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Melanie Pocock (born 1987) is a British art curator and writer. She serves as the Artistic Director (Exhibitions) at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, where she leads exhibitions, commissions, and publications Decitre +14 Ikon +14 LinkedIn +14 .

Early Life and Education Pocock—of British and Malaysian Chinese heritage—earned her MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London LinkedIn +12 infra-magazine.com +12 infra-magazine.com +12 .

Career Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICA) From 2014 to 2019, Pocock was Assistant Curator at ICA Singapore, a key curatorial institution within LASALLE College of the Arts. There, she curated over 60 exhibitions featuring local, regional and international artists curtain.artcuratorgrid.com +9 Yutaka Inagawa +9 ocula.com +9 . Her signature exhibitions include:

Countershadows (tactics in evasion) (2014)

Native Revisions (2017)

Dissolving Margins (2018–19) Ikon +4 Yutaka Inagawa +4 ocula.com +4

These group exhibitions were noted for exploring themes such as concealment, place-making, and dismantling disciplinary boundaries.

Other Roles Prior to the ICA position, Pocock held curatorial posts at Modern Art Oxford and Art Scene China infra-magazine.com +12 infra-magazine.com +12 ocula.com +12 .

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Appointed in 2020 and formally announced in early 2021, she joined Ikon to direct its international exhibition programme alongside Director Jonathan Watkins Phileas +7 Ikon +7 curtain.artcuratorgrid.com +7 . At Ikon, her projects include:

Dreamworld (2021), the first major European solo exhibition of Thai artist Mit Jai Inn, developed through remote planning and culminating in a short residency in Birmingham infra-magazine.com +3 firestation.ie +3 MADE IN BED Magazine +3 .

Horror in the Modernist Block (2022–23), a thematic group exhibition exploring architectural modernism’s relationship with horror Phileas +2 firestation.ie +2 firestation.ie +2 .

Friends in Love and War (2024), a cross‑city exhibition in partnership with Lyon, France, probing friendship, cultural exchange, and the role of secondary cities in the global art network stirworld.com .

Writing and Editorial Work Pocock is an active art writer with essays, reviews, and catalogue texts published in prominent international outlets such as Frieze, Ocula, ArtAsiaPacific, Eyeline, Kaleidoscope, The Financial Times, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Di’van, and Third Text Yutaka Inagawa +5 infra-magazine.com +5 Phileas +5 . In 2014 she edited and co-wrote the first monograph on Malaysian artist Shooshie Sulaiman, published by Kerber Verlag ocula.com +4 Yutaka Inagawa +4 Ikon +4 .

Curatorial Approach Pocock’s curatorial vision centers on the affective dimension of art—how exhibitions emotionally engage audiences. Driven by curiosity and cross-cultural exchange, she fosters meaningful collaborations rather than overt theory or politics. Her mixed cultural heritage and Southeast Asian experience inform her focus on diasporic identities, globalisation, and intercultural dialogues infra-magazine.com +1 infra-magazine.com +1 .

Memberships and Recognition Pocock is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She remains sought after as a lecturer, mentor, and curator, regularly working across educational and curatorial platforms internationally

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