Becca Pelly-Fry

Becca is an independent curator, facilitator and cultural consultant based in Folkestone and working collaboratively with a wide range of artists and arts organisations across the UK. She was Director and Curator of Griffin Gallery (2013-2018) and Head Curator for Elephant West (2018-19), before going freelance as an independent curator and consultant in 2019. Since then she has undertaken programme design, strategic planning and facilitation work with organisations including Watts Gallery & Artists’ Village, ACAVA, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, Action Space, GLA, London Culture Forum and New Platform Art. She is regularly invited to speak publicly about her work as a curator and as a visiting lecturer at universities across the UK.

Becca is on the organising committee of a new artist-led festival in Folkestone, called Open Art Folke. She has been invited to curate the Platform section of the London Art Fair in January 2025 and will be curating a large group show at Soho Revue in February 2025, entitled La Mariposa (The Butterfly Woman).

Becca is an Associate Consultant for people make it work, a mentor for Arts Emergency and The Launchpad Collective, and a member of the British Art Network, Young Professionals in the Arts, Association of Women in the Arts and International Futures Forum. She is also a Master Level Reiki practitioner and a passionate advocate of holistic practices for individual and collective well-being. Underpinning all of her work, within the cultural sector and elsewhere, is a commitment to collective care, compassion and social justice.

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