Olivia (Liv) Penrose Punnett
Lecturer in Fine Art
Summary
Liv Penrose Punnett is a curator, consultant, and M4C and AHRC Ï㽶ÊÓƵer at Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. Drawn to alternative ways of knowing, Liv uses contemporary art to unpick, question, and re-imagine and has curated numerous Arts Council supported exhibitions and events, working with artists such as Susan Hiller, Dorothy Cross, Feral Practice, and Tai Shani. Her artistic practice includes printmaking, installation, and projection.
As Director at Haarlem Artspace, a rural contemporary studio and gallery in Derbyshire, Liv leads experimental cultural programmes focused on spiritual ecology and intersectional environmentalism.
Clients and employers include The National Trust, Artes Mundi Wales, New Art Exchange Nottingham, and Arusha Gallery. Liv holds an Arts and Humanities Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Council Award, the SIA Gallery Award and the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Award, and her publications are held in The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, The Ruskin Archive, and the Tate Library and Archive.
Teaching
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Subject area
Fine Art
Courses taught
Fine Art
Modules taught
Art Practice
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- Culture and Creativity Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
A Poetical Science: Exploring Art, Feminism and Technology through Contemporary Curatorial Practice
Using curation as a matrix and methodology, this project explores how Womxn in art and technology use relational ethics and intuition to produce new knowledge. Against the separation of 'Techne and Magic' (Campagna, F., 2018) and advocating for a more holistic, emotional, intuitive, and pluralised practice 'extending beyond literal technological mechanics' (Russell, L 2020), a Poetical Science aims to critically engage with emerging narratives in art, feminism, and technology; investigating the marginalisation of womxn's contributions to show the vital role of 'magic' in the construction of technological realities (Federici, S., 2020).
Projects
- A Poetical Science: Exploring Art, Feminism and Technology through Contemporary Curatorial Practice
- Wales Venice 10 Fellowship and Commission Programme with Artes Mundi & Arts Council Wales
- A Strange Kind of Knowing, Arusha Gallery London, and Haarlem Artspace Wirksworth.
- Pleasure Ground Residency Ama Josephine Budge, Adam Moore & Verity Birt, Ingestre Orangery
- re:rural-four contemporary artists un-learn and re-imagine the rural, Annalee Davis, Feral Practice, Deirdre O’Mahony, Pauline Woolley. Haarlem Artspace.
- Fieldwork, Fourthland, Tazelaar Stevenson, Michael Page, David Steans, speakers Glennie Kindred, Helen Jukes, Mary Wiltshire, Dr Chris Thornhill, Penny Newell. Haarlem Artspace.
- Something Unusual On Cicchetti Community Event, curated by Lera Berest, Liv Punnett & Daniela Hediger. Venice Biennial, Dorsoduro, 943, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy
- Collectivism Residency Haarlem Artspace Derbyshire.
- Where Rock & Hard Place Meet, Victoria Lucas, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth Festival.
- Internal Nebular, Dorothy Cross, Alastair Mackie and Liz Orton. Haarlem Artspace Exhibition (Guardian Guide Editors Pick 15/09/2017).Print and Works on Paper, Bronwen Sleigh, Joan Ainley, Beth Bowie and Geoff Diego Litherland. Mercia Wirksworth
Member of The Climate History Network / Member of the Higher Education Academy / Member of The New Centre for Ï㽶ÊÓƵ & Practice / Member Culture Action Europe
Press, publications and conferences
• Ellen Wilkinson, 27/01/2022, Now Showing: This month’s must-see exhibitions and events, a-n The Artists Information Company,
• Alexander Clarke, 17/12/21 Primordial Whispers at Arusha Gallery, Trebuchet Magazine,
• Anna Souter, 28/09/2020 RE: RURAL, The learned Pig Magazine,
• Jonathan Jones, 2019/09/2020, Guardian Review for re-rural
• Alice Fisher, 19/09/2020, Wild plants of Barbados illustrated on plantation ledgers – in pictures, The Observer Magazine, j
• Sara Jaspan, 26/02/2018 Exploring PAPER with Olivia Punnett, The Fourdrinier,
Collaborators and sponsors
- AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
- Arts and Humanities Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Council
- Nottingham Contemporary Gallery
- Nottingham Trent University
Other activities
- Quality Assessor for Arts Council England (ad hoc)
- Freelance Curator Od Arts Festival