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Curator/Writer 📖 🎨 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
PhD Researcher @kingston.school.of.art
Nonconformers @yalebooks
Senior Associate @contemporaryartsociety

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Frieze Masters 2026. Lovely night with my arty buddies. ♥️ 🖼️🎨🥂🫂 🍕

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Introducing CEN member... LISA SLOMINSKI

Writer, curator and PhD researcher

Lisa Slominski is a writer, curator and PhD researcher at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London, whose practice focuses on the representation of artists with non-normative communication and the responsibilities of the cultural intermediaries who work alongside them. Her current practice-based research, A Liminal Site: Cultural Intermediaries, Agency, Identity and Representation, considers questions of artistic agency, authorship, interpretation and representation of learning disabled artists through curatorial practice and interdisciplinary research. She is the author of Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists (Yale University Press, 2022), Co-Editor of Manchester University Press’s Critical Studies in Art, Disability and Access series, Co-Founder of Art et al., and Senior Art Producer at Contemporary Art Society.

“My interest in curatorial ethics centres on the responsibilities of cultural intermediaries in the representation and interpretation of artists whose intentions may not be communicated through normative verbal or textual forms. My current practice-based PhD research considers how curators, facilitators, writers, galleries and institutions can work relationally to support artistic agency without speaking for artists, erasing difference, or allowing biography and disability to become reductive frameworks through which artistic practice is understood.

More broadly, my curatorial and research practice considers ethics as relational and situated: embedded in decisions around authorship, language, access, interpretation, collaboration and institutional representation. I am particularly interested in how questions of accountability, interdependence and plurality might inform curatorial methodologies, and how ethical practice can remain responsive to the specific artists, relationships and contexts through which it is enacted.” @slominski_projects

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WHAT. A. DAY. 🤯

Our first Club Forma Competition is officially in the books, and we couldn’t be prouder of this incredible community.

A huge thank you to every athlete who stepped up to compete, every supporter who cheered from the sidelines, and everyone who helped behind the scenes to make the day possible.

A few special shout-outs to;

• The extremely talented @karolina.wielocha for capturing these epic stills for us 📸 🖤
• The super hard working videographer @crrrrescent for chasing everyone around the track 😂 results incoming!
• Our very generous sponsors @goodrays @vivobarefoot and @trysolis for providing our athlete fuel & prizes 🏅

And everyone else that has shown there support in every and any way 🙏🏻

This is only the beginning, so keep your eyes peeled for our next event - and keep training hard in the meantime.

See you at the next one, team. 🫡

#ClubForma
#Speed
#Strength
#Mobility
#Community

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Summertime 2026 😎🫶🏼

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What might a more inclusive art discourse look like?

Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access is our new series edited by Amanda Cachia and Lisa Slominski. We welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections that demonstrate how disability transforms the conceptual, methodological, historical, or aesthetic stakes of the project.

Find out more at the link in our bio 🎨

Image credit: Joseph Grigely, Between the Walls and Me, 2023.
Photograph by Jon Verney.

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💊 INTERVENTIONS IN FLARING UP: CURATORIAL PRACTICE, DISABILITY STUDIES, AND CRITICAL DIALOGUE 💊

Tuesday 21 July, 6–7pm, Online

Join ‘Flare Up’ curators, Natasha Hoare and Mariana Lemos, alongside Amanda Cachia and Lisa Slominski, co-editors of forthcoming book series Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access (Manchester University Press), for an online discussion of curatorial practice, disability studies, access, and cultural production.

Taking ‘Flare Up’ as both a conceptual and political point of departure, the conversation will explore how disability and chronic illness unsettle normative assumptions around temporality, communication, aesthetics, labour, authorship, participation, and institutional practice.

Moving between exhibition-making and academic discourse, the event considers disability not as a supplementary framework for curating, but as a critical methodology that reshapes how contemporary art can be experienced, organised, and understood.

Sign up via the link in our bio to receive a link to join the discussion!

📷 Benoît Piéron, Pillbox of Dungeness Seed Bombs, 2018. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Sultana, and Les Tanneries. Photo: © Tadzio.

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Critical Studies in Art, Disability and Access is our new series dedicated to rethinking the relationship between disability, art history and curatorial practice. Ahead of the launch, we caught up with the editors Amanda Cachia and Lisa Slominski to learn more about their vision for the series and its aim to challenge normative assumptions about embodiment, perception and expertise while foregrounding access as central to artistic and scholarly practice.

Read the full Q&A at the MUP blog 📖

Image credit: Joseph Grigely, Between the Walls and Me, 2023.
Photograph by Jon Verney.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN📢

Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access is a new series dedicated to rethinking the relationship between disability, art history, and curatorial studies that understands disability not as a marginal identity or representational theme, but as a critical cultural position that shapes how art is produced, encountered, and known.

