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  • 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

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River is/as
Exhibition Curator, Project Lead, 16 Collective x Glasgow International Festival 2026, 5 - 21 June 2026

5 - 21 June 2026 
Curated River is/as for Glasgow International visual arts festival 2026 presented by 16 Collective. 

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, Symposium, Programming, Research
Curatorial Research, Symposium, Artists’ Moving Image

Seep
Exhibition Curator, Window on Heritage Gallery, GSA Archives & Collections

30 October - 29 November 2025 
Seep is 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, the exhibition assembles this material around the concept of hydropoetics—how water might act as a carrier of memory, history, and place. 

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, Symposium, Programming, Research
Curatorial Research, Symposium, Artists’ Moving Image

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
“What does Home Sound Like?”
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. “





Curatorial Research
Venice Biennale, John Akomfrah, Artists’ Moving Image, Curatorial Research, Fellowship



Venice Biennale Fellowship, British Council, 2024

Exhibition Ambassador & Fellow, Venice Biennale 2024, British Pavillion: John Akomfrah Listening All Night to the Rain  

01–31–24 - 12-01-24
British Council at the Venice Biennale

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
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