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30.08.2009
BALTIC ANNOUNCES NEW CHIEF CURATOR
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art has announced the appointment of Laurence Sillars in the role of Chief Curator. He will take up the position on Monday 2 November and will lead the curatorial team and work with BALTICīs Director Godfrey Worsdale in the planning of BALTICīs future exhibitions program.
Laurence moves to Gateshead from Tate Liverpool where he has been Curator of Exhibitions and Collections for the last five years. In 2007 he co-curated the first Turner Prize exhibition to be held outside London, and is currently co-curating, with artist Michael Landy, the exhibition Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely. Laurence was also part of the curatorial team that delivered the last two Liverpool Biennial International exhibitions and in this capacity was responsible for some 20 new commissions. He was awarded an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and has previously worked at the Arts Council Collection, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Chisenhale Gallery, London.
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