Olivia Punnett

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Arts Consultancy

Livvy is a quality assessor for Arts Council England and has consulted on Arts Council bids and art direction for The National Trust, Deventio Housing, Melbourne Festival, Ingestre Orangery, and numerous county councils. Her work has involved curating, recommending artists and developing briefs, as well as advising on art direction, project management, procurement of marketing and design, and facilitating negotiations between artists and clients.

Pleasure Ground, a residency & event for Ingestre Orangery, exploring themes of identity, politics and history. Funded by Arts Council England with artists Adam Moore, Verity Birt and Ama Josephine Budge, using pleasure as protest, movement practices and archaeological exploration to investigate the sites multiple identities. The project asks how these traditional spaces can be used for positive change by becoming inclusive and creative spaces for sharing and celebrating pleasure.

Curated by Olivia Penrose Punnett, works by the thirteen artists were expertly selected and positioned through empathic intuition, aligning based on philosophical themes, natural exploration and childlike discovery. Punnett, who has an interest in hermetic philosophy and is an art teacher by trade, facilitated a vision that elevated the conceptual elements found in each composition.

Alexander Clarke, Trebuchet Magazine