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Career Insight: Exploring careers in Curation
Join us for an online talk exploring the role of a Curator.
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Past Event
Curious about careers in museums and the creative industries? Interested in careers in Curation?
Hear from Justine Sambrook, V&A Project Curator for the Adobe Creative Residencies Display and Stephen Welsh, Curator, Consultant and Cultural Practitioner as they discuss what the role of a present day and future Curator looks like.
Join us as they share case studies of their work, discuss their creative practice and consider the skills and experience that help them as contemporary Curators.
This talk is a part of a series this Autumn exploring careers in museums and the broader creative industries. If you are interested in the work of the V&A Youth Collective, this talk will give a broad insight into what the Collective explore in their meetings.
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Stephen is a freelance curator, consultant and cultural practitioner who specialises in supporting agencies, charities and institutions to embed co-creation, diversify decision-making and prioritise the needs and aspirations of underserved communities when designing and delivering arts, cultural and heritage projects.
Hear from Justine Sambrook, V&A Project Curator for the Adobe Creative Residencies Display and Stephen Welsh, Curator, Consultant and Cultural Practitioner as they discuss what the role of a present day and future Curator looks like.
Join us as they share case studies of their work, discuss their creative practice and consider the skills and experience that help them as contemporary Curators.
This talk is a part of a series this Autumn exploring careers in museums and the broader creative industries. If you are interested in the work of the V&A Youth Collective, this talk will give a broad insight into what the Collective explore in their meetings.
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Stephen is a freelance curator, consultant and cultural practitioner who specialises in supporting agencies, charities and institutions to embed co-creation, diversify decision-making and prioritise the needs and aspirations of underserved communities when designing and delivering arts, cultural and heritage projects.
He has worked on a variety projects with a wide range of clients, such as Historic Environment Scotland, the Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in Museums Forum and exhibition designers Mather & Co. Some of his current projects involve acting as a critical evaluative friend for Rising Arts Agency and supporting the Whitechapel Centre, a homeless and housing charity in Liverpool, in developing a heritage project and exhibition.
He served on the National Lottery Heritage Fund North committee from 2016 to 2025, and he is presently a member of the steering group for the Association of Independent Museums' Safe Access programme, as well as a trustee for the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Educational Trust.
Justine Sambrook is project curator of the Adobe Creative Residency display at the V&A. She studied photography and museum studies and was previously curator of photographs at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). She has curated numerous exhibitions including Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power (2024), Forms of Industry: Photographs by Alastair Philip Wiper and Eric de Maré (2020), A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing (2019) and Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith (2014). She has co-authored books including The Modernist House, Building the New Millennium: Architecture at the start of the 21st century and contributed to the Phaidon Atlas of 20th Century World Architecture.
