About Platform P

Platform P
Is an experimental curatorial and collaborative platform for art in Plymouth, set up by Edith Doove and Ray White.
It’s a framework for activities that intend to engage with all ages and backgrounds with the arts as common denominator.

Platform P challenges – collaborates – dialogues
Platform P partners – infiltrates – imagines – plays

P is for Plymouth, people, places, partners, play, performance…

Platform P builds on the unique expertise of Ray White and Edith Doove to make for a truly original and energetic contribution to the cultural scene in Plymouth and the South West. In all our activities passionate engagement with communities (geographical, demographic, specialist) is important, in seeing the public as an equal dialogue partner with its own kind of knowledge that can feed into and contribute to the quality of the projects. Generosity is important to us, generosity to: the artists we work with and the audiences we engage with.

Edith Doove is a freelance curator and contributing researcher with Transtechnology Research at the University of Plymouth. Trained as an art historian with an MA from the University of Leiden, she has a substantial track record of 23 years working as a freelance curator in Belgium and a broad experience in the art field working with, and for, artists, non-for-profit organizations, museums, commercial galleries, city councils, board of directors, governmental organizations, funding, press and media. She has a special interest in inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborations.

Ray White is a freelance curator, programmer and artist. Trained as an artist with an MA in Fine Art from Northumbria University, his areas of expertise include Live Art (including performance to camera), installation and socially-engaged practice working with vulnerable groups. He was a steering committee member of Platform North East (the NE’s Live Art platform) for four years and project managed the yearly event in 2004 and 2005. He has programmed and delivered work in tower blocks, underground car parks, rivers, public houses, galleries and museums.