Goldsmiths MFA Curating

Last week we wished farewell to the amazing MFA Curating Goldsmiths Junior Fellows Elisha Fall and júlia polo

Elisha Fall and Júlia Polo made meaningful contributions to the MFA Curating programme in countless ways. We are grateful to have worked with them and to be able to employ recent graduates to work with us for a year, sometimes longer.

We wish you the best in their future curatorial endeavours. You will be missed!

Thank you to their friends - alumni, former Junior Fellows and current students - who came together to share this moment and made lovely offerings! 6 ‘generations’ of curating students + the programme’s centre of attention.🦙

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Together with US-based curator Maura Reilly, MFA Curating Reader Helena Reckitt has carried out a n in-depth interview with groundbreaking artist Joyce Kozloff. Published as part of the Feminist Interview Project in Art Journal Open, the conversation ranges from Kozloff’s early feminist awakening and activism in Los Angeles and New York to her founding role in the Pattern and Decoration Movement. It covers her activities as a founding editor of the Heresies art magazine collective, and her extensive work as public artist often using mapping imagery. Kozloff chose the interview to acknowledge an aspect of her cultural activism that was previously conducted anonymously: as a founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, “the conscience of the art world,” and initiator of one of the group’s most iconic posters: ‘The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist.’ This revelation- despite the fact that several other Guerrilla Girls have already “come out”- has generated extensive media coverage, in Artforum, Art et, Hypebeast, Ocula and Hyperallergic (so far, and counting …). 💪🏼 🦍 💥 🙌 READ HERE: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=19775

Recently, we came together for our end-of-year summer celebration to say goodbye to our second-year students and congratulate everyone on handing in their work!

It was such a lovely way to mark the end of the year, celebrate everyone’s hard work, and spend time together before the summer.

A huge thank you to our tutors Paul Clinton, Helena Reckitt and Irene Revell, Andrew Renton, Kirsty Ogg & Chris Hammond and to our Head of Department, Anna Colin, for everything they do throughout the year.

We’re also so grateful to everyone who brought beautiful flowers, food and treats to share it made the celebration feel especially lovely.

Congratulations to everyone, and wishing our second years all the very best for what comes next!

As the academic year draws to a close, we’re taking a moment to celebrate the work of this year’s Junior Fellows.

First up, CCA Junior Fellow Charlie Clark.

Charlie Clark (she/her) is a London-based Curator and Arts Administrator. Her practice is currently rooted in research of the social, administrative, historical and political structures that enable creative practice and cultural production. More broadly Charlie is also interested in the connections between the mythic and the spiritual in contemporary art production and how these elements can best translate both in and outside of exhibition-making practice.

Her projects have been hosted at spaces such as The Barbican, Goldsmiths CCA, The Southbank Centre, the Feminist Library, Cubitt Gallery, Acme Studios and Staffordshire St Studios. Charlie is a recipient of the Acme Archive placement 2025 and the Barbican Emerging Film Curators Lab 2022. She completed her BA in French and Italian (2018) at the University of Cambridge and attained her MFA in Curating (2025) from Goldsmiths, UoL. Charlie is currently the Curatorial Fellow at Goldsmiths CCA and part of the Art & Research group, Threadbare Collective.

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01. Reading Maps, as part of “The Poetics of Infrastructure” organised by Threadbare Collective at
the Feminist Library, 2026. Image credit: Charlie Hawksfield

02. Tender Threads, as part of “Deptford X” curated by Threadbare Collective at Goldsmiths CCA,
2025. Image credit: Isabel Reed

03. Reweirding with Leah Clements, curated by Threadbare Collective at Goldsmiths CCA, 2025. Image credit: Isabel Reed

04. Iris Casling and Robert George Saunders in Behavioural Garments, co-curated by Charlie Clark and Katy Dammers at Goldsmiths CCA, 2022.
Image credit: Shinju Hitomi

05. Rein Lo in Sounding the Archive #3, co-curated by Charlie Clark and Henriette Gillerot at Cubitt Gallery, 2022. Image credit: Shinju Hitomi

