James M-Hiskett
Curator
Exposure Photography Festival
Curator/Creative Producer
2024 - 2025
Exposure is the UK’s first Climbing Photography Festival. Through workshops, talks, social events and an exhibition, the weekend long festival, held in Sheffield, UK, celebrates the role of images in the sport and culture of climbing. Each year, the hub of the festival is a group exhibition exploring different themes within photographic image making, outdoor adventure culture, and elite sport.
One World Festival is a free open air community festival held each summer in New Mills in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK. It celebrates the themes of peace, the environment, cultural diversity, community and world development. Community led and run, it is one of the High Peak’s most popular events and includes live music, food & drink, art, community & charity stalls, family activities, talks and discussions.
One World
Festival
Creative Producer
2024 - 2026
Chewing
the Fat
Curator
2022
Chewing The Fat is a series of discussions unpacking diverse curatorial perspectives from across the North-West of England, UK. It brought together curators based in the region to consider how different approaches and frameworks influence the way they work. The discussions formed a short series of podcasts released throughout July 2022 to coincide with A Modest Show; the official collateral event for the British Art Show 9 in Manchester, UK. The project was supported by Castlefield Gallery and commissioned for A Modest Show.
Pavement Gallery was a 24/7 gallery space facing All Saints Park and Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. It delivered an ambitious programme of international contemporary art, alongside strands of other curatorial activity both online and offline. Set in the window of a former drapery store, the space - which cannot be entered by the public - provided a highly visible stage for the display of contemporary art. Pavement was run by a rolling group of Associates. The Associate model operated on an equal division of work and democratic decision making process.
Pavement Gallery
Associate Curator
2019 - 2022
Curators
of
Tomorrow
Curator in residence
2021
Curators of Tomorrow is a fellowship programme initiated by Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien and Manchester School of Art. It facilitates collaboration between the two locations and provides postgraduate students the opportunity to pursue research interests in a new setting and develop an international profile. James took part in the inaugural cohort which launched in July 2021, travelling to Vienna and spending one month as a curator in residence at Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien.