Artrooms Fair London 2018cCatalogue

Beth Troakes, Freelance Curator and Gallery Director
Beth Troakes is freelance curator and gallery director based in Brighton, UK. She has curated exhibitions nationally and internationally and
has worked with partners in both Italy and China. Academically she specialises in performance art and works that traditionally lie outside of
the market. Her main interests include the documentation and archiving of performance art and how contemporary curators can work to
cross geographic boundaries. After graduating from a Masters in Art History, she started ongoing project ‘Lock In’, a live exploration into the
social, psychological and physical boundaries of the body. The project was set up to provide a platform for artists working in durational performance
to open up a critical debate with their live and non-live audiences. Now with a permanent home, Gallery Lock In, the project also
hosts socially engaged visual art exhibitions and has been set up to enable artists to launch their first solo exhibitions. She has also worked
with many award-winning international theatre companies and performers as a producer and strives to support artists and musicians who
are unsigned and unrepresented.
Gianfranco Valleriani, Curator and Director
Gianfranco Valleriani, journalist and researcher in communication, has founded and managed Calamo Comunicazione, a consulting company
in communication for over 20 years. He has been the director of associations operating in the cultural sector: “The Big Blue”, engaged
in promoting emerging experimental videomakers, and “The Ce.d.ro”, operating in the area of design. He was also the director of many
magazines and periodicals specialised in communication and audio-visual topics, among them “Filmakers Magazine”, which attended many
international festivals in Europe. He has been teaching visual communication in Institutes and held lectures at international Universities and
Institutions, including the Tate Modern in London. He founded the blog www.brainart.it, a collective project on “Art and Communication”,
which he is still managing. He is currently cooperating with the Chinese “Hafnia Foundation”, which promotes art projects all over the world.
Valleriani produced “After Nothing, Something about the Colors and the Life of Stevens Vaughn”, a video documentary shot in China, which
experiments new forms of visual narrative. The docu-film is going to be presented at the main international festivals of experimental movie
and documentary during 2018. Valleriani is also engaged in a mixer media installation project “Extended Blue”, which has been developed for
over a year and half, and led together with the Italian artist Mariano Filippetta. Firstly exhibited at the MACRO, Contemporary Art Museum in
Rome (December 2017), it will be exposed in additional artistic spaces in Europe, Asia and Middle East throughout 2018.
Emma Wilson, Curator and Art Historian
Emma is fascinated with the psychological relationship we have with artwork. She completed her B.A Art History at the University of Nottingham
and her research continued into an M.A History of art at the University of York. She has given talks on her research at Oxford University,
UK Houses of Parliament and the University of Nottingham and has some work published on online journals. During her research she
has undertaken practical research into audience interaction with art and artefacts in National Museums, Galleries and Historical Sites across
europe. She currently is the Curator for Athena. Here her aim is to make great artwork available for appreciation within people’s own homes
through high quality digital art prints.
Victoria Wolcough, Art Consultant
Born in Moscow of American Foreign Correspondent and Russian ballet dancer. Educated in Russia, UK and USA. Retired from Christies as
Director of Business Development. Ambassador in U.K. For TEFAF for three years. Currently working as art consultant with international museum
and art collectors.
Mariery Young, Artist and Curator
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Mariery Young is an artist and cultural manager with a background in architecture. Cultural manager in the Panama art scene she has been in
charge to curate Red bull’s ‘Canvas Cooler’ art project. Also was part of team organising Artblock. music and art festival in Casco Viejo. Her
curated projects focussed on working with artists from different disciplines. As the art director for the Tantalo Hotel, located in the historic
district of Panama, she has curated large scale statement artworks in their commercial spaces plus their Art-Room projects. Every room is
completely designed by a local artist showcasing their aesthetic to create a 12 distinct experience for their guest. She founded Mezclao Stu
dio a design studio that focuses on cultural and commercial projects for brands, entrepreneurs and local business. Creating digital and print
projects that showcase illustration and surface patterns. Recent projects are the Feng Tai Business Cluster, the Yuhang cultural Center, the
Dianshan Lake Master Plan in Shanghai.