Mark Sanders
Curator and Directorial Advisor
Mark Sanders was a founding member and acting Arts Editor for the popular style and arts magazine Dazed & Confused throughout the 1990s graduating to the Senior Editor of the Dazed Publishing Groups flagship title Another Magazine from 2000 until 2006. In the late 1990s he was active in other areas of publishing in Europe and the United States. Amongst other roles, he edited a number of books on art and fashion as the Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Culture for Phaidon Press.
In 2001 he formed the arts commissioning agency RS&A Ltd. launching internationally renowned arts project The Art of Chess in 2003, followed by specially commissioned projects by a number of the world’s leading contemporary artists including Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger and Maurizio Cattelan.
From 2009 until 2013, Mark was the Director for the All Visual Arts Gallery based in London, curating the critically acclaimed exhibition Vanitas, staged in 2010, followed in 2011 by Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being.
Mark is also a recognised curator and historian in reportage photography and has built museum quality collections on the Cuban Revolution, Apartheid South Africa and the Student Protest Movements of the 1960s – exhibiting in leading institutions including the International Centre of Photography, New York and the Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
Mark currently heads up his own art consultancy business Mark Sanders Arts Consultancy Ltd.