We are very excited to announce that Kirsty Kerr and Yujia Wang have joined the Culture& team as Administrator and Executive Assistant respectively.
Kirsty has been working with and alongside Culture& since 2018, initially through her New Museum School traineeship and later as Associate Curator for the Memory Archives: Sensory Boxes, designed for Black elders living with dementia. She has a background in contemporary art and socially-engaged practice, and has experience in delivering exhibitions, public programmes and artist commissions, working with Create London, V&A East, London Metropolitan Archives, Museum of the Home, UK New Artists and gal-dem, Wellcome Collection amongst others. She is currently undertaking an MA in Museum Studies with the University of Leicester, as part of the New Museum School Advanced Programme.
Kirsty has her own creative practice, often drawing on experiences of living in/between mixed spaces and identities such as race, class, culture and religion. She is enthusiastic about contemporary interventions in heritage spaces, and art encountered in the everyday, public realm. Kirsty is excited to join the Culture& team as Administrator and to continue supporting the organisation with its vision to make the Arts truly reflective of our society.
Yujia has worked with a variety of art spaces in the UK and in China, including non-profit and commercial cultural organisations and film festivals, in administrative, public programming, exhibition-making, as well as marketing roles.
When studying at the Curating Contemporary Art MA at the Royal College of Art, Yujia was awarded distinction for her dissertation on analysing Western-centric discourses on ‘queer exhibitions’ from a transnational perspective, and co-curated ‘For us, to share’, a project in collaboration with Southwark Park Galleries and the Bosco Centre in Rotherhithe. Being a curator, digital artist and animator, Yujia is passionate about exploring intersectional subjectivities, transnational kinship and belonging through multidisciplinary practices.