Hi, my name's Debbie. I'm a London-based writer, editor and curator.
My art writing leans into emotion, anecdote and humour and has been published internationally, including by Hatje Cantz, Rizzoli, Tate, Hayward Gallery Publishing, and CURA magazine. Fried yam in the museum, my article discussing art and communication, is a set text on the Courtauld Institute of Art’s MA Curating programme.
As a curator, I've worked on exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, Tate Modern, Somerset House and the Migration Museum. Highlights include the acclaimed exhibition In the Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery, and curating outdoor installations by Jyll Bradley and Souad Abdelrasoul also at the Hayward. I have also guest-curated The Conch at South London Gallery and Within a Budding Grove at Pi Artworks, London.
I am currently Assistant Curator, Research and Interpretation, at Tate Modern and Tate Britain. My research explores speculative interpretation in art museums.
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I wrote about Aqsa Arif's work for the Jerwood Survey III exhibition catalogue. The exhibition tours to Southwark Park Galleries (London), g39 (Cardiff), Site Gallery (Sheffield) and Collective (Edinburgh).
Published as the lead piece in the Courtauld's post-graduate, peer-reviewed journal. Read here.
Commissioned to write a long-form piece for Tate's website looking at works by Lyle Ashton Harris, Trisha Brown, Sharon Hayes, and the Gee's Bend quiltmakers. Read here.
Contributed texts on Imani Jacqueline Brown and Richard Mosse for the Dear Earth exhibition catalogue
Published to accompany Jyll Bradley's major commission The Hop at the Hayward Gallery.
Contributed a text on Lindsey Mendick's work to the exhibition catalogue for Clay Pop at Jeffrey Deitch, New York.
Contributed texts on Liu Jianhua and Klara Kristalova to the Strange Clay exhibition catalogue.
As part of the Launch Pad LaB Artist Residency, I led studio visits with the three resident artists, Louise Beer, Anna Perach and Pilar Quinteros.
I spoke on a panel with Tori Tsui, Love Ssega and Anjali Raman-Middleton (Choked Up) about the role art can play in addressing the climate crisis.
I was invited to give a presentation, Fried yam in the archive, and participate in a panel discussion with Mariana Castillo Deball, Ato Jackson and Ella Mahalia Adu.
I chaired a panel discussion between filmmakers Jessica Ashman, Isabel Barfod, Mary Martins, Ezra Myers and Osbert Parker as part of the London International Animation Festival.
I spoke with Indie A. Choudhury, Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, about the cultural impact of decolonising art.
I moderated a conversation between artists Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and Hardeep Pandhal as part of the programme of events for GENERATIONS at Somerset House.
I spoke with Something Curated about the Hayward Gallery exhibition Dear Earth. Read here.
Appeared on the AA’s podcast answering 36 questions posed by designer and curator Manijeh Verghese. Listen here.
Interviewed on national Polish television channel TVP Kultura about the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition In the Black Fantastic.
Spoke with Valeria Facchin, Co-Founder of w21 and Director of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, about (dis)embodiment as a decolonial artistic and curatorial strategy.