01. Reading Maps, as part of “The Poetics of Infrastructure” organised by Threadbare Collective at
the Feminist Library, 2026. Image credit: Charlie Hawksfield

02. Tender Threads, as part of “Deptford X” curated by Threadbare Collective at Goldsmiths CCA,
2025. Image

Pavel Pyś is Curator of Visual Arts and Collections Strategy at the Walker Art Center. Pyś is the cocurator of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night (2025), the artist’s first major museum survey co-organized by the Walker and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Pyś curated the group exhibitions Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s (2023) and The Body Electric (2019), as well as solo projects by Abbas Akhavan, Daniel Buren, Paul Chan, Pan Daijing, Michaela Eichwald, Carolyn Lazard, Sarah Michelson, Ralph Lemon and Kevin Beasley, and Elizabeth Price. Previously, Pyś was the Exhibitions and Displays Curator at the Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, UK). He received an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College (2010) and an MSc in Culture & Society from the London School of Economics (2009). In 2025, he was awarded a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellowship.

Swipe to read spotlight interview with alum Pavel S. Pyś

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3. Pan Daijing: Sudden Places, January 16 – July 6, 2025, Burnet Gallery, Walker Art Center, photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

4. Elizabeth Price, December 8, 2018 – February 23, 2020, photo by Bobby Rogers for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
5. Paul Chan: Breathers, November 17, 2022 - July 16, 2023, photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

9 & 10. Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, November 11, 2023 – March 10, 2024, photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

12. Christine Sun Kim, All Day All Night, March 28 - August 30, 2026, photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
13. Ralph Lemon & Kevin Beasley: Rant Redux, October 3-13, 2024, Perlman Gallery, photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

14. Kingdom of the Ill, Museion Bolzano, October 1, 2022 – March 5, 2023, co-curated with Sara Cluggish, photo Luca Guadagnini, courtesy Museion Bolzano

The final event for the previous exhibition, ‘A Formula for How to Find Love’ by Victoria Cantons at Mimosa House, a day-long event titled ‘If LOVE had Senses…’ - curated by Nishi Chodimella nishi , Norah Tsai Norah 𑁍ࠬܓ , Reaia Parkes  in partnership with Mimosa House and Goldsmiths MFA Curating!

It was a day of embodied encounters consisting of a workshop, interactive soundscape performance, and participatory screening. Responding to Victoria Cantons’ autobiographical ruminations on selfhood and expressions of emotion through language, this public programme moved from the tactile to the sonic to the somatic. The day invited participants to rediscover personal narrative not as exposure, but as connection.

Each act asked “what if LOVE could touch? What if it could speak? What if it could move?”.

Act I: If LOVE Could Touch— ‘Automatic Poetry’ Workshop with 
Act II: If LOVE Could Speak— Interactive Soundscape Performance with Anju 
Act II: If LOVE Could Move— Participatory Screening with Rhiana Bonterre
 
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Artist Discussion: Abi Palmer and Bryony Ella
4 July 2026
17:00–18:00
g39, Cardiff

Performance: Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis by Bryony Ella
4 July 2026
18:30–19:15
g39, Cardiff

Join artists Abi Palmer and Bryony Ella for a discussion about weather, heat and climate. Presented within the context of Palmer’s exhibited films, Abi Palmer Invents the Weather, and in advance of Ella’s performance, Stand of the Sun, the discussion centres interspecies kinship and the power of listening to consider the climate crisis. Palmer reflects on nonhuman communication and what the changing climate is trying to say to us, while Ella asks: “How does the Sun experience our overheating world?” From the position of marginalised bodies, from disability to racial and social inequality, both sit with the unresolved question of whether we’re here to grieve the climate or resist it.

Stand of the Sun is a multidisciplinary storytelling performance exploring non-human communication through music, light and dance. The audio-scape takes audiences on a cosmic journey from outer space into the city, through the human psyche and back into the celestial realm. The performance weaves creative responses from Melting Metropolis, a Wellcome Discovery Grant environmental history project at the University of Liverpool tracing the history of urban heat islands in London, New York, Paris and Port of Spain, Trinidad. Amplifying the lived experiences of people most affected by heat, Stand of the Sun invites reflection on time, compassion and the power of community in the face of environmental crisis.

