Jon Thompson (1936–2016) was an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the YBA artist generation. He was head of the Department of Art at Goldsmiths in the 1980s, and in 1988 he was involved in the curation of the now legendary Freeze warehouse exhibition along with various art students and Damien Hirst, whom Thompson tutored. Thompson was also head of the MA Fine Art at Middlesex University's School of Art and curated shows at the Hayward Gallery. In 2011 Ridinghouse published The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson.Maria Fusco is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee. She is a Belfast-born interdisciplinary writer working across art writing, fiction, performance and theory. Previously she was Professor at Northumbria University, Reader at University of Edinburgh, and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Jon Thompson (1936–2016) was an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the YBA artist generation. He was head of the Department of Art at Goldsmiths in the 1980s, and in 1988 he was involved in the curation of the now legendary Freeze warehouse exhibition along with various art students and Damien Hirst, whom Thompson tutored. Thompson was also head of the MA Fine Art at Middlesex University's School of Art and curated shows at the Hayward Gallery. In 2011 Ridinghouse published The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson.Maria Fusco is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee. She is a Belfast-born interdisciplinary writer working across art writing, fiction, performance and theory. Previously she was Professor at Northumbria University, Reader at University of Edinburgh, and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Jon Thompson (1936–2016) was an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the YBA artist generation. He was head of the Department of Art at Goldsmiths in the 1980s, and in 1988 he was involved in the curation of the now legendary Freeze warehouse exhibition along with various art students and Damien Hirst, whom Thompson tutored. Thompson was also head of the MA Fine Art at Middlesex University's School of Art and curated shows at the Hayward Gallery. In 2011 Ridinghouse published The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson.Maria Fusco is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee. She is a Belfast-born interdisciplinary writer working across art writing, fiction, performance and theory. Previously she was Professor at Northumbria University, Reader at University of Edinburgh, and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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