Aesthetica Magazine - Portfolio Reviewers 2023

Book Your Portfolio Review at the Future Now Symposium 2023

Please note: To book a session, you must have purchased a Symposium Pass or additional Portfolio Review Pass. Ticket reference number required – this can be found on your receipt.

These 1-1 sessions, hosted at York Theatre Royal, are for practitioners working across all genres, including painting, photography, digital media, sculpture, video and more. Our industry experts provide essential guidance on how to develop ideas and further artists’ careers, as well as providing insights on funding opportunities and exhibition. Each session lasts 20 minutes. This is your opportunity to get key advice on any number of topics: how to accelerate your practice through digital platforms, how to approach curators and galleries, or simply discussing a particular portion of your portfolio in real time. First review is free with your pass. Additional reviews can be purchased for £25 per slot here.

You are welcome to present your work in a printed format, digitally, or a combination of the two. If showing work digitally, you will need to bring your own laptop.

Reviewers for Thursday 23 March

Harriet Cooper
Jerwood Arts | 10:30-12:00

Harriet Cooper is a visual arts curator who has developed her practice working with organisations including Jerwood Arts, Firstsite, British Council, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Tate Liverpool and The Whitworth Art Gallery. She is committed to supporting early-career artists and curators to develop. She was co-curator of the British Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, and is a member of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee.

Rose McMurray
BALTIC | 10:30-12:00

Rose McMurray is an artist and curatorial assistant at Baltic: Centre for Contemporary art, and curator of the Lightbox Commission. She supports all areas of the programme, including residencies, events and exhibitions. Previous to this she was an assistant producer at D6: Culture in Transit and D6: EU. Her work specialises in the intersection between socially engaged art and working-class communities, championing local artists.

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Griselda Goldsbrough
Co-Curator, Aesthetica Art Prize | 10:30-12:00

Griselda Goldsbrough, visual artist and writer, committed to cultural and creative activity in community engagement projects within heritage, science, musuems, galleries and healthcare. Artist in Residence at Foss Park Hospital, York, Art and Design Development Manager, York Hospital and co-curator Aesthetica Art Prize. She has been involved in the Aesthetica Art Prize for several years running, championing emerging talent across all media.

Olivia Aherne
Curator, Chisenhale Gallery | 10:30-12:00

Olivia Aherne is a curator from/based in the UK, currently working as Curator at Chisenhale Gallery, London. She previously worked as Curator, Exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary. She’s developed projects for Nir Altman, Munich (2020); Art Night, London (2019); SAFA, Shanghai; LUX and Lewisham Arthouse, London (2018). In 2018 she was awarded the NEON Curatorial Award in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery.

Damon Jackson-Waldock
Art House Wakefield | 10:30-12:00

Damon is a curator, creative producer and arts programmer based in Yorkshire, and joined The Art House, Wakefield as Programme Director in 2021. Damon’s role is to support and nurture the wide range of creative talent regionally and internationally without barriers and steer exciting exhibitions and residences in The Art House’s gallery spaces and within the community. Damon previously worked at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) for 11 years.

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Mariama Attah
Curator, Open Eye Gallery | 10:30-12:00

Mariama Attah is a photography curator, writer and lecturer with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, and understanding how photography and visual culture can be used to amplify underrepresented voices. Mariama is curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. She was previously Assistant Editor of Foam Magazine. Prior to this, she was Curator of Photoworks, and was Managing Editor of the magazine Photoworks Annual.

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Hannah Starkey
Artist/Photographer | 10:30-12:00

Since the late-1990s, Hannah Starkey has been dedicated to photographing women, exploring the ways they are, and have been depicted. The photographs reconstruct cinematic scenes from everyday life, using actors within carefully considered settings which appear as “fleeting” moments. Starkey’s retrospective is now open at The Hepworth. She has been featured in The Guardian and Financial Times, and in collections at Tate.

Kadine James
The Immersive KIND NFT Gallery | 14.00-15.30

Kadine is a Chief Metaverse Officer at Artificial Rome and CEO and Founder of The Immersive KIND NFT Gallery and 3D Crypto Fashion House. Kadine is listed as one of the top 10 most influential women Metaverse Founders working in digital fashion, 3D printing, augmented reality, virtual reality, spatial computing, XR, immersive gaming and innovation. She works at the cutting-edge intersection of future technology, strategy and storytelling.

Kit Monkman
Artist & Film Director | 14.00-15.30

Kit Monkman is a leading innovator in screen-based art and interactive media. He directed the visually experimental feature Macbeth and co-directed The Knife That Killed Me. He is also co-founder of KMA – an artistic collaboration that specialises in environmental installations – whose works have dramatically transformed public spaces across the world. Kit has worked with Prince and DV8. The work is driven by an interest in interaction.

