Emma Ridgway is a curator and creative educator specialising in visual arts. She devises art events, public programmes and education projects to generate fresh perspectives on contemporary life and to facilitate engagement with art. She has worked with hundreds of leading experts in the arts, sciences and humanities to create discussions, performances, practical workshops, installations, exhibitions and publications.


Since 2010, Emma has been Creative Learning Curator (Visual Art and Cross Arts) at the Barbican Centre and Guildhall School, London. She programmes learning events for arts specialists, general adult audiences, families and schools. She also curates experimental learning projects such as Arts School Lab, one-off theatre events including Cabaret Duchamp, and writes on the relevance of art – from Bauhaus to Rain Room.


Originally trained as an artist, Emma previously curated projects at The Royal Society of Arts, public programmes at Serpentine Gallery and produced interdisciplinary events and exhibitions in London, Reykjavik and New Delhi. ‘She produced the first Serpentine Gallery ‘Marathon’ events and has contributed to research, public talks and seminars on art’s relationship to politics, social change, ecology and humour.