Reframing Migration, 27 June 2024
This seminar discussion invited multidisciplinary and intergenerational speakers from the South West working with issues relating to photography and migration.
Curating Craft to Engage Audiences, 25 June 2024
This seminar discussed different approaches to curating craft exhibitions to engage audiences.
Expert Panel: Curating Colonialism and Silenced Histories, 11 June 2024
An expert panel from the cultural sector discussed the challenges and opportunities of curating colonialism and silenced histories.
Creative Organising Today: Resourcing and Co-operation, 1 June 2024
This seminar brought together twelve organisers of creative and community spaces for an open conversation about their work and practice.
Art & Poetry: Ekphrastic Ethics in the Gallery Space, 11 May 2024
This workshop brought poets and visual artists together to learn about ekphrasis and discover new possibilities for collaboration.
Visual Cultures of Colonial India: A Historical Perspective, 24-25 April 2024
This seminar discussed the visual cultures of colonial India with which producers and consumers of art objects were engaging.
What about Historical Acquisitions? Opportunities and Challenges, 22 April 2024
This seminar addressed opportunities and challenges in acquiring historical works, with the aim of building a shared network.
The Future of Curatorship, 20 April 2024
The Future of Curatorship seminars aim to create space for minority curators and art workers to delve into how we can foster peer support.
STATE OF PRINT: Contested Land-Space-Planet-Title, 22 March 2024
Generator Projects and STATE OF PRINT hosted a one-day symposium exploring print practices and the role that these have played in establishing structures of ‘State’.
For Tish: a Screening and Flash Residency-in-Response, 9 March 2024
For Tish: a screening and flash residency-in-response was a two-part event comprising a film screening and a live, in-process, durational exhibition that considered and corresponded with the life and practice of the working-class woman photographer from South Shields, Tish Murtha (1956–2013).
Decolonisation of Ceramics Practice Roundtable Discussion, 2 February 2024
This roundtable discussion questioned the positioning and visibility of diasporic artists within British ceramics practice and the Eurocentric and hierarchical narrative prevalent within ceramics institutions.
Collecting and Managing Spontaneous Memorials, 14 December 2023
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, 30 November 2023
Installation Art Now was a roundtable discussion exploring the current climate for producing, commissioning, exhibiting and collecting ambitious installation art
British Art after Britain, November 2023
‘British Art after Britain’ took place on Friday 24 & Saturday 25 November 2023 at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow and considered the cultural legacies of devolution.
Why look back? Contemporary Art & Institutional Memory, 24 November 2023
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, 18 November 2023
A roundtable event that aimed to explore the role of the art and culture sector in diversifying positive environmental action
The Artist and the Other, 13 November 2023
A round-table discussion organised by Artist and Curator Sarah Francis, with guest speaker Jo Verrent from Unlimited
Quality Dis/Abled, 24 October 2023
Quality Dis/Abled explored 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, 7 October 2023
This seminar invited participants to consider how the arts sector in the North of Ireland can embed better practices of support, collaboration and interdependence
Public Sculpture, Gender, and Sustainability, 19 September 2023
This seminar invited 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, 15 September 2023
Mapping experimental sound artists around the UK, including live performances and sharing
~ a very heavenly social ~ archiving the artist-led ~ 9 September 2023
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), 21–24 March 2023
A durational and performative exhibition, which featured a selection of artworks alongside a schedule of performances.
2012/2022: A Decade of British Art Curating, November 2022
The 2022 conference reflected on a decade of changing ideas about British art and identity, curatorial practice, inclusion and representation, and the place of collections and institutions.
What is next? How do we turn intentions into actions through social justice, 4 November 2022
In this panel discussion and Q&A, artists and curators discussed their practice and ways to work collaboratively towards social justice work.
Curating Magic, 29 October 2022
A programme of talks and panel discussion investigating the curation of magical art, magic and esotericism
Feedforward: Heritage of Slavery, 28 October 2022
A research workshop in which practitioners presented their work, received. and gave feedback and support to one another.
