After a 30-year career in the arts, including roles as Director of the Paisley 2021 City of Culture bid and a board member at National Theatre of Scotland, JEAN CAMERON has been appointed President of the Paisley Art Institute.
TONY STOLLER CBE, formerly Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, will become Chair of Orchestras Live when the incumbent, MARK BROMLEY, steps down after a full term of office.
CHRIS RAWCLIFFE, founder of artist project space Pro Numb in Hackney, and currently Relationship Manager for Visual Arts at Arts Council England, has been appointed Artistic Director of creative producers Forma.
Ahead of a move to a new role as joint Chief Executive of Citizens Theatre in spring 2019, ALEX MCGOWAN is to leave his position as joint Chief Executive at The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.
SARA MOHR-PIETSCH, music broadcaster, curator and writer, has been appointed Artistic Director of the Dartington International Summer School and Festival.
CLAIRE SOMERVILLE re-joined Babylon ARTS (ADEC) in August 2018 as Executive Director, having previously delivered projects for the organisation between 2004 and 2006.
CLARE THORP, who spent a large part of her 20-year career as a journalist and duty editor on the BBC’s flagship Radio 4 Today programme, has been appointed as the National Theatre’s new Director of Press and Communications.
Executive Director & Joint CEO of LIFT (the London International Festival of Theatre) for the past nine years, BEKI BATESON has become the new Director of Art Out Loud, Chatsworth’s annual festival of arts-based talks and work
Chief Executive & Artistic Director of Oldham Coliseum Theatre KEVIN SHAW will leave the organisation this month after 17 years in the role to pursue a freelance directing career.
After four and half years and five festivals, ANU GIRI will be stepping down as Executive Director of Dance Umbrella in Spring 2019 to pursue new opportunities.
MUNIRA MIRZA, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Education in London from 2008 – 2016, will join King’s College London as Executive Director for Culture in January 2019.
After a decade as Artistic Director and Chief Executive, RUTH BORTHWICK has announced she will step down in April 2019. Borthwick was appointed an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature this summer.
Brand and communications strategist SUSIE STUBBS, who is Managing Director of Modern Designers, has been appointed Chair of the Castlefield Gallery Board of Trustees.
Cheltenham Festivals has appointed six new trustees: SARAH COOKSLEY; BETH GRIFFIN; BEVERLEY GRIMSTER; SHAMIL MAKHECHA; MARK PHILIP-SORENSEN and DR DEBORAH
Director of Liverpool Biennial SALLY TALLANT has been appointed Executive Director of Queens Museum in New York, replacing LAURA RAICOVICH, who resigned earlier this year.
