Nigel Greenwood (art dealer)

In 1970 he started his own gallery at 60 Glebe Place, Chelsea, where he presented work by Gilbert & George (the famous "Underneath the Arches/Singing Sculptures" performance), Keith Milow, John Walker, Ed Ruscha and Mino Argento.

Gilbert & George, Keith Milow, David Tremlett, Rita Donagh, Alan Johnston and later Christopher le Brun, and Dhruva Mistry all showed first with Greenwood.

Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Galleries, wrote in his obituary in The Guardian: His tastes were broad, and he showed a bewildering, even erratic, range of artists, all of whom, like himself, were marked by their independent-mindedness.

He may have been better at discovering artists than keeping them, but if not for him several major careers would not have been launched, others would not have been sustained through lean years, and for two decades his gallery made the British art world a better place.

[3] Adrian Searle, chief art critic of The Guardian and formerly a painter, wrote: Nigel Greenwood gave me my first solo show, in 1988, I think to our mutual surprise.