Rachel Fleming-Mulford

Rachel Fleming-Mulford (she/her) joined the team as Interim Co-Artistic Director in July 2024. She was previously International Curator (from January 2024), and this work continues to be part of her remit.

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 an intersectional feminist approach that centres access, equity, and social justice.

She has an expanded curatorial practice which can include commissions, residencies, public programmes, and exhibitions, but also 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 & museums sectors.

Over two decades, she has worked with artist-led organisations and studio providers 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. Recent work includes Senior Curator for Bobby Baker; International Curator for DASH; curator for a series of art commissions along the Thames (artists include Hew Locke, Claire Barclay, and poet Dorothea Smartt), and for Emma Smith's solo exhibition, Wunderblock, at Freud Museum London.

Rachel is a fellow of Clore's Inclusive Culture's Leadership programme and has just finished a year of research focused on inclusive practice in the visual arts, funded by an Arts Council England DYCP grant. She holds an MA in Contemporary British Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.