A-N AS - Key Persons
Amrita Dhallu is a curator and researcher based in London. She provides support structures for emerging British artists through commissioning, editorial projects, creating artistic networks and intergenerational learning spaces. Her current research examines ‘care', spatial politics and ethno-futurist discourse within exhibition-making. She is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she co-curated Lubaina Himid's monographic exhibition in 2021.
Andy Brumwell (Treasurer) is a Management Accountant with 30 years of experience in Finance, HR, Communications and Real Estate gained in Banking and then in Finance and Arts Management with both charities and non-charities since 2010. He currently undertakes freelance and non-executive roles across several Arts organisations and with other charitable ventures.
Anjalika Sagar lives and works in London and is one half of The Otolith Group and their public platform The Otolith Collective, founded in 2002 with Kodwo Eshun. The Otolith Group's research-based work spans moving image, audio, performance, installation, archive and publication. The collective have curated of a wide range of seminal contemporary art exhibitions and programmes that have brought the work of key artists and film makers, including Harun Farocki and John Akomfrah, to attention. In 2010 The Otolith Group was nominated for the Turner Prize.
Anne is a Fellow Member of Association of Accounting Technicians and has worked with a-n as Finance Manager since 2003. She is responsible for financial operational functions including budgeting, management accounts, salaries and related policies. She is based in a-n's Newcastle office.
Job Titles:
- Programme and Communications Assistant
Charlotte joined a-n as Programme and Communications Assistant in July 2022 and provides support on a range of programme and communications initiatives. Prior to a-n, Charlotte worked in arts organisations, charities and events, she graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in History of Art and Media Communications. Charlotte is based in a-n's Newcastle Office.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of a - N Artists Council
Clémentine Bedos (Chair of a-n Artists Council) is an artist, researcher and educator based in London, who has a background in law and philosophy. Clémentine's performance, video, installation and site-specific works draw on their own mixed heritage (Haitian, Gypsy, Kabyle, French), weaving together ancestral and digital processes to explore the multidimensional oppression of marginalised bodies and communities. Visit Clémentine's website
David has extensive experience of working in the arts, cultural, education and charity sectors. With previous roles working for Arts Council England, Manchester Metropolitan University and as Head of Creative Partnership Programmes, where he was responsible for grant making and creative programmes. David has been an artist, art teacher and is a history of art graduate. Working from Manchester he is responsible for a-n's business development.
Ellen works in a-n's Programme Team, producing digital material for the website and social media, including features, resources, news and members' content. She is also an artist and freelance writer, whose commissions include FACT, Printmaking Today, UK Parliament Arts and Heritage Collections, East Bristol Contemporary and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. She is based in a-n's London office.
Hannah Cross started her professional career in the arts, working in the London Visual Arts Team at Arts Council England before becoming a private giving fundraiser at various art galleries in London. Eventually her interest in technology led her to change direction and retrain as a web developer. Currently she works for a growing start up called NearSt as a software engineer.
Hannah Wallis is an artist, curator and d/Deaf activist. Committed to the long-term application of accessibility practices within the arts and working rights of artists, Hannah co-leads Caption-Conscious Ecology and The Art of Captioning research group. Hannah is the gallery programme director at Grand Union, Birmingham, an associate advisor on the Future Curators Network, a trustee for Two Queens Gallery, Leicester and ZU-UK, London and has collaborated under the moniker of Dyad Creative with artist Théodora Lecrinier since 2014. Visit Hannah's website
Helen Nisbet is a curator from Shetland, now based in London. She is Artistic Director for Art Night and curates projects across the UK. Helen also sits on the Acquisitions Committee for the Arts Council Collection and the Advisory Board for Artquest. Her publication ‘It Disappears in Blue and Red and Gold' was published by Bookworks in 2018.
Jack is part of a-n's Programme Team working on digital content and communications across the website. He has worked for a-n since 2009, including on Paying Artists Campaign and delivering professional development workshops. As a freelance journalist he has written for Dazed and Confused, The Guardian, Arty, Garageland and Twin Magazine. Jack is also a musician and practising artist focusing on drawing. He is based in a-n's London office.
Job Titles:
- Vice Chair of a - N Board
Jerome Ince-Mitchell (Vice Chair of a-n Board) is an artist that uses play to explore conversations around the ambiguity of identity. He is a Senior Lecturer in Painting at Camberwell College of Art and a board member for Blackhorse Workshop. He has recently worked with Reading Museum and Whitechapel Gallery and has works in private collections in South Korea, the US, Italy and UK. Jerome was the Chair of a-n Artists Council between 2019 and 2022. Visit Jerome's website
Job Titles:
- Business Development Officer
Jessica has a background in fine art alongside experience working in events and business development for a range of arts organisations and charities. She joined the a-n team in 2020 as Business Development Officer. Combining her collective experience, Jessica is responsible for the delivery of new business opportunities supporting the fundraising strategy in line with a-n's mission and business plan. She is based in a-n's Newcastle Office.