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Griselda Goldsbrough
Co-Curator, Aesthetica Art Prize | 14:00-15:30

Griselda Goldsbrough, visual artist and writer, committed to cultural and creative activity in community engagement projects within heritage, science, musuems, galleries and healthcare. Artist in Residence at Foss Park Hospital, York, Art and Design Development Manager, York Hospital and co-curator Aesthetica Art Prize. She has been involved in the Aesthetica Art Prize for several years running, championing emerging talent across all media.

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Eleanor Sutherland
Creative Producer, Aesthetica | 14:00-15:30

Eleanor joined Aesthetica in 2017. As Creative Producer, she works across the magazine’s print and digital platforms, researching and writing on contemporary art. She loves discovering new creatives and sharing their work with global readers. Eleanor strives to make art accessible through clear, engaging and assumption-free language. She studied History of Art & English at the University of York, and is passionate about computer science.

Olivia Heron
Whitworth | 14:00-15:30

Olivia Heron is a Curator at the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Previously at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), and the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, she works across exhibitions, collections, projects and programming, with a focus on feminist and socially engaged practices. Recent projects include Open House (2022), Exchanges (2021) and Chila Kumari Singh Burman: Tales of Valiant Queens (2018).

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Itandehui Jansen
Edinburgh College of Art | 14:00-15:30

Itandehui Jansen was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her films have screened at international festivals such as the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), SLAMDANCE and the London Short Film Festival. Her short The Last Council won several international awards. Her feature-length drama In Times of Rain won Best Emerging Feature Film at the Oaxaca Film Fest. She teaches Screenwriting and Directing at University of Edinburgh.

Sadie Clayton
Artist & Innovator | 14:00-15:30

Sadie Clayton is an award-winning designer who explores the creative boundaries between art, fashion and technology. Sadie is fascinated by innovation, has presented work at the Royal Academy of the Arts, Tate and the V&A, and has created content with Adobe films. In 2019, Sadie became the first artist to create works with the robot Ai-Da at Tate Modern, as part of the Tate Exhange’s exploration of new technology and the self.

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Griselda Goldsbrough
Co-Curator, Aesthetica Art Prize | 16:00-17:30

Griselda Goldsbrough, visual artist and writer, committed to cultural and creative activity in community engagement projects within heritage, science, musuems, galleries and healthcare. Artist in Residence at Foss Park Hospital, York, Art and Design Development Manager, York Hospital and co-curator Aesthetica Art Prize. She has been involved in the Aesthetica Art Prize for several years running, championing emerging talent across all media.

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Julia Fullerton-Batten
Photographer | 16:00-17:30

Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual storytelling. Unusual locations, highly creative settings, street-cast models are the hallmarks of her style. She has won numerous awards, including Sony World Photography Awards and Hasselblad Master in Fine Art and has permanent collections in National Portrait Gallery, London and Musee de l’Elysee, Switzerland, amongst others.

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Itandehui Jansen
Edinburgh College of Art | 16:00-17:30

Itandehui Jansen was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her films have screened at international festivals such as the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), SLAMDANCE and the London Short Film Festival. Her short The Last Council won several international awards. Her feature-length drama In Times of Rain won Best Emerging Feature Film at the Oaxaca Film Fest. She teaches Screenwriting and Directing at University of Edinburgh.

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Eleanor Sutherland
Creative Producer, Aesthetica | 16:00-17:30

Eleanor joined Aesthetica in 2017. As Creative Producer, she works across the magazine’s print and digital platforms, researching and writing on contemporary art. She loves discovering new creatives and sharing their work with global readers. Eleanor strives to make art accessible through clear, engaging and assumption-free language. She studied History of Art & English at the University of York, and is passionate about computer science.

Reviewers for Friday 24 March

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Julia Fullerton-Batten
Photographer | 10:30-12:00

Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual storytelling. Unusual locations, highly creative settings, street-cast models are the hallmarks of her style. She has won numerous awards, including Sony World Photography Awards and Hasselblad Master in Fine Art and has permanent collections in National Portrait Gallery, London and Musee de l’Elysee, Switzerland, amongst others.

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Mariama Attah
Curator, Open Eye Gallery | 10:30-12:00

Mariama Attah is a photography curator, writer and lecturer with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, and understanding how photography and visual culture can be used to amplify underrepresented voices. Mariama is curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. She was previously Assistant Editor of Foam Magazine. Prior to this, she was Curator of Photoworks, and was Managing Editor of the magazine Photoworks Annual.

Luke Kemp
Associate Curator, Barbican | 10:30-12:00

Luke Kemp’s most recent productions include leading on the curation and development of Our Time on Earth (2022) and AI: More than Human (2019). Prior to working at the Barbican, Luke worked with galleries and organisations across the world on programming and projects including for the Venice Biennale and The Armory Art Fair, amongst others.

