NETWORK OF ART PROFESSIONALS
Available for `The Residency 2026
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Weekly one-to-one mentorship sessions
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You choose the arts professional you meet each week
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Access to a constantly updated network of curators, gallerists, and arts professionals
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Direct feedback and real professional connections
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INGRID WELSH
The Residence Gallery
ARTIST / CURATOR — FOUNDER OF THE RESIDENCE GALLERY
Ingrid Welsh is an experienced art world professional and creative entrepreneur with over 20 years of work across international galleries, art fairs, museums, community outreach, and private dealing. Since 2005, they have directed and curated The Residence Gallery in London, sustaining its relevance for two decades through bold experimentation, a strong DIY ethos, and complete dedication. Their curatorial vision is shaped by their training as an artist, combining historical knowledge with lived cultural experience to blur boundaries, resist easy definitions, and keep art alive as an open question.
LINDSAY FRIEND
IMT Gallery
GALLERY DIRECTOR / ARTIST MENTOR
Lindsay Friend is the Director of IMT Gallery, a contemporary art space in East London, known for supporting boundary-pushing artists and presenting thought-provoking projects that delve into complex social, cultural, and philosophical themes. Representing a core group of emerging to established artists, IMT is recognised for its collaborative and international approach. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience curating exhibitions and mentoring artists, Lindsay brings practical insight into creative practice and professional development. Her mentoring combines curatorial perspective with strategic guidance, helping artists refine ideas, strengthen how they present their work, and navigate opportunities within London’s wider art community.
SÉAMUS McCORMACK
COMMONAGE PROJECT Gallery / NEW CONTEMPORARIES
GALLERY DIRECTOR / SENIOR CURATOR
Séamus McCormack is a curator based in London. He has curated exhibitions at Lismore Castle Arts; The LAB, Dublin; The Bomb Factory, London; Sarabande Foundation London and Luan Gallery, Athlone. In 2021 he founded Commonage Projects. Currently Senior Curator, New Contemporaries, Previously he was an Assistant Curator at both Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin He has been a visiting lecturer at RCA, Slade and Goldsmiths London; Glasgow College of Art, Leeds Beckett University and Oxford Brookes University. Selection Panels include International Artists Residency Programme, IMMA; Middlesborough Art Week and the Freelands Painting Prize.
HANNAH WOODS
WHITECHAPEL Gallery
ASSOCIATE CURATOR
Hannah Woods is Associate Curator at Whitechapel Gallery. Recent projects include Hamad Butt: Apprehensions, Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles, and Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation, as well as performance programmes for The London Open Live and Lygia Clark: The I and You. Previously, Hannah worked at Barbican Art Gallery on exhibitions including Noguchi, Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics and RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology. Hannah is founding editor of motor dance journal, a print publication dedicated to dance and performance practices, and has curated independent projects at San Mei Gallery and Maxmillian William.
OSCAR ABDULLA
CHISENHALE Gallery
ASSISTANT CURATOR
Oscar Abdulla is a London-based curator, writer and photographer, currently working as Assistant Curator at Chisenhale Gallery, London. At Chisenhale, he has worked closely on delivering the gallery's Commissions programme, developing exhibitions and publications by artists including: Lotus Laurie Kang, Alia Farid, Claudia Pagès Rabal, and most recently, Arash Nassiri. Formally trained as a documentary photographer, Abdulla’s curatorial practice focuses on long-form models of commissioning and in-depth curatorial development with emerging and mid-career artists.
LILY AHREE SIEGEL
DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR
Lily Ahree Siegel (she/her) is Grierson-nominated documentary director. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, her intersectional identities shape her storytelling, exploring a dialogue between past and present, and an exploration of the body as a site of vulnerability and power. Her work has garnered critical acclaim, with screenings on platforms such as Netflix, PBS, and Channel 4, and she has been shortlisted for a Student BAFTA.
Lily's films include the Oscar-qualified short documentary "Equal Play," which aired on Channel 4 in collaboration with ParalympicsGB, "My Partner Lives In My Phone," commissioned by Netflix and Hotdocs, and “The Space Between You & Me” broadcast nationally in the USA on PBS. Her work has earned her numerous accolades, including the Audience Award at the Uninterrupted Film Festival powered by Tribeca in Los Angeles and Best Short Documentary at the Little Venice Film Festival in London.
Lily holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (USA) and a MA in Directing Documentary from the National Film and Television School (UK). She is currently living and working in London.
MOHAMED SHALABY
JOURNALIST / DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR
Documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist crafting bold, forensic, cinematic storytelling. Driven by human stories, I create multi-platform films that inspire change. Currently producing a four-part true crime premium series for Warner Bros./HBO Max. Previously made films for ITV, Sky, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and the BBC.
Former BBC News journalist who worked for BBC Eye Documentaries and BBC Verify and spoke out about the broadcaster’s Gaza coverage. Channel4 scholar in the Documentary Directing MA at the National Film and Television School, awarded Most Promising Student. 2025 TV Breakthrough Leader and One World Media Journalist of the Year nominee.
TOMAS SPICER
HOUSE WORK PRESENTS Gallery
ARTIST / Co-FOUNDER AND Co-DIRECTOR of HOUSE WORK PRESENTS
Tomas Spicer (b. 1988, London, UK) studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2010) and holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2025). He completed a PGCE at the Institute of Education, University College London (2021). Spicer has contributed to various educational programmes as a visiting artist and tutor. His practice investigates the material and conceptual possibilities of painting, drawing, and mark-making, exploring themes of biography, memory, and alternative literacies. Recent exhibitions include Language Constructs (Asquith Gibbs Building, London, 2025), Freedom Verses (House Work Presents, London, 2024), Low Level Readers (Asquith Gibbs Building, London, 2024), Propositions (Asquith Gibbs Building, London, 2024), Prologue (Des Bains, London, 2023), A Rip In The Sky (Koppel Project, London 2020), and Walking Lines (Instituto, Porto, 2020). His work is held in private collections in England, Portugal, France, Spain, America, and India. Recent publications include the artist book Volumes (Tomas Spicer Studio, London, 2025), the exhibition text Freedom Verses (House Work Presents, London, 2024), the gallery publication Year Book: Bodies, Places, Fragments (Instituto, Porto, 2020), and the artist book Night School (20 Feet South, England, 2020). Spicer has initiated and co-directed artist-run spaces in London (LEM Gallery London, 2010-2015) and is currently the co-director of House Work Presents (2024-ongoing) an artist-run gallery and residency programme operating out of the artist home in East London.