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Join us to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Goldsmiths MFA Curating The event will take place on: Saturday 17 October 2026 4:00–6:00pm The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ Programme: 4:00–5:30pm – Welcome remarks and roundtable discussion 5:30–6:00pm – Drinks reception and informal gathering The afternoon will feature a roundtable conversation bringing together former Programme Directors and Tutors Anna Harding @annahardinganna , Andrew Renton @andrew.renton , Paul Clinton @fpclinton and Anna Colin @la__colin , alongside MFA Curating alumni Vassilios Doupas @vassiliosdoupas , Reem Fadda @reemfadda , Sung Woo Kim @kim.sung_woo and Rosy Leake @rosy__is . The roundtable will be chaired by Helena Reckitt @helmut_recko . Together, we will reflect on the histories, trajectories, and futures of curatorial education and practice, sharing experiences from the programme’s past while considering the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead. Book your ticket via eventbrite. See link in bio.
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Join us to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Goldsmiths MFA Curating The event will take place on: Saturday 17 October 2026 4:00–6:00pm The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ Programme: 4:00–5:30pm – Welcome remarks and roundtable discussion 5:30–6:00pm – Drinks reception and informal gathering The afternoon will feature a roundtable conversation bringing together former Programme Directors and Tutors Anna Harding @annahardinganna , Andrew Renton @andrew.renton , Paul Clinton @fpclinton and Anna Colin @la__colin , alongside MFA Curating alumni Vassilios Doupas @vassiliosdoupas , Reem Fadda @reemfadda , Sung Woo Kim @kim.sung_woo and Rosy Leake @rosy__is . The roundtable will be chaired by Helena Reckitt @helmut_recko . Together, we will reflect on the histories, trajectories, and futures of curatorial education and practice, sharing experiences from the programme’s past while considering the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead. Book your ticket via eventbrite. See link in bio.
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As I approach the end of my time at Goldsmiths, first as an MFA Curating student and then as a Junior Fellow, I’ve been reflecting on what an incredible five years it has been. 2021–2026! It’s impossible to fit everything here, but Goldsmiths has given me lifelong friendships, an ever-expanding network of alumni and practitioners, countless conversations that have shaped how I think and work, the love of my life, and what feels like our lifelong project @everymouthneeds ❤️ It feels strange to think that the person who arrived on their first day wearing a dress in the pouring rain in Margate, freshly moved to London and generally making a glorious mess of things, would end up here: living in Peckham with their wife, surrounded by such a brilliant community. A huge thank you to everyone who keeps this course going despite the increasingly difficult realities of higher education, and especially @la__colin , @irene_revell , @fpclinton , @helmut_recko, @kirstyogg, @andrew.renton & Chris Hammond. Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to be part of exhibitions, programmes, reading groups, audits, a pond, an allotment, visiting talks, alumni interviews, and three wonderful cohorts of students, alongside fellow Junior Fellows @priscillalylo, @stephaniecck, @susanalopezorozco_ @juliapolo_ and @chrl.ttclrk . The photos here mark just some of those moments :-) Goodbye for now. I’ll still be around, but it feels important to mark this chapter as it comes to a close. And if anyone has any exciting opportunities, collaborations or PhD advice, I’d love to chat!! Thank you to everyone who helped me get here ❤️ especially @flemboyant_flemingo Goodbye hugs with wonderful colleague @juliapolo_ the privilege of working together as students on placement at @formaartsmedia and then to go on to work together on the course @priscillalylo The wonderful experience of sitting in on talks with Incredible guest speakers including @taey.iohe @pro_numb @billytanng @harunishere running around the country with wonderful students meeting with different art spaces and alum friends, countless thankyous @ikongallery @turnerprizeofficial @hepworthwakefield @arcadiamissa @richardsaltoung
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Recently, we came together for our end-of-year summer celebration to say goodbye to our second-year students and congratulate everyone on handing in their work! It was such a lovely way to mark the end of the year, celebrate everyone’s hard work, and spend time together before the summer. A huge thank you to our tutors Paul Clinton, Helena Reckitt and Irene Revell, Andrew Renton, Kirsty Ogg & Chris Hammond and to our Head of Department, Anna Colin, for everything they do throughout the year. We’re also so grateful to everyone who brought beautiful flowers, food and treats to share it made the celebration feel especially lovely. Congratulations to everyone, and wishing our second years all the very best for what comes next!
