About

Contact fgavin@gmail.com Instagram: @roughversion

Profile interviews: Carhartt WIP, The Warren, The Modern House, Aubin Almanac, Magculture, Nigh, G-IRL, Tout Pres Art, Monocle 24

Francesca Gavin is a consultant, writer, editor and curator based in London.

She is currently Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of EPOCH, a publication and platform looking at the now in dialogue with history; Director of Visual Arts for Murmur, working at intersection of art and climate awareness; Founder of Creative Consultancy ArtPresentFuture; host of the monthly radio show Rough Version on NTS Radio which looks the relationship between contemporary art and music and Art Editor at Twin since its inception.

Gavin is the author of 15 books on visual culture including Rough Version Vol 1 and 2, Watch This Space, 100 New Artists and Hell Bound: New Gothic Art; Former Artistic Director of viennacontemporary, Vienna’s leading international art fair; Co-curator the Manifesta11 biennial in Zurich and curator of international exhibitions internationally including The Art of Mushrooms (Fundação de Serralves, Porto), Mushrooms (Somerset House, London), The Dark Cube (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), and The New Psychedelia (Mu, Eindhoven). 

She is on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Fashion Curation.

Work with me: available for curatorial consultancy, editorial direction, exhibition curation, writing commissions, speaking, broadcasting, panel discussions, art advisory