Sandy Nairne
Alexander Robert Sandy Nairne CBE , Fellow FSA (born June 8, 1953 in England ) is an English museum director and author .
Life
Nairne is one of six children of senior official Sir Patrick Nairne. He grew up near Cobham, Surrey , before attending Radley College boarding school near Radley in Oxfordshire . In the early 1970s he was a student at University College (Oxford) and an active rowers in the second eight of Oxford University , ISIS .
After completing his studies, he met the current head of Tate Britain in London, Nicholas Serota , when he worked at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford from 1974 to 1976 . In the following years until 1980 he worked at the Tate Gallery in London as an assistant curator. In 1980 he became the director responsible for exhibitions at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), where he was responsible for exhibitions such as those on Robert Mapplethorpe until 1984 .
In 1987 Nairne wrote the book for the British Channel 4's State of the Art series of documentaries . From 1988 to 1996 he was director of the Arts Council of Great Britain , where he was responsible for a wide variety of projects, including a course at the Royal College of Art for curators relating to the teaching of contemporary art .
As Program Director of the Tate Gallery, Nairne was responsible for remodeling the gallery's administration in preparation for the opening of the Tate Modern gallery and the conversion of the old gallery on Millbank to Tate Britain . He wrote about his work in the successful restitution of two paintings by William Turner , which were stolen from the Schirn in Frankfurt am Main in 1994 (see: Art theft from the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 1994 ) and which have been exhibited again in Tate Britain since 2003 Book. In 2002 he was appointed director of London's National Portrait Gallery , but in 2014 he announced his retirement into a life as a writer and private citizen in early 2015.
Nairne is married to the art historian and feminist Lisa Tickner and they have two children. His brother Andrew Nairne is the director of Kettle's Yard , Cambridge and his twin brother James is the director of a school in Oxfortshire.
Prizes and awards
- 2011: Appointment as Commander ( Komtur ) of the Order of the British Empire in the context of the Queen's Birthday Honors .
Publications
- with Nicholas Serota (Ed.): British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century . Whitechapel Art Gallery , London 1981, ISBN 0-85488-054-2 .
- as co-editor with Veit Loers: Antony Gormley: Sculpture . Städtische Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg 1985. Exhibition catalog.
- In collaboration with Geoff Dunlop and John Wyver: State of the Art. Ideas and Images in the 1980s . Chatto & Windus, London with Channel 4 Television 1987, ISBN 0-701130865 .
- as co-editor: Thinking about Exhibitions . Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-11589-2 .
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Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners . Reaction Books, Clerkenwell, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-86189-851-7 .
- German by Werner Richter: The empty wall. Museum theft. The fall of the two gymnasts . Piet Meyer Verlag, Bern / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-905799-19-4 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nairne, Sandy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nairne, Robert Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English museum director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |