centenary programme / In Fellowship

Centenary Curatorial Fellowships: Towards establishing new strategies for curating and working with public collections. Working in partnership with our member museums to draw additional curatorial skills in to their teams was a new working model for the Contemporary Art Society. We expect that these first appointments will establish the value of specialist contemporary curating in museums and intend to develop the programme with other partners in future years.

Vivienne Gaskin
The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Coventry
Vivienne Gaskin started her six month fellowship in April 2010. She worked with the team at the Herbert to develop the collection strategy with a specific focus on collecting digital media. She worked on elements of the public programme for 2011 and, with the Contemporary Art Society and the staff at the Herbert, purchased a new work for the collection.

Vivienne is a curator and producer with over fifteen years experience within contemporary arts. Her expertise is derived from the performing arts and digital media genre whilst spanning the other complimentary fields of practice. Previously held posts include Director of Performing Arts and Digital Media at the ICA, London 2002-06, and Head of the Artistic Programme and Education at CCA, Glasgow.


Elisa Kay
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Elisa Kay worked at Nottingham Castle for nine months from September 2010. She contributed to the development of new programming and particularly on the re-installation of the permanent collection exhibition spaces. She went on to develop an exhibition for the public programme for January 2011.

Elisa Kay is currently Curator at Flat Time House, the former home and studio of the late British artist John Latham. During her time working at the house she has established a pioneering programme that has included Latham’s contemporaries and collaborators as well as work by more recent generations of artists. Projects include a solo show of, a previously unseen group of works by Latham at Lisson Gallery, London, and a new commission and exhibition by Laure Prouvost.


Robert Dingle
Contemporary Art Society
Robert Dingles’ Fellowship lasted for twelve months and focused on establishing our web site as a national resource for our Museums Members and the growing National Network Membership.

Over the last fourteen months since completing his Masters at Goldsmiths Robert has worked closely with the Arts Council Collection to curate an exhibition drawn from the Collection. The Gathering opened in March 2010 at Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He is co-founder of Hold and Freight and in parallel to the fellowship he continued to work alongside Catriona Warren as curator for murmurART, Hoxton Square.