Education
Peyton-Jones studied painting at the Royal College of Art between 1975-1978, but did not continue a career as a professional artist.
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She lives and works in London. After her education, she was briefly an art lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Artist In 1988 she became a curator at the Hayward Gallery.
Serpentine Galleries
In 1991 Peyton-Jones became the director of the Serpentine Galleries.
In 1998, she oversaw a major refurbishment of the gallery. In 2000 she inaugurated the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a project that invites an architect who has previously never been commissioned to work in the United Kingdom to create a temporary structure at the Gallery.
The first pavilion was designed by Zaha Hadid. Subsequent pavilions have been designed by Ai Weiwei, Jean Nouvel, and Oscar Niemeyer.
In 2013 she oversaw the expansion of the Serpentine into a second building, the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
The Serpentine Sackler Gallery is located in a Grade-II listed building, which was originally used for gunpowder storage, and has an extension by the architect Zaha Hadid. In October 2015 she announced her departure from her role at the Serpentine Galleries in summer 2016.
Peyton-Jones was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire as a part of the Queen"s Birthday Honors List in 2003 for her services to art
