6th April 2018
More Music in Morecambe has appointed LOZ KAYE as Artistic Director to succeed founder PETER MOSER, who steps down after 25 years. A choir leader, educator and composer, Kaye has completed commissions for Horse and Bamboo Theatre, Trestle, and the Stephen Joseph Theatre, and has been Musical Director of the...
Derry’s Void Gallery has appointed MAEVE BUTLER as its new Head of Access & Engagement. A founding team member of Dublin Contemporary, she has previously worked for Photo London, the Hayward Gallery and the Royal Academy of Art.
29th March 2018
RUTH MACKENZIE will be the new Chair of Arts Council England’s London Area Council from 1 July. Currently Artistic Director of Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and for the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, she previously led the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Her CV includes senior positions at Scottish Opera, Chichester Festival Theatre, DCMS and Nottingham Playhouse, and she was previously Drama Officer at Arts Council England.
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LAURA SILLARS will join Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art as Director in summer 2018, leaving Sheffield’s Site Gallery where she has been Artistic Director for seven years. She takes over from ALISTAIR HUDSON, who is now Director of Manchester Art Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery.
Internationally acclaimed design critic ALICE RAWSTHORN will be the new Chair of The Hepworth Wakefield. She will take up the role in May when the gallery’s first Chair, DAVID LIDDIMENT, steps down after a seven-year term.
OLIVER FUKE, Gallery Manager for the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, has been appointed as the new Gallery Manager for Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, which will open to the public in September 2018.
Founder and current Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Morcambe-based More Music, PETER MOSER, is leaving the organisation. A composer, performer, teacher, producer and author of Community Music: A Handbook, he has been with the organisation for 25 years.
GERALD OPPENHEIM, currently Head of Policy and Communications at the Fundraising Regulator, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive to replace current CEO STEPHEN DUNMORE, who will be standing down at the end of June.
Oppenheim, who has been with the Fundraising Regulator since its inception in 2016, was previously Director of Policy and Partnerships at the Big Lottery Fund, is a Trustee and Chair of...
Formerly Head of Exhibitions at Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh, JOHN HEFFERNAN has been appointed as the new Senior Curator at Hull’s Humber Street Gallery. He will be developing a long-term plan for the gallery, which opened last year during the Hull 2017 programme and was originally intended to be a pop-up contemporary art space.
HELGA HENRY, Director of Organisational Development at Birmingham Hippodrome and previously Director of Creative Shift, is leaving to set up her own consultancy practice.