DASH x Wysing Announce Home-Based Future Curator

Following an open call for applicants, DASH x Wysing Art Centre are pleased to announce Mariana Lemos as their Home-Based Future Curator, who will be joining the teams for the next 12 months.

Mariana will co-develop and curate shared ways of working in digital/ online spaces for DASH and Wysing Arts Centre, shaping it as a collaborative, accessible environment for artistic experimentation, storytelling, and international exchange.

Mariana is a curator based in London, working across performance art, affect, and crip phenomenologies. Her curatorial approach is grounded in disability access and feminist methodologies. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths University of London (2020) and is an Associate Lecturer on the MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL). She is a member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and a Board Member of SALOON London. Her writing has been published in Frieze, Art Review, and Flash Art. Recent projects include Duets (Teaspoon Projects, 2025), A Tragical Romance (Wonnerth Dejaco, Vienna, Curated By, 2024), Vaivém by Francisca Pinto (Ostra, Lisbon, 2024), DIG IN: Maisie Maris & Laura Mallows (Staffordshire St, London, 2023), and INSOMNIA by Leah Clements (South Kiosk, London, 2022–23). She is Co-Curator of Flare-up at Goldsmiths CCA (May 2026), exploring the poetics and aesthetics of disability.

Mariana says:

“I’m really pleased to be joining DASH and Wysing Arts Centre as Home-Based Future Curator. I’ve long admired the care, rigour and commitment both organisations bring to disability justice and experimental practice. I’m especially excited to develop transnational crip conversations across the UK and Europe, and to explore home-based and digital curating as spaces for collective thinking, speculation and solidarity.”

DASH CEO/Artistic Director says:

“Mariana Lemos brings a thoughtful and expansive curatorial vision to the Future Curators Program. Through this collaboration between Wysing, DASH, and the full FCP membership, we centre a disability justice lens—prioritising care, interdependence, and the value of diverse ways of working. Together, this marks an exciting moment to foster meaningful exchange, strengthen connections across our communities, and support practices that challenge, include, and grow collectively. "

Wysing Art Centre Director, Rosie Cooper says:

"Mariana is an extremely talented curator who thinks imaginatively and expansively about disability justice. To have her join Wysing Arts Centre’s team as part of DASH’s groundbreaking Future Curators Programme is a real privilege, and we can’t wait to get started together."

The Future Curators Programme is designed and managed by DASH. It brings together seven partners from across the UK, to deliver opportunities in different regions for emerging disabled curators to work within visual arts organisations. The programme is generously funded by Arts Council England, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and the Art Fund.