History

Beverley Knowles is a freelance curator and writer on the arts.  She began her career working with revered eighteenth century art dealer Anthony Mould and holds an MA in contemporary art history from Goldsmiths’ College.

In 2002 she set up Beverley Knowles Fine Art in support of contemporary women artists. This project, hailed by Griselda Pollock as “vitally important” and decried by Sue Hubbard in The Independent as a “self-made ghetto amid the desired homogeneity of the twenty first century”, operated from October 2005 to May 2009 out of a gallery space just off Golborne Road, W10.

Beverley is now working as a freelance curator and writer.  Her particular art historical interests lie with contemporary multi-disciplinary and performance art and the history of feminist art.

As commentator on the arts Beverley has written for The Guardian, The Economist, More Intelligent Life, NY Arts, Twin, ArtWrit, Art of England, Art in London, The Financial Mail and Spoonfed.

As well as an art historian Beverley is also an equestrian, a yogi, a Buddhist, a voracious reader, a stubborn interlocutor and a firm believer that a sense of humour has got to be the last thing to go.