Selected public talks include:
- Speaker: MuseumNext Museum Health and Wellbeing Summit 2022
- Speaker: Academy of Sciences, Malaysis, 2022
- Guest Lecture: Three Museums and a Hidden Collection, a reflection on 20 years in contemporary curatorial practice presented at The Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019
- Minimalism: Space. Light. Object: panel discussion with Honor Harger, Eugene Tan, Russell Storer, Silke Schmikle and colleagues from the National Gallery Singapore, 2019
- Keynote address as part of Trans/Mission at LaSalle College of the Arts. An interdisciplinary platform for exchange on research methodologies, hypotheses and experimentations that shape student practices, 2019.
- Adrian George in Conversation with artist Jeremy Sharma: A Curator and an Artist: Finding Meaning in the Absent, Singapore Writers’ Festival, 2018
- Panelist on the work of artist Shen Wei at The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018
Adrian has been providing public talks and lectures since 1999. He has also worked in formal education teaching at some of the UK’s leading institutions including:
- Christie’s Education, London
- De Montfort University, Lancaster
- Tate Modern
- Tate Liverpool
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich
- University of Leeds
- Arts Council England Summer School, London
- ARCO, Madrid
- Royal College of Art, London
- Whitechapel Gallery, London
- Birmimgham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham
- Ulster Museum, Belfast
- Goldsmiths, University College, London
- Gazelli Art House, London
- Sotheby’s: Curating a State Collection 2016 and 2017
- BOLD Tendencies Art Trainee Internship Programme 2016
- Christie’s 250th Anniversary Conference 2016: Creating Markets, Collecting Art
- Sotheby’s Summer School 2016: Curating a Collection
- 2016 Art Basel Salon | Collaborative Network: Curating in the 21st Century
- Chair: Adrian George. Panel: Menene Gras Balaguer: David Elliott; Isaac Leung and Jamie Wyld
- International Bar Association keynote “Pure Love of Art versus Investment”, 2015
- ART15 Art Fair, London Olympia, 2015
- Printemps de l’art contemporain, Marseille, France, 2015
- “What makes art valuable” Christie’s, Hong Kong, 2015
- Curating in Public and Private Institutions, Sotheby’s, London, 2016
- Curating: pragmatics and problems, Christie’s Education, London, 2016
He has also spoken at key events at British Embassies in Paris, Madrid, New York and several Government buildings in London and gave regular public talks at the UK Government Art Collection HQ in London. He has worked with diverse groups including people who are hearing impaired and/or visually impaired.
In 2010 Adrian initiated a module in applied curatorial practice and delivered that for two years in collaboration with London Metropolitan University. Alumni of that course now work at the Whitechapel Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland amongst other key institutions. Between 2014 and 2016 Adrian delivered a similar programme with Goldsmiths College, University of London as part of their MFA Curating course.
Areas of specialism include:
- Performance Art History
- Commissioning: applied practice
- Curating and Visual Arts Administration
In his role at the UK Government Art Collection Adrian led a team of Research and Interpretation Curators who delivered a broad range of public programmes from primary school literacy to postgraduate research projects. Adrian has also mentored work placements at the Government Art Collection HQ, apprentices with Bearspace Gallery, Deptford and Bold Tendencies, Peckham.
In 2015 Adrian began working on a project with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The British Art Research School at the University of York investigating the meaning and relevance of British art today. The process began with a short video response to the provocation “There is No Such Thing as British Art?”. Link to the online publication here: http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-1/conversation his move to Singapore in late 2017 meant he was not able to continue with the project.