Lewis Dalton Gilbert (Moderator)
Lewis Dalton Gilbert is an independent curator and the creative director at A Vibe Called Tech; a creative agency dedicated to approaching creativity through an intersectional lens. Following his BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, he coordinated and produced exhibitions and projects for White Cube and Frieze and is currently the associate curator for New Art Centre, where he previously served as creative director.
Bolanle Tajudeen
Bolanle Tajudeen, the founder of Black Blossoms, an art school and an expanded curatorial platform focusing on artists of colour, aims to make their art accessible to all. Bolanle has recently been appointed Public Art Commissioner for the Bristol Legacy Project in partnership with Bristol City Council. In this role, she is tasked with project managing and curating a permanent commemorative artwork to honour the legacy of the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.
Habda Rashid
Habda Rashid is Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, where she is working on major exhibitions including the forthcoming large-scale multi gallery project by African American artist Glenn Ligon. She is the first curator of contemporary art at the Museum and has been developing the collection to include contemporary works as well as build research and networks focusing on art’s landscape today. Her collecting focus, which is set in a research framework, examines how post-colonial complexities of genealogies and geographies challenge and activate historical through-lines to enable alternative artistic narratives.
Jade Foster
Jade Foster (they/them) is a British curator, artist and art historian of Afro-Caribbean heritage based in Nottingham and from Sandwell in the West Midlands. They are the Public Programme Curator at Primary and a trustee of Nottingham Contemporary. In addition to their work at Primary, they freelance with Hospital Rooms as a Visiting Curator, commissioning artworks for Sandwell CAMHS, an outpatient service for children and young people with complex mental health needs.
Sara Wajid
Sara is Co-CEO alongside Zak Mensah at Birmingham Museums Trust. This job-share CEO partnership is a first in the museum sector and signals Birmingham Museums Trust’s commitment to inclusive working practices. Before working in museums Sara was a cultural commentator, journalist and editor. Sara is a founder member of the Museum Detox network for people of colour in museums and an active advocate for diversity and equality issues in the arts.
Paul Goodwin
Paul Goodwin is a curator, researcher and educator based in London. Goodwin’s research and curatorial interests span the fields of transnational art, urbanism and curatorial practice with a focus on African diaspora art and visual cultures. He is Co-Lead Investigator for Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation an international research project funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social and Human Sciences (T-AP). Goodwin’s recent curatorial projects include: W.E.B. DuBois: Charting Black Lives (House of Illustration, London, UK, Nov. 2019), We Will Walk: Art and Resistance from the American South (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, Feb. 2020) and Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, Chapter 2 (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, May 2020). Goodwin is Professor and Chair of Contemporary Art & Urbanism and Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity & Nation (TrAIN) at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Lauren Gee
This series of events has been curated by Lauren Gee and developed with Tate Learning. Lauren is a public programme curator and artist moving image producer from London. Lauren has produced films for artists Alberta Whittle, Onyeka Igwe and Beverley Bennett as well as curating public programmes and supporting audience engagement for London Short Film Festival, South London Gallery, Tate, Create and Film London. This year Lauren is part of BlackStar film festival's Programme Committee, reviewing Short Narrative works.
