1-2-1 DIALOGUES Sessions for Practitioners
DIALOGUES is a rolling programme, offering free online 1-2-1 sessions. These informal sessions with Nottingham Contemporary staff are aimed at early-career artists based in the Midlands region.
These sessions will last up to 30 minutes and give participants the chance to discuss their work, receive advice and critical feedback on topics such as artist statements, portfolio building, funding applications and more. Please see our staff bios below for more information on staff specialties and areas of expertise.
Sessions will be made available at the beginning of each exhibition season and can be booked on a first-come, first-served basis through Ticket Tailor. We offer 1 session per exhibition season per participant, and no more than 3 sessions per year.
Please include information in your booking stating what you would like to focus on during the session and send us any work to be discussed at least a week in advance, in order to allow staff time to review.
Please read our FAQ guide here before making a booking.
For more information please contact our Assistant Curator of Live Programmes, Klara via email - kszafranska@nottinghamcontemporary.org
About the event
Online. Free. Limited Capacity. First come first served. Booking is required.
We offer 1 session per exhibition season per participant, and no more than 3 sessions per year per participant.
Following booking, you will receive an email with a zoom link for the date of your session.
If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing kszafranska@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.
The following staff members are available for sessions this season:
Chan Fagan (they/them) is Young People’s Programmer in the Learning team at Nottingham Contemporary. They are an arts programmer/project producer, DJ and artist based in Nottingham. At Nottingham Contemporary, Chan facilitates 1525 Collective and creates events and projects with and by young people. Chan’s practice spans the social imaginary, speculative futures and fictions, hybridity and world-building with a particular interest in queer futures/ecologies, and solo role-play gaming. They host Wyrd Wide Web radio show on Swing Dash community radio.
Available slot with Chan: Tue 4 Feb, 1.30pm
Niall Farrelly (he/they) is Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary and an independent writer with texts appearing in Plinth, Frieze, Museums Journal and Corridor8. At Nottingham Contemporary he has experience working on major thematic exhibitions such as Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker (2024), Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary (2022) and Assemble + Schools of Tomorrow: The Place We Imagine (2022). He has also worked closely with artists to realise ambitious new commissions and solo exhibitions such as Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes (2025), Dora Budor: Again (2024) and Eva Koťátková: How many giraffes are in the air we breathe? (2023). Niall is interested in practices that engage with ideas around speculative futures, technology, internet and gaming culture, mythological pasts and human/nonhuman connections.
Niall's interests are artistic practice and development, ideas, exhibition coordination, gaming and internet culture.
Available slot with Niall: Thu 28 Feb, 11am
Niki Harman (she/her) is Events Manager & Film Programmer. After studying at Goldsmiths, she has worked for various film festivals including Sundance Film Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Working in an associate programmer role gave valuable insight into early career filmmakers and the international film scene. Since then she has specialised in repertory cinema and is currently the film programmer for The Screen at Contemporary - our season of cult classic and art house film. She also curates our immersive film events that have taken place since 2016 that blend music, film, performance, scent, design, technology and dance together to enhance audiences experience with film. She is the festival director for Light After Dark Film Festival, an immersive film festival launched in 2022 across Broadway, Nottingham Playhouse and University of Nottingham. She is also a creative producer whose work focuses on immersive and experiential storytelling inspired and informed by cinema.
Niki's interests are film, music and immersive cinema.
Available slots with Niki - Tue 25 Feb, 4pm and Thu 27 Feb, 12pm.
Klara Szafrańska (she/they) is Assistant Curator of Live Programmes at Nottingham Contemporary. She has previously worked in the same position at BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham (2023), as well as working as a Community Assistant at Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham (2022-23). Klara is interested in inter-disciplinary methods of working that overlap artforms and audiences. She is interested in exploring live programmes as a physical but temporary space to unravel notions around intersectional temporalities and queer transnationalism, particularly through site-specific, immersive and narrative-based events spanning performance, sound, sculpture and installation.
Klara is also an artist and a BACKLIT Gallery studio holder, with experience delivering workshops for groups and institutions.
Available slot with Klara: Mon 10 Feb, 10am.