Jon Thompson (born 1936) is an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the YBA artist generation.[citation needed]
As the Head of Goldsmiths Department of Art in the 1980s, Thompson opened up specialisms and allowed students to move freely between the different modes of practice, such as painting, sculpture, photography and printing, etc.[citation needed] This separated Goldsmiths from the dominance of art schools like St Martins. In 1988 he was involved in the curation of the now legendary Freeze warehouse exhibition along with various art students and Damien Hirst whom Thompson had accepted on to the course and tutored since that time.[1][2][3] Jon Thompson is now head of the MA Fine Art course at Middlesex University's School of Art (previously Hornsey College of Art) and continues to lecture on artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Piero Manzoni. He has also curated shows at the Hayward Gallery in London including Gravity and Grace and Falls the Shadow with Barry Barker.
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- ^ Knell, Simon J. (2007), Museums in the material world, Routledge, p. 205, ISBN 9780415416993
- ^ Fairhurst, Angus; Hirst, Damien; Muir, Gregor; Lucas, Sarah; Wallis, Clarrie (2004), In-a-gadda-da-vida: Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Tate, p. 90, ISBN 9781854374967
- ^ The Sunday Times. "Profile: Mark Wallanger: Winning again by a brass neck - Times Online". Entertainment.timesonline.co.uk. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5733616.ece. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
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