Curator | Wirksworth Festival | Derbyshire | 2009 / 2010 |

Thematically the curated visual art programme for Wirksworth Festival 2010 interrogates the commonalities, the contrasts and the conflicts in the relationship between Art & Architecture, how we perceive and experience the built environment that we inhabit but often never truly see. Art intervenes in buildings, public and private spaces throughout Wirksworth: sometimes in a harmonic rapprochement with the space it inhabits and at others in a dynamic tension with it; sometimes demanding your attention and at others concealing itself and asking you to be discover it. Featuring Japanese artist Goh Ideta, American photographic artist Caitlin Masley, French artists BIBI and Flore Gardner, and an international selected salon of artists’ film and video.
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Festival Trailer Film 2010
Film of BIBIgloo
Film of Goh Ideta's Cube Ring
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Curator | re:place - site specific contemporary art in derbyshire | 2008 - 2011 |

re:place is a project of Derbyshire Arts Development Group
re:place is an ambitious two-year curated programme of site-specific contemporary visual arts commissions and installations across Derbyshire of regional and national significance. It will run throughout 2008 - 2010.

Commissions and bursaries for 2009 include white peak | dark peak, a major commission with Alec Finlay, and two intermediate commissions from Kate Genever and Matthew Smith. We also funded three bursaries: The Centre of Attention's project Sutton Scarsdale; Sandarbh UK, an international artists' residency in Belper; and Bruce Rimell's Great Derbyshire Palaeolithic Hunt. In 2010 the main commission will be with Phillipa Lawrence, with Intermediate Commissions awarded to Flore Gardner and Charles Monkhouse.
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Curator | An Emotional Journey | Mansfield Museum | June 2007 – March 2008 |

A contemporary visual art show co-curated by a group of Gifted & Talented Year 8 pupils from Queen Elizabeth’s School in Mansfield, who worked with David Gilbert as freelance curator, Museum Curator Liz Weston, and Head of Art Paul Burton, with the support of Creative Partnerships (Bolsover, Ashfield & Mansfield).
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Curator | media[tion] | Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery | September 2003 – April 2004 |

This exhibition was the result of a collaboration between David Gilbert and a group of pupils from Brinsworth Comprehensive School in Rotherham, who worked as the curatorial team putting the exhibition together. The project was funded by Creative Partnerships (Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham).The theme was media[tion], by which we meant two related things: 1). the media - broadcast media, print media and the web, for example - the group selected work by artists who deal with images and texts from the media, re-presenting them in the context of the art gallery. 2). mediation, meaning the act of mediating; the action or relation of anything interposed; an intervention.
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