Liv Penrose Punnett curates as a form of inquiry. Drawn to alternative ways of knowing, she works with contemporary art to unpick, unsettle, and re-think inherited assumptions. Her approach is shaped by long-standing research into poetical science and the imaginative legacies of early computation, informing a curatorial practice that pays close attention to systems, histories, and the poetics of knowledge making.
She has curated numerous Arts Council England supported exhibitions and events, working with artists such as Dorothy Cross, Susan Hiller, Adam Chodzko, Emii Alrai, and Tai Shani.
Liv’s practice reconfigers how we encounter place, time, and landscape, particularly within non-central or overlooked contexts. She seeks to expand what is considered “extraordinary” in contemporary art, challenging cultural hierarchies and deepening modes of attention. Her projects often foreground material processes and subtle infrastructures (ecological, historical, technological) that shape perception.
Through exhibitions, residencies, and collaborative research, Liv creates spaces that raise expectations of what art can be and reframe narratives through which histories, places, and bodies are understood.
Her curatorial work has been described as “haunting and poetic… a powerful challenge to spatial and historical memory” (Review for A Strange Kind of Knowing at Arusha Gallery)

Review for Od Arts Festival 2025

Projects

2021 & 2022 A Strange Kind of Knowing, Verity Birt, Holly Bynoe, Kristina Chan, Fourthland, Susan Hiller, Katja Hock, Coral Kindred-Boothby, Penny McCarthy, Kate McMillan, Aimée Parrott, Chantal Powell, Tai Shani and Eleanor May Watson. Arusha Gallery, Great Titchfield Street London & Haarlem Gallery Wirksworth.

2021 Pleasure Ground Ama Josephine Budge, Adam Moore & Verity Birt. Ingestre Orangery

2020 re:rural-four contemporary artists un-learn and re-imagine the rural, Annalee Davis, Feral Practice, Deirdre O’Mahony, Pauline Woolley. Haarlem Artspace.

2020 Green Seed From Dark Earth, a solo show by Chantal Powell. Haarlem Artspace.

2019 Fieldwork, FourthLand, Tazelaar Stevenson, Michael Page, David Steans, speakers Glennie Kindred, Helen Jukes, Mary Wiltshire, Dr Chris Thornhill, Penny Newell. Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth Festival.

2019 Something Unusual On Cicchetti Community Event, curated by Lera Berest, Livvy Punnett & Daniela Hediger. Venice Biennial, Dorsoduro, 943, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy

2019 Collectivism Residency Haarlem Artspace Derbyshire.

2018 Where Rock & Hard Place Meet, Victoria Lucas, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth Festival.

2017 Internal Nebular, Dorothy Cross, Alastair Mackie and Liz Orton. Haarlem Artspace Exhibition, Guardian Guide Editors Pick 15/09/2017.

2017 Print and Works on Paper, Bronwen Sleigh, Joan Ainley, Beth Bowie and Geoff Diego Litherland. Mercia Wirksworth

2016 States of Uncertainty, Olivia Punnett, Alexander White, and Siân Williams. Sheffield Institute of the Arts, Sheffield.

2015 At The still Point, AGC Gallery Sheffield

2014 Stone and Water, Eddy Dreadnought, Sarah Pennington, Silvia Champion, Sian Williams, Olivia Punnett. The Grand Pavilion, Matlock Bath. Guardian Guide Review.

2013 Wirksworth Festival Graduate Selection