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The
Clore Leadership Programme has announced 27 new Fellows for 2005/6.
The announcement was made today by the Rt Hon Chris
Smith, the
Director of the Clore Leadership Programme, and its patron, Dame
Vivien Duffield, on the day of a special conference entitled Cultural
Leadership: The Future at the City University Business School. The keynote speaker opening
the morning's Conference was David Lammy MP, newly appointed
Minister for Culture.
The
Clore Leadership Programme is an initiative of the Clore Duffield
Foundation and aims to help to train and develop a new generation of
leaders in the arts in the UK.
Fellows are selected annually from the cultural sector to undertake a
year-long programme of work, research, training and secondment
designed to develop their leadership skills and experience. Fellows
have the option of remaining with their present employers, or of
receiving a full-time scholarship of £20,000. The first group of
Fellows, appointed in 2004, are already well advanced in their
programme.
Dame
Vivien Duffield, Founder and Patron said: "By investing in
leadership, we hope to raise the game for the whole cultural sector.
We are especially pleased that the new group of Fellows is drawn from
such a widely diverse range of backgrounds."
In
2005/6, for the first time, the Clore Leadership Programme is offering
Fellowships for individuals who wish to develop their careers in Wales,
Yorkshire
and Ireland, as
well as specialist Fellowships in Dance and in Arts and Biomedical
Science.
The full details
of the 2005/6 Fellows are as follows:
Nadine
Andrews
(England's
Northwest) Aged 35. Lives in Manchester.
Audience Development Manager for Arts About Manchester, also Associate
Director of the creative event agency Ear to the Ground and Chair of
theatre company Quarantine. Previously DJ and club promoter.
Maria
Bota
(National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)-supported).
Aged 37. Lives in
Huddersfield.
Currently Marketing Director for Hallogen Limited (which operates
Bridgewater Hall in Manchester).
Previously General Manager for
Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival and Head of Marketing for London
Symphony Orchestra.
Augustus
Casely-Hayford
(Clore Duffield Foundation-supported) Aged 40. Lives in London.
Programme Director for Africa
05
and freelance curator, producer, lecturer and consultant. Commissioner
on African and Asian Heritage for the Greater London
Authority. Previously presenter, producer and director for TV and
radio.
Shirley
Collier
(MLA-Museums) Aged 37. Lives in London.
Deputy Director of Collections for Imperial
War
Museum.
Previously worked as a registrar for Tate, Royal Air Force
Museum and British Film Institute.
Justine
de Mierre
(Arts Council England-supported) Aged 33.
Lives in
London.
Artistic Director of Ladder to the Moon, which produces interactive
performance in non-theatre spaces. Previously actress and life-skills
coach.
Lee
Fisher (supported by Dancers' Career Development and The Linbury
Trust) Aged 35. Lives in Birmingham. Acting Education Manager with Birmingham Royal Ballet and until
recently Dancer in Education and a Soloist with the company. Founded
Freefall Dance Company, a company of young learning disabled dancers,
of which he is Artistic Director.
Doreen
Foster (Clore Duffield Foundation-supported) Aged 40.
Lives in
London.
Head of Chief Executive's Office, Arts Council England.
Previously Scheme Director for West Midlands Social Economy
Partnership, Chief Executive for Birmingham Partnership for Change,
Divisional Co-ordinator for The Prince's Trust, Dance Officer for
West Midlands Arts and Company Manager for Kokuma Dance Company.
John
Fulljames
(DCMS
- Performing Arts) Aged 30. Lives in London.
Artistic Director of The Opera Group, mid-scale touring company
presenting new music theatre and opera. Also freelance theatre and
opera director.
Anne
Gallacher (Clore Duffield Foundation-supported) Aged 40.
Lives in
Birmingham.
Education Director for Birmingham Royal Ballet and Chair of C
& T theatre-in-education company. Previously Policy and Resources
Officer for West Midlands Arts Board, Events Officer for Birmingham
City Council, Administrator for Aberdeen International Youth Festival
and Education and Publicity Manager for Scottish Mining Museum.
Tessa
Gordziejko (Yorkshire)
Aged 48. Lives in Hebden
Bridge, West
Yorkshire.
Director of Arts & Business Yorkshire.
Previously Development Manager for Cultural Industries in Kirklees,
Arts Development Officer for Kirklees MDC and freelance consultant,
writer, trainer, theatre producer and stage and production manager.
Simon
Harris
(Wales)
Aged 43. Lives in Cardiff.
Founder and Artistic Director of Sgript Cymru, national company for
new writing by Welsh and Wales-based playwrights. Previously freelance playwright and theatre producer.
Jo
Hedley (Clore Duffield Foundation-supported) Aged 40.
Lives in London
.
Curator of Pictures pre-1800 for The Wallace Collection. Previously
worked for Christie's
in London
and
in Paris
as
specialist in Old Master pictures and drawings.
Sally
Lai (Arts Council England-supported) Aged 29. Lives in Manchester.
Curator of Chinese Arts Centre, a national organisation
promoting contemporary Chinese visual arts.
