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The Henry Moore Foundation is delighted to announce that leading curator and academic Lisa Le Feuvre is to be the new Head of Sculpture Studies of the Henry Moore Institute, taking up the post in autumn 2010. The Leeds-based Institute is a world-recognised centre for the study of sculpture.  

Lisa, who is currently co-curating British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet with Tom Morton, has an exceptional range of curatorial, lecturing and writing experience.

As well as being Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art on the postgraduate Curating Programme at Goldsmiths, Lisa has taught at numerous academic organisations, including Chelsea School of Art and Design, Royal College of Art, Sotheby's Institute, Birkbeck College, San Francisco Art Institute and Städelschule, among many others. She has given public lectures at arts organisations that include Camden Arts Centre, ICA, London, Flat Time House, London; Harris Museum, Preston; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland; Serpentine Gallery, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Tate.

Between 2005 and 2009 Lisa directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum, London working with artists Renee Green, Lawrence Weiner, Simon Patterson, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Dan Holdsworth and Jeremy Millar. Lisa's other curatorial projects have been staged in spaces across the UK, including the CCA, Glasgow; The Photographers' Gallery, London; MOT, London; Stills, Edinburgh; and Arts Council England National Office where she has worked with artists including Gordon Matta-Clark, Dennis Oppenheim, Alexander & Susan Maris and Joachim Koester.
 
Lisa is the editor of the forthcoming book Failure for the Whitechapel / MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series and has written countless publication essays, including the soon-to-be-published Staging / Object / Film in Sculpture and Film, edited by Ian Christie and Jon Wood of The Henry Moore Foundation.   
 
Richard Calvocoressi, Director of The Henry Moore Foundation said: 'We are so pleased that Lisa has accepted the post of Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute.  Her energy, vision and experience will take the Institute into an exciting new phase, and will draw a growing local, national and international audience to its first-rate programme of exhibitions and sculpture study resources.'
 
Duncan Robinson, Chairman of the Trustees, The Henry Moore Foundation, said: 'The Trustees are delighted that Lisa Le Feuvre will head up the Institute.  Her renowned creativity and academic generosity are very much in the spirit of The Henry Moore Foundation.  We believe that under her guidance there are even greater things ahead for the Institute and its excellent team.'
 
Lisa Le Feuvre said: 'It is a real honour to be working with the staff and Trustees to lead the Henry Moore Institute into the start of this next decade, building on the Institute's incomparable reputation and history for scholarly research.  By testing ideas and daring to look at what might be coming next, as well as going into the overlooked, the Institute is a centre of excellence in examining the ways that art reverberates within the world in which we live. It is a real privilege to join the team.'
 
The Henry Moore Institute is open year round, seven days a week, free of charge.  Its next major exhibition is Hermann Obrist: Art Nouveau Sculptor (3 June - 29 August).  As well as staging exhibitions and managing an important sculpture study library, the Institute, in partnership with Leeds City Council, looks after the sculpture collections and archive of its next-door-neighbour, Leeds Art Gallery.
 
The Henry Moore Foundation is based in Hertfordshire and is the UK's leading artist foundation.  It was founded by Henry Moore in 1977 to increase public enjoyment and understanding of the visual arts.www.henry-moore.org

For further information, please contact Rebecca Land, Henry Moore Institute Communications Manager on +44 (0)113 233 7653 / 07834 751649,
rebecca@henry-moore.ac.uk or Annabel Friedlein using the details below.