Aliya Prichard-Casey is a transdisciplinary curator-researcher currently based in Glasgow. Her practice is grounded in place-based research, focusing on the reciprocity between contemporary art and context, with key focuses on spatial manipulation, collaboration, and resonance.

Her interest in interconnection and the encounter spurs her collaborative practice which utilises the exhibition format as a way to engage in spatial manipulation, the reciprocity between art and context, whilst delving further into the artists’ practice. Her art historical background, Masters in contemporary curation, and personal passion has equipped her with the requisite sills required to action her ambitious, site-specific, collaborative endeavors.

Her interest in exploring the relationship we have with materials and places through moments of encounter spurred a place in my heart (2024), a collaborative exhibition with Glasgow based artist Lilian Evans. The exhibition acted as a marker of a point in time and a position in place which was centred through themes of abandonment and attachment. Embedded within the multicentred city of Glasgow, this project exposed the interconnection between people, places, and objects.

Giving curatorial form to previous place-based or place-centred research, this project provided both a culmination, and a beginning of, her curatorial methodology of the encounter; foregrounding the subjectivity of experience and perspective.