KELLY RAPPLEYE

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Water as Method: Space Place & the Hydrological Gaze
Art, Film & Research Symposium
19 - 20 June 2025 Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images was a two-day symposium (19–20 June, 2025) exploring the poetics and politics of water in contemporary artist moving image (AMI) practices and methods. The symposium reflects on innovative approaches in film and moving image practice that respond to the intersecting planetary crises of climate catastrophe and geopolitical conflict—through the lens of water.

Water as Method Website
Curatorial, Symposium, Programming, Research
Curatorial Research, Symposium, Artists’ Moving Image
Moving Images Within Precarious Structures – Episode 3: Precarious Memory with LUX Scotland
Film Programme
28 February 2025 Curated by Kelly Rappleye, the third episode of LUX Scotland’s Moving Images Within Precarious Structures explores artistic approaches to the archive as engaging with precarious memory through moving image practice. 

How does artists’ moving image address archival gaps, exclusions, erasures and absences to evoke and create space for diasporic, exilic, migratory and displaced memory? 

Episode 3: Precarious Memory considers the role of moving image in mediating and producing cultural memory, exploring how artistic methods of sampling, imitation, fragmentation and aurality can activate the archive as a site of negotiation between the individual and the collective, the intimate and the political, history and memory, representation and exclusion. 

The screening programme reflects on how artists engage the precarity of memory itself across political contexts of displacement, exile, and repression, and between generations and geographies, using film as a tool to gather fragments of social and individual remembrance, redress misrepresentations, gaps and exclusions, and construct personal archives of living histories. 

Films
‘Nazarbazi نظربازی’, Maryam Tafakory (2022) 
 ‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’, Suneil Sanzgiri (2024) 
‘UNDR’, Kamal Aljafari (2024) 
‘Another Decade’, Morgan Quaintance (2018) 
In conversation: Morgan Quaintance and Anne-Marie Copestake 

Moving Images Within Precarious Structures is supported by the School of Fine Art (SoFA), Glasgow School of Art, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, and is a partnership between the School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, and LUX Scotland.

LUX Scotland Episode 3: Precarious Memory
Film Programme,  Curatorial Research,  Artist Talk
Film Programme, Artists’ Moving Image, Artist Talk, Curatorial Research, Archives
Suneil Sanzgiri, ‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and LUX.
‘Journeys of Belonging' at Tate Britain
Tate Britain, Film Programme
27 January  2025 Curated ‘Journeys of Belonging’ film programme responding to 2024 Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas. The programme drew on themes of nomadism and exile recurring in Delaine Le Bas’ work, reflecting on her British Romani heritage in films exploring land, nationhood, cultural mythologies, and a search for belonging. Featuring films by Leonor Teles, the Karrabing Film Collective, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Jonathas de Andrade, and the Romano Lav youth group these works traverse borders and boundaries, offering profound reflections on displacement, migration, and cultural resistance.

Vibrating with acts of transgression and radical care in the face of xenophobia, dispossession, and bordering, the films reveal how stories and knowledges are passed across generations and geographies for the nomadic and exiled. They show us how home is continually made and remade–and how communities on the margins create belonging through art, tradition, and shared acts of survival.

This was the first event in ‘History Reverberates’ project curated by Ese Onojuero, responding to each of the four 2024 Turner Prize nominees on display at the Tate Britain to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Turner prize. 

Films
Future In Your Hands (2024) by Romano Lav youth Filmmaking Group and Meray Diner
Batrachian’s Ballad (2016) by Leonor Teles
When the Dogs Talked (2014) by the Karrabing Film Collective
The Retreat (2023) by Gelare Khoshgozaran
Olho da Rua (Out Loud) (2022) – By Jonathas de Andrade

‘History Reverberates’ at Tate Britain
Curatorial, Symposium, Programming, Research
Film Programme, Artists’ Moving Image
2024 Emerging Curators Group
2023–2024 Tate and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Developing curatorial research on contemporary Scottish moving image practice and receiving professional development with a national co-hort of curators. 

ECG Profile
Curatorial Research
Curatorial Research, British Art Studies, Artists’ Moving Image
2024 Venice Biennale Fellowship01–31–24 - 12-01-24British Council at the Venice Biennale 
Represent the UK at the British Pavilion during John Akomfrah's exhibition at the 60th International Art Exhibition from and they develop my own curatorial research on sonic watery topographies

Venice Fellows 2024
Curatorial Research
Venice Biennale, John Akomfrah, Artists’ Moving Image, Curatorial Research, Fellowship
Turning the Tide Conference
24–04–24 Turning the Tide Conference, April 2024, EU Consortium
Invited to present research on artists’ role in reimagining urban spaces and curatorial research with 16NSt into the Govan Graving Docks for the 2024 Turning the Tide Conference

TTT Project Research
16NSt Curatorial Collective, Urban Space, Artists’ Moving Image, Place & Memory, Watery Topographies, Curatorial Research
Noughties Teenage Lullaby (2023) by Femme Castratrice (Chao-Ying Rao) and Shae Myles 16–12–23 16NSt curatorial collective presents “Noughties Teenage Lullaby“ directed by Femme Castratrice (Chao-Ying Rao) with Shae Myles @shae.guava. The live performance activates Myles' life-size sculptural installation, subverting the charming domestic space of the Polly Pocket compact. Costumes designed and produced by Femme Castratrice (Chao-Ying Rao).


Video Teaser Curatorial, Performance
Curatorial, Performance, Feminist Curating, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
DEVOTION “Queer Play” Writing Workshop with Sophie Robinson 22–11–23“Queer Play” Experimental online writing workshop with DEVOTION! Wed, 22nd November, 2pm-4pm.

You are invited to a creative writing workshop expanding on the theme of play in Shae Myles’ upcoming exhibition “Hush lil baby.” The workshop will take inspiration from Queer Ancestral Writing Practices and queer literature to explore queer femme play, joy and “jouissance” (physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy) with writer/ poet Sophie Robinson, founder of DEVOTION writing workshops. In the workshop, Robinson will discuss a piece of writing by a beloved queer ancestor, and you can expect accessible explanations of prompts and techniques, in-class structured group writing time, and opportunities for optional discussion and sharing. 

Workshop Curatorial, Workshop
Curatorial, Workshop, Experimental Writing, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
Hush Lil’ Baby...  Shae Myles’ Solo Exhibition
16–12–23 - 23-11-2316NSt curatorial collective presents the first solo exhibition of Glasgow-based emerging artist Shae Myles in ‘Hush lil baby’, inspired by the world of the 1990s Polly Pocket compacts. Myles’ exhibition displays an interactive sculptural installation that will act as a site for live intervention and performance directed by Femme Catratrice, along with a series of drawings. Shae’s sculptural work, which investigates play theories, femme aesthetics, secrets, obsession, and consumer culture, uses the immersive installation to posit the viewer at the intersection of these themes. The exhibition is hosted at partner venue Strange Field, and will take place in their French Street gallery space in Dalmarnock. Curating and collaborating with the artist, 16NSt are facilitating a month-long exploratory research and in-situ making period at Kiosk in Govanhill, which will invite the community into Myles’ creative process, asking them to contribute to our secrets hotline.


Conference Curatorial, Exhibition
Curatorial, Exhibition, Feminist Curating, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
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