This week, another in the series of interviews Duncan and Christian
did at the Banff Centre while they were on art vacation, Jonathan
Watkins!
Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and is
currently Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. Watkins
emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied
Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Sydney, where he
later taught. He was curator of the Chisenhale Gallery in London
during which period this relatively small local gallery became an
internationally known centre of excellence - many of the Artists
shown at that time later going on to major acclaim including a
number of Turner Prize winners, Watkins later moved to the
Serpentine Gallery from 1995 to 1997 and worked in a freelance
capacity as curator of the Biennale of Sydney in 1998. Watkins now
lives in Birmingham, England. He currently directs the Ikon
Gallery, and recently unveiled plans for a new museum of modern art
in Birmingham.
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