DAWN AUSTWICK is to step down as Chief Executive of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation to lead The Big Lottery Fund. She has previously been Deputy Director of the British Museum and Project Director at Tate Modern.
14th May 2013
JANTHI MILLS has been appointed as the new Executive Director at Hull Truck Theatre. She is currently the General Manager of Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.
10th May 2013
Photographer SARAH AMY FISHLOCK and composer and cellist GREG SINCLAIR have been appointed as Artists in Residence at the Citizens Theatre by a panel of Citizens Theatre audience members and participants.
PHIL THOMAS will be leaving his role as Artistic Director of the Gwanwyn Festival of arts for older people at the end of June. He is leaving to set up the Readers Theatre of Wales.
The Royal West of England Academy has appointed ALISON BEVAN as Director. She has been managing art establishments for over 15 years, and joins from her role as Director of the Penlee House Gallery in Penzance.
South East Dance has appointed CATH JAMES to the new role of Programme Director from her job as Co-Director of Dance at Take Art in Somerset. Artist and Creative Producer ELIZABETH MISCHLER will become Producer of the Artist Development Programme and ADRIAN VAN SCHALKWYK is the new Head of Finance and Operations.
3rd May 2013
Creative Producer at East London Dance POLLY RISBRIDGER has been appointed as the company’s new Director. She succeeds KIKI GALE, who leaves the organisation after 20 years.
The new Creative Director of Guildford Book Festival is JIM PARKS. He has previously held Marketing Directorships at Universal Studios and Sega.
RAVINA MATHER has left investment management company Smith & Williamson to launch Art & Finance International, a company which aims to put the international art, music, collectibles and design market in touch with specialist arts-related legal, accountancy and financial advice.
30th April 2013
Dance City has appointed NINA BYRNE as Communications Manager. She was formerly Marketing Manager at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.