Primary is launching the trail phase of a long-term artist development project which aims to support residents and members to work towards ambitious and achievable goals through the development of 1, 3 and 5 year career plans.
We are working with curator, researcher, art advisor and coach Stella Sideli who will facilitate 1-2-1 sessions with residents and members who are interested in this approach to their own artistic and professional development. Following initial meetings, we will consult with participants to understand if this is a process they want to engage in long-term. Together we will consider the best approach to develop the project.
Sessions combine coaching techniques with mentoring, utilising Stella Sideli’s skills and knowledge as a contemporary art curator, arts advisor and coach in the arts.
Booking and access: This opportunity is for Primary residents and members only, please click here to book. There are 16 slots available, please book one session only. If you are unable to attend, please let us know. Sessions will take place online; a link will be sent in advance. Please share any information that would be useful for Stella to review ahead of your session by 28 February. Contact colette@weareprmary.org with any access requirements.
Stella Sideli is an independent curator, researcher, consultant and coach in the arts, based in London and working in the UK, Europe and the Mediterranean. She has previously worked for SPACE (2021), closely with a community of nine hundred artists, across artist development, community and public programmes. At Somerset House (2018 - 2020) she curated the artist development programme, the international artist residencies and the related partnership programmes on occasion of new commissions.
Between 2014 and 2018, she was curating exhibitions at Tenderpixel in London. Independently, in the last six years, she has been contributing to cultural programmes, taking part in juries and conferences, mentoring artists in galleries and institutions in Europe and the Mediterranean (e.g., Italy, Israel, Germany, Finland).
She became an accredited relational dynamics coach in 2020, to further support artists and organisations to grow; using her ten years curatorial and cultural programmer experience, she coaches and mentors artists and creatives (e.g., Primary, Nottingham; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge UK; Somerset House; Women Connect UK; Artist Mentor).
She completed her postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, in Critical Theory and Practice (Cultural Studies) with prior training in communication and semiotics from the University of Palermo, Italy.