Hello! I am a curator working within social practice, which means I develop artistic projects and platforms that centre dialogue, participation, and shared action. My work explores how artistic practice can intervene within the systems and structures of everyday life, opening up alternative ways of imagining and organising the world. I am interested in how more of us can exercise greater agency and influence within cultural institutions – from collection-building and conservation to public programming and organisational decision-making. Through collaborative and participatory approaches, I try to support forms of collective knowledge production and challenge hierarchical power structures within creative and educational spaces. Alongside my independent curatorial and creative evaluation practice, I have worked across a range of civic and institutional contexts, including at the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and Whitechapel Gallery. I’m currently a Trustee of the Museum of Homelessness. I love to practise karate and to swim outdoors, I sing in a folk music choir and enjoy foraging and experimenting with fermentation. I am on a slow mission to cycle the coastlines of the British Isles, a project that satisfies my personal curiosity about symbolic and geographical borders.
Who We Are Siobhán Forshaw, Head of Programmes & Partnerships (Parental Leave Cover): Cross-Site (She/Her)
