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The Axis curator directory supports and profiles the work of curators based in the UK and overseas who regard curating as an artistic, social and critical undertaking. This international resource for artists and arts professionals enables online dialogue between curators and UK artists, brokers opportunities and raises awareness of contemporary art.

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We are looking for creative curators based in the UK and overseas who are developing projects with emerging and mid-career UK artists. The directory will give you an online profile, access to curator opportunities and networks of curators and artists.

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Emily Druiff

Independent curator
Director , Peckham Space

As a curator I am concerned with artworks that develop new models of participation and public engagement as a motivating factor to their production.

As Director of Peckham Space... more


Paddy Hartley

Independent curator
Curator, Brahm Gallery

Paddy Hartley is a curator and event organiser who devises and delivers the exhibition programme for Brahm Gallery Leeds as well as independent projects.

Originally trained in ceramics at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, he developed an... more


Matthew Withey

Independent curator

Matthew Withey is an art historian, curator, lecturer, events manager and occasional artist with fifteen years' experience working for art galleries and other respected cultural institutions in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the north of England. As a... more


Diana Ali

Independent curator

I was born in Manchester and work as a visual artist and curator. My work involves participants' responses from the local to the global with my current projects exploring these concerns. I experiment with instructional methods and exchanges of... more


Ross Dalziel

Independent curator

My curatorial practice has stemmed from my work as an artist interested in cross discipline collaboration.

I am keen to respond to site and context drawing on my own experience and others work, considering boundaries between... more


Amelia Beavis-Harrison

Independent curator

I am in independent curator living and working in the UK. My practice has been informed by circumstantial inspiration to initiate projects, working with others to produce works including live art / performance / intervention / happening.


Rose Strang

Independent curator
Arts Manager, University Hospital Birmingham (UHB, NHS)

I've worked as a project curator for the past ten years in many fields - most recently public art management for the National Health Service (NHS). My practice involves the organisation of cross-disciplinary projects, art commissions and live art... more


Outi Remes

Head of Exhibitions,South Hill Park

Outi Remes is an art historian and curator of contemporary and live art. She is currently the Head of Exhibitions at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire, and also sessionally lectures on exhibition studies and modern & contemporary art at... more


Michaela Freeman

Independent curator
Curator, DIVUS UNIT 30

Michaela Freeman has curated exhibitions in the UK and Czech Republic since 1994. Her interest is in the new media practice and multidisciplinary events as well as creating new dialogues and platforms through curating group exhibitions of... more


Jemma Egan

Independent curator
Co-director, The Royal Standard

I am an emerging curator and co-director of The Royal Standard, an artist led gallery and studio provider in Liverpool. For me, being a curator goes hand in hand with my art practice; it is something I have always done alongside my own work... more



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