About Me

“I was hoping to see you here again. How are you?”

I overheard this greeting between two people returning to one of my events. They had come for the art, but also to find each other again. That moment stays with me. Creating the conditions in which artworks, artists, audiences, and institutions can meet with attention, trust, and a desire to return is the standard I bring to my work.

I began in arts management rather than fine art, working through community radio, theatre, galleries, artist-run spaces, and the practical labour that makes cultural life possible. For a long time, I was made to feel that understanding organisation, budgets, audiences, and professional systems diminished artistic legitimacy. Instead, I came to understand these skills as central to my curatorial practice. Curating is where artistic freedom meets the attentiveness, language, structure, and discernment that allow it to endure.

I learned by building the spaces I needed rather than waiting for permission. With artist Jason Hendrik Hansma, I founded Shimmer in Rotterdam from a need for shared experience: an intimate exhibition space where artists, artworks, and audiences could meet slowly, repeatedly, and with attention. What began as an occasional project became a sustained curatorial practice. Through Shimmer and my independent work, I have developed exhibitions with artists including stanley brouwn, Lee Kit, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Maaike Schoorel; and co-curated the first major exhibition of Charlotte Posenenske in the Netherlands with the Kröller-Müller Museum.

My book Curatorial Feelings grew from the same impulse. Rather than wait for an existing framework to describe my practice, I began writing toward one: a way of understanding curating grounded in attention, intuition, responsibility, and the time spent living alongside artworks. Recently, a reader told me their copy had been read so often it was falling apart. For me, this is what a publication, like an exhibition, can do: open a shared space in which someone recognises their own questions and finds a way to continue.

Because I had to find my own way through the tensions of artistic ambition, professional knowledge, independence, and sustainability, I learned how critical it is to seek advice and support from others. I began creating forms for this exchange through I Hope This Message Finds You Well, a podcast about the realities of curatorial work, and through Home and Away, a nomadic event series that brings people together through art and conversation.

Between Works brings these strands together as my independent curatorial office. We work with artists, institutions, publishers, and cultural organisations through exhibitions, writing, editorial projects, talks, research, public programs, and advice. Alongside this commissioned work, Between Works shares knowledge and creates support for artists and curators seeking greater clarity, professional confidence, and sustainable ways to continue.

We begin from the belief that art matters because it brings people together. Between Works is where those encounters are cultivated, whether in an exhibition, through a publication, in conversation, or within the structures that allow cultural work to remain serious, independent, and alive.