Kirsty Jukes is an independent art historian, writer and curator. Currently based in Merseyside, she has worked on numerous projects for public and private galleries and museums always with a deep interest in the intersections of experience and how they manifest in art. More specifically, she works to undo traditional art world biases by giving a platform to artists whose work explores ideas of class, race, sexuality, gender, neurodiversity, disability and trauma. She is also interested in the ways in which place and background influence artistic methods.
Her first curatorial experience took place whilst studying History of Art at the University of Manchester as a Community Curator for the award-winning Never Going Underground: The fight for LGBT+ rights exhibition at the People’s History Museum in 2017. Since then, she has worked creatively exploring archives, managed open call exhibitions, written widely for numerous arts publications, supported emerging artists in their early career and created space for marginalised voices.
Kirsty currently works as a freelance writer and at Manchester Art Gallery. Her forthcoming projects involve developing her creative practice, work on catalogue and exhibition texts and completing her first book.
In March 2024, Kirsty wrote “indelicate processes” on Blod by Anya Paintsil for the British Art UnCanon.
