CURATORIAL PROJECTS
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT (FILM):
just above the tear duct on each side Dir. Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay (2024)
During the 1950s, Ireland had the highest rate of psychiatric hospital use globally. Using archival documents, filmmakers Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay look critically at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.
Official Selection: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) 2025 - UK premiere; Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere .
CURATORIAL:
GRIEF OFFERINGS (END OF) LIFE WISHES (2023)
An audio transmission and transcript from Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland and Etzali Hernández.
“grief tea brewing,” by Emilia Beatrix (2023): a close-up colour photograph of soft magenta rose petals and crunchy green hawthorn leaves soaking...ready to strain, drink and soothe.
An audio transmission and transcript from Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland and Etzali Hernández. The artists use the theme of “end of life wishes” as a starting point to share ways we want to care, mourn, live and resist in the current climate, with a focus on mental health and disability justice. The chat is interspersed with poems as “grief offerings” by Scotland-based artists Nat Raha, Jeda Pearl and Andrés N. Ordorica. The sound was mixed and mastered by Claude Nouk.
Greif Offerings (End of) Life Wishes is availble to listen here
PDF transcript with design elements and formatting: grief-offerings-audio-transmission-pdf-transcript.pdf
Docx transcript as text-only (no formatting): transcript as text-only
PDF list of resources mentioned in and related to the conversation: grief-offerings-resources.docx.pdf
CURATORIAL/FACILITATION:
GIVING VOICE TO... (2021-2022)
Image: Zine Workshop Fruitmarket, Facilitated by Must Use Critical Knowledge (M.U.C.K) 2022.
“Giving Voice To” was an an DIY Youth Engagement events programme strand developed for Fruitmarket Gallery. The programme, aimed at young people aged 16-21, responded to the themes and ideas of artist Jyll Bradley’s sculptural installation “Pardes,” exhibited at Fruitmarket from 2021-22.
CURATORIAL/FACILITATION:
CARE, RESISTANCE... JOY! (2022-2023)
Care, Resistance... Joy! was a public project engagement programme of workshops, events, talks and commissions that considered—or problematised—care, power, and community. Informed by queer-ecology and decolonial thought, as well as legacies of collective action, the project aimed to provide a space for respite and reflection.
Taking place over the spring and summer of 2022, the programme was led by selected artists and facilitators: Sunanda Mesquita, Ella Yolande, The Institute for Post-natural Studies, Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland, and Etzali Hernández.
CURATORIAL:
READING ROOM, EDINBURGH ARTS FESTIVAL (2022)
Rhubaba Reading Room at Bobby Niven’s Palm House, August 2022.
As a partner of Edinburgh Art Festival, 2022, the Rhubaba Gallery and Studio’s committee curated an ecology of projects to provide a reading room of selected research materials, publications and talks from projects over the course of two years. This reading room pop-up was housed in Bobby Niven’s Palm House, tucked away within Scotland’s smallest urban nature reserve.
CURATORIAL:
REST/RESEARCH RESIDENCY (2021-2022)
Image of studio space at Rhubaba Gallery & Studio 2021.Image of Artwork, Endings and Beginnings Forever by Clara Hancock.Image of Artist, Ebun Sodipo, 2022.Image of Artwork, Are you going my way? by Rachel McBrinn.
The Rest Residency/Research Bursary was a non-outcome based award supporting the development of an artist's practice. The residency was established to support artists' via a year-long mentoring and funding to support the development of a project or research idea of their choice, without adding additional outcomes and deadlines pressures.