Gaynor Tutani (Art Adlib) is a curator, producer and writer who integrates her passions for arts, culture, community and education into exhibitions, events and art commentary. She holds a BA in History and the History of Ideas, and an MA in Museum Cultures with Curating, specialising in decolonial approaches. Rooted within postcolonial critical thinking of the likes of Franz Fanon, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Okwui Enwezor, Bisi Silva, and Sylvia Wynter, Gaynor’s curatorial practice considers the intangible perpetuance of coloniality and offers ways to acknowledge and resist it.

As a curator, her expertise lies in public programming of live performances, talks, screenings and exhibits that interrogate sociocultural issues and academic research via a creative lens. She defines her curatorial work as a ‘Process in Practice’ that is embedded in decoloniality and aims to challenge systems of power and cultural production through programming of various art forms, and collaborative work. Somewhat an ad lib of her interests in academia – philosophy and history, blended with the possibilities of art to inspire as well as educate.

In 2019 Gaynor co-founded Earthworks[artists], a curatorial platform that fosters intergenerational artistic co-production, and values all levels of experience and knowledge. Prior to this, from 2015-2020, she was Curator at arc Gallery London, an independent African art gallery. She was Programme Curator and Producer at the Museum of the Home from 2022-2025, where she further developed her decolonial approach as an “action” that aligns community engagement, museum processes and operations - alongside issues of social justice. Through her work, Gaynor champions the idea of producing a creative ecosystem that not only benefits cultural organisations, but artists as well as individuals whose cultural and social positions are often disadvantaged by coloniality and capitalist systems.