Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst
NationalityBritish
OccupationArt curator
Children2
Parent(s)Mark Dent-Brocklehurst (father)
Elizabeth Chipps (mother)

Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst is a British art curator and the chief creative officer of the Superblue art center. She is a former executive director of Pace London, a cofounder of the Superblue initiative, and the former executive director of Superblue London. She and members of her family own Sudeley Castle,[1] where she has curated sculpture exhibitions.

Art career

In the mid-1990s, Dent-Brocklehurst began work in New York for Larry Gagosian, and then continued to work for him in London after 2000 as the director of the first Gagosian Gallery in London.[2][3] During the 2000s, she worked as an art advisor for Roman Abramovich[4] and also organized sculpture exhibitions at Sudeley Castle during summers.[2][5] In 2010, she was appointed to find gallery space in London for the Pace Gallery.[3]

Dent-Brocklehurst has worked as executive director of Pace London.[6][7][8] In 2019, she was announced as a cofounder of PaceX, with Marc Glimcher,[9] Christy MacLear, and Kathleen Forde.[10][11] In 2020, PaceX became known as Superblue at the direction of funder Laurene Powell Jobs.[8] Suberblue opened in 2020 in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.[12][13] While Dent-Brocklehurst was chief executive, the Superblue London location closed after its first show[14][15][16] and Glimcher and Powell Jobs were later reported to have "stepped back" from the organization by ARTNews in 2022.[17] In September 2023, Dent-Brocklehurst was appointed chief creative officer of Superblue, and Marc Spiegler joined the Superblue board of directors.[18]

Ancestry

Personal life

Dent-Brocklehurst married Duncan Ward in 2002 and they have two children.[2] Dent-Brocklehurst and Ward divorced in 2012.[2]

References

  1. "Dent-Brocklehurst family to move out of Sudeley Castle... and into cowshed". The Telegraph. 10 March 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Roux, Caroline (26 March 2021). "Meet the aristocrat who swapped her Cotswolds castle for a move to Miami". The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  3. 1 2 Sharp, Rob (8 December 2010). "Billionaire's friend bringing mega-galleries to Britain". The Independent. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  4. Gordon, Mark (2009). Contemporary Europe: art guide. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. p. 57. ISBN 9783775723367. ...Mollie Dent - Brocklehurst also currently serves as curator for the new Abramovich - owned art center in Moscow...
  5. "Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst". Tatler. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017.
  6. "London's 1000 most influential people 2011: Art and Design". Evening Standard. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  7. Field, Marcus (9 November 2012). "The bigger picture - spotlight on London's supergalleries". Evening Standard. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  8. 1 2 Rose, Frank (4 August 2020). "Will Superblue Be the 'Infinity Room' Writ Large?". New York Times. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  9. Cassady, Daniel (20 May 2021). "Experiential art space Superblue (finally) opens in Miami". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  10. Dafoe, Taylor (14 August 2019). "Pace Gallery Is Launching PaceX, an Ambitious New Initiative to Promote Projects That Unite Art and Technology". Artnet News. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  11. Kamp, Justin (3 September 2020). "How Pace Gallery Helped Turn Experiential Art into an Industry". Artsy. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  12. Kinsella, Eileen (5 August 2020). "Despite Bans on Public Gatherings, Marc Glimcher's New 'Superblue' Initiative Is Launching a Series of Venues for Big, Immersive Art". Artnet News. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  13. Lubow, Arthur (18 March 2021). "Up to My Eyeballs in Art at Superblue". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  14. Jhala, Kabir (11 October 2022). "After a single show, Superblue has quietly closed its London space". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  15. Howse, Christopher (11 October 2021). "A.A. Murakami, Silent Fall, review: smelly show that reeks of pointlessness". The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  16. Frankel, Eddy (12 October 2021). "A.A. Murakami: 'Silent Fall' at Superblue review". Time Out London. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  17. Cassady, Daniel (16 December 2022). "Marc Glimcher, CEO of Pace Gallery, and Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective Have Stepped Back from Superblue". ARTnews. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  18. Cassady, Daniel (14 September 2023). "Former Art Basel Head Marc Spiegler Joins Superblue Board of Directors". ARTnews. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
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