31st May 2023
Rose Bruford College has named Professor RANDALL WHITTAKER Principal and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Taking up post in September, he succeeds Acting Principal MARY OLIVER, who will return to the role of Vice Principal.
Whittaker will join from Leeds Arts University where he is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Academic with responsibility for research, postgraduate development, and internationalisation....
30th May 2023
ELIZABETH MCKAY will take the helm at London Transport Museum as Director and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding SAM MULLINS, who departs after 29 years.
McKay assumes the role following five years as the museum’s Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Director.
In the...
With a working life of more than 30 years, Kirsteen Davidson Kelly explores how her early career in performance has informed her present leadership role in the music world.
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) has announced SIOBHÁN MORIARTY and SALLY TENNANT OBE as Trustees of Royal Academy Trust.
Moriarty is the former General Counsel and Company Secretary of beverage company Diageo plc. Since 2018, she has served as a Non-Executive Director on the RA Friends Board, before assuming the role of Chair earlier this year.
With a background in investment, banking, and...
25th May 2023
Ramps Cymru, a collaboration between five Welsh organisations, has announced SARAH BEER as their first Director for Change.
The partner organisations include Theatr Clwyd, Sherman Theatre, Pontio Arts, The Torch Theatre and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
At Ramps Cymru, she will work with these organisations to create meaningful and sustainable change to improve the representation of disabled people...
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch (QTH) has appointed a trio of Creative Directors.
ALEX THORPE is assuming the role on a full-time basis, while KATE LOVELL and AISLING GALLAGHER are set to share the role.
They will all work together as part of a new co-leadership arrangement across programming, creative producing, and partnership development at the theatre.
Thorpe is a theatre...
SARAH PHILP will join Delfina Foundation as Deputy Director in June.
Previously Art Fund’s Director of Programme and Policy, Philp is a founding member of the Association of Women in the Arts, has mentored for Arts Emergency, and served as a trustee for Association for Art History and Michael Clark Company.
In her new role, Philp will work closely with Delfina Foundation’s Director AARON CEZAR on...
24th May 2023
TOM SLEIGH has been re-appointed Chair of City of London Corporation’s Barbican Centre Board.
The board, which Sleigh has led since May 2020, is responsible for overseeing the Barbican Centre, which is owned, funded and administrated by City of London Corporation.
At present, the City Corporation is working on the Barbican Renewal project, a multi-million pound upgrade of the arts centre.
Alongside this, the...
Salford City Council (SCC) and The Lowry have announced DARREN GRICE as the city’s new Director of Culture.
Grice will lead on the area’s cultural contribution to Salford’s growth plans and other regional strategies, alongside delivering a cultural offer for local communities, businesses, and visitors.
He will join SCC in June from this previous role as Strategic Development Lead for Culture and Visitor Economy at...
23rd May 2023
CLAUDIA KENYATTA is the new Chair of Battersea Arts Centre (BAC).
Kenyatta is currently Director of Regions at Historic England. Prior to this, she spent two decades in central government with senior appointments in arts, heritage and museums policy, corporate strategy, and performance at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Cabinet Office.
She succeeds BAC’s interim chair JUSTIN SHINEBOURNE...