KELLY RAPPLEYE

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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
Closing Performance by Jen DeNike
16–09–23Cruated live performance choreographed and performed by Jen DeNike in the closing event of “Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage” at Patricia Fleming Gallery. “Becoming Rain” is a performance activating DeNike’s multi-media collage installation, presented within the exhibition. The artist’s practice of collage and performance have always been inextricably linked; one is not a product of the other, but rather the two are positioned in a constant dialogue. The performance will explore embodied methodologies of movement, ecstatic dance and repetition with 9 accompanying dancers. “Becoming Rain” performance includes a musical score of selected tracks from Enyang Ha’s newly released debut album “Name of Your Light”.

Performance, Curatorial
Curatorial, Performance, Site Activation
Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage
25–08–23 - 23-09-2023Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage curated by 16NSt Curatorial Collective presents Scotland’s first survey exhibition of contemporary collage art by womxn artists. Bringing together 14 artists with diverse approaches, this exhibition challenges the notion of collage as a fixed category or form, instead exploring collage as a feminist praxis of transformation, rupture, and collision. 

Artists: 

Sam Ainsley
Edie Baker
Claire Barclay
Jen DeNike
Gabrielle Lockwood Estrin
Louise Hopkins
Hannan Jones
Barbara Kendrick
Zoë Mendelson
Victoria Morton
Janie Nicoll
Kate V Robertson
Catherine Street
Alberta Whittle


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Exhibition, Curatorial
Curatorial, Exhibition, Collage, Feminist Curating, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage Artist Residency01–08–23 - 17-08-2023Curated artist Residency hosted at Patricia Fleming Gallery. Supporting artists Edie Baker, Gabrielle Lockwood Estrin, and Hannan Jones to develop new directions with collage.

Residency included:
  • Attend a series of mentoring workshops, curatorial and art critique sessions for their work with established collage artists
  • Facilitate public-facing workshops
  • Produce new work for exhibition with the gallery that shows their work with established collage artists


Artist Residency, Curatorial
Curatorial, Artist Residency, Collage, Feminist Curating, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
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