ARTIST JEREMY DELLER APPOINTED TATE TRUSTEE

Artist Jeremy Deller has been appointed a Tate trustee by the prime minister and begins a four-year term today. By statute, three of Tate’s twelve trustees are practicing artists; Deller joins Fiona Rae and Anish Kapoor on the board. (Kapoor replaced Chris Ofili, who stepped down in late 2005 at the end of his four-year term, not long after controversy arose over Tate’s purchase of his artwork The Upper Room, a suite of canvases housed in a room specially designed by architect David Adjaye.) Deller, a widely exhibited artist, won the Turner Prize in 2004. He sits on the Advisory Council of Tate Liverpool and has been a board member of Artangel since 2005. Deller’s participation in the “Centre of the Creative University,” an upcoming exhibition at Tate Liverpool, has been authorized by the Charity Commission, which revised its policies in the wake of the Ofili controversy and will work with Tate to oversee Deller’s participation on the board.