Storytelling: Curating, Collaboration and Conversations

Join us to hear curator and writer Gemma Brace share her passion for storytelling and starting conversations through contemporary art.
About this Event

STORYTELLING
CURATING, COLLABORATION & CONVERSATIONS
Wednesday 21 Octover 2026
7.00 — 8.30pm
@form_i_c_a, Unit 5 Lymore Gardens, BA2 1AQ
Join us to hear curator and writer Gemma Brace share her passion for storytelling and starting conversations through contemporary art, including curating for Bristol's Arnolfini, an international centre for contemporary art. The talk will cover her experiences of collaborating with contemporary artists, creating publications, and programming for different organisations.

Gemma Brace is Head of Exhibitions at Arnolfini and a freelance writer and curator. Recent projects include Jonathan Baldock: Held (2026); Emma Talbot: Everything is Energy; Dana Awartani: Standing by the ruins (2025); Sahara Longe: The Other Side of the Mountain (2025); Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ, Threads: ‘Breathing stories into materials’ (2023); Garry Fabian Miller: Adore (2023); Bharti Kher: The Body is a Place (2022); Forest: Wake this Ground (2022); Donna Huanca: CUEVA DE COPAL (2022); Paula Rego: Subversive Stories (2022); Frank Bowling: Land of Many Waters (2021); Chantal Joffe: From Esme – with Love and Squalor (2020); and Franko B: The Body is Not Here (2019). She is a prior recipient of a Paul Mellon Curatorial Research Support Grant, the Art Fund’s Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant and an Arvon and Visual Arts South West Critical Writing for the Visual Arts Award.