ARTANGEL - Key Persons
Akiko Hart is the CEO of NSUN, the National Survivor User Network. She is also the Chair of ISPS UK, which advocates for social and psychological approaches to psychosis, and a Trustee of National Voices, a coalition of health and social care charities. She has been appointed a Professor in Practice at the University of Durham, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Medical Humanities.
Alice leads fundraising and development at Artangel working with the team and philanthropists, grant-giving foundations, and partners to deliver impact across the programme.
Prior to returning to Artangel, Alice was Director of Development of RADA, and has worked-on capital and revenue campaigns at the RA, ICA as well as 14-18 NOW, fundraising for commissions including Dazzle Ships (Tauba Auerbach, Tobias Rehberger, Peter Blake, Ciara Phillips ), William Kentridge, The Head and The Load, Represent (Rachel Maclean, Debris and Selina Thompson), Jeremy Deller, We're here because we're here, Peter Jackson, They Shall Not Grow Old, and Danny Boyle, Pages of the Sea.
She graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2006 with an MA in History and holds an MA in Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths University and Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP. Alice worked at Artangel from 2008-2013 and was the coordinator for 1395 Days Without Red, The Room For London and the OPEN in 2013.
Alice works Monday - Friday
Job Titles:
- Marketing and Communications Manager
Drawing on the uniqueness of each project produced by Artangel, Anita works closely with the team to devise and implement impactful marketing campaigns, which engage and grow audiences across all channels.
Anita joined Artangel from DACS, the leading distributor of royalties to visual artists in the UK, where she worked for nearly four years on their communications campaigns, designed and delivered public events programmes, and supported the foundation of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Visual Arts.
She completed her MA in Museum Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London and has held gallery positions at V&A Museum of Childhood, Snap Galleries and Eleven Spitalfields Gallery before becoming the Programme Manager at Pin Drop Studio, an organisation that staged collaborations between artists and writers. Since August 2021, Anita has sat on the advisory board of Eastside Projects in Birmingham.
Anita works Monday - Friday.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive of Tank Publications
Caroline is Chief Executive of Tank Publications, publishing print quarterly title Tank, online magazine Because London and most recently launching an independent film streaming platform under TANK.TV. She has spent the last 19 years working with luxury fashion, retail and beauty brands as a publisher, journalist and brand consultant. Caroline has also worked on creating new publishing technology, launching a print edition featuring Fashion Scan, an experimental app enabling users to unlock digital content within physical magazine pages using their smartphones. Today she can be found on numerous juries for fashion awards as well as having spent three years as the external examiner for Central Saint Martins' MA journalism and fashion promotion courses.
Isabel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist. She is currently Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Barcelona and visiting lecturer in the department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. She is a specialist in the treatment of psychosis and has worked as a consultant psychiatrist in first episode psychosis services within the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Her research uses neuroimaging techniques to study the brain mechanisms associated with high-risk states for psychosis and their potential use for the early identification of vulnerable individuals. She has an interest in the arts and has established collaborations with artists and theatre makers for the development of multidisciplinary projects.
Dr Jacqui Dillon is a respected activist, writer and speaker, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, abuse, psychosis, dissociation and healing. Jacqui is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, Visiting Research Fellow at The Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University and a member of the Advisory Board, The Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine's College, Oxford University. Jacqui has co-edited 3 books and has published numerous articles and papers, is on the editorial board of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches and the founder of the Beck Road Alliance (BRA) which exists to support survivors of organised childhood sexual abuse on Beck Road, Hackney, and all survivors everywhere, to share their testimonies of surviving childhood sexual abuse. In 2017, Jacqui was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Psychology by the University of East London.
Job Titles:
- Honorary Professor of Psychiatry
Femi Oyebode is Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham. His books include Mindreadings: Literature & Psychiatry, Madness at the Theatre, Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology and Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes.
Fiona Malpass is a psychology graduate and mental health activist, who uses her personal experiences to inform her work. She is currently the Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden. She has worked in a variety of mental health settings, including inpatient psychiatric units and several mental health charities.
Gabrielle is responsible for all the day to day financial operations at Artangel
Before joining Artangel Gabrielle worked for ACAVA, an organization providing artists' studios in London. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, graduating in 2004, and was a participant on the Research Program at CCA, Kitakyushu in Japan from 2000-2001.
Gabrielle works Mondays, Tuesdays and fortnightly Wednesdays.
