Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film / event producer, creative consultant and host / presenter.
He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates their Screen at Home series.
He co-curates / hosts talks at the annual Suffolk festivals First Light and Flipside.
Recently, he has co-written the film Wayfaring Stranger (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, IFF Rotterdam 2024), produced Schneewittchen (Stanley Schtinter, IFF Rotterdam 2024) and co-curated 'Dormitorium: the Film Décors of the Quay Brothers' at Swedenborg House (2025).
From 2012 to 2023 he was the Adjunct Moving Image Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Contact
home.gareth@gmail.com
Editing
He co-edits for House Sparrow Press, publishing original titles by John Berger, Derek Jarman and Anne Michaels, among others. He is a contributing editor to Tenement Press.
He edited the international moving image magazine Vertigo from 2002 – 2009 and cross-arts journal Artesian (2007-10).
He co-edited Entropy, the Bristol-based journal of experimental and underground culture, for the entirety of its publication (1995-1998). He worked on the film pages of Time Out (London) from 2000-2005, with responsibility for artists' films.
Writing
He has written many catalogue essays and articles on place, culture and society, artists and the moving image, as well as the extensive text for Radiohead's KID A MNESIA catalogue.
Recent monograph texts include writing on / for David Rudkin, Xiaowen Zhu, Diego Tonus and Elisa Caldana, Melanie Manchot, Siobhan Davies, Bill Morrison, Joshua Oppenheimer, Mark Boulos, and for Rachel Lichtenstein at MMU's Place Programme.
He has written a number of essays for artists', documentary and world cinema home entertainment releases by Second Run DVD and the BFI.
His poem 'Hold Everything Dear' was published in, and gave its title to, the book of the same name by the late John Berger. The poem subsequently inspired an artists' book installation and a dance performance, as well as a song by Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Producing
He commissioned and co-produced the essay films Patience (After Sebald) by Grant Gee (Artevents, 2011), Things (Ben Rivers, FVU, 2014) and World Without End (Jem Cohen, Estuary, 2016).
He executive-produced Erase and Forget (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Berlin 2017), In Time: An Archive Life (Lasse Johansson, 2016), By Our Selves (Andrew Kotting and Iain Sinclair, 2015) and Unseen (Dryden Goodwin, 2015), and was Associate Producer of Chris Petit's Radio On (Remix) (1998).
Curation & Programming
He co-curated the Forum of the Future Porto, Estuary 2016, and Swedenborg Film Festival for a decade. He has conceived and curated numerous film and event seasons and festivals across the UK including Utopia 2016 (Somerset House), Place (Aldeburgh Music, 2011-2014), 'The Re-Enchantment' (UK, 2011), ‘All Power to the Imagination! 1968 & Its Legacies’ (2008), ‘John Berger: Here Is Where We Meet’ (2005) and the first UK series devoted to Armenian cinema, Gypsy films, J.G.Ballard and Paul Celan, among many others.
He has programmed major retrospectives of the films of Jem Cohen, Mike Dibb, Xiaolu Guo, Alexander Kluge, Chris Marker, Jonathan Meades and Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen.
Teaching and Mentoring
He is a mentor on UCL's Open City Documentary MA and a Visiting Lecturer at CSM, NFTS and RCA.
Consultancy
He works as a consultant for artists, writers and film-makers, advising strategically and creatively from conception through development, funding, production and delivery to exhibition, publication and reception.
Event Hosting
He hosts conversations, screenings, panels and talks regularly in venues across London and nationally, and has been in conversation with numerous leading writers, artists, film-makers and actors of our time, including John Akomfrah, Margaret Atwood, Kevin Barry, John Berger, Xiaolu Guo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Anne Michaels, Pankaj Mishra, Michael Ondaatje, Joshua Oppenheimer, Robert Macfarlane, Paula Rego, Wallace Shawn, Iain Sinclair, Marina Warner, Willard White and Thom Yorke, among many others.
