Introducing collaborators Liv Penrose Punnett and Cat Rogers working with Simon Lee Dicker to curate Od Arts Festival 2025.
Liv Penrose Punnett (Liv)
Liv Penrose Punnett is an independent curator, consultant, and Fine Art lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Drawn to alternative ways of knowing, Liv uses contemporary art to unpick, question, and re-imagine and has curated numerous Arts Council supported exhibitions and events, working with artists such as Susan Hiller, Dorothy Cross, Feral Practice, and Tai Shani. Her artistic practice includes printmaking, installation, and projection.
Liv is a member of the Artists Information Companies Artists Council, and lead experimental cultural programmes focused on spiritual ecology and intersectional environmentalism in her role as Director at Haarlem Artspace, a rural contemporary studio and gallery in Derbyshire.
Clients and employers include The National Trust, Artes Mundi in Wales, New Art Exchange Nottingham, and Arusha Gallery London. Liv holds an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award, the SIA Gallery Award and the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Award, and her publications are held in The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, The Ruskin Archive, and the Tate Library and Archive.
Catherine Rogers (Cat)
Over the past 20 years Cat’s professional work has spanned public, private and charity sectors including careers in bookselling, publishing and community arts. She has a background in arts and literature development, programming festivals, convening and chairing of events, panels and talks, showcasing emerging and established artists. As a writer of short stories, she is influenced by Welsh legend and folklore having grown up in West Wales, learning Welsh as a second language and has a degree in Classical Studies.
She is published in a number of collections including the award winning Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud, edited by Jonathan Taylor for Salt Publishing and the international magazine, Folklore for Resistance.
Cat was a founder of writing collective Hello Hubmarine in Derby, programming live literature events with renowned writers including Lemn Sissay and Jon McGregor. As a Director of Haarlem Artspace, Cat co-curated and produced several acclaimed exhibitions including Field Work, working with artists, FourthLand and Glennie Kindred, followed by Re:Rural with Annalee Davis and Feral Practice. She has produced various artist development programmes such as WebinArt for Creative Leicestershire with artists and writers including Helen Mort and Jo Fairfax and Collectivism which was part of the British Council’s Developing Inclusive Creative Economies programme in Brazil. Further British Council work has included developing programmes and seminars for creative entrepreneurs in Georgia, Kuwait and the Philippines.
Previous roles have included Chair of Trustees for the charity and participatory arts organisation, Junction Arts, Senior Fellow and Trustee for the national arts development charity, AD:uk and Artistic Quality Assessor for Arts Council England.