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Yuen Fong Ling
Artist, Curator & Lecturer | 10:30-12:00

Yuen Fong Ling is an artist and curator based at Bloc Studios Sheffield, and a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He has a socially engaged and performance-based practice that explores his biographical connections with histories, people, places and objects. Recent projects have devised alternative forms of public monument and memorial making, contributing to Sheffield City Council’s Decolonising Street Names, Statues and Monuments.

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Raquel Villar Pérez
Impressions Gallery | 10:30-12:00

Raquel Villar-Pérez is an academic and cura- tor whose practice focuses on de- and anti- colonial discourses within contemporary art from the “Global South.” She is interested in the work of women-identified image-makers who address notions of transnational femi- nisms, social and environmental justice. She is a curator at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, and is responsible for the exhibitions pro- gramme, commissions and public events.

Helena Cox
University of York | 10:30-12:00

Helena Cox is an art historian and curator working as the inaugural art curator at the University of York, overseeing a collection of over 900 artworks. Helena worked as a cura- tor at the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, as well curating contemporary art exhibitions in a freelance capacity. Helena is finishing her PhD in art history, and she is passionate about making art and art history accessible, relevant and open for everyone.

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Griselda Goldsbrough
Co-Curator, Aesthetica Art Prize | 14:00-15:30

Griselda Goldsbrough, visual artist and writer, committed to cultural and creative activity in community engagement projects within heritage, science, musuems, galleries and healthcare. Artist in Residence at Foss Park Hospital, York, Art and Design Development Manager, York Hospital and co-curator Aesthetica Art Prize. She has been involved in the Aesthetica Art Prize for several years running, championing emerging talent across all media.

Mirka Kotulicova
Jerwood Arts | 14:00-15:30

Mirka joined Jerwood Arts in March 2022 as Project Manager (Visual Arts). She’s responsible for the administration and delivery of Jerwood Arts’ programmes supporting early-career practitioners in the visual arts sector, including Jerwood Curatorial Accelerator and Jerwood Developing Artists Fund. Mirka previously worked at Arts Council England as a Relationship Manager in the Visual Arts & Museums team in London, and in community arts spaces.

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Hannah Starkey
Artist/Photographer | 14:00-15:30

Since the late-1990s, Hannah Starkey has been dedicated to photographing women, exploring the ways they are, and have been depicted. The photographs reconstruct cinematic scenes from everyday life, using actors within carefully considered settings which appear as “fleeting” moments. Starkey’s retrospective is now open at The Hepworth. She has been featured in The Guardian and Financial Times, and in collections at Tate.

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Raquel Villar Pérez
Impressions Gallery | 14:00-15:30

Raquel Villar-Pérez is an academic and cura- tor whose practice focuses on de- and anti- colonial discourses within contemporary art from the “Global South.” She is interested in the work of women-identified image-makers who address notions of transnational femi- nisms, social and environmental justice. She is a curator at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, and is responsible for the exhibitions pro- gramme, commissions and public events.

Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Artist | 14:00-15:30

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte is a Mexican-British multi-disciplinary artist who mixes traditional image-making with Augmented Reality. In 2022 she was awarded a residency through Autograph Gallery, London, as well as a Wayfinder Award from National Geographic. Alcázar-Duarte has been granted fellowships by British Arts Council, is member of the board of trustees for The Royal Photographic Society, and has been exhibited at MoMA, New York.

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Eleanor Sutherland
Creative Producer, Aesthetica | 16:00-17:30

Eleanor joined Aesthetica in 2017. As Creative Producer, she works across the magazine’s print and digital platforms, researching and writing on contemporary art. She loves discovering new creatives and sharing their work with global readers. Eleanor strives to make art accessible through clear, engaging and assumption-free language. She studied History of Art & English at the University of York, and is passionate about computer science.

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Griselda Goldsbrough
Co-Curator, Aesthetica Art Prize | 16:00-17:30

Griselda Goldsbrough, visual artist and writer, committed to cultural and creative activity in community engagement projects within heritage, science, musuems, galleries and healthcare. Artist in Residence at Foss Park Hospital, York, Art and Design Development Manager, York Hospital and co-curator Aesthetica Art Prize. She has been involved in the Aesthetica Art Prize for several years running, championing emerging talent across all media.

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Yuen Fong Ling
Artist, Curator & Lecturer | 16:00-17:30

Yuen Fong Ling is an artist and curator based at Bloc Studios Sheffield, and a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He has a socially engaged and performance-based practice that explores his biographical connections with histories, people, places and objects. Recent projects have devised alternative forms of public monument and memorial making, contributing to Sheffield City Council’s Decolonising Street Names, Statues and Monuments.

Cherie Federico
Director, Aesthetica | 16:00-17:30

Cherie is the Editor of Aesthetica Magazine and the Director of the BAFTA-Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF), Aesthetica Art Prize and Future Now Symposium. Originally from New York, Cherie moved to the UK in 2002 to study for her Masters degree and founded Aesthetica, which she has developed into an international brand distributed in 525 stores in the UK and exported to 20 countries. Cherie is a champion of new creative talent.