15th January 2015
Exeter Northcott Theatre has appointed director and producer PAUL JEPSON as its new Artistic and Executive Director.
The Fal River Festival has appointed ANNA DRUCE as Creative Director for its 10th annual festival. Anna joins the team from her position as Festival and Events Coordinator at Visit Cornwall.
Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre has appointed KATE WHITING as General Manager. She leaves The Old Town Hall in Hemel Hempstead where she has been Assistant Manager.
OLIVIA CHAPMAN is leaving New Writing North, where she has been Communications Manager for seven years, to take up the post of PR and Communications Manager at Writing West Midlands.
Chair of Pound Arts Trust, DAVID JONES is stepping down after six years. He is replaced by SUE HALL, who has a background as a Chartered Management Accountant and is Director of Resources at Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Arts Alliance, producers of ‘event’ cinema, have appointed ROSS FITZSIMONS, the current Head of Art & Classical, as Head of Sales & Marketing.
9th January 2015
Dorothy Wilson offers a celebratory obituary of the career and achievements of Geoff Sims, former Director of mac birmingham.
8th January 2015
DR NICHOLAS CULLINAN is the new Director of London’s National Portrait Gallery, following the resignation of SANDY NAIRNE. Cullinan was Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern from 2007 to 2013 and has spent the past two years as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The new Head of Partnerships for Wysing Arts Centre is CHELSEA PETTITT. She leaves Southbank Centre where she has been for eight years, most recently as Assistant Curator for the Hayward Touring team.
CEO of the Arts Council of New Zealand, STEPHEN WAINWRIGHT has succeeded ALAN DAVEY as Chair of the Board of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies (IFACCA).