Trisha McCauley
TR: Trisha McCauley
INT: Interviewer
INT: Introduce who you are and what you do.
TM: My name is Trisha McCauley, em, I’m currently a Programme Manager and the Director and Curator of The Humble Gallery
INT: Can you tell us little bit abut connection to Rosetta how you got involved and how long you’ve been here.
TM: So, my connection to Rosetta goes back, almost 20 years. I started here as a photographer in evening classes and I taught up to A- level photography. I also used to do the summer school classes, em, then a few years later, the current owner Yvonne Humble, she retired and then so myself, Sanaz Amidi and actually Steve Marriott, took over as Directors and I’ve been involved ever since – from 2006 with Rosetta.
INT: Can you talk a little bit about… oh you can mention about your connection to Newham as well, yeah?
TM: So, my connection to Newham is that I lived in the borough for 17 years. I lived in fact Beckton and I moved to Stratford, so I was very close. I lived very close to Rosetta and its only recently that I moved away, so I no longer live in the borough.
INT: Cn you talk about changes you’ve experienced in Rosetta or in the neighbourhood in the time you’ve been here?
TM: There’s been many changes in Rosetta. Initially, when we started, it was the quite small. It was actually known as a studio space, so when I, kind of, took over along with my colleagues, our main aim was to kind of let people know that we existed. We changed the programming, we got more people involved in Rosetta and we, kind of, opened up more, so we did like more non-credited courses; lots of, more working with community projects and working off sites as well; we changed the curriculum and the way that we delivered a lot of the programming at Rosetta.
INT: Can you talk about future where maybe vision of where you like it to go in Rosetta, the Neighbourhood and maybe East London?
TM: The vision! The vision, I think for Rosetta, at this stage, is to try and do more innovative digital work. Also, in terms of curating. I would love to see where them start to open up more opportunities for curators. Personally, my experience, as the Director of the Humble Gallery, is that it opened up a lot of opportunities for me to explore different themes and try out different ways of exhibiting in a safe space, and I’d love to have that opportunity for others to, kind of, have that space to explore and play.
