Trevor Avery

Who is Trevor Avery?

Trevor Avery is an artist and curator who has been based in London, the Highlands of Scotland, and is now in the North West of England.

Currently he is a Director of Another Space.

He has produced major touring projects including "Gernika!", a touring exhibition of Scotland and Spain, The Rock Drill and Beyond, featuring a full reconstruction of Jacob Epstein’s iconic sculpture, Asylrecht, involving the Bundesarchiv and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and 19.16 Memory and the Act of Remembrance at Kendal Town Hall in 2004 and the iconic Accrington Town Hall in 2008.

In 2007 Avery collaborated with artist Chris Atkins and local historian Allan King to produce Flying Boats and Fellow Travellers, an online exhibition about the World War II Short Sunderland factory at Troutbeck in Cumbria.

From 2009 onwards Avery has worked with artist Mark Peter Wright on Where Once We Walked, a long term collaborative project which was premiered on 15 September 2011 at St. Mary's Church, Windermere, UK. To coincide with the performance a limited release of 150 CD copies of the work were produced. The work has also been performed and broadcast at Tate Britain and Helicotrema Festival

His current ongoing projects are Avenue of Exile and From Auschwitz to Ambleside, two major interwoven European and international projects emanating from the arrival of three hundred child survivors of the Holocaust to the Lake District of England in 1945.