the
ghost
curator
Artist & Writer
ABOUT
Maria Theresa Moerman Ib, aka The Ghost Curator, is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in rural Perthshire,, Scotland.
Influenced by her peripatetic upbringing between Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, her eclectic practice looks at concepts of memory and home.
Exploring media ranging from erasure poetry, found photography and experimental documentary to fibre art, she crafts narratives that push beyond fixed boundaries and geographies.
She currently works as a creative writing lecturer at the Open University and is working towards a PhD in experimental poetry.
CV
AREAS OF WORK
- Development and copy editing
- Literary translation
- Poetry & experimental writing workshops
- Fine art mentoring & tutoring
EDUCATION
2024-2027: PhD, Creative Writing, University of St Andrews
2021-2023: MFA, Creative Writing, University of St Andrews
2018-2019: MLitt, Creative Writing, University of Stirling
2016-2017: AFHEA*, PG Cert Learning & Teaching Creative Practices, Glasgow School of Art
2010-2011: Exchange semester, Art & Art History, University of New Mexico
2009-2012: BA (Hons), Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art
1999-2002: BA,, English, University of Southern Denmark
* Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
SELECTED AWARDS
2024: School of English Handsel Tuition Fee Scholarship, University of St Andrews
2021: Special Mention, Spread the Word Life Writing Prize
2019: Helen Lamb Prize, Best Creative Writing Dissertation, University of Stirling
2018: Postgraduate Merit Scholarship, University of Stirling
2018: Honourable Mention, Rochester International Film Festival
2017: Invited Artist, Hidden Door Festival
2016: Best Factual, BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award
2016: Best UK Short, East End Film Festival
2016: Director's Choice Award, Black Maria Film Festival
2015: Shortlisted, Magnum/Photo London Graduate Photographers Award
2014: Commissioned short film ‘The Third Dad’, Scottish Documentary Institute
2014: Artist Bursary, Creative Scotland
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024: One poem in Paperboats, Issue 3
2022: “Guest House” (Danish translation) in Look, Breathe, Chris Powici, Red Squirrel Press
2021: Poems and non-fiction prose in Pharos, creative writing anthology, Stryvling Press
2020: “Speaking Across the Borderline” in Cryptic, alt-mag, Cold Strawberries Collective
2019: Four poems in Circling the Point, creative writing anthology, Stryvling Press
2017: Missed Connections (self-published poetry zine)
2014: Syllables of Salt (self-published poetry zine)
2012: All the Things I Wanted to Knit (self-published poetry zine)
2011: Keeping Out the Rain (self-published poetry zine)
2010: Twitter (self-published poetry zine)
2002: Three poems in Braquemard (British poetry magazine), Issue 9
2002: Poem in Pacific North West Literary Potpourri (US online literary journal)
2001: Poem in Rain Dog (British poetry magazine), Issue 4, September
2001: Poem in Caught in the Net (US online poetry magazine), The Poetry Kit
2001: Poem in American Studies in Scandinavia (Nordic academic journal), Vol. 33, Issue 2
2000: Three poems in Hvedekorn (Danish literary magazine), Issue 4/00
1999: Four poems in Hvedekorn (Danish literary magazine), Issue 1/99
SELECTED Work
13 WAYS TO FORGET someONE YOU LOVE
Series of altered found photographs
2020
petrified mist
Series of photographs
2022
look how i’m forgetting you
Series of found photographs
2021
SPINDRIFT
Cyanotype on handspun sheep’s wool
2024
THE THIRD DAD
Short experimental documentary film
2015
DEDICATION
Erasure poem
2016
moth map
Felted silk from Atlas moth cocoon
2013
I am not silent because
you are listening
Word cross-stitched w/ spun cassette tape
2021
OLd stories spun anew
Handspun cassette tape
2013
contact
Maria Theresa Moerman Ib
theghostcurator@gmail.com
