6th September 2019
Arts Catalyst has appointed LAURA CLARKE as its new Artistic Director and Joint CEO ahead of its move from London to Sheffield. She will be responsible for steering the artistic vision of the organisation, which commissions artworks underpinned by scientific and technological research. Since 2017 Clarke has been Curator at S1 Artspace in Sheffield, where she oversaw the organisation’s successful move into a new gallery and studios...
Welsh contemporary gallery and visual arts centre MOSTYN has appointed JULIETTE DESORGUES as its new Curator of Visual Arts. Previously the Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, she will work alongside MOSTYN Director ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI to develop the gallery's local, national and international reach.
Southwark Council Culture and Events Manager, PAUL COWELL, has left after more than 17 years with the organisation. He joins Medway Council as its new Head of Culture to play a strategic role in the council’s bid to become City of Culture 2025.
EMILY GRAY is stepping down as Artistic Director of Hertfordshire’s Trestle Theatre Company after leading the organisation for the past 15 years. She is leaving to become Executive Director for Mercury Musical Developments.
Three new trustees have joined theatre company Clean Break’s board: SHAEN GABER, a recent psychology and counselling graduate from Birkbeck University and Clean Break Member since 2014; ALISON JEFFERIS, Head of Corporate Affairs (EMEA, APAC) at global investment firm Columbia Threadneedle Investments; and AMANDA RICHARDSON, who worked in the care sector prior to roles at The Koestler Trust and...
30th August 2019
CHARLOTTE GEEVES, current Chief Executive Officer of the Henley Festival, is joining Bristol Old Vic as its new Executive Director. The role was previously held by EMMA STENNING, who left to join Canada’s Soulpepper Theatre Company late last year.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra has appointed British conductor JULES BUCKLEY as its new Creative Artist in Association. The initial three-year tenure will see Buckley lead the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a range of projects. His first concert with the orchestra will take place at the Barbican in February.
Belfast’s Crescent Arts Centre has announced SOPHIE HAYLES as its new Chief Executive. Hayles has experience as a project director, relationship manager, strategist and fundraiser in the UK and Europe, working for organisations including Whitechapel Gallery, British Council, and the European Capital of Culture programme.
23rd August 2019
AIDAN GROUNDS, previously the Director of Creative Programmes at Nuffield Southampton Theatres, has been appointed Executive Producer at Leicester's Curve Theatre. He will start in the role next week.
Six new board members have been announced at Edinburgh International Festival: LEONIE BELL from Renfrewshire Council; Director of Digital Products at the BBC CHRIS CONDRON; Solicitor and charity legal specialist MARION DAVIS; Rector of the University of Edinburgh ANN HENDERSON; Standard Life Aberdeen Chief Executive KEITH SKEOCH; and award-winning journalist...