Interview with Raven Row’s Alex Sainsbury (Founder and Director)

I became involved with Rear Window but really only as its funder. I never thought I could become a professional in the art world — it didn’t seem there was a place for me as I had neither the psychological capabilities of a commercial art dealer nor the academic background of a fully-fledged curator. But after Rear Window changed shape and became a new organisation called Peer, which still exists, my involvement deepened. When I proposed a project in 2001 about a then obscure Italian artist from the 60s called Francesco Lo Savio my fellow board members suggested I took it on. I ended up editing a monograph on Lo Savio as none existed. To contextualise the monograph, I organised a small exhibition for which I found a first-floor space in Fitzrovia. I ended up keeping this on as a project space for two years, which I named after its address, 38 Langham Street. There I did historical shows as well as projects with young artists. Some of these — Gareth Jones, Hilary Lloyd, Nils Norman, and Pádraig Timoney — have come back into Raven Row’s programme. <a href="https://medium.com/@londonartmap/interview-with-raven-rows-alex-sainsbury-founder-and-director-938ce9c9984a">Read More</a>