Aspiring museum professional

I am an arts administrator and researcher in Manchester. 

As an associative thinker and meticulous organiser, I am pivoting from a background in media and stakeholder engagement for trade exhibitions and the legal profession, to exhibition and project management in contemporary art, architecture and design. I have strong experience in the arts sector, from independent curating to facilitating institutional loans.

My research interests include curatorial representations of time and postcoloniality, and materiality of memory. I am supporting a research project under the Arts and Humanities Research Council on building capacity for museum professionals to care for collective trauma and public grief.

I am open to collaboration in the UK, Europe and Asia.

Understand health innovation through technology

Champion personal growth amidst turbulent change

Make public library useful to local community

Education

University of Manchester
MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies (Distinction)

Factory Academy
Managing Creative Projects

HART
Curatorship Incubation Programme - Rituals of Passage

University of Hong Kong
BA English Studies and Comparative Literature

Experience

The Whitworth
Collections and Exhibitions


Metal Culture Liverpool
Marketing and Projects

Lowry
Galleries


University of Manchester
Research


Manchester Art Gallery
Library

Community engagement

Access Academia
Outreach and Marketing Director


Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts
Media Director

A City Made By People
Hong Kong Co-founder


Make a Difference Asia
Library Curator

Memberships

Arts Marketing Association
Global Majority Affinity Group


British Art Network

Factory International
People's Forum


International Council of Museums

Get in touch

hello@lesleycheung.net

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