Michaela Crimmin

Michaela Crimmin is Head of Arts at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce); and a part-time tutor on the Royal College of Arts’ two year MA programme Curating Contemporary Art.

Following a period of working in galleries, she was a curator at Public Art Development Trust for over ten years before directing Art for Architecture at the RSA and co-ordinating the first high profile series of sculpture for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. She initiated and is currently directing Arts & Ecology, a major programme for the RSA and Arts Council England, linking art with the environmental and related social crises the world is facing. This includes ongoing discourse, artists’ commissions both nationally and internationally, education pilots, the production of a book, and the current development of an ambitious new website.

She gives lectures frequently, the next being in April 2008 for Harvard University. She is a Trustee for Channel 4’s Big Art Project, a member of the GLA’s Fourth Plinth commissioning group, and was recently elected a ‘London Leader’ by the London Sustainability Commission and the Greater London Assembly, now working together to establish an annual Arts & Ecology Day.

Talk

On Friday 9 May, Michaela Crimmin will be joined by Margate Rocks 08 commissioned artist Heather Morison in conversation. They will discuss the role of art and the artist in relation to the challenges contemporary society faces today, in the context of their work, and examine the unique position artists and art have in addressing ecological and social concerns. Click here to find out more.

_{Image: I lost her near Fantasy Island. Life has not been the same, 2006, cut flowers, articulated lorry, wagons, buckets, and CD of Tina Turner’s Private Dancer_ © Heather & Ivan Morison, commissioned by RSA Arts & Ecology}