Independent curator, researcher, consultant and coach Stella Sideli will lead a 2-hour session with Career, Plan, Development participants, a group of residents and members who participated in project 1-2-1s early this year. Career, Plan, Development is a long-term artist development project which aims to support residents and members to work towards ambitious and achievable goals through the development of 1, 3 and 5 year career plans.
Part 1: As a group we will discuss your progress since you last met Stella. Please come to the session prepared to speak about your goals, actions around ongoing projects and next steps. This is an opportunity to gather feedback and advice from Stella and in conversation with other participants.
The community at Primary is very special, with so much of talent and knowledge that can be shared amongst its residents and members to support the community itself!
Part 2: An opportunity to fire questions at Stella and the wider group. You can ask anything, your question might be specific to your work and professional life, or more general. Please come prepared with some questions.
Remember this is a group session and we ask that you please hold space for yourself and others to feel comfortable to speak, give feedback that is encouraging and constructive. Be aware of the time you’re taking and let others join in as well. You can refer to our Online Events Code of Conduct here.
Stella Sideli is an independent curator, researcher, consultant and coach in the arts, based in London and working in the UK, Europe and the Mediterranean. She has previously worked for SPACE (2021), closely with a community of nine hundred artists, across artist development, community and public programmes. At Somerset House (2018 - 2020) she curated the artist development programme, the international artist residencies and the related partnership programmes on occasion of new commissions.
Between 2014 and 2018, she was curating exhibitions at Tenderpixel in London. Independently, in the last six years, she has been contributing to cultural programmes, taking part in juries and conferences, mentoring artists in galleries and institutions in Europe and the Mediterranean (e.g., Italy, Israel, Germany, Finland).
She became an accredited relational dynamics coach in 2020, to further support artists and organisations to grow; using her ten years curatorial and cultural programmer experience, she coaches and mentors artists and creatives (e.g., Primary, Nottingham; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge UK; Somerset House; Women Connect UK; Artist Mentor).
She completed her postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, in Critical Theory and Practice (Cultural Studies) with prior training in communication and semiotics from the University of Palermo, Italy.