WHEEL series (2025–26)
Public Programming

Olukemi Lijadu: Feedback

Launch party 

Spike Island 

January 2026 “The opening night took this reclamation out of the gallery and into the room. Lijadu took over the Emmeline Café and Bar for a DJ set that had the place absolutely brimming. As she mixed sonic landscapes in real-time, the café became a living extension of the film’s soul. 

This was joy as a political act. The crowd wasn’t just watching a film; they were the output and the input, participating in a feedback loop that turned a fractured history into a shared, amplified energy.”
— Claire Parsons, Arts Hub



Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie launch event 

Spike Island

January 2025

Nour Jaouda and Dan Lie launch party

Spike Island 

September 2025 


Ruby Taylor CV 
Ruby Taylor 
rubytaylor99@outlook.com
Instagram: @rubyelizataylorI am a curator currently working across programming and marketing. My curatorial practice centres around forging new spaces to strengthen creative communities, working closely with artists to support experimentation and activate new spaces within buildings and programmes. Through independent curatorial projects and work with institutions including Spike Island and live art producers In Between Time, I work collaboratively with artists to foster experimentation, collectivism and space for work to reach new audiences. 



Education
BA in Art History, First Class Honours,
University of Bristol, 2018–21
Curatorial Projects  Evening programme curator, Spike Island 
January 2025 to present 

Tidal Bodies, exhibition at Spike Island
March 2026

Spike Green Futures Week: Big Dreaming, exhibition and event series at Spike Island
March 2026

WHEEL, exhibition and event series at Spike Island 2025–26

Tundra, nomadic curatorial platform
October 2021 to December 2023

Employment Communications Manager and Digital Producer,
In Between Time
February 2024 to present

Communications Assistant, Spike Island
January 2024 to present

Duty Production Manager, Shangri-La Glastonbury 2024–25

Freelance Event Co-ordinator, Creative Youth Network
February 2022 to January 2024

Live Music programmer, The Crofters Rights
August 2022 to January 2024

Curatorial Assistant, After The Fire at Trinity Centre September 2022

Curatorial Assistant, Photo50 at London Art Fair
April 2022



Last Updated 19.06.2026



Samhain: Let Slip Your Hags

November 2025

The Corridor, Spike Island

Louise Bradley, Buoys Buoys Buoys, Eleanor Duffin, Mary Hurrell, Natasha MacVoy and Kamina Walton An ancient Celtic festival welcoming the dark half of the year, Samhain marks the night when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, allowing ways of being to slip at the edges of this world and the next. 

This exhibition brought together works borne of performance and explorations of the body, looking for the traces of process left in artists’ shape-shifting works. 





Lammas: Our Inheritance is Corn

August 2025

The Corridor, Spike Island

Harriet Bowman, Rod Harris, Ben Hartley, Johnny Morgan-Jones and Jo Lathwood Tales of land spirits are older than the iterations of land we now associate with them. With the Enclosure Acts of 1604–1914, common land was split, walls built, and hedgerows planted. And yet, despite their function as boundaries, the hedgerow, the wall, the fence, and the edge become ‘thin’ in their marginality. A liminal space is born, where one can slip and slide between worlds, borderless, ancient, and remembering. In trying to block, we tear open. 


May Day: Fired

May 2026

Residency Studio, Spike Island

Eleanor Duffin, Mary Flower, Rod Harris, Phil Root, Lewis Prosser, Holly Williams-Richards, Linda Zagidulina 


Responding to the rising pressure faced by arts workers while looking to the protective magic practiced for millenia in May, Fired brings together work exploring burn out and working conditions in the arts today. 

Thinking about the creation of ceramics and stoneware as a commonly-practiced fire ritual, the exhibition looks for the traces of labour left in artworks, creating an air pocket within which to consider how, in the current sector, we can better protect ourselves and each other.
Imbolc: From the Ground Spurting

February 2026

Jo Ball, Harriet Bowman, Colin Higginson, Phil Root, Veronica VickeryAssociated with holy wells and water rituals, Imbolc marks 1 February, when the first stirrings of new life begin to unfurl deep in the soil.

Exploring the holy well traditions of the South West of England, this exhibition examined the myth surrounding these mysterious sites; water welling up at the point of contact, often where a holy person’s body fell and hit the earth. Thinking of art making in the context of this creation ritual, this exhibition brought together works balanced in moments of tension, seconds from falling and transforming again. 
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