Announcing Lizzie Graham, Metroland’s new Programmes Curator.

We’re excited to announce Lizzie Graham as our new Programmes Curator.

Lizzie, as a curator and facilitator, has joined the Metroland team to curate our artist development programmes, including Peer-to-Peer and Metroland Young Associates.

Having previously worked as the Associate Civic Curator at Serpentine, where she worked connecting artists and communities through long term residency programmes, we are thrilled to have Lizzie joining our team at Metroland!

Lois Stonock, Founder and Director of Metroland Cultures, said:

“We are thrilled to welcome Lizzie as she joins our team. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of community and artistic practice, previously at the Serpentine as Associate Civic Curator and also as a facilitator in many cultural contexts, Lizzie brings knowledge and experience to our community commissions programme and wider work developing the sector here in Brent. As we build out our community commission programme and expand on our work with Brent communities, we are eager for the inspiring leadership that Lizzie will undoubtedly bring to our work.”

About Lizzie’s practice

Elizabeth Graham is a curator and facilitator working at the intersection of art and social justice in the UK and the Netherlands. Elizabeth was the Civic Associate Curator at Serpentine (2016 – 2024), connecting artists, communities, self-organised groups, and campaigns through long-term residency programmes in London. Since 2014, Elizabeth has been the Practice and Research tutor on the Master in Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

Elizabeth’s work is guided by asking questions about how to build loving relationships and liberatory futures through art, creativity, and collaboration. Elizabeth’s work is underpinned through an engagement with anti-oppressive education, abolitionist and transformative justice movements, somatics, and grief and trauma-informed practices.

Recent projects and publications include: Radio Ballads with Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim and Ilona Sagar; Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People (after Mariame Kaba) with Rehana Zaman; Sonic Stories with Ain Bailey; ACT ESOL: Language, Resistance, Theatre; How We Hold: Rehearsals for Art and Social Change and We Rise: Voice and Survivorship. Forthcoming publications include; Radio Ballads: Songs for Change. 

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