Nell is a community engaged freelance curator, writer, producer and creative project manager based in Glasgow. She has an interest in connecting archival and contemporary moving image and engaging communities in this work. Since 2020 she has been curatorial director at 16 Collective (Formerly 16NSt), an itinerant gallery and curatorial collective dedicated to enjoyment of experimental contemporary art while honouring a commitment to power redistribution, with particular attention to female-identifying, queer and class-marginalised artists. She is also Development and Engagement Officer at the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival, Bo’ness. She has curated exhibitions, programmed events, led workshops and edited and written for publications. Previously, she worked at the Scottish National Galleries and at GoMA, Glasgow, curating GROWTH, an exhibition of youth artists. During her Museum Studies MSc at Glasgow University, her thesis focused on tagging and folksonomies, investigating accessibility in online databases.