at HOME, Manchester, one of the UK’s largest multidisciplinary cultural venues , I devised and programmed work for contemporary galleries, cinemas and stage.

Highlights included the largest UK exhibition to date of the cult film director David Lynch (2019), and UK solo premiere for gallery and stage of New York-based artist Cassils (2021), together with major solo presentations by AL+AL, Rachel Maclean and John Walter.

As Curator with Artichoke, I established The Gallery (2021-23), a UK-wide public art programme utilising thousands of digital and printed billboards as sites of exhibition for newly commissioned, thought-provoking artworks.

For Culture Liverpool, I co-produced a £1.5 million programme of visual arts commissions in support of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, resulting in 24 new cultural commissions throughout the city-region, generating over 500,000 visitors to the region over the exhibition period.

In 2019-20 I founded the Manchester Open, a biennial showcase for Greater Manchester artists and largest of its kind in the UK outside London. Attracting 33,000 visitors in the first year alone, breaking visitor numbers and sales records, it is now established as a recurring fixture. Winner of the Manchester Culture Awards 2021, with continuing editions in 2022 and 2024.

Award-winning Curator and Senior Producer with BBC Public Space Broadcasting (2004-2010), for which I pioneered a programme of outdoor video art, community activity and interactive commissions.  Former BBC journalist.

I also make my own work, from the award-winning, festival pop-up Homeground, to the popular Sketch-O-Matic. My Scratch ’n Sniff Cinema series has partnered with the likes of the BBC, British Film Institute, Aardman Animations and Roald Dahl 100.

I remain open to conversation and collaboration.

CURRENT (2025)

I’m working with artist Bobby Baker on the re-presentation of her iconic art installation, An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, for the Whitworth, Manchester, as part of the touring exhibition Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990.

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