I’m
Nicholas
I'm a curator, artist manager, and creative consultant with over a decade of experience working with artists and arts organisations across the UK and internationally. My work spans curation, funding, sustainability, mentoring, and access support. Always with a practical, people-first approach.
nicholas Stavri
Nicholas Stavri has spent the past decade working at the intersection of curation, artist support, and arts administration, building a practice rooted in the belief that great art needs great infrastructure behind it.
He began his career managing public arts projects across Lithuania, Norway, Spain, and the UK, before producing two Public Arts Festivals in Penang, Malaysia. While there, he initiated a cultural exchange programme for Hin Bus Depot Art Centre, bringing together international and local contemporary artists with the craftspeople living and working in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Georgetown.
Back in the UK, Nicholas has gone on to co-curate and produce a range of critically recognised projects, several supported by Arts Council England. These include '2 For 1' at Hypha Studios, London (2023), 'The Factory Project' at Thameside Industrial Estate (2021), and 'Five Hides' at the historic Manor Place Baths (2020). Earlier work in Malaysia was supported by the Woolley Development Grant for the production of 'The Star' and the Urban Xchange Public Arts Festival (2015). He has also curated exhibitions for institutions including the Royal Society of Sculptors, Art House Wakefield, and Two Temple Place, and has served as an invited juror for a number of open calls and prizes.
Nicholas has been a visiting lecturer at City & Guilds of London Art School and Camberwell College of Arts, and regularly mentors artists through the Working Class Creatives Database. Bringing the same practical, career focused approach to supporting emerging artists.
Alongside his independent practice, Nicholas is employed by a London based commercial gallery, where he leads on sustainability strategy, manages the organisation's operations at art fairs, and oversees the registrar and shipping teams.. His environmental work sits within the framework of the Gallery Climate Coalition, whose shipping subcommittee he sits on as a contributor and co-author of the Sustainable Shipping Campaign.
Nicholas is co-founder of curatorial platform Thorp Stavri, an Advisory Group Member for Hypha Studios, and a member of the Convelio Fine Art Advisory Board. He co-hosted a mini series for the Art Proof Podcast alongside journalist Eric Thorp and artist Rowan Newton, interviewing a broad range of creative practitioners in an accessible, conversational format. He holds a BA Hons in Fine Art from Middlesex University.
His work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, The Evening Standard, The Big Issue, Juxtapoz, Vice, Colossal, FAD Magazine, Wonderland Magazine, and numerous other print and online publications.
Sustainability
Nicholas is committed to creating a positive impact, adopting sustainable practices across his work, from reducing his Carbon usage to collaborating with eco-conscious partners. A sustained concern is the decarbonisation of the art world in alignment with the objectives of the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Since 2020 he has been working with the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), an international community of arts organisations working to reduce the sector’s environmental impacts. Nicholas is also a member of the GCC’s Shipping subcommittee, which seeks to review and reduce the impact of artwork shipment.
Curriculum Vitae
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2026 - Camberwell College of Arts
2025 - City & Guilds of London art school
2024 - Camberwell College of Arts
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2026 - Well Hung Painting Prize
2026 - Hypha Curates Open Call
2022 - Research Residency Two Temple Place
2022 - Hypha Studios Selection committee - Mayfair space
2022 - Fair Art Fair
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2025 - An in conversation with Julian Wild, Marc Adams and Eric Thorp for Gurr Johns
2024 - An in conversation with Andrea V. Wright for Thames-Side Studios
2024 - Panel Discussion - ‘Shadow Ban: Mike Ballard’ for Shtager Shch
2023 - Panel Discussion – ‘Exhibiting in Unique and Affordable Spaces’, with Curator Sophie Nowakowska and multimedia artist Aimee Neat
2023 - Curators talk with Haze and Eric Thorp for Hypha Studios
2023 - Panel Discussion: ‘Unseating Power: Institutions and Artist’s Access’ haired by Deborah Smith (Arts Council Collection) with Eileen Cooper RA, Emma Hannon (Director of Studios, Somerset House), Rachael Harlow (Projects Curator, South London Gallery) and Eric Thorp
2023 - Curators talk with Eric Thorp for Inside at Two Temple Place
2023 - Curators talk with Rebecca Hone (Exhibition Manager, Two Temple Place) for Young Professionals in the Arts
2022 - Q&A for the Gallery Climate Coalition. Pannel included Heath Lowndes, Hannah Wright, Ed Howat
2022 - Curators talk with Eric Thorp for Two Temple Place’s Artist Residency
2022 - An in conversation with Stacie McCormick and Eric Thorp
2022 - An in conversation with Lienne Loy , Wanida Razali and artist Jun Ong
2021 - Ministry of Arts Podcast – Ep.145
2021 - Curators talk with Eric Thorp for Young Professionals in the Arts
2021 - An in conversation with Susie Olczak for Conscious Isolation
2020 - An in conversation with Red Gallery Director, Denia Kazakou’s for ‘Art From the Quarantine’
2020 - Interview for the Corona Diaries with Monique Jackson
2015 - Panel discussion with Jun Hao Ong and Gabija Grusaite for The Straits Times
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2026 - Make Do/ Make Space - Hypha Studios Gallery South Bank, London
2026 - Michael Craig-Martin: W1 Curates and Hï Ibiza (Public Video Installation) - for Cristea Roberts Gallery
2025 - Topping Out: Julian Wild for Gurr Johns, London
2024 - Eyes of Skin by Andrea V. Wright - Thames-side Studio Gallery, London
2024 - Spindler by Ellie Hayward (Public Sculpture) for The Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2024 - Shadow Ban: Mike Ballard - Shtager & Shch, London
2023 - As Soon as the Sun Sets: Melania Toma - Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London
2023 - The Art House Wakefield, Gilbert Bayes Award – Winners Exhibition, Wakefield
2023 - 2 FOR 1: Co-curated by Thorp Stavri and Haze, Hypha Studios Stratford, London
2023 - Royal Society of Sculptors, Gilbert Bayes Award - Winners Exhibition, London
2023 - INSIDE: A Two Temple Place & Thorp Stavri Exhibition, Two Temple Place, London
2022 - "COMPANION" by Natalia Janula & David Williams responding to Jun Ong’s KL Star, Kuala Lumpur
2022 - Artist Research Residency - Two Temple Place
2022 - Ghost-Like Traces: Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London
2021 - It Happens Sometimes, People Just Explode - The Factory Project, London
2020 - Ian Davenport at W1 Curates (Public Video Installation) - for Cristea Roberts Gallery
2020 - Michael Craig-Martin at W1 Curates (Public Video Installation) - for Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
2020 - Five Hides - Manor Place, London
2020 - INDEX - Greatorex St Gallery, London
2019 - Sugar Mountain - The SIlver Building, London
2016 - Out of Line for Well Hung, London
2016 - Chroma Form for Well Hung Gallery, London
2015 - Star by Jun Ong (Public Sculpture), Butterworth, Penang
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