Michaela Crimmin's activities included commissions and residencies in the UK, India and Afghanistan with artists including Jeremy Deller, Manu Luksch, Heather & Ivan Morison, and David Cotterrell; a website; education pilots; and the development of an interdisciplinary network of three-thousand people. She commissioned Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (2006) edited by Max Andrews, a compendium of essays, dialogues and commissioned projects by artists, ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators. Events on the programme included a two-day symposium at the Sharjah Biennial 2008; a two-day interdisciplinary, international conference in partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Science attended by 300 people; and a ten-day workshop in China in partnership with Vitamin Creative Space.

Earlier work included coordinating the first phase of the Fourth Plinth series of temporary commissions in London’s Trafalgar Square with Mark Wallinger, Bill Woodrow and Rachel Whiteread, and was subsequently a member of the GLA Fourth Plinth commissioning group until 2010. She directed the Art for Architecture award scheme that encouraged and supported collaboration between artists and design professionals.

Previously she was a curator for Public Art Development Trust, working with artists including Catherine Yass, Zarina Bhimji and Tania Kovats, commissioning work for hospitals, businesses, schools and other public places.