Image: Gabrielle Le Cocq visiting Ben Rivers's The Two Eyes are not Brothers at Television Centre, London, June 2015. Photograph: William Eckersley
Job Titles:
- Founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company
Hannah is the founder of Bold Tendencies Community Interest Company and Hannah Barry Gallery, both of which are based in Peckham, South London. Over a ten year period Bold Tendencies - together with its major partner projects, Frank's Cafe and the award-winning Multi-Story Orchestra - has transformed its car park home through an annual commissioning programme of visual art, classical music, poetry and literature and architecture. With immersive public spaces and spectacular views across London, the project has attracted more than a million visitors so far. She is Co-Chair of the Chinati Contemporary Council in Marfa, Texas, part of the Science Gallery's Leonardo Group and the Serpentine Future Contemporaries Committee.
Job Titles:
- Advertising Executive
- Global Chief Strategy Officer for McCann Worldgroup
Harjot Singh is an award winning advertising executive with a proven, global track record. Most drawn to people shaped by their interest in constant discovery, learning and open mindedness, Harjot is unwavering in his belief that creativity is the world's most powerful resource.
For over 25 years, Harjot has held senior, management roles in North America, Asia, and Europe, working with some of the most well-known creative agencies in the world, and advising many of the world's most successful brands and corporations across every category and sector; from packaged good, to banking, cars, retail, telco, beauty, fashion, and the public sector.
Harjot is currently Global Chief Strategy Officer for McCann Worldgroup, a global advertising agency network with offices in 120 countries. He is also non- executive director of an economic development consultancy with worldwide operations and a trustee of the British History of Advertising Trust.
Job Titles:
- Global Head of Corporate Philanthropy at Bloomberg LP
Jemma is Global Head of Corporate Philanthropy at Bloomberg LP, managing a team responsible for developing and driving Bloomberg's Global philanthropic programming and initiatives in education, environment, human services, arts and culture. Over the last 20 years at Bloomberg, Jemma has overseen a wide range of global cultural initiatives including exhibition sponsorships, public art commissions, audience access programs, the Creative Land Trust and the Bloomberg Connects digital program. Jemma helped to establish Bloomberg Space in 2002 and is now director of London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space. Jemma is proud to serve on the Digital Advisory Board of the National Gallery and the UK Board of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. Jemma also sits on the Advisory Boards of a number of the UK's leading arts and cultural organisations, including the Creative Industries Federation, the Serpentine Galleries, and the Women of the World Committee at the Southbank Centre.
Artangel's board of trustees is ultimately responsible for the governance of the organisation, which is both a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee.
Jenny Waldman CBE is Director of Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for art. She was previously Director of 14-18 NOW, the UK's official arts programme for the First World War Centenary, commissioning over 100 new works from leading contemporary artists including Jeremy Deller's Somme tribute we're here because we're here, Peter Jackson's film They Shall Not Grow Old and new works by John Akomfrah, William Kentridge, and Rachel Whiteread.
Her previous positions include Creative Producer of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and prior to that, several years at Somerset House Trust where she developed the ice rink, concert and film seasons.
Jo is a leader and strategic thinkerwith more than a decade of involvement in the UK charity sector, almost all of those years in Rethink Mental Illness in a variety of roles. Jo draws on her specialist knowledge of behaviour change campaigns, mental health anti-stigma programmes and lived experience leadership as Director at Time to Change. Previously in her role She has worked for Rethink Mental Illness for the past 15 years and, as Head of the Children and Young People's programme at Time to Change, she has led the development, from concept to implementation, of England's largest mental health anti-stigma programme for young people aged 11-18 and their parents. With personal experience of mental health problems that began in her teenage years, Jo is passionate about creating an environment where no one feels isolated or ashamed to speak out. She is the founder and Trustee of Nauka, a charity that helps disadvantaged women in Zambia realise their full potential, and a serving Trustee of The McPin Foundation, transforming mental health research by putting the lived experience of people affected by mental health problems at the heart of research methods and the research agenda.
For 25 years, John enjoyed a successful career establishing and leading a variety of businesses for financial services companies in New York and London. He is a financing and capital markets specialist who has acted as an advisor to corporations, financial institutions, and government entities located around the globe. John is currently a non-executive director of an infrastructure, transportation, and environmental consulting firm with worldwide operations. In addition to Artangel, John is a patron of South London Gallery and Hospital Rooms, the arts and mental health charity.
