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Paddy Hartley
Lead Artist and Project Manager Artist in Residence and Research Associate in Dept of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kings College London
Over the past six years, Paddy Hartley has successfully devised, fundraised and delivered a series of highly successful Artist in Residence programs, exhibitions and educational/public engagement events. Projects include his Year of the Artist residency at The Thackray Medical Museum and West Yorkshire Playhouse funded project at The Royal Armouries, both of which took place in Leeds and received critical acclaim. These residencies included education programmes devised and delivered by Hartley for schools and young people as part of his direct approach to public engagement. He has also created and delivered numerous events for families and young people at The Victoria and Albert Museum for exhibitions such as ‘Earth and Fire’, ‘Gothic’, the forthcoming Vivienne Westwood retrospective. He is also part of the team of artists at The VandA who have delivered the ‘Museums Award’ nominated ‘Every Object Tells a Story’ I.T. event in conjunction with Ultralab and Channel 4. For the past three years Hartley has also worked as Curator of The Brahm Gallery in Leeds staging over thirty exhibitions for which he has selected artists, produced press and design material, installed work and hosted previews and charity events. He is also responsible for managing the Gallery finances and organizing payment of artists through sale of work. He continues to manage the Gallery from London but is his last year in post due to concentrating on Project Facade.
