Emerging Curators Group & SEPALS Previously organised as the Early Career Curators Group (ECCG), in 2021 we welcomed a new cohort of curators following a revised programme of activities under the altered title of Emerging Curators Group (ECG). In its membership the 2021 ECG reflected BAN’s commitment to expanding definitions of the curatorial, including as it did freelance researchers, writers, artist-researchers and programmers as well as curators working in museum or gallery settings who had prevailed in previous iterations of the ECCG. The group met for workshops online with a mix of peer-to-peer interaction and discussions with a wide range of colleagues from galleries and heritage settings including Tate, Chatsworth House, Southbank Centre, Black Curatorial Labs, Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums. Group members were then able to come together for a two-day workshop in Liverpool in October 2021, visiting Tate Liverpool, Bluecoat and the Walker Art Gallery, and also meeting colleagues from FACT and Open Eye Gallery.
Emerging Curators Group members with staff at The Bluecoat, Liverpool, October 2021, © Tate (Jake Ryan)
Members of the ECG also undertook individual research projects, ranging from art-historical case-studies of eighteenth and nineteenth century British art through to activity exploring how drawing can support 11
