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Paula Hammond

The Spark Children’s Arts Festival in Leicester has appointed a new Director, ADEL AL-SALLOUM. Formerly Associate Director of Curve, she takes on the role following the departure of former Director and founder of The Spark, ELLEN BIANCHINI.

TONY HILL, until recently Theatres General Manager at Medway Council, is leaving the authority to pursue his freelance consultancy work. He was previously Joint Managing Director of The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, Administrative Director of The Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Marketing Manager of The Connaught Theatre, Worthing.

TALI PELMAN, who previously worked for the Ambassador Theatre Group as an in-house producer, is returning to work as a co-producer, developing new shows for ATG venues.

PETER HESLIP has been appointed London Director of Visual Arts for Arts Council England, succeeding JULIE LOMAX who leaves to become Director of Visual Arts at the Australian Arts Council. He has worked in the Arts Council’s London Visual Arts team since 2010, prior to which he worked for Tate, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Funding from the City Bridge Trust and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation is enabling Vocaleyes to extend its work in supporting museums, galleries and heritage sites. CASSIE HERSCHEL-SHORLAND and CLARE MOLONEY have joined to develop a strategy for the visual arts.

AudienceView Ticketing has appointed MARK FOWLIE as President and Chief Operating Officer, based in Toronto. His previous roles have included product marketing, software engineering, sales and professional services.

JAMES HOLLOWAY CBE is retiring from his post as Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery at the end of January. The National Galleries of Scotland have appointed Nicola Kalinsky, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, to be the Portrait Gallery’s Interim Director.

THOMAS CARROLL is the new Artistic Director of The Orpheus Foundation. He is also a professor at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Yehudi Menuhin School and co-Artistic Director of the Ulverston International Music Festival.

The new Head of Programme and Audiences at Warwick Arts Centre is MATT BURMAN. He joins from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival where he was Executive Producer, and prior to which he was General Manager for Forced Entertainment.

SUE LAWTHER is joining London's writer development agency Spread the Word as Director. Previously Creative Director for Creative Partnerships Thames Gateway, she has been working with Mathilda Joubert as Senior Partner at Excite and as a freelance for the past two years.

DOMINIC WHEELER is the new Head of Opera for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His conducting experience includes working with ENO, Opera North, Opera New Zealand, English Touring Opera and Scottish Opera. He succeeds CLIVE TIMMS who retires after 22 years at the School.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has recruited SHEENA WAGSTAFF, Chief Curator of Tate Modern since 2001, to head its new modern and contemporary art department. She is the fourth London-based curator to be hired by Director Thomas Campbell since he took on his role in 2009.

ABRSM has appointed LINCOLN ABBOTTS, currently Chief Executive of Music for Youth, to the new position of Teaching and Learning Development Director. The post replaces the role of Professional Development Director, currently held by RICHARD CROZIER, who retires in April.

AMY DICKSON is the new Managing Curator of Artist Rooms, the collection of modern and contemporary art donated in 2008 by Anthony d’Offay to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. She has been an Assistant Curator at Tate Modern since 2005.

Two new staff have joined the Theatrical Management Association: ANGELA CLUTTON as part-time Employment Relations Co-ordinator, and KIRSTY HOYLE as part-time Access Manager.

AILEEN BURNS and JOHAN LUNDH have been appointed as Co-Directors of the Context Galley in Derry-Londonderry, with responsibility for a programme of exhibitions and events for 2013, the UK Year of Culture and the Gallery's 20th anniversary.

Welsh artist TIM DAVIES has joined the Board of Artes Mundi, the UK’s largest visual art prize. He was the only European artist shortlisted for the inaugural prize in 2004.

RICHARD WILBERFORCE has been appointed Director of the Hallé Youth Choir. He is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Exon Singers and Director of the Orlando Chamber Choir.

PAULA HAMMOND is joining Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts as Programme Manager. Previously Head of Marketing at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, she has most recently been working freelance, with roles including Creative Producer at Creative Ecology Wiltshire, Director of Wiltshire Dancing and Interim Company Manager at Mark Bruce Company.

After 11 years working with the British Council in its Literature Department, HANNAH HENDERSON is joining the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation as Senior Manager Education and Community.

Arts Council England has appointed SIMON MELLOR as its new Executive Director, Arts. He is currently General Director of the Manchester International Festival and replaces ANDREW NAIRNE who has become the new Director of the Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge.

KAREN SHERWOOD is leaving her role as Chief Executive of Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance as it becomes a National Portfolio Organisation funded by Arts Council England. She will return to work with Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield, which she established 20 years ago.

ZOË BURTON will be covering the role of Programme Manager for Music in Detention (MID) while LIZA FIGUEROA-CLARK is on maternity leave. JORGE MORALES, a musician with experience of working on human rights and with asylum seekers, has joined MID’s Board.