He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates their Screen at Home series.
He co-curates / hosts talks at the annual Suffolk festivals First Light and Flipside.
Recently, he has co-written the film Wayfaring Stranger (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, IFF Rotterdam 2024), produced Schneewittchen (Stanley Schtinter, IFF Rotterdam 2024) and co-curated 'Dormitorium: the Film Décors of the Quay Brothers' at Swedenborg House (2025).
From 2012 to 2023 he was the Adjunct Moving Image Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Contact
home.gareth@gmail.com
Editing
He co-edits for House Sparrow Press, publishing original titles by John Berger, Derek Jarman and Anne Michaels, among others. He is a contributing editor to Tenement Press.
He edited the international moving image magazine Vertigo from 2002 – 2009 and cross-arts journal Artesian (2007-10).
He co-edited Entropy, the Bristol-based journal of experimental and underground culture, for the entirety of its publication (1995-1998). He worked on the film pages of Time Out (London) from 2000-2005, with responsibility for artists' films.
Writing
He has written many catalogue essays and articles on place, culture and society, artists and the moving image, as well as the extensive text for Radiohead's KID A MNESIA catalogue.
Recent monograph texts include writing on / for David Rudkin, Xiaowen Zhu, Diego Tonus and Elisa Caldana, Melanie Manchot, Siobhan Davies, Bill Morrison, Joshua Oppenheimer, Mark Boulos, and for Rachel Lichtenstein at MMU's Place Programme.
He has written a number of essays for artists', documentary and world cinema home entertainment releases by Second Run DVD and the BFI.
His poem 'Hold Everything Dear' was published in, and gave its title to, the book of the same name by the late John Berger. The poem subsequently inspired an artists' book installation and a dance performance, as well as a song by Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Producing
He commissioned and co-produced the essay films Patience (After Sebald) by Grant Gee (Artevents, 2011), Things (Ben Rivers, FVU, 2014) and World Without End (Jem Cohen, Estuary, 2016).
He executive-produced Erase and Forget (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Berlin 2017), In Time: An Archive Life (Lasse Johansson, 2016), By Our Selves (Andrew Kotting and Iain Sinclair, 2015) and Unseen (Dryden Goodwin, 2015), and was Associate Producer of Chris Petit's Radio On (Remix) (1998).
Curation & Programming
He co-curated the Forum of the Future Porto, Estuary 2016, and Swedenborg Film Festival for a decade. He has conceived and curated numerous film and event seasons and festivals across the UK including Utopia 2016 (Somerset House), Place (Aldeburgh Music, 2011-2014), 'The Re-Enchantment' (UK, 2011), ‘All Power to the Imagination! 1968 & Its Legacies’ (2008), ‘John Berger: Here Is Where We Meet’ (2005) and the first UK series devoted to Armenian cinema, Gypsy films, J.G.Ballard and Paul Celan, among many others.
He has programmed major retrospectives of the films of Jem Cohen, Mike Dibb, Xiaolu Guo, Alexander Kluge, Chris Marker, Jonathan Meades and Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen.
Teaching and Mentoring
He is a mentor on UCL's Open City Documentary MA and a Visiting Lecturer at CSM, NFTS and RCA.
Consultancy
He works as a consultant for artists, writers and film-makers, advising strategically and creatively from conception through development, funding, production and delivery to exhibition, publication and reception.
Event Hosting
He hosts conversations, screenings, panels and talks regularly in venues across London and nationally, and has been in conversation with numerous leading writers, artists, film-makers and actors of our time, including John Akomfrah, Margaret Atwood, Kevin Barry, John Berger, Xiaolu Guo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Anne Michaels, Pankaj Mishra, Michael Ondaatje, Joshua Oppenheimer, Robert Macfarlane, Paula Rego, Wallace Shawn, Iain Sinclair, Marina Warner, Willard White and Thom Yorke, among many others.