Alister Warman obituary

Intuitive and collaborative director of the Serpentine Gallery in LondonEschewing recently fashionable titles such as curator and art educator, Alister Warman, who has died of cancer aged 73, described what he did as “working with artists”. The first official director of the Serpentine Gallery, from 1983 to 1991, then principal of the Byam Shaw School of Art, both in London, Alister had an approach that was always intuitive and collaborative, rather than strategic.The Serpentine Gall