Archive 2012-13
Alistair Robinson
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
Alistair Robinson has been Programme Director of Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art since 2002, where he has curated shows including 'Rank: Picturing the Social Order 1516-2009', and worked with artists from four continents and over 20 countries. He has given the first public gallery exhibitions to Turner Prize nominees from Mark Titchner to Spartacus Chetwynd, and awarded the first shows in the UK to artists from Harun Farocki to Cyprien Gaillard.
He moved to NGCA following posts in the photographic collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Museum of Photography. He has published over 50 short essays about artists, been commissioned by Victoria Miro gallery to produce a monograph on gallery artist David Harrison, and is currently writing an introduction to museum and gallery studies for Routledge.