LoginThe art of trading standards expertise
Giles Speid put his trading standards skills to creative use when curating an art exhibition
Posted 28 October 2021 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|London
UPDATES: Drawing on lessons from art, craftsmanship and professional practice, this reflective piece argues that trading standards expertise is built through curiosity, experience and continual learning rather than quick technical knowledge alone.
In 2011, I remember attending the Da Vinci exhibition at the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery. In the exhibition notes the curator said he had taken five years to put it all together. I remember thinking, “I wonder why it took so long?”
In 2017, I attended an exhibition in Central London of the international award-winning artist Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, who was displaying her enviro...
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