Julian Spalding, Esq

Career: art asst: Leicester Museum and Art Gallery 1970-71, Durham Light Infantry Museum and Arts Centre 1971-72; keeper Mappin Art Gallery 1972-76; dir: Sheffield City Cncl 1982-85 (dep dir 1976-82), Manchester City Art Galleries 1985-89, Glasgow Museums 1989-98; acting dir Nat Museum of Labour History 1987-88; dir: Scottish Football Museum Tst 1995-99, Niki de Saint Phalle Fndn 1995-; BBC broadcaster (talks and reviews incl Third Ear (BBC Radio 3) 1988); res fell Museum of Denmark 1999-2000; chm: Exhibitions Sub-Ctee Arts Cncl 1981-82 and 1986, Drawing Power 2000-; memb: Art Panel 1978-82, Art Galleries Assoc 1987- (fndr and memb Ctee 1976-), Visual Arts Advsy Ctee Br Cncl 1990-; master Guild of St George John Ruskin's Guild 1996-2005 (companion 1978, dir 1983); Crafts Cncl: memb Projects and Orgn Ctee 1985-87, memb 1986-90, memb Purchasing Ctee 1986, memb Exhibitions Ctee 1986-90; Lord Provost's Prize for Services to the Visual Arts in Glasgow 1999; FMA 1983

Books and Publications: L S Lowry (1979), Three Little Books on Painting (1984), Is There Life in Museums? (1990), The Poetic Museum - Reviving Historic Collections (2002), The Eclipse of Art - Tackling the Crisis in Art Today (2003), The Art of Wonder: A History of Seeing (2005, Bannister Fletcher Prize 2006), Peter Angermann: Art and Life (2009), The Best Art You've Never Seen: 101 Hidden Treasures from Around the World (2010); exhibition catalogues incl: Modern British Painting (1975), Glasgow's Great British Art Exhibition (1990), Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow (1996); contrib Burlington Magazine