12th April 2021
Turner Contemporary has appointed five new trustees to its board. STEPHEN DEUCHAR, former Director of Art Fund; LUCY EDEMATIE, former Editor of the Margate Mercury; PETER HAWKES, Senior Partner at Furley Page LLP; YASMIN KHAN, Senior BBC Journalist; and KEITH VALENTINE, Director of the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
The new appointments form part...
8th April 2021
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has announced NIA ELIAS as its new Director of Business Development. She will be responsible for managing and providing strategic direction across Amgueddfa Cymru for fundraising, commercial activity, corporate and business sponsorship, business development and income generation.
Elias has worked for Blood Cancer UK, Wales Millennium Centre, Tate Gallery, Somerset House Trust and...
MICHAELA BUTTER will be the new Chair of the board of trustees at City Arts (Nottingham). She is currently Director of Attenborough Arts Centre at the University of Leicester and has previously worked for Nottingham City Council museum service and Arts Council England.
Three new trustees are joining DanceWest's board: former Evening Standard and The Independent video chief MARS EL BROGY, Frantic Assembly’s Executive Director KERRY WHELAN and wellbeing coach JON CHU.
Arts Council Wales has appointed six new members to its board. RUTH FABBY, Director of Disability Arts Cymru; CERI LL DAVIES, an independent creative producer; KEITH MURRELL, a creative director/producer; ELEN AP ROBERT, an arts consultant and former Artistic Director of Pontio, Bangor University; PRUE THIMBLEBY, a freelance artist specialising in digital...
4th April 2021
LISA OLLERHEAD will succeed EMMA CHAPLIN at the end of May as the new CEO/Director of the Association of Independent Museums. She leaves the DCMS, where as Head of Museums Policy since 2016 she has been playing a leading role in the design and delivery of the Culture Recovery Fund, supporting the Culture Recovery Board and developing the Museum Estates and Development Fund.
The SPILL Festival of Performance has announced ROBIN DEACON as its new Artistic Director and CEO from June 2021. Currently Professor of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is British artist, writer, filmmaker and educator and graduate of
Between 2003 and 2012 he was an Associate Artist at Artsadmin and from 2004 was Course Director of the Drama and Performance Studies programme at London South...
3rd April 2021
Principal & Chief Executive of Plymouth College of Art Professor ANDREW BREWERTON is retiring in July after eleven years at the independent, university-sector art school. He has served on national bodies including the National Council of Arts Council England and the Creative Industry Federation’s UK Advisory Council, and was Vice-Chair of the Prime Minister’s Initiative for International Education. He is currently Chair of...
1st April 2021
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced BENNY HIGGINS as its new Chair. With a background in the financial sector, he was most recently the inaugural CEO of Tesco Bank, a position he held until February 2018. He has also worked as Chief Executive of Retail Banking at RBS, and Chief Executive, Retail, HBOS. In 2017, he became Strategic Adviser to the First Minister on the building of the Scottish National Investment...
CAITLIN SKINNER will be stepping down from her role as Associate Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre to take on the Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer role at touring theatre company Stellar Quines.
An Edinburgh-based theatre director who was formerly Artistic Director of the Village Pub Theatre, she is one half of feminist theatre company Jordan & Skinner, and is director of new writing theatre company...