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Venues and broadcasts include ARTE, TF1, BBC, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Islington Mill, Manchester Art Gallery, Fuse Art Space, St John on Bethnal Green, Bluedot, Festival Number 6, Bristol Folk House and Greenroom. 2004–present

Exhibitions & events, artist
Oozy, ARM, the Holden Gallery, 2020

That Sinking Feeling, ARM, Bankley Studios & Gallery, 2018

Samarbeta, Ex-Easter Island Head / Crime Scene, Islington Mill / Supersonic, 2017

Turning Blue, Ben Myers, David McLean & Carolyn Curtis-Magri, The Portico Library, 2017

Northern Abstracts, Saul Hay Gallery, 2017

Mother, Bluedot, 2016

James Moss, The Adaptable Gallery, TAG, Deansgate, 2015

Feint, Fuse Art Space, 2015

Video Jam, Manchester Art Gallery, 2014

CUE: Art in Manchester, Piccadilly Place, 2013

James Moss: New Works, Bristol Folk House, 2011

Mind the Gap: Less is More Projects, Cite de la Mode et du Design, 2010

Curator, Contemporary Art
The Lowry, Arts Council England NPO and Greater Manchester’s most-visited cultural attraction.
2023–2024

Exhibitions & Programmes Curator
Site-responsive exhibitions and projects to recontextualise The Portico Library’s 18th- and 19th-century collection.
2015–2023

Learning Consultant
Coordinating exhibitions by young people in 70+ UK venues for The World Reimagined. Lead artist Yinka Shonibare. Collaborating with the University of Sheffield for Festival of the Mind.
2022–2023

Exhibitions, curator/producer

Going to the Match on Tour
LS Lowry, 2024

Memory Stone
Nikta Mohammadi, 2024

Making Up
Jo Lathwood, 2024

Refloresta!
Maria Nepomuceno, 2021

Fun & Games: Playtime, past & present, 2021
Birungi Kawooya, Apapat Jai-in Glynn, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Le Ha Thu, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Gray Wielebinski, Hope Strickland, Polly Tayarachakul,

What it is to be here: Colonisation & resistance, 2020
Helen Idle, Rene Kulitja, Steve Dixon, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Lowitja Institute and Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council,

Talking Sense: The changing vocabulary of mind and brain 2020. Fifty artists. Fifty minds. Fifty artworks in paint, film, drawing, sculpture and print

Second Nature: What is ‘nature’ anyway? 2019
Navid Asghari, Jackie Chettur, Oliver East, Jessica El Mal, Louise Hewitt, Ruth Murray, Joanna Whittle, Amy Lawrence, Journeys Festival International, Venture Arts and Let’s Keep Growing,

Making the News: Reading between the lines, from Peterloo to Meskel Square, 2019
Robel Temesgen, Polyp, Schlunke & Poole.

Fancy Pants, 2019
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Ruby Kirby, Lindsey Mendick, Camille Smithwick, House of Ghetto.

BiblioTech: from bookshelf to big data, 2018
Dan Hays, Jane Lawson, Claire Tindale.

In So Many Words: Roget’s Thesaurus & the power of language, 2018
Jez Dolan, Sarah Rowland Hill, Jonathan Hitchen.

The Things That Look Back, 2018. Nicola Dale,

Bittersweet: Legacies of Slavery & Abolition in Manchester, 2017
Lubaina Himid, Keith Piper, Mary Evans plus items from Manchester Art Gallery & Quarry Bank Mill, co-curated with Dr Natalie Zacek.

Recollection: Memory & time, 2017. Saima Rasheed, Alnoor Mitha, Maggie Hargreaves, Leo Robinson, Stacey Coughlin.

Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles & Feminism, 2017
Sarah-Joy Ford and artists Tilleke Schwartz, Wendy Huhn, Orly Cogan… + items from People’s History Museum & The Pankhurst Centre.

Made In Translation, 2017
Alice Kettle: Stephen Dixon, Louise Adkins... with Manchester Metropolitan University School of Arts & Humanities.

Be Strong, Live Happy & Love: 350 Years of Paradise Lost, 2017
Chloë Manasseh, Ilona Kiss, Kate Shaw, Helen Mather + items from Chethams Library.

Many Splendoured Thing, 2016
Raphael Fonseca and Gê Orthof. Manchester School of Art, HOME and Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça/Plano Cultural.

Non-Places of Intelligence, 2016
Shreepad Joglekar.

The Four Guardians of the Sky, 2016. Ousama Lazkani,

Build a Wor(l)d with ‘ing’, 2015
Helen Wheeler.

CUE: Art in Manchester, 2013

Publications, talks, awards, commissions

Old Tools > New Masters ≠ New Futures, panel discussion with Contact Young Company and Young Identity, Manchester Art Gallery, 2019

Bankley Open, selection panel judging prizewinner and runners up, 2018

The Sea is History & Lettres du Voyant artist Q&A, HOME, 2018

Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles & Feminism, PO Publishing, 2017

Made In Translation published by MMU/The Portico Library, 2017

Future Legacies symposium, University of Leeds, 2017

Many-Splendoured Thing, Raphael Fonseca/Manchester Met, 2016

Process artist/curator talk, Bankley Studios & Gallery, 2016

Feint monograph, pub. Fuse, 2015

ArtWork Atelier project space, residency, 2013

Press & media

Refloresta!, Embroidery magazine, 2021

Fun & Games, Mancunian Matters, 2021

Colonisation and Resistance, Journal of Museum Ethnography, 2020

Bittersweet, Northern Soul, 2017

Coming In From The Cold, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, 2017

Be Strong, Live Happy & Love, Northern Soul, 2017

Most promising act, Sounds from the Other City, The Independent, 2016

Mother, TF1, 2016

Best of 2015, BBC 6 Music, 2015

Métropolis artist spotlight, ARTE, 2015

Cue: Art in Manchester, Corridor8, 2013

James Moss at Brahm Gallery, The Independent, 2011

Events, producer/programmer

ማን እያወራ እንዳለ ይመልከቱ - Look who’s Talking, interpretive performance by Binyam Zenebe Andargie, Tsige Haile and Masresha Getahun-Wondmu, co-produced with Nuria Lopez de la Oliva Mena, 2019

Fancy Pants Fancy Party, performance by House of Ghetto, choreography by Darren Pritchard, wearable artworks by Ruby Kirby, 2019

Gut Healing, interactive performance composed and directed by Amy Lawrence, with Henrietta Phoebe Dunn, Selena Laverne Daye, Alison Erika Forde, Diana Tap, Harold Offeh, Elmi Ali, 2017

Education & training

ArtUK & Manchester Art Gallery: Caring for Your Sculpture Collection, 2020
British Museum: Resilient Heritage mentorship, 2019
Common Cause Foundation & Manchester Museum: Embedding Shared Values, 2019-2020
Touring Exhibitions Group & Wellcome Collection: Preparing to Borrow, 2018
Manchester School of Art: BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting with Art history, 2004
Hertford Regional College: BTEC Diploma Foundation Art & Design 2001
City & Guilds: Diploma in Life Drawing 2001