Trevor Avery

Trevor Avery is an artist and curator who has been based in London, the Highlands of Scotland, and is now in the North West of England.

Career

Trevor Avery serves as director of Another Space,[1] which initiated and now produces the Lake District Holocaust Project (LDHP).[2] LDHP is based in Windermere at the heart of the Lake District, England.

Since 2005, he has been involved in an ongoing project looking at the connections and legacy of the story of the 300 child survivors of the Holocaust, who came to the Lake District of England in 1945 directly after liberation from the concentration camps of Nazi Occupied Europe.

The "Flowers of Auschwitz" exhibition in 2015 related to the book of drawings of children liberated from Auschwitz in 1945 by the Soviet soldier artist Zinovii Tolkatchev. This led to the "Auschwitz Dandelion", an exhibition project in 2017 looking at the Auschwitz sub camp of Raisko. The project investigated the history of experiments to use Russian Dandelion sap in the global manufacture of rubber, especially motor tyres. Raisko camp saw the use of women as a slave labour force in Nazi efforts to develop rubber from the Russian Dandelion during World War Two.

From 2016 to 2017 he curated "Holocaust and Memory Reframed" in the Lake District. Supported by Arts Council England, the two-year programme began with an exhibition of The Memory Quilt, a large-scale project made in 2015 by 45 Aid Society. Other artists commissioned to produce work over the two years included Ian Walton, Heather Belcher and Miroslaw Balka.

He continues to be an advisor to the BBC on TV programmes and has written for Third Text magazine, and curated exhibitions including leading Aboriginal Australian artist Dr Pam Johnston, Tanzanian artist Everlyn Nicodemus and American artists Linda Lomahaftewa (Choctaw-Hopi) and Jimmie Durham[3]

Honours

In 2016 Avery was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for Services to Heritage in the Lake District.

References

  1. ↑ "Another Space".
  2. ↑ "Lake District Holocaust Project".
  3. ↑ Beith, Mary (Winter 1997). "River deep, mountain high". Third Text. 11 (41): 99–100. doi:10.1080/09528829708576708. ISSN 0952-8822.
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