Learning

Write on Art

Write on Art is a national writing programme that invites young people (14–19 years old) to explore personal, creative and critical responses to art, and how they can be shared through writing.

Jeremy Millar

Jeremy Millar is an artist and Head of Programme for the Writing MA at the Royal College of Art, London, where he has taught for the past fourteen years.

He has written on contemporary art and culture for over thirty years and has written for some of the world’s most important artists, including Roni Horn, Tacita Dean and Pierre Huyghe amongst many others. His books include The Way Things Go, on Fischli and Weiss’s film, and Place, with Tacita Dean. His writing has also appeared in the Guardian and in numerous magazines and journals including Frieze, Parkett, Afterall, Sight and Sound and Art Monthly.

Jeremy is an award-winning curator and conceived Every Day is a Good Day, the largest exhibition to date of the visual art of the American composer John Cage. He was the inaugural Director of the Brighton Photo Biennial and was Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

His artwork has been exhibited internationally and he has had his films screened at Tate Modern, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Rachael Simpson

Rachael Simpson is currently the Young People’s Producer at V&A Dundee, where she works with the Young People’s Collective (YPC) to produce a year-round programme of events, workshops, trips, podcasts and opportunities to imagine alternatives and demystify the creative sector.

Previously, Rachael was the Satellites Programme producer at Collective, Edinburgh – producing Collective’s development programme for emerging creative practitioners based in Scotland. This programme was specifically developed to support young creative practitioners at a pivotal point in their practice enabling them to engage critically with each other. She established In Session FKA GRADJOB, a yearly learning and “unprofessional” practice programme for graduates and emerging artists, which has been running since 2017. She has worked on other learning and exhibition programmes supporting creatives at the start of their career including: Edinburgh Art Festival; Cooper Gallery DJCAD; Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN); British Council Scotland; and EMBASSY Gallery.