Curator, writer and cultural strategist
Jade Foster is a non-speaking curator, writer and cultural strategist whose work examines how political, legal, technological and organisational systems shape contemporary cultural practice across the Caribbean and its diasporas. Their practice integrates ecosystemic leadership, disability-justice methodologies and commissioning-led exhibition making, including the multi-sensory exhibition Queer Texture at Primary and the community-built digital station freegrenada.radio, supported by the Paul Mellon Centre. Foster’s interdisciplinary research engages Caribbean, Soviet and post-Soviet, Central Asian and Latin American material cultures, with particular attention to Black Atlantic visuality, colonial circulation and non-Western knowledge systems. They are currently undertaking the MBA in Cultural and Creative Leadership at Teesside University, and their writing has appeared in Art Monthly, ArtReview, LUX, Camera Austria International and Corridor8. Foster is also the author of the introductory essay for Maia Ruth Lee’s Bondage Baggage (Radius Books, 2025).
They were a freelance Curator (2018–2025), turned Curatorial and Business Consultant (2025–present), Director of Black Curators Collective, Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary (2020–present), Curator at DASH (2024–2025), and Curator at Primary (2020–present).
Jade experiences Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), which arose in part due to workplace and structural inequity. They are proud to champion greater representation of non-White, non-speaking, and disabled leaders.