Curator Works is the website of UK based curator Kerry Harker.

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Dr Kerry Harker is a curator, researcher and writer. She has worked in the visual arts sector for over 25 years, predominantly in the north of England. In 2006 she co-founded Project Space Leeds (with Pippa Hale and Diane Howse) which led to the founding of The Tetley centre for contemporary art in 2013, where she was inaugural Artistic Director until 2015. She was then interim Director of The Art House in Wakefield (2015-16); and Founder and Artistic Director of the East Leeds Project (2017-25).

Her PhD at the University of Leeds (2023) focused on artist-led initiatives and processes of institutionalisation. In 2023-24 she co-curated, with Dr Anna Douglas, the touring exhibition If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain 1960-2023 (The Hepworth Wakefield and Saatchi Gallery, London).

She is currently Bridget Riley Art Foundation Fellow at the University of Leeds, working with the archive of artist and educator, Maurice de Sausmarez.

Courtesy of Cultural Collections, University of Leeds