Speakers

Dominic Bilton is a project producer, working primarily on the Whitworth’s adult public programme, and a socially engaged curator. He co-curated (with Imogen Holmes-Roe) the exhibition (Un)Defining Queer in collaboration with the charity LGBT Foundation in Manchester. He is currently working on the new socially engaged exhibition, Recoverist Curators in collaboration with the ‘recoverist’ arts organisation, Portraits of Recovery. 

Dominic developed the project Queering the Whitworth providing a framework for the Whitworth’s LGBTQIA+ focused programming. His writing can be found in the journal Stages, which is published by Liverpool Biennial, and he has co-edited the upcoming special edition of the journal Art and the Public Sphere: Queer(ing) art, curation and collaboration.

Dominic has taught on the MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies: Curating Art module at the University of Manchester, where he also supervises MA dissertations. His current research interests are in the innovative approaches to socially engaged museum practice, Arte Útil and Constituent Museum practice.