ZANDRA YEAMAN

Curator of Discomfort at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Scotland

Zandra Yeaman has been Curator of Discomfort at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow since 2021. She has a background in anti-racist activism in Scotland, working for social justice and equality. The Hunterian’s ‘Curating Discomfort’ project was devised to challenge historical power dynamics and, through ‘uncomfortable’ processes, empower new forms of collaboration between community groups, museum professionals and academics.  

International recognition for ‘Curating Discomfort’ has shaped a new project, ‘Power in This Place: Unfinished Conversations’ (2022-2025) that seeks to develop further the process of change at The Hunterian.

Seeking to remove white supremacy as an economic and cultural basis through which white western ideas have exercised cultural superiority through control of knowledge, text, and institutional resources, Zandra’s work uses the museum’s collections to create narratives that no longer privilege colonisers but re-frame interpretation and acknowledge and represent our shared histories.

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