Jodi Ann Nicholson and George H. Wale collaborate with Bryony Ella to choreograph a new improvised movement score, presented for the first time at g39.

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1. Abi Palmer, Abi Palmer Invents the Weather, 2023. Produced and commissioned by Artangel.
2. Abi Palmer Invents the Weather, installation view of Sbel, g39. Image: Dan Weill.
3. Abi Palmer, Abi Palmer Invents the Weather, 2023. Produced and commissioned by Artangel.
4. Bryony Ella, Stand of the Sun, 2025. Image: Alberto Romano.
5. Bryony Ella, Stand of the Sun, 2025. Image: Alberto Romano.

For the past six months, MFA Curating student Judit Agui has been on a curatorial placement at leading London arts organisation, Artangel. Judit is a creative producer and emerging curator interested in ecology, interdisciplinary collaboration and participatory work. Her recent projects include the Vital Signs Library at Science Gallery London, a participatory gallery space showcasing collective responses to climate change, and the 2025 Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival, an interdisciplinary arts festival exploring our relationship with nature. Throughout her curatorial placement, she has conducted research into the Artangel Collection and supported Persilia Caton, Artangel’s Collection Curator in developing learning resources and organising upcoming collection presentations to widen public engagement with the collection artworks. As a result of the placement, Judit has curated a public programme in response to Abi Palmer’s project Abi Palmer Invents the Weather, currently on show at g39 in Cardiff. The programme of events will include a discussion between Abi and Bryony Ella. Judit has also invited Bryony to present an adapted performance of Stand of the Sun. Developed in collaboration with the Melting Metropolis, a Wellcome Discovery Grant environmental history research project at University of Liverpool, Stand of the Sun traces the history of urban heat islands and amplifies the lived experiences of the people most affected by heat. The sound and movement piece will be performed by Cardiff-based dancers, Jodi AnnNicholson and George Hampton Wale.

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Judit Agui

Abi Palmer, Abi Palmer Invents the Weather, 2023. Produced and commissioned by Artangel.

Ayo Akingbade, Jitterbug, 2021.Produced and commissioned by Artangel.

Andy Holden, Natural Selection, 2017.Produced and commissioned by Artangel.

Paul Maheke, Mauve, Jim and John, 2021.Produced and commissioned by Artangel.

Marcus Coates, The Directors, 2022.Produced and commissioned by Artangel.

The Artangel Collection is an initiative to bring outstanding film and video works commissioned and produced by Artangel, to galleries and museums across the UK and internationally.

is an independent art writer and Director of Asia at Saatchi Yates Gallery in London, with experience at blue-chip galleries such as White Cube.

At Saatchi Yates, Tai has significantly expanded the gallery’s presence in Asia, delivering exhibitions in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, while also cultivating institutional relationships internationally. She recently led a collaborative project with The Sainsbury Centre (Norwich, UK), resulting in the exhibition Roots of Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa in 2025. In 2026, she co-curated Tesfaye Urgessa: Primordial Paths at the Red Brick Art Museum (Beijing, China).

In addition to her curatorial and commercial expertise, Tai has over a decade of experience as an art writer. She has contributed reviews of international exhibitions to numerous art magazines and museum journals across East Asia, including Art Forum China, Art Collection + Design, The Artist, and Modern Art, among others.

Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Tai has been based in London since 2014. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London (2014–2016).

Swipe to read Spotlight Interview with Alum Ying-Hsuan Tai

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Tesfaye Urgessa: Primordial Paths, installation view at Red Brick Art Museum. (Images Copyright and Courtesy: Red Brick Art Museum)
Yang Fudong: Fragrant River, installation view at UCCA Center for Contemporary Artin Beijing. (Images Copyright and Courtesy: Yang Fudong Studio and UCCA Beijing)

Roots of Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa (curated by John Kenneth Paranada), installation view at The Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. (Images Copyright: Tesfaye Urgessa. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates. Photo: Kate Wolstenholme)

A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the Eastby László Krasznahorkai.