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Michael Tooby
Tooby is an independent curator based in Cardiff, Wales. He is Professor in Art & Design at Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University. Tooby’s career includes posts at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Third Eye Centre Glasgow and Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield. He was founding curator of Tate St Ives (1991-9) and a Director of Amgueddfa Cymru, National Museum Wales (2000-11). He was founding chair of Wales at Venice Biennale.
Since 2011 Tooby’s projects range from small scale projects in his home city to work with major venues across the UK and internationally. His recent curating projects include ‘ wavespeech by Edmund de Waal and David Ward for Pier Arts Centre Orkney (2015) and ‘Journeys with “The Waste Land”’ at Turner Contemporary Margate, and The Herbert, Coventry, and Coventry Cathedral (2018). He was advisory curator to Coventry Cathedral for the project ‘Broken Angel’ (2020-23). He was academic advisor to the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (2015-19). He gave the 2018 Ursula Hoff Lecture at the University of Melbourne.
Biography
Tooby is an independent curator based in Cardiff, Wales. He is Professor in Art & Design at Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University. Tooby’s career includes posts at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Third Eye Centre Glasgow and Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield. He was founding curator of Tate St Ives (1991-9) and a Director of Amgueddfa Cymru, National Museum Wales (2000-11). He was founding chair of Wales at Venice Biennale.
Since 2011 Tooby’s projects range from small scale projects in his home city to work with major venues across the UK and internationally. His recent curating projects include ‘ wavespeech by Edmund de Waal and David Ward for Pier Arts Centre Orkney (2015) and ‘Journeys with “The Waste Land”’ at Turner Contemporary Margate, and The Herbert, Coventry, and Coventry Cathedral (2018). He was advisory curator to Coventry Cathedral for the project ‘Broken Angel’ (2020-23). He was academic advisor to the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (2015-19). He gave the 2018 Ursula Hoff Lecture at the University of Melbourne.