John is CEO of The Garden, a TV production company specialising in premium factual series including 24 Hours in A&E, 24 Hours in Police Custody, Squid Game: The Challenge, and Alone, and feature docs such as Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story and Gun No 6. Previously he was Head of Specialist Factual and Arts at Channel 4, commissioning and overseeing programmes including Grayson Perry's series, Our Gay Wedding: The Musical, and The Vote. Before joining Channel 4, he was Commissioning Editor for Factual at Channel 5, and spent 13 years making programmes at the BBC.
Laura is an Artist, Researcher, Lecturer, and Mental Health Activist who specialises in trauma. A key focus of her work is on the neuropsychological and neurophysiological correlates of childhood trauma and the development of novel creative body-based and survivor-led interventions. Through her art practice, she creates spaces for trauma survivors to reclaim and redefine their narratives on their own terms. She is an Honorary Research Associate of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, an Honorary Research Associate of UCL's Division of Psychiatry, an Improvement Leader Fellow and Honorary Research Fellow of NIHR ARC NWL, a Special Lecturer at UCL and Central Saint Martins, and she is on the Editorial Board of QI4U and the Editorial Advisory Board of The Lancet Psychiatry. She has published articles and book chapters, has facilitated workshops and given numerous talks, including keynotes and TEDx, and her artwork and films have been exhibited internationally, at venues including the V&A, the Whitechapel Gallery, and the BFI, and some of her work is in the Central Saint Martins Museum Collection.
Lili-Maxx supports the Artangel team with artwork production, research and events working closely with partners, venues and artists.
Prior to working at Artangel, Lili-Maxx produced UP Projects' digital commissions programme This is Public Space with her most recent projects including 576 Tears by Zach Blas, Welcome to BioNet by Shu Lea Cheang and The Terrarium by Shezad Dawood. She also produced Zach Blas' work Profundior (Lachryphagic Transmutation Deus-Motus-Data Network) for the 12th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art. Lili-Maxx has worked in Berlin and London for The University of the Arts London and various publications including the Observer New Review and Exberliner Magazine.
Recently, Lili-Maxx completed an MA in Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins where she focused her studies on accessibility within the arts and cultural industries. Prior to this she studied Culture, Criticism and Curation at The University of the Arts London.
Lili-Maxx works Monday - Friday
Marcus Coates lives and works in London. Through his attempts to become animal, to his vicarious experiences on behalf of people, his work offers an inquiry into the degrees to which we can understand, know and relate to others. Often performative - using a process of radical empathy as a motivation to create, examine and critique relational tools - he tests actual and perceived boundaries between individuals, within communities, and with other species. New ways of relating are proposed and often put into practice. His approach is often functional with a social and ecological impact in mind.
Coates has collaborated with people from a wide range of disciplines including anthropologists, ornithologists, wildlife sound recordists, choreographers, politicians, psychiatrists, palliative care consultants, musicians, and primatologists amongst others.
His recent exhibitions include: The Limits of Humanity, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 2021; The World is in You, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2021; Joseph Beuys and the Shamans, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany 2021; The Animal that therefore I am, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China, 2020; The Land We Live In, The Land We Left Behind, Hauser & Wirth Somerset 2018; Functional Improvisation with percussionist Terry Day, William Morris Museum, 2017; As Above, So Below, IMMA, Dublin, 2017; Ape Culture, HKW Berlin, 2015; The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London and Implicit Sound, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2011; Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2010; Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009.
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Listen to Marcus Coates in conversation with the five directors, discussing each film and their experiences. The conversation was moderated by writer and psychologist Professor Charles Fernyhough.
Mariam Zulfiqar is the Director of Artangel. Prior to joining the team in January 2022, Mariam led the National Art Programme at Forestry England where she implemented a new strategic direction, developing partnership projects at the intersection of art, design, architecture, environment, and ecology.
As Deputy Director and Chief Curator at UP Projects, Mariam curated new commissions and oversaw Constellations - an artist development programme for artists working in the public domain, and This is Public Space - a programme of digital commissions that explore the internet as a site for art.
Mariam's primary area of focus is art in the public domain and as an independent curator, she has commissioned projects for Film and Video Umbrella and Art on the Underground. In 2021, Mariam curated Bring into Being - the inaugural programme of events, activities and contemporary art at Chiswick House. The programme marked a new chapter by inviting contemporary voices in the arts and sciences to respond to the historic 18th Century site.
Mariam regularly consults for various international public art programmes and has guest lectured at academic institutions in the UK and internationally. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Fund. Mariam holds a BA in Design and Public Art from Chelsea College of Art and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art.
