Andrew Wilson is an art historian, curator and critic. He was senior curator of modern British Art and Archives at Tate Britain 2006-2021, and was previously deputy editor of Art Monthly 1997-2006. He is the editor and author of the Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné of oil paintings (Art Publishing Inc, forthcoming 2027). Wilson has curated major exhibitions and written widely on post-war British art over the last 40 years, including exhibitions and accompanying publications on Conceptual Art in Britain (Tate Britain 2016), David Hockney (Tate Britain and tour 2017-18) and Patrick Heron (Tate St Ives and tour 2018-19). He was the author of Richard Hamilton Swingeing London 67 (Afterall/MIT Press 2012). He is a founding fellow of the London Institute of ’Pataphysics.
Barry Miles has written extensively on the Beat Generation and the sixties counter-culture including biographies of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Paul McCartney and Frank Zappa, as well as London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945. He was the co-founder of Indica Bookshop and Art Gallery (1965) and of The International Times (IT), Europe’s first underground newspaper. In 1968-9 he was the label manager for the Beatles’ experimental Zapple label. A full biography and bibliography can be found at www.barrymiles.co.uk He lives in London.
The talk takes place on gallery’s ground floor and has disabled access. Doors open at 2:30 pm with a 3:00 pm start.
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