Editing Joshua Compston (section)

{{Short description|British art curator (1970–1996)}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox artist
| name          = Joshua Compston
| image         = 
| imagesize     =
| caption       = 
| birth_name     = Joshua Richard Compston
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|df=yes|1970|6|1}}
| birth_place    = [[Putney]], London, England
| death_date     ={{death date and age|df=yes|1996|03|5|1970|06|1}}
| death_place    = [[Shoreditch]], London, England
| resting_place =  [[Kensal Green Cemetery]]
| nationality   = 
| field         = Contemporary art
| training      = [[Camberwell School of Art]], [[Courtauld Institute of Art]]
| movement      = [[Factual Nonsense]], [[Young British Artists]]
| works         = ''A Fete Worse Than Death'', ''Other Men's Flowers''
| patrons       = [[Jeremy Fry]], Charles Booth-Clibborn
| awards        = 
}}
'''Joshua Richard Compston''' (1 June 1970 – 5 March 1996) was a London curator whose company Factual Nonsense was closely associated with the emergence of the [[Young British Artists]] (YBAs).