Serpentine co-drector Julia Peyton-Jones to step down after 25 years

Peyton-Jones to leave London art gallery next summer having overseen an expansion of its size and influence Julia Peyton-Jones, the prestigious co-director who raised visitor numbers to the Serpentine gallery by hundreds of thousands and famously hosted Tilda Swinton asleep in Cornelia Parker’s glass box, is to step down from the organisation after 25 years.“There is never a good time to leave – however, I wanted to go when the Serpentine was firing on all cylinders and our maj