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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 former president of London's Pace Gallery. She is the co-founder and chief creative officer of Superblue, a company she founded in 2020. She and members of her family own Sudeley Castle,[1] where she has curated sculpture exhibitions.

Art career

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Dent-Brocklehurst began her career in the mid-1990s at Sotheby’s London and then in New York. It was there that she joined the Gagosian Gallery, becoming a director in 1997. In 1999, Dent-Brocklehurst returned to London to orchestrate the opening of Gagosian’s first London Gallery where she became the first director until 2008.[2][3] She worked alongside Dasha Zhukova to found The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow that same year.[4] Parallel to this, between 2004 and 2008, Dent-Brocklehurst organized the reconstruction sculpture project at Sudeley Castle, her ancestral home.[2][5][6] This project triggered a number of similar exhibitions, such as those at Chatsworth and Blenheim Palace, which brought monumental contemporary sculpture to Grade I listed grounds.[7][8]

In 2010, she was appointed to set up the first branch of Pace Gallery in London,[3] where she was the president from 2012 to 2017.[9][10][11][12] In 2017, she joined the Founder of FutureCity, Mark Davy, in a two-year project named Future/Pace, which aimed to extend the reach of contemporary art beyond the conventional boundaries of gallery walls, bringing it into the public domain.[13] Future/Pace delivered site-specific contemporary art projects by artists such as Leo Villareal and Studio Drift.[14][15]

In 2020, she co-founded Superblue with Marc Glimcher and Laurene Powell Jobs.[16][17] Superblue opened its first space in Miami in 2021 following delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18][19] Superblue's emphasis on immersive and experimental art, together with its revenue-sharing model with artists, set it apart from other traditional museums and galleries.[20] In September 2023, Dent-Brocklehurst was appointed chief creative officer of Superblue, and Marc Spiegler joined the Superblue board of directors.[21]

Personal life

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Dent-Brocklehurst married Duncan Ward in 2002 and they have two children.[2] They divorced in 2012.[2]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ "Dent-Brocklehurst family to move out of Sudeley Castle... and into cowshed". The Telegraph. 10 March 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b Sharp, Rob (8 December 2010). "Billionaire's friend bringing mega-galleries to Britain". The Independent. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  4. ^ Parfitt, Tom (20 March 2009). "Socialite bucks rouble recession to host Moscow's biggest contemporary art show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst". Tatler. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017.
  6. ^ Rawsthorn, Alice (26 May 2010). "Contemporary Design on Display at British Castle". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  7. ^ "Sotheby's London Presents 5th Annual Selling Exhibition Of Sculpture At Chatsworth House". 11 September 2010.
  8. ^ Westall, Mark (30 September 2014). "ART OPENING: Ai Weiwei @BlenheimPalace". FAD Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  9. ^ "MOLLIE DENT-BROCKLEHURST". LEADING CULTURE DESTINATIONS. 5 May 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  10. ^ "London's 1000 most influential people 2011: Art and Design". Evening Standard. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  11. ^ Rose, Frank (4 August 2020). "Will Superblue Be the 'Infinity Room' Writ Large?". New York Times. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  12. ^ Field, Marcus (9 November 2012). "The bigger picture - spotlight on London's supergalleries". Evening Standard. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Studio Swine joins stable of high-tech art organisation Future\Pace". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  14. ^ Neuendorf, Henri (8 December 2016). "Leo Villareal Wins Competition to Light Up Thames". Artnet News. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Future\Pace Presents Studio Drift At The Armory Show". futurecity.co.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  16. ^ Cassady, Daniel (20 May 2021). "Experiential art space Superblue (finally) opens in Miami". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  17. ^ "Will Superblue Be the 'Infinity Room' Writ Large? (Published 2020)". 4 August 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  18. ^ Schneider, Tim (12 April 2021). "Why the Pandemic Will Actually Strengthen the Art Experience Economy—and the Old-Fashioned Gallery Business, Too". Artnet News. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  19. ^ "Superblue Miami lets you experience art in a new way". mynews13.com. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  20. ^ "Superblue Miami lets you experience art in a new way". mynews13.com. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  21. ^ 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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