Previously Visual Arts Officer for Arts Council London,
and, in Hong
Kong,
Curator for Galeriasia and Assistant Manager of Galerie Martini.
Jonathan
Lloyd (Creative Partnerships) Aged
35. Lives in Ashford, Middlesex. Associate Director of Soho Theatre
and Writers' Centre since 1997.
Also theatre director, children's playwright and writer for
children's television.
Paul
McLaughlin
(Arts Council England-supported) Aged 36. Lives in
London.
Theatre Manager of Polka Theatre. Previously freelance musician and
conductor and Front of House Manager.
Bev
Morton (Yorkshire)
Aged 43. Lives in Bradford.
Chief Executive of Artworks Creative Communities. Founder of the Women's International Arts Foundation,
project-managed events for Bradford Festival, and freelance arts
consultant, theatre administrator and designer.
Polly
Moseley
(King's Fund Arts and Health) Aged 31. Lives in Manchester.
Arts and Health Development Officer for Arts Council England
and
Public Health North
West.
Previously Senior Executive - Enterprise Development for
OneNorthEast, Policy Officer for Economic Development Division of
Newcastle City Council and Office Manager for French Business Council
and French Chamber of Commerce GB.
Fearghus
O'Conchuir
(Ireland)
Aged 36. Freelance
choreographer, dancer and teacher in Ireland
and
the UK.
Also part-time dance lecturer at
Middlesex
University. Previously Dancer, Rehearsal Director and Workshop Leader for
Arc Dance Company. Board
Member of the Association of Professional Dancers of Ireland
.
Sazzadur
Rahman (Arts Council England-supported) Aged 28.
Lives in
Oldham.
Founder and Company Director of Peshkar Productions, a British South
Asian theatre and production company. Board member of Creative and
Cultural Skills. Previously
Drama Worker for AYNA Theatre and Chol Theatre and Actor/Teacher for
Bradford Theatres.
May
Redfern
(Yorkshire)
Aged 32. Lives in Leeds.
Principal Curator, Harewood House Trust. Previously Research Assistant
at the Fitzwilliam
Museum
Cambridge, Assistant Curator at Farmland
Museum
and
Denny Abbey, Cambridgeshire and Assistant to Curator at the Wordsworth
Trust.
Joana
Seguro
(Wellcome Trust) Aged
29. Lives in London.
Founder and Director of Lumin, which supports electronic music and
other technology-friendly arts in the UK
and Europe.
Also co-curates the Ether Festival in which electronic music takes the
stage at the South Bank Centre. Previously worked for Mute Records,
Warp Records and Source Records (part of Virgin/EMI group).
Emma
Stenning
(National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)-supported)
Aged 30. Lives in London.
Previously Executive Director of BAC (Battersea Arts Centre),
Administrator of Complicité, Administrative Producer of Oxford Stage
Company and Producer of Straydogs. Board member of Northampton Theatres.
Claire
Styles (MLA - Libraries) Aged
32. Lives in London. Development and Support Manager for Southwark Library and
Information Service. Previously Librarian for Brent Library Service.
Kenneth
Tharp (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)-supported).
Aged 45. Lives in London.
Assistant to Head of Contemporary Dance at Millennium Dance 2000,
Artistic Co-ordinator of the Royal Ballet School Partnership and
Access Programme, Dancer
in Residence at Queens' College Cambridge and Freelance teacher,
choreographer and performer. Trustee of the Royal Opera House.
Previously Dancer with London Contemporary Dance Theatre and Arc Dance
Company and Artistic Director of the Sadler's Wells Youth Dance
Company.
Katrina
Thomson
(Clore Duffield Foundation-supported) Aged 34. Lives in
Edinburgh.
Curator, Works of Art and Sculpture for the National Trust for
Scotland.
Previously Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings for the National
Gallery of Scotland and Research Assistant for the Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art.
Janice
Tullock
(MLA - Archives) Aged 34. Lives in
Liverpool. Archives Development Officer for MLA North West. Previously
Regional Archive Development Officer for NW Regional Archive
Council/NW Museums Service, Borough Archivist for Wirral Museum
Service, Manager of East Kent Archives, Assistant Archivist for
Buckinghamshire Record Office and Records Assistant for the Commission
for the New Towns.
Simon
Wales
(Arts Council England-supported) Aged 33. Lives in London.
Centre Director of LSO St Luke's, the London Symphony Orchestra's
music education and performance venue.
Has worked with LSO since 1995, previously as Tours Manager and
Concerts Manager.
The
major funding partners for the Programme include Arts Council England,
Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Wales together with the
National Assembly for Wales, Dancers' Career Development, the
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the King's Fund, the
Laser Foundation, the Linbury Trust, the London Development Agency
through Creative London, MLA (the Museums, Libraries and Archives
Council), National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA),
the Northwest Development Agency together with Culture
Northwest, the Wellcome Trust, Yorkshire Forward together with
Yorkshire Culture, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the
Clore Duffield Foundation. Direct
associated costs, including tuition fees, are met by the programme.
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