Daniel Kelly and Lucy Cowling: I Didn't Know Curating Was a Job, Recorded Live During a Haircut

A conversation about finding your place in the art world, recorded live during a real haircut at DKUK, Peckham's mirrorless salon where art replaces mirrors.Lucy Cowling is a curator based in South London. She has been the driving force behind the exhibition programme at DKUK, and the shows you see on these walls throughout this video are her work. She didn't know curating was a job until her mid-twenties. What she did know was that she wanted to be close to the work. Not making it, but bringing it out into the world.We talk about how to find your way into the art world without a plan. About the Goldsmiths MA in curating, what it gives you and what it doesn't. About running an exhibition programme from your own flat, cooking dinner for artists before agreeing to show them. About women's football, performance art, and restructuring your whole working life to protect the things you actually care about.This is a slow, honest conversation about sustaining a creative career. It goes deep. Worth settling in for.Recorded in one continuous take, with the ambient sound of scissors throughout. Best enjoyed with headphones.♦ Lucy Cowling https://www.instagram.com/lucyrianna/♦ KIPP: https://kip.gallery/info ♦ Book at DKUK: dkuk.biz#Curating #ArtWorld #ContemporaryArt #CreativeCareer #PeckhamArt #ASMR #HowToBecomeACurator