Seán Elder
Seán Elder is a curator and writer from the Scottish Highlands, currently Curatorial Fellow at Cubitt, London,and based between Birmingham and London. Educated at Schools of Art in Birmingham, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, Elder recently completed a doctoral research project examining the roles and potentials of affect within curatorial writing practices. Previously they were Associate Curator at Grand Union, Birmingham, and has worked independently with a number of organisations and artists to develop writing, exhibitions, screenings, and events.
Elder has grown from, through, and with relationships with artists including; Gordon Douglas, Rami George, Benny Nemer, Kirsty Russell, Tako Taal, Rehana Zaman and many more, with organisations including; Jerwood Arts, London; Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee; Grand Union, Birmingham; BALTIC 39, Newcastle; The Stuart Croft Foundation; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Hospitalfield, Arbroath; BEK, Bergen; LUX Scotland.