Bryony Bond is the Alchemy Curator at The Manchester Museum. Alchemy initiates and facilitates artists’ access to The Manchester Museum and The University of Manchester. Funded by the Arts Council of England, Alchemy supports four Artist Fellowships, curates artist’s interventions in the museum’s permanent galleries and facilitates artist’s research and the loan of The Manchester Museum’s collections for contemporary art projects. Started in 2003 the project has worked with national and international artists such as Mark Dion (who produced the semi-permanent installation and publication the Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies) Spring Hurlbut, Pavel Büchler, Antony Hall, Louise Brookes and Kevin Malone. The four Felllowships for 2006 – 2008 are: Ilana Halperin, Jordan Baseman, Nick Jordan & Jacob Cartwright and Jamie Shovlin.
Bond also works as a freelance curator and project manager, recently project-managing Goshka Macuga’s exhibition Sleep of Urlo at A Foundation as part of the Liverpool Biennial, and curating a series of exhibitions at Sherborne House, Dorset as part of the Colour+Chemistry project, looking at the connections between science and art in the making and understanding of colour.
www.manchester.ac.uk/community/alchemy
www.afoundation.org.uk
www.sherbornehouse.org.uk
Other participants
Liesbeth Bik, Mary Bouquet, David Chapman, Anna Grimshaw, Ade Hunter, Rosalind Nashashibi, Daniel Peltz, Amanda Ravetz, Paul Rooney, Erika Tan, Lucien Taylor, Jos van der Pol, Soumhya Venkatesan, Chris Wright and Lesley Young
Go to Bryony Bond’s object presented on Day One
