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EAF is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art, and returns from 9 – 25 August 2024. Founded in 2004, we work with local and international partners to present an ambitious and meaningful programme of exhibitions, events and projects across the city. EAF cultivates connections between artists, collaborators and communities to develop contemporary visual art projects in Edinburgh. In August, we present the UK’s largest annual visual art festival that is deeply rooted in the city and Scotland, with a global dialogue and connection. We envision ourselves as a platform that amplifies intersectional voices and perspectives. Our mission is to:-Nurture vision from artists and partners, to develop multidisciplinary work that is innovative, intersectional, and led by our values.-Be actively interested in progressing equity, in the projects we produce and the ways we work (with commitment and empathy).-Be a convenor of partners locally and globally. -Be guided by our research and intertwined relationships with people, and an advocate for others.-Be agile, responsive and adaptive to the world we are living in, with care and support. Create programmes and experiences for people to find connections and come together.Our values are rooted in advocating for social justice and ensuring that visual art is inclusive, accessible, and representative of a variety of lived experiences, allowing our audiences to connect on a personal level with the art we commission, exhibit, and produce.

HOUSEHOLD is an art organisation that works with artists and communities to meaningfully respond to public places. We collectively develop and produce art activities for and with communities of visual artists, writers, curators, residents and visitors in Belfast that take place across the city, often in unexpected spaces.Household values the production of high-quality art, relationships with collaborators and partners, and working in ways that connect with and benefit people and place.We are interested in telling untold stories, asking unspoken questions, and revealing hidden narratives through creative, engaging visual arts programming. We also organise events that encourage networking and support shared learning and creative and professional development.Our other events have included the delivery of two art festivals in over 80 domestic spaces and public sites in collaboration with over 170 artists and local organisations; a six-week art and residency programme across disused city-centre offices; a series of citywide interventions, talks, commissions and events in collaboration with local and international partners and creative practitioners; and a range of presentations, discussions, debates and get-togethers in Belfast and elsewhere. In partnership with Belfast City Council we presented The Imagined City, a programme of public events considering the role of art and artists in urban environments; and together with Belfast Film Festival and Artangel The Arbor, a series of film screenings and discussions in private and community spaces.Household operates under a collective leadership model. The Belfast team includes artist and organiser Jane Butler, curators Alissa Kleist and Ciara Hickey, artist and arts administrator Sinead O’Neill-Nicholl, and is supported by designer Sean Greer; and co-founders and Company Directors: Belfast-based artist Sighle Bhreathnach Cashell and curators Kim McAleese and Eoin Dara, who are based in Birmingham and Dundee.

Grand Union is a gallery and artists’ studios complex in Digbeth, Birmingham. We are a welcoming organisation, bringing the public closer to art and artists. We host a free programme of public exhibitions and events, and our building is home to 22 artists in the studios. We support learning, creating numerous contexts for art and life to intersect. Our work places an emphasis on the importance of collaboration and long-term artistic research. Many of these projects take place outside of the gallery, across the city of Birmingham through our Collaborative Programme.We work with people in many different ways: through commissioning artists, curators and writers for exhibitions; through long-term research with community partners and activist groups; with the vulnerably-housed on our community gardens and growing spaces; through our higher-education relationships with universities; with property developers on how to better build future cities; through national relationships with other cultural partners. We are also working on an ambitious capital project, to reinvigorate a disused grade II listed building to be our future home and an accessible art centre for the city. Our organisation is built through honest, strong, reciprocal human relationships, which informs other aspects of our organisational values and aims. Grand Union cares: about people, about futures, about histories, about art and about the environment. We work with integrity, compassion and generosity.

Jury member and selector of winner for the Turner Prize 2021 in CoventryThe Turner Prize is awarded annually to an artist born, living or working in Britain, for an outstanding exhibition or public presentation of their work anywhere in the world in the previous year.Every other year the Turner Prize is staged outside of London, with this year being presented in Coventry as part of the UK City of Culture 2021.The Prize’s four shortlisted artists will exhibit alongside a local, national, and international artists as part of Coventry Biennial 2021.The shortlisted artists are:• Array Collective (winners)• Black Obsidian Sound System• Cooking Sections• Gentle/Radical• Project Art WorksThis is the first time a Turner Prize jury has selected a shortlist consisting entirely of artist collectives. All the nominees work closely and continuously with communities across the breadth of the UK to inspire social change through art. The collaborative practices selected for this year’s shortlist also reflect the solidarity and community demonstrated in response to the pandemic.The members of the 2021 Turner Prize jury are:• Aaron Cezar, Director, Delfina Foundation• Kim McAleese, Programme Director, Grand Union• Russell Tovey, Actor• Zoé Whitley, Director, Chisenhale Gallery• Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain (Chair)

Taking as its point of departure the name of the decaying stately home inhabited by the inglorious Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Satis House is at once a new and very old domestic space just off the Ormeau Road in South Belfast.Held within a row of terraces on Deramore Avenue, the space exists in what was once the master bedroom of this modest dwelling. Now cleared of fixtures, furniture, and personal belongings, this room is transfigured on a monthly basis under the curatorial direction of both myself and Eoin Dara, working with both emerging and established artists, inviting them to respond directly to this unique environment

As the primary artist-led gallery space in Northern Ireland, Catalyst is run by a committee of co-directors who, together, are responsible for all gallery activities, from project managing exhibitions and events to representing the gallery in contemporary art projects based in Scotland, England and the Republic of Ireland.Working at Catalyst I gained experience in most aspects of art space management and development including work selection and display, contribution to catalogue and gallery texts, general administration, organisation of artists’ travel and accommodation, booking venues, insurance issues, sound/AV/lighting equipment supply, evaluation of events and exhibitions, budgeting and publicity, and fundraising.