Chloe Osborne is an Artist, Facilitator and Creative Director with a track record of producing high impact participatory and outdoor art projects, curating transformative events and nurturing communities of practice.
With over 20 years experience in the socially engaged arts sector, she has built and nurtured a portfolio career, working at the intersection of participatory and public arts, community and development. This has encompassed institutional roles, strategic consultancy, self-initiated and community co-designed artistic collaborations, fundraising and partnership working across the UK & Internationally.
Co-Founder/Director of Project AWE (Artists With Elbows), a gathering of international Artists With Elbows making work that explores the relationship between art and social change in different contexts and conditions. Connecting local embedded practice and practitioners internationally, exploring how to unpick western-centred methods of collaboration.
Co-Director ARTCRY, an artist-led fund to support work that can't be funded elsewhere.
A fast turnaround fund created to support political work in the public realm that needs to happen NOW.
Long term collaborator and champion of Emergency Exit Arts, Chloe hopes to share cross-sector insights and approaches with EEA to create and sustain the conditions for play, rethinking and experimentation. Building future fit strategies for creative resilience and artistic excellence.