Marie-Anne McQuay is Guest Curator of Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK. She is on secondment from Arts&Heritage as Director of Projects (2022-) and has worked with A&H CEO Stephanie Allen and A&H team on environtentally conscious public art commissions in a wide range of heritage contexts with arists & collectives including Hetain Patel, Jocelyn McGregor, Savinder Bual, Vanley Burke, Luke Fowler, Hanna Tuulikki and Intervention Architecture.
Previously Marie-Anne was Head of Programme at the Bluecoat, Liverpool (2015 – June 2022) where she curated exhibitions and commissions by Larissa Sansour, Adham Faramawy, Suki Chan, Jade Montserrat, Serena Korda, Jonathan Baldock, Elaine Mitchener, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Deborah Roberts, Sumuyya Khader, Frances Disley and Grace Ndiritu. She also worked across the Residency and Print Studios.
She was Guest International Curator for Wales in Venice 2019 with artist Sean Edwards and lead organisation Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham and was Curator at Spike Island, Bristol (2007-2013), working with artists including Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Can Altay, Sonia Boyce, Cevdet Erek, Haroon Mirza, Cezary Bodzianowski, Melissa Gordon, Sean Edwards, Uriel Orlow and Jesse Jones. She also co-ran artist development network Spike Island Associates.
Marie-Anne was a member of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee 2022-25 and Jury member for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024: Visual Art. She is currently on the Advisory of Board of At The Library, a programme of artist-led workshops, projects, commissions and happenings in community libraries in Sefton (2023-). She is a Visiting Lecturer on Fine Art, Curating and Exhibition Studies course across the UK and External Examiner for Art Galleries & Museum Studies MA, University of Leicester 2023-26.