Independent curator
Karen Gaskill is an independent curator and freelance researcher based in London, UK.
Karen works nationally and internationally across independent venues and commercial gallery spaces. Recent exhibitions include Constellations at Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, co-curated with Michelle Kasprzak; the co-curation of the FutureEverything 2010 arts programme; and Save Us, Macclesfield, July 2010.
Karen was the founder, co-director and curator of Interval from 2005-2009, an arts organisation providing regular exhibition opportunities and a critical forum for emergent artists using technology in their practice.
Karen is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Sheffield Hallam University. She has a PhD in Social Curation, an MRes in Fine Art and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Textiles.
Thematically, Karen's curatorial practice is interested in the relationships between curator, artist, space and audience and how these are made manifest through responsive exhibition formats. She strives to devise and initiate critically informative contexts, developing concepts and bringing together works that reveal originality in thinking, nurture discussion and promote new ways of thinking and interpreting art practice.
Karen is currently Guest Curator at SAW (Somerset Art Works) and is responsible for managing 3 new public commissions in the region.
www.somersetartworks.org.uk/projects/maximum-exposure
