Royal Academy of Arts (RA) Director and arts broadcaster, Tim Marlow, visited the college’s King’s Lynn campus to inspire students to follow careers in the art industry.

Around 60 students and staff who attended the speech got to hear about Marlow’s experience in China with artist Ai Weiwei. Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film and social, political and cultural.

The students received some words of wisdom from Tim, who said:

“Believe in what you do. You must feel; even the artists I know don’t chase the market. You need to understand that for most people it is a vocation.”

Tim provided the college’s Learning Resource Centre with a copy of Ai Weiwei book for students and staff to enjoy.

Tim Marlow is an art historian and commentator on the contemporary cultural scene with impressive and wide-ranging experience in broadcasting and writing, currently he is Director at the Royal Academy of Arts and has been in this position for 5 years.

Marlow is an award-winning radio and television broadcaster who has represented over 100 documentaries on British television. Founder of Tate magazine and author of numerous books and catalogues. He has lectured, chaired and participated in panel discussions on art and culture in more than 40 countries.

Tim started his broadcasting career on radio, presenting a documentary on JMW Turner for BBC One, several of his own arts programmes for Channel Five, and the notorious Is Painting Dead? debate for Channel Four.