Rachel Fleming-Mulford

Rachel Fleming-Mulford (she/her) is Associate Director (Curatorial/International) at DASH, having previously been Interim Co-Artistic Director and International Curator. She works as part of DASH’s Senior Leadership team, with particular support for Heather in actioning, leading, and adding capacity to DASH’s artistic outputs. These include our international work, new strategic programmes, and DASH’s pioneering Future Curators Programme for disabled curators.

Rachel is a curator with more than 20 years’ experience in the visual arts and museums sectors. Her practice is artist-led and highly collaborative. It is rooted in intersectional feminism and disability justice.

She has an expanded curatorial practice which includes strategically supporting the artists and organisations she works with, often over long periods of time. Her practice pollinates, connects and agitates for change to make more inclusive visual arts and museums sectors.

Over two decades, she has worked with artist-led organisations and studio providers in London including SPACE, Beaconsfield Gallery, Chisenhale Art Place, and Bobby Baker’s Daily Life Ltd., as well as museums such as Tate, National Maritime Museum and Freud Museum London, the universities London South Bank University and UCL, and strategic agencies such as the GLA. She has curated major commissions with artists including Hew Locke, Emma Smith, Claire Barclay, and the poet Dorothea Smartt, and has particular expertise in artist residencies, public programmes, and commissioning outside of traditional gallery settings.

Alongside her role with DASH, Rachel works as an independent curator, primarily with individual artists.

Rachel holds an MA in Contemporary British Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She sits on the Board for Kettle’s Yard, the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery.

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