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Julia Priest


Julia Priest
Writer & Art Collector

Julia was born in London, where she studied philosophy and political science at the London School of Economics. Her father is the prominent psychiatrist Leopold Priest, and it was he that encouraged her into art collecting. "An arranged marriage.", she said in a interview, "But far from a loveless one."

Julia moved to Berlin in 2011 to write for the contemporary art magazine Kunst Heute. She is the author of two book, both published in german, Women in Contemporary Art and In Search of the Present. 

We are very pleased to announce that she has agreed, "In the spirit of nurturing new discoveries.", to write two pieces for the Discovered Magazine, (The Death of Genius?) & (Art and the Intellectual) and will also translate a piece by the art critic Newton Granger (The Art of Transgression). 

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