New curator for Artist Rooms
Simon Stephens, 17.11.2011
Amy Dickson replaces Lucy Askew
The Artist Rooms collection of modern and contemporary art jointly owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland has a new managing curator, Amy Dickson.
Dickson has been an assistant curator at Tate Modern since 2005 and replaces Lucy Askew, who has become a senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.
Artist Rooms features more than 700 works assembled by collector and curator Anthony d’Offay, who sold them to the nation in 2008 for £26.5m even though they were estimated to be worth £125m.
The Artist Rooms collection tours the UK and will visit 17 venues this year.
The recently expanded Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno is currently showing Anselm Kiefer, the first time the German artist’s work has been shown in Wales.
Robert Mapplethorpe will be shown at the Burgh Hall in Dunoon and Linlithgow Burgh Halls in West Lothian, as well as Perth Museum and Art Gallery, as part of the Mapplethorpe Scottish Tour.
Images by German portrait and documentary photographer August Sander will feature at Duff House in Banff, before moving to Leicester's New Walk Museum and Art Gallery.
Other highlights of the 2012 Artist Rooms tour include a new contemporary arts venue in Belfast, the Metropolitan Arts Centre, featuring Los Angeles-based artist Robert Therrien as part of its opening programme.
Jannis Kounellis (Untitled, 1960, above) will be at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art later in the year.
By the end of 2012 the works will have been shown in 44 UK museums and galleries since they began touring in 2009. The Art Fund, a national fundraising charity for works of art, supports the tour with a £250,000 grant.
Meanwhile, Tate has made Colombian curator José Roca its Estrellita B Brodsky adjunct curator of Latin American Art. This is part of Tate’s aim to broaden the scope of the collection. Roca will work closely with Tate’s Latin American acquisitions committee.
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