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The
Clore Leadership Programme, an initiative of the Clore Duffield
Foundation to strengthen leadership across the arts, announced the 25
Clore Leadership Fellows for 2006/7 on Monday 19 June 2006.
The
announcement was made today by the Director of the Clore Leadership
Programme, the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, and its patron, Dame
Vivien Duffield, at a Conference on Culture and Creative Enterprise at the City University's Cass Business School in London.
The
Clore Leadership Programme aims to help to train and develop a new
generation of leaders in the arts in the UK.
Fellows have been selected annually, since 2004, from the cultural
sector and beyond, to undertake an individually tailored programme of
tuition, research, mentoring and secondment designed to develop their
leadership skills, knowledge and experience. Fellows have the option
of remaining with their present employers, or receiving a full-time
scholarship of £20,000.
The full details of the 2006/7
Fellows are as follows:
Zoinul
Abidin (Laser
Foundation-supported) Aged 33. Lives in London. Idea Store Manager for
London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Chair of Graduate Forum
and Governor of Swanlea Secondary School and Bigland Green
Primary School. Previously Outreach Services Librarian - Ethnic
Communities for Tower Hamlets and Library Assistant for Bethnal Green
Library.
Sian
Alexander (Clore
Duffield Foundation-supported)
Aged 35. Lives in London. Head of Theatre (and formerly
Director of Change Policy and Delivery), Arts Council England, London.
Previously Executive Director Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Manager
for Michael Clark Company, Aletta Collins Dance Company and Laurie
Booth and Assistant Manager of Bush Theatre.
Mark
Ball
(Arts Council England-supported) Aged 38.
Lives in Birmingham.
Director of Fierce Earth (including Fierce festival), Board
member of Audiences Central and Chair of Curious performance company.
Previously Administrator and Development Director of Geese
Theatre Company and Administrative Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre
Company.
Sophie
Clark
(MLA - Museums) Aged 31. Lives in London. Exhibitions Manager at the
National Portrait Gallery. Previously Assistant Curator, Exhibitions
at Tate Modern and Exhibitions Assistant at Tate.
Neil
Darlison (Clore
Duffield Foundation-supported)
Aged 41.
Lives in Coventry. Deputy Director, Warwick Arts Centre, which
he joined as House Manager before being promoted to Operations
Manager, Events Director and now his current role. Chairs Board of
Music Beyond Mainstream. Has also worked for Royal Festival Hall,
Chichester Festival Theatre and Bolton Octagon.
Sheena
Etches (DCMS-supported)
Aged 38. Lives in London. Visual Arts consultant (including
work with Jerwood Artists Platform and Cove Park).
Previously Senior Visual Arts Officer, Arts Council England,
Director of Chiltern Sculpture Trust, Administrator of New
Contemporaries and Publicity and Marketing Officer for Arnolfini.
Oliver
Gooch (East
of England) Aged 28. Lives in Bray.
Founder and Artistic Director of Opera East Productions and
Assistant Conductor in Young Artists' Programme at Royal Opera
House.
Previously Master of Music at Harrow School and worked in a
freelance capacity as Assistant Conductor at Glyndebourne Festival and
Musical Director of Iford Arts.
Polly
Hamilton (Arts
Council of Wales-supported)
Aged 36.
Lives in Pontypridd. Head of Cultural Services, Rhondda Cynon
Taf County Borough Council. Previously Arts Development Manager for
Borough of Poole, Arts Outreach Officer for North Ayrshire Council and
freelance poet.
Susie
Hargreaves (Arts
Council England-supported)
Aged 43.
Lives in York. Co-ordinator of World Summit for Arts and
Culture in Newcastle-Gateshead and Director of management consultancy
Cultureworks UK. Board member of Audiences Europe and Northern Ballet
Theatre. Previously Chief Executive of Audiences Yorkshire, Deputy
Director of Watermans Arts Centre, General Manager of Red Ladder
Theatre Company and Administrator of Pilot Theatre.
Fiona
Kearney (Jerome
Hynes Fellowship) Aged 34.
Lives in Cork. Director of Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University
College Cork. Previously Visual Arts Officer at UCC, Visual Arts
Curator for Triskel Arts Centre, Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at
Crawford College of Art and Design and Programme Co-ordinator for
National Sculpture Factory.
Alice
King-Farlow (Youth
Music)
Aged 37.
Lives in London.
Arts consultant and manager and Board member of Opera Music and
Theatre Forum.
Previously Acting Head and Manager of ENO Baylis, Planning
Officer and Programme Editor Opera North and Assistant Administrator
for City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmingham Opera Company).
Chris
Moore
(MLA - Libraries)
Aged 32. Lives in Chippenham. Head of Learning Services,
Wiltshire County Council (Libraries).
Previously Librarian for Wiltshire County Council and EARL
Information Officer for LASER: the development and networking agency.
