[BCMA] MEDIA RELEASE: Kamloops Art Gallery appoints Charo Neville as Curator

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MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from
Kamloops Art Gallery
October 12, 2011

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Kamloops Art Gallery appoints Charo Neville as Curator

The Kamloops Art Gallery is pleased to announce the appointment of Charo Neville as Curator. Her predecessor, Annette Hurtig will continue her involvement with the Gallery as Adjunct Curator. The two are co-curating upcoming exhibitions at the Gallery.

Charo Neville comes to the Gallery from Vancouver where she has worked in several art institutions in various curatorial roles over the past decade. Since receiving her Master of Arts degree in the Critical and Curatorial Studies program at the University of British Columbia, Neville has worked at the Belkin Satellite, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. While at the Belkin Art Gallery, Neville had her first contact with the KAG, as part of the team who organized Rebecca Belmore's Venice Biennale project. In 2007, Neville also spent some time at the KAG as a freelance writer, writing reviews of one of the KAG's exhibitions for various publications.

Most recently Neville was the interim Director/Curator of Artspeak Artist Run Centre and before that she was Associate Director at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery. As an independent curator, Neville has produced numerous exhibitions and written texts that have often focused on socio-political art practices and community art projects. Neville contributes critical rigour and a strong commitment to community engagement to her new position at the Kamloops Art Gallery.

"Charo Neville brings to the Kamloops Art Gallery a curatorial scholarship that embraces both historical frameworks and contemporary issues.  Her curatorial practice is grounded in practical and theoretical concerns of exhibition creation, which nicely balances the important role of art museums in contemporary society. I am delighted she is joining the staff of the Gallery," says Jann LM Bailey, KAG Executive Director.

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Please direct all media inquiries to Jann LM Bailey, Executive Director, Kamloops Art Gallery, 250-377-2412, jlmb at kag.bc.ca
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