ROLE REVERSAL: ethical traps when curators become artists

Joe frost | Artist Profile | 9th March 2016

Those who carry the roles of both artist and curator get put under the spotlight. As artists, do they enjoy undue advantage because of their ready-made art world networks? As curators, can they stand independent of their own tastes and exercise “disinterested judgement”? Glenn Barkley reflects on some of these complexities from the perspective of a curator – ceramicist, here.