Job Titles:
- Marketing and Communications Manager
Jessica joined a-n in 2020 and is responsible for the development and delivery of a-n's marketing and communications strategy. Prior to a-n, Jessica worked in marketing roles at Leeds Playhouse, Whitechapel Gallery and Peckham Platform. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art with a degree in Fine Art and mentored on the Artquest Widening Participation Internship programme from 2017 - 2020. Jessica is based in a-n's Newcastle office.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Artist
Julie Lomax joined a-n as CEO in 2018 after working as Director of Development at Liverpool Biennial. She is an Executive Committee member of the Association of Women in the Arts and regularly lectures at Sotheby's institute.
Julie has held the Director of Visual Arts position at Australia Council for Arts and Arts Council England, where she was responsible for visual arts policy and investment. She was the Chair of The Showroom, London between 2016-2021.
Julie originally trained as an artist, graduating from Chelsea School of Art with a degree in Fine Art. She is based in a-n's London office.
Keith Piper is an artist and academic based in London. His practice dates back to the early 1980s, when as a student he was a founder member of the Blk Art Group, contributing to the development of the ‘British Black Art Movement'. His creative practice spans a range of media from painting to digital interactivity, alongside teaching and curatorial practice. Visit Keith's website
Narbi has supported a-n's members since 2015. He is a painter and lecturer and a former John Moores Painting Prize prizewinner, interested in the perceived histories of locations and in how painting can question the understanding of architectural and pictorial space. He is represented by Vane in the UK and GalleriaSIX in Italy. He is also studying for a PhD in Informal Art Education at Newcastle University in partnership with the Northumberland Archive. When he's not doing all of that he can be found playing drums in Newcastle dirge rock band Big Fail. He is based in a-n's Newcastle office.
Reema Selhi is a legal and policy expert working in the field of copyright at DACS, the UK's flagship copyright society for visual artists. She lobbies on behalf of artists to champion their contribution to the UK's creative industries and to seek preservation of their rights. Reema was instrumental in launching DACS' campaign, Fair Share for Artists and she regularly speaks on sustainable policies for artists in the UK and in international forums such as the World Intellectual Property Office. Alongside her role on the a-n Board, Reema is Vice Chair at the Alliance for Intellectual Property.
Sonia Boué is a multiform artist-activist. She is also a writer-researcher and a consultant for neurodiversity in the arts. Sonia works across forms in a wide variety of contexts in which her art-making, activism and consultancy elide. She has a significant archive of post-memory work focusing in themes of exile and displacement and her current focus is neuro-inclusive practice-led research. Visit Sonia's website
Stacie McCormick (Chair of a-n) is a US born, UK based multi-disciplined artist. She is the founding director of Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop and the FairArtFair app with a reputation for developing opportunities for artists, curators and collectors to connect. Stacie exhibits her gestural, abstract paintings internationally and is a visiting artist at Sotheby's Institute of Art and Royal College of Art. Stacie joined a-n as Chair of the Board in December 2022. Visit Stacie's website
Thomas Goddard is a visual artist from Cardiff, Wales. He works at the cross-section of creative practice and education, with recent work exploring the effect of digital technology on our lived experience. Having led the Learning programme at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Tom currently programmes Criw Celf, a visual arts access scheme for young people aged 10-18, and works in partnership with charities such as Barnardos and Voices from Care. Woven throughout his practice is the belief in creative expression as a fundamental right for all. Visit Thomas's website
Skinder Hundal MBE, is currently Director of Arts at British Council, a global operation supporting close to 60,000 artists and engaging over 100 Million audiences per annum. Hundal is passionate about stimulating cultural relations and transforming lives through creativity by unlocking the unseen questions and answers that really matter in uncertain and complex times. Prior to this role, he was CEO and Arts Director at New Art Exchange positioning it as one of UK's key cultural assets based in an international neighbourhood in Nottingham operating world-wide.
Wing-Sie is responsible for establishing partnerships and managing and delivering programmes to increase development opportunities for a-n's members. Before joining a-n she worked at Arts Council England as a Visual Arts Relationship Manager, championing and developing arts and culture in London through various investment programmes including managing National Portfolio Organisations. She was previously a Registrar at Cristea Roberts Gallery and Exhibitions and Fundraising Manager at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art. She is based in a-n's London office.
Zarah Hussain is an artist who works at the intersection between science and spirituality, combining contemporary digital art with a rigorous training in traditional Islamic geometry drawn by hand. Her work encompasses a range of forms, from looping infinite animations made with code, to sculpture, painting and interactive apps. Her work uses mathematics that celebrate the order and structure found in the universe to create a range of work based on infinite repeating patterns. Visit Zarah's website