5th November 2015
Director of BBC Arts JONTY CLAYPOLE is to be the new Chair of the Board for HOME, taking over from JIM FORRESTER. He will be joined on the board by MARIA BOTA and ALISON ROSS.
NIGEL WEATHERILL, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of Liverpool John Moores University, is to succeed LORRAINE ROGERS as Chairman of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
BERT FINK is to leave Rodgers and Hammerstein: An Imagem Company after 25 years to join Cameron Mackintosh’s Music Theatre International as its new Chief Creative Officer.
Coinciding with Artistic Director Designate EMMA RICE beginning her role, Olivier-nominated director MATTHEW DUNSTER is to be the new Associate Director at Shakespeare’s Globe.
NICOLA TRISCOTT, Arts Catalyst's founder and Director, is to be based in Washington D.C for the next 12 months, exploring opportunities for the organisation in the US. Lecturer, curator and writer GARY SANGSTER has been appointed as Interim Managing Director.
2nd November 2015
Director and Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes of the Serpentine Galleries, JULIA PEYTON-JONES, will step down next summer. She has led the organisation since 1991, being joined in 2006 by HANS ULRICH OBRIST as Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects. The board is recruiting for her successor.
29th October 2015
ANTONIA BYATT, currently Director of Literature and South East at Arts Council England, and ROD HEBDEN, Head of Corporate Partnerships at the National Trust, have joined Cheltenham Festivals as Director and Director of Development respectively.
SAM THORNE, currently Artistic Director of Tate St Ives and a contributing editor at Frieze magazine, is to be the new Director of Nottingham Contemporary from early 2016.
RACHAEL THOMAS is to be Derby Theatre’s new Executive Director from the end of November, leaving her role as Castle Development Manager for Lincoln Castle.
Scottish Book Trust has appointed AMINA SHAH, formerly Chief Executive of The Scottish Library and Information Council, as its new Director of Programme.