Alice Rawsthorn

Alice Rawsthorn
OBE
Born Manchester
Nationality British
Occupation Design critic, journalist
Website alicerawsthorn.com

Alice Rawsthorn OBE (born 1958 in Manchester)[1] is a British design critic, who writes on design in the international edition of The New York Times.[2] She also writes the "By Design" column for Frieze magazine.[3] A trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery[4] and the Michael Clark Company,[5] the contemporary dance group, she is chair of the board of trustees at the Chisenhale Gallery[6] in London.

Education and early career in journalism

After graduating in art and architectural history[7] from Cambridge University, Rawsthorn secured a place on the graduate trainee journalism scheme of the Thomson Organisation, then became media editor of Campaign magazine. In 1985, she joined the staff of the Financial Times, where she worked as a foreign correspondent in Paris before becoming architecture and design critic in 2000.[8]

Work in the arts

During her career at the Financial Times, Rawsthorn became a member of the Design Council and a trustee of the Design Museum. In 2001, she was appointed director of the Design Museum. During this period, the museum launched the Designer of the Year award, and mounted the Great Design Quest in collaboration with the BBC.[9] She resigned in February 2006 reportedly over differences with the museum's founder, Sir Terence Conran, concerning the future direction of the institution.[10]

Rawsthorn has since been active in the arts on a pro-bono basis. A trustee of Arts Council England from 2007 until 2013,[11] she was previously its lead adviser on the visual arts for four years and chair of the Turning Point review of the contemporary visual arts, which resulted in a record increase in public funding.[12] She has served on many arts juries including the Turner Prize for contemporary art, the Stirling Prize for architecture,[13] the British Council's selection panel for the Venice Architecture Biennale,[14] the PEN History Book Prize, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture,[15] the Buckminster Fuller Challenge[16] the BAFTA film and television Awards and the Museum of the Year prize[17] run by the Art Fund. A former chair of the British Council's Design Advisory Group, she was also a member of the British government's advisory panel on the BBC Charter Review.[18]

Currently, she is a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London[19] and of the Michael Clark Company,[20] one of the world's leading contemporary dance groups, and chairs the board of trustees of the Chisenhale Gallery in London.[21] In 2014, Rawsthorn became a founding member of Writers at Liberty, a group of writers who are committed to supporting the work of the human rights charity Liberty.[22]

Alice Rawsthorn was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to design and the arts.[23]

Other activities and writings

A prominent public speaker on design, Rawsthorn has participated in important international events, including the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum at Davos[24] in Switzerland, and was a founding member of the TED 2016 conference[25] and the Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design.[26] Among her awards for her work in design are an honorary senior fellowship from the Royal College of Art[27] and an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts.[28]

Rawsthorn has contributed essays to several books on design and contemporary culture, including monographs of the work of the designers Hella Jongerius[29] and the Bouroullec brothers[30] and a biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.[31] Her most recent book is Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, which traces design's influence on our lives from the adoption of the skull and crossbones as a global symbol of terror by 18th-century pirates, to World Cup footballs and advances in supercomputing.[32] Originally published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK in 2013, Hello World was published in the US by the Overlook Press in 2014[33] and is to appear in multiple foreign language editions.[34]

References

  1. ↑ "Ms Alice Rawsthorn Authorised Biography", Debrett's
  2. ↑ "Alice Rawsthorn". Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  3. ↑ "Alice Rawsthorn | Frieze". frieze.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  4. ↑ "Trustees - Whitechapel Gallery". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  5. ↑ "MICHAEL CLARK COMPANY - Contact". www.michaelclarkcompany.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  6. ↑ "Board of Trustees | Chisenhale Gallery". chisenhale.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  7. ↑ "Biography". Alice Rawsthorn's official website.
  8. ↑ Newman, Cathy; Morris, Sophie (28 August 2006). "My Mentor: Cathy Newman On Alice Rawsthorn". The Independent.
  9. ↑ Dyckhoff, Tom (February 14, 2006). "An exhibition of themselves". The Times.
  10. ↑ Roux, Caroline (3 March 2006). "Prize diversity". The Guardian.
  11. ↑ "Arts Council England Trustee" (PDF).
  12. ↑ "The Turning Point visual arts network evaluation report | CultureHive". culturehive.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  13. ↑ "Rawsthorn and Street-Porter named as Stirling Prize judges". Architects Journal. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  14. ↑ Tate. "Turner Prize 1999 - Exhibition at Tate Britain | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  15. ↑ "Alice Rawsthorn | Aga Khan Development Network". www.akdn.org. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  16. ↑ "Alice Rawsthorn | The Buckminster Fuller Institute". bfi.org. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  17. ↑ "Who's who on the shortlist for the Art Fund museum of the year". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  18. ↑ Barrett, Patrick (15 June 2004). "Bailey and Gardam join BBC charter review". The Guardian.
  19. ↑ "Trustees - Whitechapel Gallery". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  20. ↑ "MICHAEL CLARK COMPANY - Contact". www.michaelclarkcompany.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  21. ↑ "Board of Trustees | Chisenhale Gallery". chisenhale.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  22. ↑ "Willem Sandberg - design and liberty | Liberty". www.liberty80.org. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  23. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b14. 14 June 2014.
  24. ↑ "Alice Rawsthorn | World Economic Forum". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  25. ↑ Rawsthorn, Alice, Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers, retrieved 2016-10-07
  26. ↑ "World Economic Forum summit in Dubai produces design manifesto - Core77". Core77. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  27. ↑ "Senior Fellows". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  28. ↑ "Honorary awards for leading figures in the creative industries at UAL Conferments 2014 - UAL News". UAL News. 2014-07-11. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  29. ↑ Jongeriuslab. "new book: Hella Jongerius - Misfit | Jongeriuslab design studio". www.jongeriuslab.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  30. ↑ "Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. Bivouac - Exhibition Catalogue | Centre Pompidou Metz". www.centrepompidou-metz.fr. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  31. ↑ "The scent of success". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  32. ↑ MacCarthy, Fiona (2013-05-10). "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  33. ↑ "Books". Alice Rawsthorn's official website.
  34. ↑ "Hello World | Overlook Press". www.overlookpress.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.

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