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\ Colin Ledwith
Project Director
Project Director
Colin joined Futurecity as a Project Director in 2007.
Colin is an experienced Arts Project Manger and has worked in the field for a sixteen-year period, in both public and private arts sectors.
In an eleven-year post as an Exhibition Curator for the British Council, he developed projects to a developing international cultural programming agenda for the British Government, addressing cultural policy requirements in Central and East Europe, India, Africa, South and North America.
During this time, Colin developed multiple touring projects for international museums as varied as Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, the Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Bucharest and MOMA New York. He worked with a diverse range of highly regarded British artists including Richard Hamilton, Mark Wallinger, Lucy Skaer, Margaret Salmon, Mark Leckey, Mark Titchner, Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst, amongst others.
His projects including the realization of an acclaimed series of three New British Film and Video projects: ‘Black Box Recorder’, ‘Electric Earth’ and ‘You Have Not Been Honest’.
He also has experience of working with key British architectural practices such as Foster & Partners, Grimshaw and Richard Rogers through project work on the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and was appointed British Curator for the official British Pavilion representation at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art in 2003 featuring the work of artist Chris Ofili and architect David Adjaye.
Colin has written for exhibition catalogues and magazines such as Frieze. With an emphasis on public/private partnership creative initiatives and an interest in emerging frameworks and new forms of artistic practice distribution, Colin’s work for Futurecity looks at developing creative and funding frameworks for UK developers in partnership with local authority cultural strategies.
Colin is an experienced Arts Project Manger and has worked in the field for a sixteen-year period, in both public and private arts sectors.
In an eleven-year post as an Exhibition Curator for the British Council, he developed projects to a developing international cultural programming agenda for the British Government, addressing cultural policy requirements in Central and East Europe, India, Africa, South and North America.
During this time, Colin developed multiple touring projects for international museums as varied as Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, the Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Bucharest and MOMA New York. He worked with a diverse range of highly regarded British artists including Richard Hamilton, Mark Wallinger, Lucy Skaer, Margaret Salmon, Mark Leckey, Mark Titchner, Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst, amongst others.
His projects including the realization of an acclaimed series of three New British Film and Video projects: ‘Black Box Recorder’, ‘Electric Earth’ and ‘You Have Not Been Honest’.
He also has experience of working with key British architectural practices such as Foster & Partners, Grimshaw and Richard Rogers through project work on the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and was appointed British Curator for the official British Pavilion representation at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art in 2003 featuring the work of artist Chris Ofili and architect David Adjaye.
Colin has written for exhibition catalogues and magazines such as Frieze. With an emphasis on public/private partnership creative initiatives and an interest in emerging frameworks and new forms of artistic practice distribution, Colin’s work for Futurecity looks at developing creative and funding frameworks for UK developers in partnership with local authority cultural strategies.