In the Press: Waddington Custot participates in the Cork Street Centenary

To celebrate 100 years since the first art gallery on Cork Street, Waddington Custot participated in the communal exhibition, Fear Gives Wings to Courage, with a presentation of works by Peter Blake. Artsy and The Art Newspaper speak to Senior Director, Jacob Twyford to mark the occasion. 

“We’ve had full occupancy for the past three years, and things have really come back. There’s footfall on the street and a sense of community. It feels like we’re really building something now,” says Jacob Twyford, a director at Waddington Custot gallery, which was first established as Waddington Galleries by the Irish art dealer Victor Waddington and his son Leslie on Cork Street in 1958. Leslie Waddington joined forces with Stéphane Custot in 2010 to create Waddington Custot."

Read The Art Newspaper’s coverage here. 

“From Peggy Guggenheim’s short-lived but seismic Guggenheim Jeune gallery in the late 1930s to the post-war influence of Waddington Galleries (now Waddington Custot), the psychedelic provocations of dealer Groovy Bob Fraser in the ’60s, and a wave of contemporary galleries reinvigorating the street today—Cork Street endures as both a mirror and a maker of the British art world. To mark the centenary, gallerists who call the street home today reflect on its eccentric past, its changing fortunes, and what the future might hold.”

Read Artsy’s coverage here.