How to get into Galleries
Nottingham based Curator, Saziso Phiri has developed a two-part session which gives an insight into how to work with galleries.
PART ONE features artist talks and Q&A with Ryan Heath and Jemisha Maadhavji, two of the selected artists for UKNA Leicester City Takeover 2022.
Jemisha Maadhavji is based in Leicester. She graduated with a 1st class degree in Fine Art from De Montfort University in 2018. Maadhavji is a figurative painter who explores individuals from different cultural backgrounds, personalities and genders through symbolism and narrative. Her work follows a poetic journey in which she searches for beauty.
Ryan Heath is a visual artist based in Nottingham, making work across painting, sculpture, and multimedia installation. His work focuses on themes encompassing semiotics, geography, and speculative futures. He has exhibited in the UK and internationally, receiving commissions and awards from established organisations including BACKLIT Gallery, UK New Artists, and the University of Nottingham.
PART TWO features a masterclass with leading Curator, Cindy Sissokho.
Cindy Sissokho is a Paris-born curator, cultural producer and writer living in Nottingham and working throughout the UK and internationally. Her work has a specific focus on decoloniality in the arts and Global South epistemologies and artistic practices. She studied Cultural Mediation at University Paris 8, spending one year at Panteion University in Athens, Greece. Cindy completed an MA in Cultural Events Management at De Montfort University, Leicester in 2015. Since 2018, Sissokho has worked for New Art Exchange, Nottingham as a Curator and Special Projects Producer, a role that involves curating exhibitions, managing the organisation's touring exhibitions programme, and coordinating international projects and collaborations. In 2020 Cindy was appointed Associate Curator for Casablanca Biennale in Morrocco. Cindy has previously worked for Nottingham Contemporary within their exhibitions team.