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FDRG Working Group planning, scheming, imagining, plotting for the year ahead when we are looking forward to being welcomed back as Residents at Goldsmiths CCA; on the rooftop garden of @brothertonlock ‘s Dalston apartment building. @sabrinasusanfuller behind the camera and @lina_dzuver on route to vacation. @taey.iohe @dotjia @marianaamlemos @bethsaha @helmut_recko . Watch this space 👀 💡
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Palermo adventures. #latergram A few full intense, invigorating, expansive days in Palermo. Acquaintances became friends & made new friends, heard awesome presentations & enjoyed the post screening conversation with @yaniyalee Came home & promptly fell into bed with a nasty cold. #aplaceofrage #sarired #refusals #practicesoffreedom with @shaheenhaq_oo7
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Thank you to Rachel Garfield, artist and writer, for yesterday’s moving and beautiful film screening and reading group ‘So close/So distant.’ Selections of films by Su Friedrich, Michelle Citron, and Alina Marazzi - all rarely screened in the Uk - opened up discussions about the use of home movies, found footage, interviews and dramatic staging, editing and palimpsest. We talked about how the artists navigated their complex relationships with mothers living and dead, filling in gaps of memory, while grappling with feelings of ambivalence, admiration and loss. Material questions of location and class, social roles and constraints, as well as psychiatric diagnoses and treatments, informed our discussions. Perhaps inevitably, conversations led to thoughts about our own ‘mummy issues,’ as daughters as well as, in some cases, parents. Discussions about citation and the creative and subversive uses of critical theory continued in our group reading of Abigail Child’s essay ‘Active Theory.’ Thanks to those of you who resisted the lure of a sunny afternoon in the park to join us for such a rich encounter and exchange. Pics 6-10 Su Friedrich The Ties That Bind; 11-13 Michelle Citron Daughter Rite; 14-20 Alina Marazzi For One More Hour With You. @rachel.garfield @helmut_recko
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What an honour to write a tribute to Adrian Searle for The Guardian @guardian. Adrian has just stepped down after 30 years as The Guardian’s chief art critic. A razor sharp mind, wit and extremely good company, he’s the only critic whose opinion has really mattered to me. He’s also the only critic to have been humped on a lawn by my worried rescue collie. They were as discerning as each other and I miss both of their opinions immensely 🤍🖤🤍🖤
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Such a great fdrg meeting yesterday: screening of Moyra Davey’s 2011 film Les Goddesses, which interweaves reflections on and readings by Mary Wollstonecraft, her sisters and circle, with photographs of and thoughts about Davey and her own rebellious and complex siblings. 🍿 We followed the screening with an out loud reading from Davey’s writing which prompted discussions about layered time and historical resonances, ethics in auto and documentary art and writing practices, literary touchstones, voice and repetition, domesticity and dust. ⚡️ thanks to organisers @a_m_y_t_o_b_i_n @afeministchorus & @helmut_recko and @_greengrassi for their support. Moyra Davey’s new show, FOUR, is at greengrassi in Kennington and is a must see.
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The recent MFA Curating Workshop ‘Making and Mediating Publics’ was devised and facilitated by Part 2 students @ivan.idk, @keenmekm, @marinamir___ , @oh__by, @hsintien____ , @ellereneart , @lizzi3w , & @amber_yovoy , in collaboration with Goldsmiths Reader in Curating @helmut_recko .      Over three days we explored modes of public engagement, activation and mediation across the visual arts sector. With a focus on co-creation and co-curation, the Workshop foregrounded initiatives designed to build relationships of reciprocity and exchange between art institutions and publics which they have historically excluded or marginalised. Questions of safeguarding and care, risk and safety were key. Site visits and guest presentations from curators of education, public engagement, and exhibitions grounded discussions within tangible case studies and professional experiences.   Participatory student-designed activities include a quiz on risk and safety, an institutional transformation evaluation toolkit, and a self-directed exercise in slow looking.   Two academic essays framed and informed the Workshop’s conceptualisation.   - Bernadette Lynch, ‘INTRODUCTION: Neither helpful nor unhelpful – a clear way forward for the useful museum,’ in Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum, 2020 - Trish Scott, ‘Radical Power Sharing: Navigating Facilitatory Power in Museum and Gallery Engagement.’ The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 18, no. 2 (2025).   Thanks to our fantastic guest speakers @gcollum100, Learning Curator at @camdenartcentre , who shared his work with young people and under-served communities and groups; @liat_and_co who discussed her role producing the first series of @tate Lates; @trish_c_scott, who shed light on processes of co-creation and radical power sharing; and @icalondon Curator @ank5000, who highlighted the complexities of curating and activating the @lauralima________ exhibition ‘Drawing Drawing.’
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Happy New Year! 🌟 Here’s our wrap on 2025! A huge thank you to all the students, staff, speakers, alumni, and partners who made this year such a generous, rigorous, and joyful one. Including: 1&2 An incredible run of Part Two workshops with wonderful guest speakers 3&4 We had a lovely range of celebrations, including an end-of-academic-year summer party a farewell to the 23–25’ cohort, as well as our End-of-term xmas party fun 5 A huge conGRADulations to the 22–24’ cohort on graduating earlier this year! 6&7 A hello and goodbye to our Junior Fellows; heartfelt thanks to @priscillalylo , and a warm welcome to @juliapolo_ 8 Celebrating Goldsmiths Art Department’s 2nd place in the Guardian League Table 9 A welcoming trip to the Turner Prize in Bradford and Incredible trips to Birmingham & Gallery-hopping across London and catching up with alumni 10&11 Wonderfully rich speaker sessions 12 12 Brilliant alumni catch-ups 13 Amazing placements with CCA @acme.art @cubitt_gallery Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals @formaartsmedia @artangel_ldn @peergallery and many more!!! 14 Incredible student and alumni projects hosted internationally including @sqft.space @outhousegallery @goldsmithscca @hyphastudios @ycrp_fsrr @maydayrooms, @deptfordx and @ampgallery! 15 Celebrating staff achievements: @la__colin launch of the book ‘Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization’ with Sternberg Press 16 @irene_revell launch of the book ‘Bodies of Sound: Becoming a feminist ear’ with Sarah Shin and Silver Press with events this year at Edinburgh International Book Festival and in Belgium at rile*books, KASK and LUCA. 17 @helmut_recko launch of the Auto events programme and writing group at Goldsmiths CCA with Feminist Duration Reading Group 18 and @fpclinton, who has written texts and given talks for art projects in Paris, Lisbon and London as well as continuing to be a part of the low-cost studio programme Conditions, and having conversations for Art Basel Paris and with Sophie Jung at Goldsmiths, go live online 19&20 And last but not least, our Pilot Cross-Campus Collaboration projects See you all soon!
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Wishing you all happy holidays & a very merry GOLDSMITHMAS from MFA Curating Staff and Students!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A very big thank you for a very lovely end-of-term party, organised by @juditagui, @ximena_00000 , @fr4nzine and @helmut_recko !
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