Curious Curators are always developing new projects.
Below is a selection of both delivered and work-in-progress projects.
Curious Curators are always developing new projects.
POSTCARDS & POSTSCRIPTS
“POSTCARDS & POSTSCRIPTS” is a work-in-progress collection of paintings and writing inspired by memories from the 1950s and 60s.
The image above is based on the ‘Profumo affair’ which surfaced in 1961. Featuring Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies and John Profumo (Cabinet Minister for War), the scandal eventually brought down Harold Macmillan’s Conservative government in 1963.
SPRINGTIME INDOORS
When the Corona Virus lockdown began in March 2020, and I was confined indoors like everybody else, I set myself the task of creating a “drawing-a-day” for the duration. The project ended when I completed drawing number 75 on May 30th. This date coincided with the government’s plan to ease lockdown and the date when spring officially transitioned into summer.
BANKSIDE’S PAST IN THE PRESENT
The 32 images shown here are part of an exhibition about change and regeneration in Bankside, London. This neighbourhood has changed beyond recognition since Victorian times when it was once an area of bustling riverside wharfs, numerous manufacturing industries, food production, brewing and power generation.
THAT’LL BE THE DAY: A boyhood remembered
A legacy project to create an exhibition based on boyhood memories of growing up in Hull in the 1950s and 1960s.
The experience of growing up in a provincial city after WW2 embodies many universals about ‘boyhood’ that were both peculiar to that time but also seen as transformative for decades to come.
ALBION IN FLAMES
Albion in Flames is a specially commissioned play from Curious Curators, supported by Southwark Council’s Blackfriars Stories initiative. It tells the story of the Albion Flour Mill on the south bank of the Thames by Blackfriars Bridge.
Ghosts on a Wire
Ghosts on a Wire” is the second play in a series commissioned by Southwark Council‘s Blackfriars’ Stories and supported by the Totally Thames Festival 2022.
Set across the C19th century, “Ghosts on a Wire” tracks the emerging story of electricity and its industrial development on shores of London’s Bankside.
Cavendish Histories – Making Childhood Memories
Cavendish Histories is an intergenerational learning project based in the catchment area of Cavendish Primary School, East Hull. The idea has been created by Adrian Chappell who was a pupil at the school between 1954-1958.
MRS THRALE’S DIARY
When Mrs.Thrale and Dr. Johnson visited Tate Modern and other Bankside anecdotes.
This illustrated walking project is based in and around Tate Modern and its riverside neighbourhood, Bankside.
LIBERTY
Liberty is a self-guided walk from Tate Britain along the north bank of the Thames to Victoria Tower Gardens. The journey connects 10 landmarks, each associated with ideas about ‘liberty’ and freedom.