Kevin
Murphy
(Paul Hamlyn Foundation-supported) Aged 40.
Lives in Derry.
Audience Development Manager for Classical Music Society and
freelance musician and tutor. Co-founder of Orbestra Chamber Ensemble
and Portable Museum of Exotic Instruments. Board
member of the Dublin-based Opera Theatre Company.
Hammad
Nasar (NESTA-supported)
Aged 36. Lives in London. Arts Programme Director for Festival
of Muslim Cultures, co-founder and Curator of Green Cardamon and
co-founder of Asal Partners, an arts advisory company. Previously
Chief Marketing Officer of financial software company Brainpower,
Senior Associate of Booz Allen Hamilton management consultants, Head
of Corporate Finance and Advisory Services of ANZ Grindlays Bank in
Karachi and Manager for KPMG Peat Marwick in London.
Kevin
Osborne
(Arts Council England-supported)
Aged 39.
Lives in London. Founder and CEO of KO Management, a business
incubator/consultancy.
Previously Founder/Director of Tribal Tree and freelance
musician and trainer.
Jigisha
Patel (Arts
Council England-supported)
Aged 29.
Lives in Birmingham. PR and Press Manager (and formerly Head of
Marketing), Ikon Gallery. Previously Campaigns Manager for Thinktank
(Birmingham's Science Museum) and The IMAX Theatre, and Arts
Development Officer for SAMPAD, South Asian Arts Development Agency.
Ben
Payne
(Clore Duffield Foundation-supported)
Aged 39.
Lives in Birmingham. Theatre director, writer and dramaturg.
Currently Associate Director (and formerly Literary Manager),
Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Board member Graeae Theatre Company.
Previously Research Director of New Playwrights' Trust (now
Writernet).
Abigail
Pogson (Arts
Council England-supported) Aged 31. Lives in London. Executive
Director of Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM). Previously
General Manager of Music Theatre Wales and Assistant Company Manager
of English National Opera.
Julia
Potts (NESTA-supported)
Aged 31. Lives in London. Group Head of Education for the Ambassador
Theatre Group, Chair of Magpie Dance and Board member of Action for
Children's Arts.
Previously Education Manager, Churchill Theatre Bromley and
Information Assistant for Visitor Office at Buckingham Palace.
Jane
Stubbs (Clore
Duffield Foundation-supported) Aged 40. Lives in Leeds.
Literature Officer, Arts Council England, Yorkshire. Previously
Service Opportunities Manager and Word Arena Director for Leeds
Library and Information Services, Manager of Mantle Community Arts and
Administrator of Soft Touch Community Arts.
Nicky
Sugar
(MLA - Archives)
Aged 29.
Lives in Twickenham. Head of Archives and Records Management
(and formerly College Archivist), Royal Holloway, University of London
and Careers Officer for the Society of Archivists. Previously
Archivist for Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine.
Adam
Wallace
(Paul Hamlyn Foundation-supported)
Aged 31. Lives in Belfast. Education and Outreach Officer, Old
Museum Arts Centre and Board member of Ulster Association of Youth
Drama.
Previously Audience Development Officer for Belfast Festival at
Queen's, Presenter for W5 - Science Discovery Centre and Drama
Facilitator for Waterford Youth Drama.
Sharon
Watson (Supported
by Dancers' Career Development and The Linbury Trust) Aged 39. Lives
in Leeds. Rehearsal and Tour Director, Phoenix Dance Theatre.
Previously Lecturer at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Artistic
Director and Choreographer with her own company ABCD and dancer with
Phoenix and other dance companies.
Board member for Sure Start Chapeltown Children's Centre and
New English Contemporary Ballet.
Neil
Webb
(NESTA-supported) Aged 36.
Lives in Beijing. Director Arts, mainland China and Hong Kong,
British Council. Previously Assistant Director - Arts and Creative
Industries, British Council Beijing, Arts Manager British Council
Taipei, Consultant for Visiting Arts and dancer with Savage Jazz Dance
Company.
Kate
Whitmarsh (Northern
Rock Foundation-supported) Aged 31. Lives in Workington, Cumbria.
Director of Rosehill Theatre in Whitehaven and Chair of Rosehill Youth
Theatre. Previously Teacher at Wesgreen International School, UAE ,
Company Administrator for Black Country Touring, Administrator for
Women and Theatre and Marketing and Publicity Manager for Pentabus
Theatre Company.
The
major funding partners for the Programme include the Clore Duffield
Foundation, Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Ireland, the
Arts Council of Wales, the Arts and Humanities Research Council,
Dancers' Career Development, the Department for Culture, Media and
Sport (DCMS), the East of England Development Agency, the East of
England Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, the East of England
Regional Assembly, the Laser Foundation, the Linbury Trust, Living
East, MLA (the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council), National
Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA),
the Northern Rock Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and
Youth Music. Direct
associated costs, including tuition fees, are met by the Programme.
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