Ted Targett

Ted Targett is a curator based in London who’s interest in the speed of consumption trickles across his curating and writing. Ted is intrigued by notions of slowness, and of living slower, from channeling the focused rumination of onlookers in a gallery, to reflecting on slowness as a cultural force in other areas of creative endeavour, such as the food and fashion industries.

In his graduate dissertation, ‘Stepping off the treadmill: towards a slower art world’, Ted reflects on the hyper-stimulating mainstream of the art world, arguing that plenty gets lost in the manic spin cycle of just-in-time production. Ted goes on to write about a coterie of curators who reject the ubiquitous fast turnarounds and over-adrenalised agendas, who favour the slow-motion rebellion, which he regards as among the most satisfying, thrilling and revolutionary work currently being undertaken in the contemporary art world.

For the graduate project, Ted co-curated In the meantime… an online public programme which invited contributors to contemplate small exchanges, anecdotes or personal resonances that speak to moments missed and moments that have remained and sustained them in the area between Somers Town in north-west London and neighbouring Camden Art Centre.

Ted has co-curated Union Pacific’s group exhibition Companions for London Gallery Weekend in June. He recently curated three group shows at Kupfer: Air and water, Onlooking and Like a Sieve. He also co-runs a design studio, Numbered Editions and online exhibition platform, Painters Painting Paintings, which launched this summer.