Mariam works Monday - Friday
Job Titles:
- Fellow at the University of Barcelona
Isabel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist. She is currently Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Barcelona and visiting lecturer in the department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. She is a specialist in the treatment of psychosis and has worked as a consultant psychiatrist in first episode psychosis services within the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Her research uses neuroimaging techniques to study the brain mechanisms associated with high-risk states for psychosis and their potential use for the early identification of vulnerable individuals. She has an interest in the arts and has established collaborations with artists and theatre makers for the development of multidisciplinary projects.
Marina supports the research, development, production and presentation of art projects at Artangel, working closely with artists as well as partners and venues to present live projects. She has been at Artangel since 2016 and has worked on several productions such as Taryn Simon's An Occupation of Loss (2018), Andrea Luka Zimmerman's and Adrian Jackson's Here for Life (2019) and Thinking Time (2020) - an initiative to support early-career artists with their research.
She also manages the production of artist films including Ayo Akingbade's Jitterbug (2022), Paul Maheke's Mauve, Jim and John (2021), and Rachel Pimm and Graham Cunnington's an earshare / to cassay the earthcrust (2021), as well as supporting the production of new interpretations for live projects, such as the programme of events presented online for Elizabeth Price's SLOW DANS (2020).
Prior to joining Artangel, Marina worked as an Assistant Curator at Calvert 22 Gallery and at Nottingham Contemporary, where she worked on a number of exhibitions including; ..how is it towards the east? (2013) and Sanja Iveković, Unknown Heroine (2012). Whilst at Nottingham Contemporary, Marina led the delivery of Pablo Bronstein and the Treasures of Chatsworth (2015) and Rana Hamadeh, The Fugitive Image (2015).
Marina works Monday - Thursday.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Producer
Persilia oversees the presentation of film and video works from the Collection in galleries, museums and festivals across the UK. With an artist-led approach that supports meaningful experiences for artists and audiences, Persilia has a background in commissioning, artist development, public programming, large-scale projects in the public realm, socially engaged collaborations, community outreach and audience development-in person and online. She is experienced in working outside of formal gallery spaces and interested in responding to different contexts.
In 2021, Persilia curated the outcome exhibition for the Southbank Centre's Art by Post project that provided activities for people who are at risk for social isolation, loneliness and digital exclusion. For a decade she has been working at small and large-scale arts organisations in London, contributing to curatorial development in commissions, exhibitions and public programming departments, including Southbank Centre, SPACE, Wellcome Collection and The Photographers' Gallery. Previous to that she worked at arts organisations in Toronto, Canada, such as CONTACT Photography Festival and The Power Plant.
Persilia works Monday - Friday
Peter is a voice hearer who spent ten years as a psychiatric patient. He recovered through learning holistic approaches and with support from the Hearing Voices Network. Peter now teaches on hearing voices and paranoia internationally, facilitates a support group in Sheffield, runs a training and consultancy agency, and is a founding member of the Paranoia Network. He teaches at the University of Manchester where he is also carrying out research into collaborative working between voluntary sector organisations and the university, and what recovery means from a service user's perspective.
Roger is an influential artist based in London. Roger worked with Artangel in 2008 on the critically acclaimed work Seizure. Roger's work is shown and collected by international institutions such as MoMa, Tate, and Chicago Art Institute and the Walker. Roger continues to bury aircraft in a global network of international artworks.
Job Titles:
- Head of Production
- Production Team
Sam has had a long association with Artangel, working as a freelance Production Manager on numerous Artangel projects since 2002, including Steve McQueen's Carib's Leap / Western Deep, Gregor Schneider's Die Familie Schneider, Kutlug Ataman's Küba, and Heiner Goebbel's Stifter's Dinge. In 2015, Sam joined Artangel in a new capacity as Head of Production.
In addition to his work with Artangel, Sam has worked as a designer and collaborator on a diverse range of projects in both the context of contemporary art and theatre. His design projects include Siobhan Davies Dance's Bird Song (2004), Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker (Barbican, 2008), Jem Finer's Longplayer Live (Roundhouse, 2009), Ritual pour une Metamorphose (Comedie Francaise, Paris, 2013), and a handbag Museum in Seoul, Korea (Simone Handbag Museum, opened 2012). Sam has also been associated with the Manchester International Festival since its inception in 2007, working on Il Tempo del Postino (2007), Marina Abramovic Presents (2009) and The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic (2011) and most recently as Production Designer on Douglas Gordon's Neck of the Woods (2015).
Sam works Monday - Wednesday.
