Index Panel Discussion

Index Panel Discussion

Saturday 14 September, 4:30pm

The Tetley, South Bank Room

Index invites you to join us for a panel discussion with invited speakers Holly Willats, Sufea Mohamad Noor and Eleanor Rambellas Roche, chaired by Index Leeds Producers; Georgia Taylor Aguilar and James Maxfield.

Together we will address the festival model as a way for the production and presentation of artist-led activity as well as the strengths, threats and opportunities that the role of a visual art festival has within Leeds. 

Please note this will be recorded from the back of the room. If you would prefer to be unrecorded or anonymous, there will be a way to do this during the event or you can send us comments/questions in advance to leeds@indexfestival.org for us to explore. 

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Eleanor Rambellas Roche

Eleanor Rambellas Roche is an artist and co-organiser of Nocturne and Club. Nocturne is an artist led crit group based in Leeds and Club is an artist led group also based in Leeds.

Nocturne are currently putting together a publication in conjunction with Index Festival which aims to explore the difficulties of arts festivals, how they impact cities and residents and what should be considered after arts festivals finish.

Holly Willats

Holly Willats is an independent curator & writer, and the Director of the arts organisation, Art Licks. Having founded Art Licks in 2010, she has since edited 23 issues of its magazine, directed six editions of its London festival (the Art Licks Weekend) and produced and curated various artist events, including those at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Art. She recently carried out residencies in São Paulo, Brazil; and Bogotá, Colombia with FLORA ars+natura (funded by Arts Council England & the British Council). Holly also works as a freelance curator and writer, recently curating exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 53 Beck Road, and ALPS. She has written for Art Monthly and ArtQuest on research into artist-led activity in London and other cities, including São Paulo, Brazil, and Lisbon, Portugal.

www.artlicks.com | www.artlicksweekend.com

Sufea Mohamad Noor

Sufea Mohamad Noor is an artist and curator based in Liverpool. Her primary interests are useful art and postcolonial discourse. Sufea is currently exploring typography and embodiment through making artist books, hosting communal meals and creating textiles sculptures. Sufea recently published an article about representation, peers, mentors and balancing practice with work for Museum ID. Previous commissions include The Good Society Sunday Lunch at The Bluecoat, Liverpool (2017), PAGES New Voices Project at The Tetley, Leeds (2019). She was also awarded the UKYA and Porthmeor Studio Residency in St Ives (2018), UKYA Cultural Leadership Coaching (2018) and Helen’s Gossip Professional Development Bursary from Heart of Glass (2018). 

Sufea is currently an Artistic Director at The Royal Standard and a Board Member of Corridor8 alongside working as the Development Assistant at Tate Liverpool.