Unfolding ~ Correspondent
Curated by Katherine Murphy
11 - 17 October 2025
In October 2025, DCA presented Unfolding ~ Correspondent, an ambitious exhibition and publication project curated by Katherine Murphy. The project brought together invited ‘correspondents’ - a group of artists, curators, writers, designers, and printmakers - to respond with the curator to DCA’s 2024-25 exhibition programme.
At the core of this project was an exploration of correspondence as a creative methodology and a gesture of care, connection, and community. The group of ‘correspondents’ include contributions by Amy Jones, Valerie Norris, Vivian Ross-Smith, Georgina Johnson, Dr Cat Dunn, Seán Elder, Scott Hudson and Dundee Print Collective.
Positioned between publishing and exhibition-making, Unfolding ~ Correspondent unfolded across Centrespace at DCA and in the pages of a specially commissioned publication—each activating and extending the other to create a shared space for exchange. The project considered publishing and exhibiting as interconnected practices: ways of making that foreground care, access, and the slow, deliberate labour that makes exchange meaningful. Through new commissions, collaborative reflections, and design interventions—sonic, printed, and tactile—it invited audiences to reflect on how communication, through letters, voices, and materials, can shape artistic practice, relationships, and creative exchange over time.
Curator: Katherine Murphy
Katherine Murphy is a working-class feminist independent curator and arts educator from Dundee, now based in rural Perthshire. Her practice is rooted in fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and creating inclusive environments by collaborating closely with artists and supporting long-term relationships within the arts community. She is committed to approaches that centre care, accessibility, and collective knowledge-sharing, working with artists and organisations to develop meaningful, thoughtful, and responsive projects.
Katherine has worked with artist-run spaces, cultural institutions, and higher education programmes, curating exhibitions, public events, and professional development initiatives. She is a board member at Generator Projects, serves on the advisory board of the Scottish Working Class Network, and lectures in Professional Practice at DJCAD, Dundee, where she creates space for emerging artists to explore professional, ethical, and sustainable approaches to practice.
In 2022 she curated Galalith, a solo exhibition and expanded publication with Lauren Gault at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. She has also worked with David Dale Gallery, Glasgow International Festival and Rachel Maclean Studio, and has taken part in Curatorial Studio supported by the Scottish Contemporary Art Network (2016), the British Art Network’s Emerging Curators Group (2024), and Jerwood Curatorial Accelerator Fellowship (2022–23).
Recent projects include Curators as Community Builders: Care Towards Collaboration (2024) and Sulfur V, an ongoing collaboration with artist Alexia Laferté Coutu, which included a residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in 2025.