Wednesday, November 19 @ 5:00 – 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Deborah Smith is a curator and consultant whose work explores strategies for collaboration and the presentation of interdisciplinary practices. She has delivered exhibitions and large-scale commissions, often interwoven with programmes of learning, engagement, and interpretation. She was formerly Director of the Arts Council Collection, the most widely circulated national collection of modern and contemporary British art, Interim Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Galleries, and Associate Curator at Arup, the global engineering company. Recently, she curated the VR/online exhibition Excavation: Macro to the Micro on vortic.art. She currently serves as a judge for the Museum + Heritage Awards, a Shadow Board Member of The Box, Plymouth, a member of the University of Warwick Art Collection Committee, and a member of the HS2 Independent Design Panel. She was also recently appointed to the UK Parliament Collections Advisory Group. deborahsmith.net