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.

Since 2005 he has been involved in a ten-year project looking at the connections and legacy of the story of the three hundred child Holocaust Survivors who came to the Lake District of England in 1945.

Avery collaborates with artists including Neasden Control Centre, Rosemary Smith, Mark Peter Wright, Susan Stein. The current initiative is "Flowers of Auschwitz" related to the book of drawings of children liberated from Auschwitz in 1945 by the Soviet soldier artist Zinovii Tolkatchev.

The work involves Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial and sites in Kraków, Płaszów, Łódź, Warsaw, Budapest, London, Manchester and the Lake District.

He has been advisor to the BBC on TV programmes and written for Third Text magazine, and curated exhibitions including leading Aboriginal Australian artist Dr Pam Johnston, Tanzanian artist Everlyn Nicodemus and American artists Linda Lomahaftewa (Choctaw-Hopi) and Jimmie Durham Beith, Mary (Winter 1997). "River deep, mountain high". Third Text 11 (41): 99–100. doi:10.1080/09528829708576708. ISSN 0952-8822.

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