I think and make with parasitism, this is both a process and way to collaborate with different contexts. Being a Sagittarius means that I engage with humour and horror, I enjoy this as I get to exorcise the colonial hauntings of the institutions that I work with. I like bringing new ideas and holding space for talent that unpowers old frameworks. I sometimes make public banners using text + humour to curate the city.
Dinosaur Kilby is an Artist-Curator based in Birmingham, UK. He currently works at Wolverhampton Art Gallery as a Creative Producer. Between 2021-23 he completed an Artist-Curator Traineeship at Eastside Projects. He set up and ran Cheap Cheap, between 2019-2023. Dinosaur is currently working on Prayer Room, a collaboration, an artwork, a project space, with Leah Hickey and Ishmail De Niro. As well as free house, a collaboratively run studio complex, both in Digbeth, Birmingham. He is also a founding member of Kühle Wampe, a horrible collaboration based across The Midlands, that was active between 2016-2023.
Recent projects include 'Are the Stones Standing Still' at Staffordshire St. ‘If It Thunders on All Fool’s Day’ at Eastside Projects. Recent exhibitions at Prayer Room include, ‘Peasants Revolt Now!’ Previous exhibitions at Cheap Cheap include; Ishmail De Niro’s ‘The Saracen’s Head,’ Leah Hickey’s ‘How to Get Attention When You’re Drowning’ & Campbell Mcconnell’s ‘Harbouring Delusion.’