ANNE CUNNINGHAM has been appointed Chief Executive of The Art House, a national membership organisation for both disabled and non-disabled visual artists. Anne spent much of the past decade at the Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture and Design.
JEREMY HUNT is the new Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. He replaces BEN BRADSHAW who was Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport under the Labour Government, and TESSA JOWELL who was Minister for the Olympics. He is joined by Ed Vaizey as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture
STEVEN WORKMAN has joined Shape, the disability-led arts organisation, as Communications Manager. He was previously creative director at marketing agency iD.
The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh has a new Executive Director, ALEX MCGOWAN. He will work alongside Artistic Director Mark Thomson as joint Chief Executive. McGowan has previously been General Manager for the Unicorn Theatre in London.
STEVE MARMION has been appointed Artistic Director of Soho Theatre, taking over from Lisa Goldman in July. He has been a Literary Associate at Soho Theatre for the past two years.
The founder of Public Art South West and Public Art Online, MAGGIE BOLT, has set up her own public art consultancy, Maggie Bolt Associates.
The Crafts Council and V&A have appointed LAURENCE KAVANAGH as the third craft resident at the Sackler Centre for arts education at the V&A from July to December.
The Broadway theatre in Barking has a new Associate Director, MONTSERRAT GILI. She is Joint Artistic Director of Dende Collective theatre and is currently working on the Channel 4 documentary ‘Young, Autistic and Stagestruck’.
HI~Arts, the arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands, has appointed three new unpaid Directors: JOE GIBBS, founder and co-promoter of Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival; GRAINNE BALLANTYNE who has been a judge on the First Scottish Arts Council Children’s Book Award and Chair of the West of Scotland’s Children’s Book Group; and BOB DUNSMORE, who has recently retired from being the
Forestry Commission’s Conservator for Highland and Islands.