Category: Writings
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Reflecting on the Zeitz MOCAA Art Trip to Rwanda and Uganda 2025
To map out this reflection, a set of questions will unravel: What does it mean to feel at home in places you have never been? How are we supporting artists both locally and globally? How can we create more room for dialogue and critique to support artists? These are the questions that sat on my…
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How Feminist approaches to art, display, and collecting have challenged Museum expectations
In the book Gender, Sexuality and Museums, Hilde Hein expands on the aspect that the traditional museum collects and explains the world by assigning categories to objects, analysing them, for example, in terms of their material composition, origin, ownership, or typical use, feminist theorising resonates more emphatically with the contextual, the specific instantiation of things…
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Let’s Talk Funding: The current impacts of this on curatorial practices.
“Money talks,” a saying created by wealthy men in power to insinuate that without wealth and funding, there is nothing further to discuss (correct me if I’m wrong). Not that I abide by this quote, but when it concerns curators being able to put on exhibitions within any institution, then money does have to have…
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Welcome to the Curatorial Forum
Hello! My name is Lauryn Lawrence, I am a postgraduate student of University of Westminster studying Museums, Galleries, and Contemporary Culture. While simultaneously a freelance curator and photographer. Now that we got introductions out of the way, I bring to you the fruits of my research when concerning the current curatorial strategies and frameworks used…
The Curatorial Forum 