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Bio
British Art Network Funding
Footnotes
Cove Park
 

   

Isobel Cawley is an independent curator based in Morecambe. She follows a research-led practice that brings critical discourse into dialogue with contemporary art, and is particularly interested in the research capacity of exhibition-making practices that are sensitive to the environment and to the choreographic. Her curatorial work foregrounds process-based approaches, understanding the exhibition as a space of anticipation.


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01.British Art Network
Bursary Fund
2025


This research project will connect with artist-led curatorial initiatives across the UK that operate under economic, geographic or institutional constraints, in order to gather methodologies for place-based, sustainable curatorial systems. The outcomes will inform the development of a new art infrastructure in Morecambe and a reflective online resource for curators working in similar provincial contexts.

Funded by British Art Network, Tate, Yale, Paul Mellon Centre and Arts Council England. 

02.Footnotes
CBS Gallery
Liverpool 
7 - 27 June 2025


Footnotes brings together works by current CBS studio members as they articulate their sensitivities towards knowledge, perception and collaboration. The exhibition maps correspondences between methods of research gathering and sharing, embracing research as a communicative tool. Rejecting resolution, it foregrounds processes of exchange and provisionality as critical possibilities. 

Featuring works by Emma Deaton, Gregory Herbert, Joseph Hulme, Paula Kolar, KOZ, JC Leisure, JoMo, Valentina Passerini and Keziah Thomas-Mellor. 

CBS Gallery and Studios is an artist-run space encouraging process-led work, cross-disciplinary thinking, and representing a commitment to making space for risk, play, and critical reflection.

Supported by Liverpool Independents Biennial and Arts Council England.

03. Residency
Cove Park
Argyll and Bute
7 - 10  April 2025



A residency at Cove Park developing the visual articulation of a research project about calcification in biocapital formations of gender and race, testing various curatorial approaches for the presentation of this research. With collaborator Penn Newell, Lecturer in Creative & Critical Writing at Birkbeck University.