Tate’s Post

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The tape will reopen, so we're trying to make it a little bit special. There'll be a renewed interest in the Tate both locally, nationally and internationally. I've seen tremendous changes in the Tate since 1988, one of which is the number of people that visit. So over the years it's become much more international, much more multicultural, much more diverse, which is a wonderful thing. We've got loads of amazing memories have come into the Tate as a family and every holiday we always make a point of having a day out and coming to the task. Our priority. I've been coming to the tape for years because it's just filled with astonishing art and representations of humanity's first time. I came to the Taters on a school trip and it was the Pop Art exhibition must have been like early mid 90s and it was amazing. Absolutely loved it. And I know since then I've been coming to the take for for years and years after I saw this photograph from a film by the German artist Rebecca Horne called Touching Both Walls. Simultaneously. And that was the piece they gave me the idea for my book that I've just published Art Monsters. Two favorite exhibitions I think for me most favorite exhibition I suppose would be Turner Money Twombley a few years ago, where we had three great artists together, both at the end of their life. A really good advert as to how you can live at the end of your life as you get old, but still producing amazing, powerful work. But also Keith Herring as well, who in oppositely kind of died sadly young. The thing. Love most about Tent is that it's not very far from where I live in Preston. We're really happy to have a place like this in the region where you can see work from absolutely all over the world. Feels like the directors have sort of brought that work to us as a gift and especially for the people that really can't travel out of the region all that much. So it's kind of, I love it because it's because it's ours. Free access to amazing works of art and some of that may be always want to come back. But if I'd seen these paintings in another city, if I was in Paris and I was seeing these paintings, I'd be amazed. So it's even more amazing than they were in my local city. Just the location, the fact that we're right on the River Mersey and an amazing place with great energy. And I am really looking forward to its next incarnation and to to find that relationship to the river kind of renewed.