Artistic Director, Open School East
Polly Brannan is an artist, curator and educator. She’s committed to producing public
art, social practice, strategies and programmes collaboratively with artists and
communities, co-commissioning with them to create new work for the cities and
places we live in. She is inspired by user-led design and the methodologies of
learning through play.
Since early 2021 she has been the Artistic Director at Open
School East in Margate, UK, a free, independent arts school and community space
in Margate, was Education Curator at Liverpool Biennial 2012-18 and Education
Curator at Serpentine Galleries 2011–13. She is Founder and Artist with network
Avant Gardening and was a member of art and architecture collective, public works
2005-2011. She has curated, delivered and produced commissions and projects
internationally including: Triangle Network Fellowship, Ethiopia; Istanbul Biennale
2017, Turkey and Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India 2018; Making Worlds, Stiftung
Künstler*dorf Schöppingen, Germany 2025.