Education Practice at Tate 1970-present
Programme A
In considering how museums have significantly reconfigured their relationships with audiences over the last decade and given how Learning as a department carries a notable responsibility in developing audiences, this series of interviews with present and past members of Tate staff aims to create an understanding and account of how Education practice within Tate has historically evolved from information and explanation to interpretation, engagement to participation, informal knowledge to professional research.
Questions to be considered in this programme in relation to Education practice are:
- Since its inception what are the historical legacies of the original Education Department within the operation of Tate and more recently Tate Britain?
- Where has Education been historically positioned and now?
- What kind of agency does Education hold within the production and reproduction of knowledge within Tate?
- What is its relationship to a research practice?
- How does it configure its publics?
Monday 23 February
11.00-13.00
Michael Compton
Michael Compton joined Tate in 1965 as Assistant Keeper in the Modern Collection (now Collection). In 1970 he was appointed
as Keeper of Exhibitions and Education Department to be assisted by 2 Assistant Keepers. In 1980, he became responsible for
the exhibitions programme, Education and the Archive & Library
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15.00-17.00
Simon Wilson
Simon Wilson joined Tate in 1967 as Official Lecturer. He became Head of Education in 1980, Curator of Interpretation in 1991,
Communications Curator in 2000, and retired from Tate in 2002.
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Tuesday 24 February
11.00-1300
Tim Marlow
Tim Marlow began working at the Tate Gallery as a lecturer in the Education Department and subsequently move to the Communications
Department where he established and edited Tate - The Art Magazine
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15.00-17.00
Sylvia Lahav
From1987 to1993 Sylvia Lahav was Curator of schools at the Tate Gallery, and from 1994 to1995 she was Curator responsible
for devising and co-ordinating lectures and events and for the planning co-ordination and management of a large varied programme
of events, conferences, seminars. From 1996 to 1999 she became Curator of Public programmes at the Tate Gallery moving in
2000 to Tate Modern as part of the team established there.
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Wednesday 25 February
11.00-13.00
Anna Cutler
Anna Cutler is Head of Learning at Tate Modern and took up the post in 2006.
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15.00-17.00
Andrew Brighton
Andrew Brighton worked for Tate between 1992 and 2002. He was Curator of Public Events at the Tate Gallery, Millbank until
he moved in 1999 to Tate Modern to become Senior Curator: Public Programmes.
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Thursday 26 February
11.00-13.00
Toby Jackson
Toby Jackson joined Tate Gallery Liverpool in 1988 as the founding Head of Education and Public Programmes and a member of
the Gallery’s senior management team, later becoming the founding Head of Interpretation and Education at Tate Modern in 1999.
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14.00-16.00
Helen Charman
Helen Charman was previously Curator, Teacher Programmes, Tate Modern
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Friday 27 February
15.00-17.00
Richard Morphet
Richard Morphet joined the Tate Gallery in 1966 and retired in 1998. His first appointment was as Assistant Keeper of the
Modern Collection, becoming Deputy Keeper of it in 1973, and subsequently Keeper from 1986 until 1998.
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Free, booking required
