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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