Tamsin Dillon is Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park. A strategic cultural leader with over 25 years experience in the art sector, she has worked with artists, and teams of arts and non-arts professionals, to commission permanent and temporary artworks in a range of contexts including museums, galleries and public settings.
In 2021 she curated and produced Waterfronts, seven new temporary large-scale public artworks, created for England’s Creative Coast in partnership with contemporary art organizations around the coast of South East England, by artists Michael Rakowitz, Mariana Castillo Deball, Holly Hendry, Andreas Angelidakis, Pilar Quinteros, Jasleen Kaur and Katrina Palmer.
As the founder and Director of Art in Public (2020) she has worked with organizations including 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica to support the strategic development of new program strands and projects.
From 2014 - 2018, she lead a curatorial team to deliver over 25 ambitious large-scale public commissions for 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary in partnership with organizations across the UK, including new works by Rachel Whiteread, Gillian Wearing, John Akomfrah, Yinka Shonibare, Rebecca Warren and Imran Qureshi.
From 2015 - 2018 she was Co-Director of The King’s Cross Project. Working with Argent she developed a strategic art commissioning plan for the new buildings and streets of King’s Cross N1C in London and delivered new works by Rana Begum, Rasheed Araeen, Tess Jaray, Tobias Rehberger, Celine Condorelli, Amalia Pica and Eva Rothschild.
From 2003 – 2014 she directed Transport for London’s Art on the Underground which, under her leadership, became an internationally acclaimed art program.