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Projects
Current
- Curator & Development Officer, 16Collective, Glasgow-based non-profit arts space
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Glasgow School of Art, School of Fine Art, MLitt Curatorial Practice & Contemporary Art led by Dr. Omar Kholeif
- AHRC-SGSAH Awarded DTP PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art(School of Fine Art), “Unsettling Spaces: Building Curating Knowledges of Urban Space with Artists’ Moving Images” 2022-2026
- Emerging Curators Group 2024, British Art Network, TATE, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art
- 2024 Venice Biennale Fellow, British Council, British Pavillion at the Venice Biennale
Recent Projects
- River is/as Exhibition Curator, Project Lead, 16 Collective x Glasgow International Festival 2026, 5 - 21 June 2026; A research-led group exhibition by artists Matthew Cosslett, Maria Howard, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Coneffluents (Jac Common and Katy Lewis Hood), Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh, Extense (Dianne Burdon and Clara Hancock), and Camara Taylor.
- Seep Exhibition Curator, Window on Heritage Gallery, GSA Archives & Collections, October - November 2026; An exhibition exploring Glasgow’s saturated histories and hydropoetics, featuring contemporary moving image works by Alia Syed, Tako Taal, Joanne Lee, Winnie Herbstein, and Sulaïman Majali. Bringing these together with archival ephemera from GSA Archives & Collections
- Water As Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images, Symposium Curator & Programme Convenor, Glasgow School of Art & CCA, 19-20 June 2025; two-day art, film & research symposium, Glasgow School of Art
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Exhibition Curator, Project Lead, 16 Collective x Glasgow International Festival 2026, 5 - 21 June 2026
5 - 21 June 2026
𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 is a research-led exhibition presented by 16 Collective that takes the River Clyde as a critical geography: infrastructural, social, and ecological. The group exhibition shares a new body of work developed over two years of collective artistic fieldwork, research voyages, and collaborative field study along the Clyde river corridor by artists Matthew Cosslett, Maria Howard, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Coneffluents (Jac Common and Katy Lewis Hood), Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh, Extense (Dianne Burdon and Clara Hancock), and Camara Taylor.
River is/as occupies a hydrological vantage point on Glasgow, understanding the River Clyde as a vessel of multiple and overlapping stories, subjects, and social imaginaries of the city. Featuring immersive sculptural installations, moving images, and sonic environments, the project maps the Clyde’s sedimented histories and infrastructural futures.
Once dredged and engineered as a logistical conduit for colonial trade of tobacco and sugar (founding Glasgow as the ‘Second City of Empire’) the Clyde is now seen through narratives of energy transition, militarised re-industrialisation, and urban regeneration. At this material juncture of imperial debris and transitional horizons, the artworks in this exhibition locate the Clyde as a poetic field, where extractive pasts and military-industrial futures exist in spectral proximity.
The works attune to hydrological lineages of power down the Clyde, from the Gorbals’ Glasgow Sheriff’s Courthouse, to sites of military production in Govan and Scotstoun and out to the Hunterston nuclear power stations in the Firth of the Clyde. Repurposing military imaging technologies and counter-mapping tools of subsea surveillance, the artists look back at hydro-political ways of seeing the river, to ask what forms of riverine knowledge and social connection resist and exceed these violent ways of looking.
In the exhibition, the Clyde returns to a tidal zone, where planetary infrastructures meet the flows of intimate memory, dreams and hauntings held in the riverbed. The works offer sonorous lamentation for cycles of endless war and extraction, dreaming new futures up from the silt.
Alongside the artists’ works, the exhibition presents a visual display of Green Clydeside: Modelling Military Industrial Conversion, a research project by Pinelopi Gardika, Leela Jadhav, and Khem Rogaly, supported by the Transition Security Project (Common Wealth). Employing 3D modelling, video, and a historical timeline of industrial conversion across the UK, US, and Europe, the project draws on interviews with workers at Govan and Scotstoun shipyards to model what a future away from military production, and towards public good and green energy, could look like along the Clyde.
Curatorial Research, Symposium, Artists’ Moving Image
Exhibition Curator, Window on Heritage Gallery, GSA Archives & Collections
30 October - 29 November 2025
This project was curated as part of Rappleye's SGSAH-AHRC awarded doctoral research in GSA’s School of Fine Art.
Exhibition Documentation
Seep Exhibition
Curatorial Research, Symposium, Artists’ Moving Image
Art, Film & Research Symposium
19 - 20 June 2025
Water as Method Website
Curatorial Research, Symposium, Artists’ Moving Image
Film Programme
28 February 2025
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, Artists’ Moving Image, Artist Talk, Curatorial Research, Archives
Tate Britain, Film Programme
27 January 2025
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
Film Programme, Artists’ Moving Image
2023–2024
Developing curatorial research on contemporary Scottish moving image practice and receiving professional development with a national co-hort of curators.
ECG Profile
Curatorial Research, British Art Studies, Artists’ Moving Image
2024 Venice Biennale Fellows
John Akomfrah Listening All Night to the Rain,01–31–24 - 12-01-24
Curated & Faciliated fellow mapping project to connect Fellowship co-hort with Venice Biennale exhibition curator Tarini Malik and artist John Akomfrah RA
What does Home sound like?
“For Tarini Malik and John Akomfrah RA, the 2024 British Council Fellows want to share a bit of us with you. Home is multiple and overlapping geographies, histories, senses and expressions. Here is a map of the places, sounds, and inspirations that we bring with us to your exhibition at the British Pavillion this year. “
Venice Biennale, John Akomfrah, Artists’ Moving Image, Curatorial Research, Fellowship
Exhibition Ambassador & Fellow, Venice Biennale 2024, British Pavillion: John Akomfrah Listening All Night to the Rain
01–31–24 - 12-01-24
Represented the UK as an exhibition ambassador for John Akomfrah's exhibition at the at the British Pavilion, Venice Biennale’s 60th International Art Exhibition from and they develop my own curatorial research on sonic watery topographies
Venice Fellows 2024
Venice Biennale, John Akomfrah, Artists’ Moving Image, Curatorial Research, Fellowship
24–04–24
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
16NSt Curatorial Collective, Urban Space, Artists’ Moving Image, Place & Memory, Watery Topographies, Curatorial Research