Alex Farquharson

Alex Farquharson has been the executive director of Nottingham Contemporary since April 2007. He arrived with an international reputation as a curator, writer and lecturer. Exhibitions he has curated include British Art Show 6 (Gateshead, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol) seen by over 350,000 people, Le Voyage Interieur in Paris and If Everybody Had an Ocean at Tate St Ives and CAPC Bordeaux (TSIs second most visited exhibition). Prior to Nottingham Contemporary he was Tutor and Research Fellow on the Curating Contemporary Art MA at Royal College of Art in London. He is a widely published author on art in books, catalogues and magazines. As well as his freelance activity, he has a solid background working in publicly funded art institutions: during the 90s he was Exhibitions Director at Spacex in Exeter and Centre for Visual Arts in Cardiff.

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Alex Farquharson

Alex Farquharson presents on curatorial approaches at Nottingham Contemporary, where he has been Director since 2007. One of the largest contemporary art centers in the United Kingdom, Nottingham Contemporary has quickly acquired a reputation for the distinctiveness and ambition of its artistic programme and has made a significant impact locally, welcoming around half a million […]

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