 Serpentine Gallery director on the building of a temporary pavilion
Julia Peyton-Jones was appointed director of the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Hyde Park in 1991 and is one of the most prominent, respected and formidable women in the art world today. Peyton-Jones’s tenure at the Serpentine has meant that the Gallery is rarely out of the public eye: the police were called in 1993 following a show of wax penises, a year later Damien Hirst exhibited his pickled sheep and Tilda Swinton slept there for weeks in a glass box. While she’s been director, visitor numbers to the Serpentine have increased almost three-fold to 750,000 per year. And now she’s persuaded the internationally renowned architect, Frank Gehry, to build this year’s summer pavilion at the Gallery, which opens to the public on the 20th July. |
