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Georgia Taylor Aguilar is Public Programmes and Residencies Producer at The Tetley, Leeds. Projects include establishing Tetley’s Associate Artists Programme and contributing to artist development partnerships in Sri Lanka and Nigeria. Previously, Georgia curated Manchester's first Cosgrove Hall Films Exhibtion and has worked with European Artistic Research Network, Helen Storey Foundation, TATE Collective and Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation.
In 2019, Georgia co-founded and produced Index; a visual art festival during Yorkshire Sculpture International which commissioned diverse artist-led projects across Leeds and Wakefield with 300 artists. She is a freelance Cultural Co-producer with Yorkshire Visual Art Network (YVAN), on BLANK_ gallery’s advisory board and is a Fellow with Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy. Currently completing MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies; research includes intersectional posthuman museology and how artist-led initiatives navigate regional contemporary art festivals. |
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Selected Projects (*Curated Exhibitions)
2020
Print Perform Present, The Tetley
Here, There & Everywhere, Africa/UK: Transforming Art Ecologies consortium with NAE/The Tetley
2019
*Index Festival, co-founder and producer
*Singing the Silences, performance lecture. European Artistic Research Network (EARN) Conference, Leeds Art Gallery/Pavilion
Colombo Art Biennale Symposium, Sri Lanka (New North and South Network)
2018
Life on The Outskirts, Helen Storey Foundation, University of Leeds
2017
*Cosgrove Hall Films Exhibition, Waterside, Manchester
*So What of the Future?, Fine Art Degree Show, University of Leeds
*Trachea Tuning, Performative Installation, The Brotherton Library
Performer: Music for Uncommon People, CAVE
Performer: Vexations, CAVE, The Hepworth Wakefield
Project Assistant, voluntary, Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE) University of Leeds
Leeds loves Arts and Culture Ambassador
2016
Installation in Circuit Switch Festival, Tate St.Ives
Collaborative AV Installation, Future Late, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern
Awards and Residencies
2020-21 Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy Fellowship (article about Artists' Terms of Engagement with Fundraising)
2017-18 Curator Incubator Programme, Waterside, Manchester
2017 Berkofsky Arts Award, University of Leeds
2017 Alan Mohun Memorial Prize, University of Leeds
Education
MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies – University of Manchester, part-time, 2018–2020
Explore emerging critical approaches and shifts in museum practice and theory.
Self directed essays and interests in:
BA Fine Art, First Class – University of Leeds, 2014–2017
2020
Print Perform Present, The Tetley
Here, There & Everywhere, Africa/UK: Transforming Art Ecologies consortium with NAE/The Tetley
2019
*Index Festival, co-founder and producer
*Singing the Silences, performance lecture. European Artistic Research Network (EARN) Conference, Leeds Art Gallery/Pavilion
Colombo Art Biennale Symposium, Sri Lanka (New North and South Network)
2018
Life on The Outskirts, Helen Storey Foundation, University of Leeds
2017
*Cosgrove Hall Films Exhibition, Waterside, Manchester
*So What of the Future?, Fine Art Degree Show, University of Leeds
*Trachea Tuning, Performative Installation, The Brotherton Library
Performer: Music for Uncommon People, CAVE
Performer: Vexations, CAVE, The Hepworth Wakefield
Project Assistant, voluntary, Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE) University of Leeds
Leeds loves Arts and Culture Ambassador
2016
Installation in Circuit Switch Festival, Tate St.Ives
Collaborative AV Installation, Future Late, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern
Awards and Residencies
2020-21 Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy Fellowship (article about Artists' Terms of Engagement with Fundraising)
2017-18 Curator Incubator Programme, Waterside, Manchester
2017 Berkofsky Arts Award, University of Leeds
2017 Alan Mohun Memorial Prize, University of Leeds
Education
MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies – University of Manchester, part-time, 2018–2020
Explore emerging critical approaches and shifts in museum practice and theory.
Self directed essays and interests in:
- Artist-led festivals
- Posthumanism museology: Intra-actions between humans and nonhumans
- Curatorial Activism within South East Asia
- Business Strategies for the Arts
BA Fine Art, First Class – University of Leeds, 2014–2017
- Thesis: The contemporary condition of Audio-Visual Media
- Modules: Cultural Analysis, Elements of Visual Culture, Cultural History
