Janice is a curator at Wellcome Collection (London, UK) where she endeavours to transcend boundaries in identities, cultures and disciplines through the lens of transdisciplinary practices between art, design and STEM. Her work also focuses on these practices as agents of change, particularly in relation to ecology and intersectionality. Many of her projects look into interactions and movements between people and the ‘things’ they sense, make, wear and use across time and space in a crossmodal and transcultural context.
Until 2021, Janice was an assistant curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum for the V&A East project, a new museum set to open in East London in 2025, and had worked on the exhibition Fashioned from Nature (2018-2019) and the Royal Photographic Society collection.
In her independent practice, she has curated exhibitions and commissioned design projects internationally, for instance, at Venice Design (2019), Salone del Mobile, Milan (2019), Vienna Design Week (2017), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2018), Werkraum Bregenzerwald (2018), Gwangju Design Biennale (2019). As founding member of the Hong Kong Design History Network, she co-curated the Hong Kong Pavilion, Sandtable, at London Design Biennale 2021.
Janice speaks regularly on curatorial and research methodologies and sustainable practices at universities and arts institutions. She is also an Associate Lecturer at London College of Communications’ MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures. Before venturing into the museum sector and completing an MA in History of Design at the Royal College of Art, she had a brief stint in Food & Nutritional Sciences.
EXHIBITIONS
Curator, The Cult of Beauty, Wellcome Collection, London, October 2023 - April 2024
Curator, The Healing Pavilion, Wellcome Collection, London, November 2022 - April 2023
Co-Curator, Sandtable, Hong Kong Pavilion, London Design Biennale, London, June 2021
Curator, Instant, Pop-up Installation, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, February 2020
Researcher, KIA x intg. (Space {matters) matter}, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, September - October 2019
Curator, Provoke, Unlearn, Change: Designing Perspectives, Palazzo Michele, Venice Design, Venice, May - November 2019
Curator, Keepsakes, Galleria Maroncelli 12, Milan Design Week, Milan, April 2019
Curator, RCA Secret 2018, Royal College of Art, London, November 2018
Curator, Designing Craft Crafting Design, Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch, October 2018
Exhibition Research Assistant, Fashioned from Nature, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, April 2018 - January 2019
Curator, Designing Craft Crafting Design, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, November 2017
Installation Food Symphony, Hello Tomorrow Summit at CentQuatre, Paris, October 2017
Curator, Designing Craft Crafting Design, Vienna Design Week, Vienna, September-October 2017
Installation Food Symphony, ff Food Futures - BioDesign Challenge, White City Space, London, June 2017
Installation Race in Space, A Toolkit for Provocative Practice, Hockney Gallery, London, February 2017
Assistant Curator, Small is Beautiful, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver, September - Novumber 2016
Assistant Curator, Eastern Echoes, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver, July - August 2016
Curator, Where in the World is Richmond?, Richmond Cultural Centre, Richmond, August 2015 - February 2016