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Chris Fite-Wassilak is winner of the inaugural Curatorial Open – a new three-year initiative for emerging curators at post graduate level organised by Hayward Touring.

Chris Fite-Wassilak is winner of the inaugural Curatorial Open – a new three-year initiative for emerging curators at post graduate level organised by Hayward Touring. He was chosen for his curatorial proposal 'Quiet Revolution' – an international group exhibition of sculptural works created from found or discarded materials. Organised in collaboration with Milton Keynes Gallery and Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, the Curatorial Open programme aims to support UK-based emerging curators in realising innovative contemporary art exhibitions, to offer professional development for the selected curator and provide a new avenue of access into the Hayward Touring programme. Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff said: "Getting a break in the art world is notoriously difficult, even more so when you live outside cultural metropolises such as London". A writer, freelance critic and curator, Fite-Wassilak is the former editor of Dublin-based collaborative comic This Way Up, and a contributor to Frieze, Circa Contemporary Irish Art, and Artforum.com. Curatorial projects include Lighthouse, a caravan cinema parked in Truman Brewery June 2007, part of the House Projects exhibition...

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