LEWIS BIGGS has been Director of Liverpool Biennial since 2000, and as a founding Trustee from 1998

Lewis Biggs has been Director of Liverpool Biennial since 2000, and as a founding Trustee from 1998, has been integral to its vision of presenting the best in contemporary art across Merseyside. From the outset this vision has been to work without a gallery but with an ever-broadening range of partners in taking art beyond the walls of traditional showcases and creating a better ecology for artists.

As curator of exhibitions and displays at Tate Liverpool from 1987 to 1990 and then, particularly, as Director from 1990 to 2000, he has been in a position to help build and nurture some of the most influential contemporary art organisations in the north west of England.

He was a founding Director of Art Transpennine - a company he created with Robert Hopper - from 1995 to 2003, was a Director of Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, and is now Chair of Culture Campus - the organization linking Liverpool's arts organisations with the Universities - and the campaign for Visual Arts in Liverpool (VAiL).

Through his leadership, Liverpool Biennial has won a place in the public imagination expressing a vivid passion for the power of art in public spaces shared by artists and audiences in the north west.

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