Aesthetica Symposium

aesthetica symposium

Portfolio Review: Sessions 1-3 Thursday 12 March | 10:00-10:20, 10:20-10:40, 10:40-11:00 | De Grey 016

Anne McNeill Director, Impressions Gallery

Anne McNeill is Director and Curator at Impressions Gallery, Bradford. It is a charity that helps people to understand the world through photography. The gallery opened in 1972 as one of the first specialist photography galleries in the country, and it continues to support and encourage ground-breaking artists changing the medium. Impressions makes art accessible for everyone to enjoy. Every year 50,000 people visit to experience the exhibitions.

www.impressions-gallery.com

Charles Danby Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Northumbria University

Charles works collaboratively across painting, photography, film, object construction, writing and curation with artist Rob Smith as a member of the collective NEUSCHLOSS. Charles is on the board of Norwegian Collaborative Organisation For Contemporary Art Abroad. He curated an exhibitions programme for choreographer Siobhan Davies at her London studios 2009-12 and was editor of Tanks Programme Notes 2012 for Tate Modern.

www.northumbria.ac.uk

Griselda Goldsbrough Co-Curator, Aesthetica Art Prize

Griselda Goldsbrough is a visual artist and writer, community educator and co-curator of an arts and events company, Spike and Sponge. She has over 15 years’ experience in devising and curating creative art, science and literature programmes and events. Griselda provides comprehensive arts and education consultancy which is tailored to meet client’s specific needs. She has also been involved in the Aesthetica Art Prize for several years running.

www.aestheticamagazine.com aesthetica symposium

Portfolio Review: Sessions 1-3 Thursday 12 March | 10:00-10:20, 10:20-10:40, 10:40-11:00 | De Grey 016

Helen Turner Subject Director Fine Art, Illustration and Photography, York St John University

Helen Turner has worked in HE since 2003 and has a background in Public Art, with a specialism in Textiles. She is experienced in arts project management and participatory practice including Arts in Health projects and projects in schools and informal educational settings. Her research interests explore the creation of artefact through performance.

www.yorksj.ac.uk

Lottie Davies Photographer

Lottie Davies is currently based in London and Cornwall, creating work concerned with stories and personal histories. Her work has garnered international acclaim, winning First Prize at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Awards at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her collaboration on Dreams of Your Life with Hide & Seek/Film 4.0 was BAFTA-nominated in 2012. NPG, described Davies’ work as “brilliantly imaginative.”