About

Over a 30-year career in the cultural sector, I have shaped and delivered numerous cultural placemaking strategies and public art commissions across the UK. A deep belief in bringing diverse stakeholders together through tested and proven public realm project development methodologies which seek to embed art into public realm masterplanning and development alongside community-led, collaborative cultural placemaking and project realisation are the foundation elements underpinning my work.

I am highly experienced in building innovative funding partnerships between stakeholders in the development of cultural masterplanning and small-scale urban regeneration projects - the Crossrail Art Programme Funding strategy - which ensured ten major public art commissions for the project were privately funded outside the Crossrail delivery budget.

I develop partnerships between diverse groups of stakeholders such as property development agencies, local business, BID’s, local authorities and corporate and cultural organisations based in a specific location to build funding frameworks which deliver real and meaningful cultural outcomes by promoting community cohesion and addressing local authority planning priorities.

I have authored and contributed to numerous cultural and public art strategies for local authorities, government agencies and private developers throughout the UK and have worked extensively with the City of London Corporation since 2010, developing ‘The City Art Initiative’, a report which described a delivery framework for the promotion of the city as a world leading cultural destination. It details an approach to the procurement and delivery of public art and cultural activities that transcends departmental boundaries and acts as a tool to attract inward investment from current square mile occupants.

The City Art Initiative was officially adopted by City of London as ‘The City of London Cultural Strategy’ in July 2011. As recommended in the report, an Arts, Culture and Heritage Committee was established to oversee the initiative amongst all arts programmes the City undertakes, including the annual Sculpture in the City project which was originally proposed within the City Art Initiative.

I led the development of the Crossrail Art Programme Delivery and Funding Strategy, joining TfL in 2016 to coordinate the subsequent simultaneous delivery of ten corporate sponsored permanent public artworks for the Elizabeth line across central London stations.  

Formerly Director of Strategy for Futurecity (2007-2019) and a Contemporary Art Curator for the British Council (1995-2007), in 2003 I was appointed Curator of the official British Pavilion at the 50th Biennale of Art, Venice. The critically praised exhibition featured an ambitious reconfiguration of the pavilion interior through the construction of a building within a building by British artist Chris Ofili working in collaboration with Arup engineering.