Jamie Eastman, Director of Live at LICA, tells us who has inspired him most throughout his career.
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Herbert Read
Herbert Read was a gold-mine of influence for me – he was an art critic and poet informed by anarchism whose output during the halcyon days of modernism is rich with ideas. I first heard of Read when I joined the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 2003. Along with artist, collector and fellow poet Roland Penrose, he founded the ICA in 1947. They envisaged it as a laboratory for the arts, promoting exchange between artforms against a backdrop of critical thinking – concepts that inspired Jeremy Rees and others to found Arnolfini (my most recent employer) in 1961.
