JIM SWEENEY MBE takes over from Piper Group Chief Executive, THERESA SHEARER, as Impact Arts’ new Chair. Sweeney has extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector and in supporting young people. He is the current Vice-Chair of Young Scot, Chair of Motherwell Football Club's Community Trust and Vice-Chair of Scotland's Learning Partnership.
Shearer is stepping down following five and a half years as a...
After three years, Creativity Works Chair LOUISE LAPPIN-COOK is stepping down from the role, but will continue to serve on its Board of Trustees. She said it had been a “privilege” to work with “such a progressive and dynamic team delivering socially engaged arts right across the heart of Bath and North East Somerset and the South West”.
The Lighthouse arts centre in Poole has announced Wolverhampton Grand Theatre’s former Head of Programming/Producer, TIM COLEGATE, as its new Head of Programming. He will be responsible for shaping the programme across all spaces at Lighthouse.
At this year’s Edinburgh Festivals, YVETTE VAUGHAN JONES announced that she will be standing down as Chief Executive of Visiting Arts next month after 14 years with the company. She is leaving to focus on her own research projects.
IVAN WADESON, current Partnerships Director at Dance Consortia North West, has been appointed as Manchester City of Literature’s new Executive Director. He will take up the role next month and use his experience of working for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Arts about Manchester and The Dukes in Lancaster to coordinate the UNESCO City of Literature programme, while developing and strengthening partnerships across Manchester and with...
JOHN HOLMES, former Director of Marketing and Audience Development at the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, has joined participatory theatre company Spare Tyre as its new Executive Director and Joint CEO. He joins newly appointed Artistic Director/Joint CEO REBECCA MANSON JONES to form a new leadership team, following the...
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.