Amnesty International UK
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), I curated Protection, a group exhibition in aid of Amnesty featuring women and non-binary artists that ran from 10—16 December at Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross. The exhibition aimed to raise awareness around the importance of the declaration, inspire debate and action on issues that still need to be tackled, and raise funds for Amnesty International UK.
For the exhibition, I invited thirty artists, including Guerrilla Girls, Esther Mahlangu, Erin Aniker, Hattie Stewart, Joy Yamusangie, Juno Calypso, Kelly Anna, Lotte Andersen, Lynnie Zulu, Maisie Cousins, Mona Chalabi, Nathalie du Pasquier, Phoebe Collings-James, Steph Wilson and many more to create work in response to the theme of “Protection”. All profits from art sales were donated to Amnesty International UK.
The final exhibition ran for a week at a dedicated space at Coal Drops Yard. Throughout the week, I devised a programme of events to encourage a deeper interaction and understanding of the project; this included a launch party, an artist talk around gendered anger and creativity, a dinner and creative workshops.
I produced a newspaper publication printed by The Newspaper Club, designed by Shaz Madani to accompany the exhibition.
Protection was covered widely in the press on sites such as It’s Nice That, Dazed, Vice, Refinery 29, The Evening Standard Magazine, Design Week and Time Out.
Plan International
Plan International is one of the leading girls’ rights organisations in the world. I worked with them in 2020 to develop New World, New Rules, an online print sale to raise funds for the Plan International Coronavirus Appeal, supporting at-risk girls around the world.
I curated the global list of artists involved, managed all submissions, built the print sale website, designed all promotional assets and oversaw print production.
The project raised over £12,000 in 30 days.
