In Conversation: A New Home for a Growing Collection
Wright & Wright worked with Dawn Ades CBE FBA, Chair of the Academy’s Art Committee, and Dr Sharon Messenger, Heritage Collections Manager, to reimagine the British Academy’s art spaces. We sat down with them and Stephen Schwendel Smith, Partner at Wright & Wright, to explore how the Collection now comes alive in these transformed interiors.
Dawn Ades CBE FBA, Chair of the Academy’s Art Committee, and Dr Sharon Messenger, Heritage Collections Manager
“Each space has its own character, as does each piece. Sometimes it’s complicated - but when you move a work and suddenly it looks right, the whole building comes alive.” - Dawn Ades
“Things like the Hew Locke have been transformational - a huge piece, absolutely confronting colonialism, placed in Gladstone’s former staircase. It gets the conversation going.” - Sharon Messenger
Read the full interview here
The British Academy
A forum for public convening and international exchange in the humanities, the future British Academy synthesizes new design into an iconic historic site.
