22nd February 2019
SARAH DEAN, Head of Tax and Investments at the Grosvenor Estate Family Office; DAVID FLEMING, Chief Technology Officer at Mitigo–a cyber security company based in the North West; and MAX STEINBERG, Chief Executive of Liverpool Vision, will all become trustees of the National Museums Liverpool next month.
15th February 2019
ROB MACPHERSON has announced that he will be leaving Birmingham Hippodrome next month, after 15 years with the theatre. Currently Director of Marketing & Development, he will start a new consultancy venture with digital agency Substrakt, focusing on brand, strategy and creative ways of making an impact in the arts and entertainment.
LAURIE SANSOM will succeed CONRAD NELSON as Artistic Director and CEO of Northern Broadsides in June. He joins the company after leading National Theatre of Scotland and Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
The Director and Chief Curator of the David Roberts Art Foundation, FATOŞ ÜSTEK, has been appointed as the new Director of Liverpool Biennial. Previously an Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and curator of the fig-2, 50 projects in 50 weeks, in London, and she is an external member of the Acquisitions Committee for the Arts Council Collection.
After twenty-two years with Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, BRUNO MICHEL joins Classical Opera and The Mozartists as Head of Artistic Administration.
AXEL RÜGER, Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, will take up the position of Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in June. He replaces Sir CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH, who stepped down late last year.
NEIL PEPLOW will be the new Director of International Affairs at the BFI, responsible for growing commercial and cultural opportunities for the UK screen industries internationally. He was previously the CEO of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the inaugural Chair of the Australian Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network, and Director of Film for Creative Skillset.
Streetwise Opera has announced that composer HANNAH CONWAY will replace founder and Artistic Director MATT PEACOCK, who is leaving to lead One Voice, in April.
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival has appointed a new Chair following founding member TAHER QASSIM MBE’s decision to step down after a 20-year tenure. Former Vice Chair, MUSTAPHA KORIBA, will lead the company from the start of the 2019 programme and Taher will remain a member of the board of trustees.
SUZANNE BULL MBE, Founder and CEO of Attitude is Everything, and ROSIE WOLFENDEN MBE, Managing Director of jewellery label Tatty Devine, have been appointed to the Board of Directors at Creative United.