Industry voices: Iwona Blazwick

Iwona Blazwick is Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Before this, she was Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern. She has also been Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and worked as a curator in Europe and Japan.

She spoke to Choices about her unusual career path, her mentor and inspirations, what a gallery director does, and why she feels positive about the arts in a...
Blazwick writes art criticism and contributes to television and radio broadcasts. She has been on numberous juries including the Turner Prize and the Jerwood Painting Prize. In 2008, she was awarded an OBE for services to Art.

She spoke to Choices° about her unusual career path, her mentor and inspirations. Also what a gallery director does, and why she feels positive about the arts in a recession.

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