Godfrey Worsdale OBE
Title
Honorary Doctor
Person Type
Honorary
Trained as an art historian at Camberwell College of Art, London, Godfrey Worsdale’s curatorial career began in the early 1990s in the British Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings. In 1994 he simultaneously established Cultural Instructions; an exhibition space in South East London dedicated to contemporary projects. He joined Southampton City Art Gallery as curator in 1995 becoming its Director three years later.
In 2002 he was appointed to be founding Director of MIMA - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. This was followed in 2008 by seven years as Director of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, where he also founded BALTIC 39; a new space dedicated to research and experimentation in partnership with Northumbria University: one of many collaborations with academia.
Worsdale has served as a judge and selector for the 2011 Turner Prize and the 54th and 57th Venice Biennales. In 2015 he became the Director of the Henry Moore Foundation, dividing his time between Perry Green in Hertfordshire where Moore lived and worked, and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Worsdale was awarded an OBE for services to the visual arts, and currently sits on the Advisory Board of World Art Foundations; a hub for art foundations worldwide.