Radical Art in Cambridge, 26 October 2022
A roundtable discussion on radical exhibitions, artists’ residencies, publishing and community photography in Cambridge in the 1980s.
Black Art and the Burden of Representation, 20 October 2022
This seminar unpacked questions and ideas surrounding the representation of the Black community in public sculptures.
Curatorial Strategies for Civil Rights Protest Aesthetics, 20 October 2022
This seminar explored connections between Northern Irish and Black American civil rights movements and works by British artists and muralists from the North of Ireland.
The Politics and Ethics of Interview Transcription, 19 October 2022
This workshop made visible the decisions involved in the transcription process and the knock-on effects on how the interview is received.
Inter Scape: South Asian British women artists, 17 October 2022
The seminar explored South Asian British women artists contributions to contemporary art in presentations by artist Naiza Khan, art historian Rina Arya, curator Uthra Rajgopal and artist Uzma Sultan.
‘The Work Before The Work’: Redrafting Institutional Writing Practices, 10 October 2022
This workshop explored what happens when art institutions advertise their output as progressive whist undermining those politics through their organisational practices.
Curating Roman Catholic Material Culture 1536-1829, 3 October 2022
The event brought curators, custodians, and active users of British and Irish Catholic material heritage together to acquire and share expertise about collections.
Art, Memory and Place, 14 September 2022
This seminar considered how art allows us to this about memory and place.
Enlightened Women: British women artists in the eighteenth century, 9 September 2022
A collaborative curatorial workshop on curating eighteenth-century women artists in British and Australian collections.
The Artist Interview in Britain, 9 September 2022
A discussion of methodological and ethical questions about interviews, and British interview collections.
Itinerant Imaginaries | University of Westminster, June–November 2021
A seminar series which aimed to develop, explore and identify creative strategies to disrupt knowledge conventions and dominant discourses of the past.
Irish Modernisms | CCA Derry~Londonderry, June–September 2021
An online seminar series accompanying the launch of the exhibition Irish Modernisms at CCA Derry~Londonderry.
Genealogies of Black Curating in Britain, July 2021
The programme consisted of roundtables, films and interviews focused on the emergence, strategies and agency of Black curatorial practices in Britain over the past 40 years
Curating Nation | UAL Decolonising Arts Institute with the Black British Art Research Group, April–May 2021
A series of three workshops exploring how existing narratives of British art might be expanded through curatorial and art historical interventions.
Museum Collections on Prescription: Health, Wellbeing and Inclusivity, April 2021
Joint Conference with Understanding British Portraits and European Paintings pre-1900 exploring the topic of health, wellbeing and inclusivity in arts and heritage collections.
Decolonising British Art: Decentering, Resituating and Reviewing Artworks and Collections | UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, November 2020
A seminar series led by UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute on resituating and reviewing artworks and collections.
Curating, Care and Community, 3 September 2020
This seminar aimed to explore how we care for ourselves, our colleagues, our collaborators and our audiences through our work in the arts, within and beyond institutions.
Imperial Subjects | Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Dr Zehra Jumabhoy, May 2020
This series of four online seminars traced some of the historic interactions between South Asia and Wales.
Research and the Museum Ecosystem, March 2020
This Conference was intended to provide a fresh opportunity to investigate how the concept of a museum ecosystem might offer an alternative to more traditional frameworks of curatorial practice.
Why Exhibitions? Strategies, audiences, and future directions, February 2018
This joint conference with Understanding British Portraits and European Paintings pre-1900 examined the motivations behind exhibition programming, practical challenges, and the future of exhibitions.
Audiences, Authority and Collaboration in Museum Research, March 2015
This was the first of BAN’s annual conferences, co-organised with the National Gallery’s ‘European Paintings pre-1900’ SSN and the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Understanding British Portraits’ SSN
