Joe Tilson, R.A. (b. 1928)

Michael Compton was a pioneering exhibition's director at the Tate Gallery. Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, described Compton as: “arguably the first curator working in England to command international respect for his practice as a maker of exhibitions, collaborator with artists and contributor to the discourse of contemporary art.” This piece was gifted to Compton by the artist as thanks for the exhibition catalogue Compton wrote for Joe Tilson: Works 1961-1991, Waddington Galleries, London, August - September 1991.