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Seminars

BAN offers support for seminars, workshops and discussions exploring practices, issues and ideas in the field of British art curating.

Seminar Support bursaries are offered each year, and are intended to foster new curatorial thinking and support networking and sharing in connection with British art of all periods and media. Events may take the form of academic gatherings, gallery-based activities, round-table discussions, screenings or workshops. You do not need to be a member of the British Art Network to apply for this support.

streetview of historic cinema frontage, 'Regent Street Cinema' sign above, digital screens advertising 'Itinerant Imaginaries' screenings in large windows to left and right - blurred figure walking before the doorway in the middle of this symmetrical view

Regent Street Cinema, London, during the ‘Itinerant Imaginaries’ screening event, supported by BAN in November 2021, see here.

Previous BAN Seminars

painting of border fence with lettering 'State Border' within a grassy landscape, with a forest in the background

STATE OF PRINT: Contested Land-Space-Planet-Title

On the 22nd March, Generator Projects and STATE OF PRINT are hosting a one-day symposium exploring print practices and the role that these have played in establishing structures of ‘State’.
The Artist and the Other

The Artist and the Other

A round-table discussion organised by Artist and Curator Sarah Francis, hosted by Leeds Art Gallery, with guest speaker Jo Verrent from Unlimited
Collecting and Managing Spontaneous Memorials

Collecting and Managing Spontaneous Memorials

Organised by Dr Kostas Arvanitis at the Manchester Art Gallery, this seminar brought together fifteen museum and heritage practitioners and researchers to discuss spontaneous memorials in the context of museums and other cultural and heritage organisations  
Installation Art Now

Installation Art Now

Installation Art Now was a roundtable discussion exploring the current climate for producing, commissioning, exhibiting and collecting ambitious installation art
Why look back? Contemporary Art & Institutional Memory

Why look back? Contemporary Art & Institutional Memory

A workshop exploring the practice, potential and value of working with and caring for the histories, archives, and memories of contemporary art institutions
Looking North Presents: Exploring Post-Growth and Sufficiency in Art & Exhibition Practices in Scotland

Looking North Presents: Exploring Post-Growth and Sufficiency in Art & Exhibition Practices in Scotland

A roundtable event that aimed to explore the role of the art and culture sector in diversifying positive environmental action
Quality Dis/Abled

Quality Dis/Abled

Explores how quality within art practice is judged between people who identify as D/Deaf disabled and non-disabled
‘Hope as a practice’, sharing practices of support, collaboration and interdependence

‘Hope as a practice’, sharing practices of support, collaboration and interdependence

This seminar invited participants to consider how the arts sector in the North of Ireland can embed better practices of support, collaboration and interdependence
Online Professional Practice Seminar: Public Sculpture, Gender, and Sustainability.

Online Professional Practice Seminar: Public Sculpture, Gender, and Sustainability.

With a particular focus on notions of sustainability, considering not just environmental concerns but of artistic practice, this seminar will invite a group of UK based artists and curators who identify as female or non-binary to address the issues of sustainability and gender inequality in large scale public art projects.
Experimental Noise Artists Seminar

Experimental Noise Artists Seminar

Mapping experimental sound artists around the UK, including live performances and sharing
~ a very heavenly social ~ archiving the artist-led ~

~ a very heavenly social ~ archiving the artist-led ~

A very heavenly social is an afternoon seminar of communal discourse around archiving the artist-led over a delicious lunch with peers.
ChART, an exhibition from Brown Leaders and Makers Exist (BL&ME)

ChART, an exhibition from Brown Leaders and Makers Exist (BL&ME)

ChArt, a durational and performative exhibition from Brown Leaders and Makers Exist (BL&ME)
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Feed Forward: Heritage of Slavery, 28 October 2022

Feedforward is a research and networking platform in which practitioners are invited to present their work, receiving and giving challenging feedback and genuine support one another.

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Radical Art in Cambridge, 26 October 2022

A roundtable discussion on radical exhibitions, artists’ residencies, publishing and community photography in Cambridge in the 1980s

Image of sculptures by Veronica Ryan

Black Art and the Burden of Representation

We are pleased to announce that the postponed seminar ‘Black Art & the Burden of Representation’ has been rescheduled for Thursday 20 October, 10.30am-4.45pm. The event will include tours of […]
Workshop: The Politics and Ethics of Interview Transcription, 19 October 2022

Workshop: The Politics and Ethics of Interview Transcription, 19 October 2022

This workshop aims to make visible the decisions involved in the transcription process and the knock-on effects on how the interview is received.
A gold chalice and paten

Curating Roman Catholic Material Culture 1536-1829, 3 October 2022

This workshop has been conceived with a view to allowing curators and other interested parties to develop the knowledge, language, and network needed to facilitate access to, present, interpret and mobilise Catholic heritage for multi-cultural audiences of diverse spiritual or no faith backgrounds.
Enlightened Women: British Women Artists in the 18th Century, 9 September 2022

Enlightened Women: British Women Artists in the 18th Century, 9 September 2022

A collaborative curatorial workshop on curating eighteenth-century women artists in British and Australian collections.
Two microphones on stands, both pointing down towards the floor

The Artist Interview in Britain, 9 September 2022

This seminar aims to create a network of historians, curators, artists and critics who are interested in discussing methodological and ethical questions about interviews, as well as uncovering and mapping British interview collections.
Image of sculptures by Veronica Ryan

Black Art and the Burden of Representation, 20 October 2022

Taking a cue from Kobena Mercer’s 1990 essay Black art and the Burden of representation, this seminar will serve as a starting point for unpacking questions and ideas surrounding the representation of the Black community in public sculptures.
Image of people lying down in a circle around a standing woman

Curating, Care and Community, September 2020

Explore care and its role in curatorial practice with the British Art Network’s Early Career Curators Group
abstract looking painting in very deep reds and greens, an indistinct organic form at the centre

Inter Scape: South Asian British Women Artists, 17 October 2022

The seminar explores South Asian British women artists contributions to contemporary art in presentations byartist Naiza Khan, art historian Rina Arya, curator Uthra Rajgopal and artist Uzma Sultan

an artists mural - grass before, the mural extending across our view including figures in green military costume, a coffin draped with the Irish flag with mourning figures, and a half-length female figure with a large banner - also lettering in Gaelic

Curatorial Strategies for Civil Rights Protest Aesthetics, 20 October 2022

Work by British artists has referenced historical links between the Northern Irish and Black American civil rights movements.

artwork image - historic photographic image in sepia tones to left, a deep crevice bridged by an iron structure, the sea beyond; to the right a colour photograph of the interior of a cave or rock arch, foliage beyond, and blue sky and sea to right beyond that

Art, Memory & Place, 14 September 2022

Organised by Ellie Porter, Art360 Foundation this seminar explores the question: how does art allow us to think about memory and place?

“Hope as a practice”: sharing practices of support, collaboration and interdependence

“Hope as a practice”: sharing practices of support, collaboration and interdependence

This seminar is guided by the idea of “hope as a practice” and aims to share practices of support, collaboration and interdependence in the arts community.

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