Foregrounding access as an epistemological condition, crip temporalities of labour and reception, and interdependent models of authorship and spectatorship, the series rethinks core art-historical and curatorial methods. Rather than expanding the canon through inclusion alone, it “disables” normative assumptions about embodiment, perception, productivity, and expertise, while critically examining how the practices of disabled artists are represented, interpreted, and institutionally mediated.

@amanda_cachia @slominski_projects
@tom.dimaria @french.jade @syrusmarcus @2eliza3mc @k.d.sherwood @sc99_uk @actionspace @carriesandahl @breejhadley

Further editorial board appointments forthcoming. Find out more about the series at the link in our bio 📖

Plain English description now available.

Image credit: Joseph Grigely, Between the Walls and Me, 2023. Photograph by Jon Verney.

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Green Park, the fourth of a series of artworks installed across central London that make up 'Westminster Notes'. An ambitious public art scheme across eight sites as part of the City of Westminster’s extensive refurbishment of public conveniences.

The artwork at Green Park celebrates the spectacle, eclecticism, and regal character of the area. Graphic lines inspired by both the roots of the surrounding landscape and the Royal family tree weave across the site, linking bold visual elements and echoing the hidden connections beneath this historic route between Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly. Lions from the Palace’s Canada Gates and figures inspired by Beau Brummell, the original dandy, appear alongside star-like forms that can also be read as scattered daffodils. Motifs of refinement, hospitality, and ornament reference the elegant traditions of the nearby arcades and Jermyn Street, while a radiant sun recalls the forgotten folly of the Temple of Concord.

A celebration of place, history and public space.
Commissioned by: City of Westminster
Public Art Delivery: CAS Consultancy
Principal Contractor: FM Conway
Architect: Hugh Broughton Architects
Artist: James Lambert
Ceramic Fabrication: H&E Smith, Stoke-on-Trent
Printing: Digital Ceramics

Photography Dirk Lindner (@dirklindnerphotography)

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In March I spoke at Curating and Coalition at Kingston University, a symposium that took Nnena Kalu’s Turner Prize win as a starting point, asking what our sector does next.

I was invited as a disabled artist and advocate with 30 years working across the sector on inclusion, and someone who had the privilege of having Nnena guest on Shade Podcast in 2022. The panel included people who have supported Nnena in sustaining her practice, including Charlotte Hollinshead (pictured) who has worked with Nnena at ActionSpace since 1999.

Across two panels we explored authorship, representation and institutional change, including the burden of representation and what it means to engage artists through the specificity of their practice rather than asking them to stand in for a whole community. As Sheryll Catto Artistic Director & CEO of ActionSpace says, the sector owes it to Nnena and every other talented learning disabled artist working today to make sure this creates movement, not a moment.

More to come.

Recordings are now available on @actionspace YouTube.

Thank you Lisa Slomenski and Actionspace for inviting reflection.

Images courtesy Actionspace.

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🌞SUMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMME🌞

Join us at CCA for an exciting series of events expanding on the themes of Flare-Up, reflecting on the exhibition’s engagement with the aesthetics and poetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness.

All events are free and open to all! Book your tickets via the link in our bio.

RELAXED VIEWINGS
03 Jun, 01 Jul & 05 Aug, 11am–12pm
Flare-Up will open an hour early on the first Wednesday of each month to prioritise the experience of those who may wish to visit the exhibition with certain adjustments. The gallery capacity will be limited, and the volume of video and audio works reduced.

EXHIBITION TOUR WITH DAN GLASS FROM ACT UP LONDON
26 Jun, 3–4pm
Join Dan Glass for a tour of Flare-Up. Glass is an activist for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and will offer readings of the art works included in the exhibition through the lens of his practice, anchored by the work of Derek Jarman and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, both AIDS activists in their lifetimes.

BSL TOUR WITH MARTIN GLOVER
27 Jun, 1–2pm
Martin Glover will deliver a British Sign Language tour of Flare-Up.

FREESTYLERS PERFORMANCES
30 Jun & 14 Aug, 6–8.30pm
Freestylers, a non-hierarchical group a group of neurodivergent artists, will perform against their large backdrop paintings exhibited in CCA’s Tank Gallery as part of Flare-Up.

ON CRIP ART PRACTICES: A RELUCTANT VANGUARD
09 Jul, 6–9.30pm
A panel discussion and readings on crip artistic practice today.

INTERVENTIONS IN FLARING UP: CURATORIAL PRACTICE, DISABILITY STUDIES, AND CRITICAL DIALOGUE
21 Jul, 6–7pm (Online)
Flare-Up curators, alongside Amanda Cachia and Lisa Slominski, co-editors of forthcoming book series ‘Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access’, will discuss curatorial practice, disability studies, access, and cultural production.

📷 Freestylers, Honey, You Are Art, 2024. Photo: Rob Harris. Bold black text on a light blue background reads 'Flare-Up Events'. Below is an image of a black room. A projector screen hangs in the middle of the room, and the floor is covered with silver foil blankets. On the screen is an image of two people sat in front of a handprinted blue backdrop. They both wear fancy dress princess outfits, regency style wigs, and red lipstick.

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