The Crit Collective (2023-24)

The Crit Collective is an artist-led platform developed to test critique as a form of shared attention. Initially operating through free, monthly sessions at The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, it brought artists together to engage in structured conversations centred on the work itself.

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The project shifted critique away from advice-giving and toward interpretation, asking what the work is doing rather than how it might be improved. Sessions were built around active listening, close looking, and collective reading, creating a space where meaning was generated through dialogue.

A series of experimental formats were developed to support this approach, including 'Little Miss and Mr Men Crit', which used character as a lens to extend how artworks could be observed, described, and understood.