14th September 2020
LAURA COLLIER will be Creative Director & Programmer for the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside, which is due to open to the public in 2022. She previously worked as Head of Studio at the National Theatre, Senior Producer at Battersea Arts Centre, Associate Producer at the Traverse Theatre, and as an Executive Producer and Consultant she has supported Shakespeare’s Globe and the Leeds Playhouse. She has held...
Bird College Conservatoire for Dance and Musical Theatre has announced new board appointments, with consultant and writer SONIA WATSON-FOWLER becoming a trustee of the Doreen Bird Foundation, and TOSH WANOGHO-MAUD and KAMEL CHAHAL joining the board as Non-Executive Directors.
9th September 2020
Director KENNETH OLUMUYIWA THARP (pictured) and Head of Development JESS MORTLOCK have lost their jobs at the Africa Centre following a restructure of the management hierarchy. Their roles have been made redundant to reduce costs “in order to preserve long-term financial stability and safeguard its important legacy”, though the charity is committed to completing its ongoing capital development project, which will...
The new CEO at youth arts charity Artswork is LOUISE GOVIER, who joined during lockdown and will take over from JANE BRYANT when she stands down at the end of September after 10 years leading the organisation. Govier was previously at the National Trust where she led a portfolio of properties in South West Hampshire, including Mottisfont Abbey and countryside across the New Forest. Her earlier career included...
IRENE DORNER (pictured), named the ‘Most Powerful Woman in Banking’ in 2012 by American Banker and in 2013 ‘one of the 25 Most Powerful Women On Wall Street’ by Business Insider, has been named as the new Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Hampstead Theatre. Also Chair of Taylor Wimpey and global risk consultancy Control Risks, she also sits on the Boards of AXA, Rolls Royce, South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership...
Bristol artist and curator CATHY MAGER has been appointed by Bristol Music Trust as Creative Producer to lead The Lantern Project, part of the venue’s multi-million pound transformation funded by a £4.75m grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. She will be working with local communities and other creatives to develop installations and other activities that will offer deeper insight into the social and musical history of the...
Multidisciplinary artist YINKA ILORI has joined the Crafts Council Board of Trustees. He studied Furniture and Product Design at London Metropolitan University and has since exhibited internationally in a both solo and group shows. His work is held in the public collections of the Vitra Design Museum, the Brighton and Hove Museum and the Museum of London.
1st September 2020
The new Director of the Arts Council Collection is DEBORAH SMITH, who worked for three years at Birmingham Museums Trust as Curator for the Arts Council Collection’s National Partners Programme. She succeeds Jill Constantine who was Director until May 2020, having stepped down after more than 40 years of service.
For the past 20 years Smith has worked across interdisciplinary practices to commission art, curate exhibitions...
ISABEL MOURA MENDES has joined the Culture team at Creative Europe Desk UK as the new Head of Culture England & Culture Advisor UK. Since 2016 she has acted as Arts Partnership Manager with the British Council Scotland Arts team in Edinburgh, alongside her independent practice. She takes over from...
The founding Chairman of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), LORD LEE OF TRAFFORD, will be succeeded by BARONESS PATIENCE WHEATCROFT (pictured), an ALVA Board member since 2012, when he steps down in September after 30 years. Wheatcroft is a former trustee and Deputy Chairman of the British Museum, a former Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, a former Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, and...