Sandy is responsible for the coordination of Artangel's digital assets and web properties. Working closely with artists and content creators, she has a background in developing web projects that both support accessibility and foster creativity.
As a digital coordinator, researcher, and writer, Sandy has worked in several web-based roles within culture and academia, including projects at ArtRabbit, the CHASE DTP-funded DiSCo Journal, the Canada-UK Foundation, and the Hackney City Council-funded Yodomo Circular Hub. Her written work has been published in Wellcome Collection, White Lies Magazine, Transmediale, TechRadar, Media Diversity Institute, The Independent and more.
She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently pursuing a PhD in Digital Media at the University of Sussex, analysing digital technologies and cultures through the lens of artist critique. She is a visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art and doctoral tutor at the University of Sussex.
Sandy works Mondays and Thursdays.
Tara works closely with the Head of Development to coordinate Artangel's openings and events, and to engage with patrons. She oversees the daily running of the office, and is the first point of contact for Artangel's audience.
Tara recently graduated from the University of Bristol with an Honours (LLB) degree in law, and is focused on pursuing a career within Development and Communications.
Tara works Monday - Friday.
Job Titles:
- Line Producer, Director of Photography and Editor
Tony is an experienced radio and podcast executive, a former CCO at Broccoli Content, VP at WNYC Studios in New York and Commissioning Editor at BBC World Service and Radio 4.
Tony Stevenson (DChA) is Managing Director of Artangel. From 2014 to his appointment in November 2022 he was Managing Director at Whitechapel Gallery.
Prior to that he was Finance and ICT Director of the Roundhouse in Camden and has previously held Finance Director roles with the Young Vic Theatre, Ocean Music Trust, Almeida Theatre Company and Verso Books Ltd. He has also provided freelance finance and IT consultancy to a variety of arts, publishing and media organisations in both the charitable and commercial sectors.
He is a trustee for Autograph ABP and director of their trading subsidiary Sense of Place Ltd., and for 22 years was a founding trustee of Global Witness Trust Ltd.
Tony works Monday - Friday
Wennington Green is the most northerly of these sanctioned essays in the pastoral. The politicians have disguised the lyricism of their modest proposal by talking up the environmental benefits. Councillor Eric Flounders of the ruling Liberal Democrats, unconsciously echoing Le Corbusier, asserted that 'what people who live in tower blocks want is parkland'. An Arcadia for the underclass. Grass hacked to within a centimetre of its life. Wood carvings. Eccentric pathways. Arbours in which lurk strange men and stranger dogs. Rustic camouflage for exiled drinking schools. The whole scheme was a disinterested attempt at municipal aesthetics, paternalistic, bizarre - laying out a mental landscape for a culture of compulsory leisure. Somewhere for the care-of-the-community waifs to kick their heels. Beuys-art interpreted by committee. Green spaces in triplicate. It was appropriate, inevitable, that Wennington Green with its last sorry huddle of housing should be the chosen location for Rachel Whiteread's spectacular cryogenic experiment.
The only entry to Wennington Green on the north side is the inevitable gap in the railings created by fishermen wanting easy access to the canal. Squeezing through, the immediate sensation is troubling: avenues of sycamores trace the faultline where the back gardens of the Grove Road terrace gave way to transitional wilderness. Negotiating moist casts of dog dirt flung up by the rotation of tractor-drawn triples, you approach the badly fitted carpet of replacement turf that delineates the ground where Whiteread's House once stood. Wennington Green is otherwise a graveyard without any of the usual prompts, the slabs and angels that list the names and dates of those who solicit remembrance. All the specific provocations of memory have been deleted. This is a field of voluntary amnesia.
It was prescient of Whiteread, after months of careful searches through housing department lists, trawls with James Lingwood of Artangel, inwards through Islington, Hackney and Bow, to arrive at the one site where her project would fuse all the loose wires of potential catastrophe. House, seen from across the field, was a giant plug, feeding current into the madness of the city. Grove Road had the lot: a terrace house with three exploitable sides (and a sitting tenant), a hyperactive local politico, anarchist squatters, post-Situationist rock stars looking for the grand gesture, and wild-eyed psychogeographers prophesying war. This terrace was in the wrong documentary. It was an affront to the radiant blankness of the Green Way, an all too human shambles. High art might be a convenient excuse for making the transition, wiping the tape. The intransigence of Sydney Gale (as he was known to the broadsheets), or 'Sid the War Hero' (to the tabloids), was the only thing keeping the ruin upright. 193 Grove Road belonged, through right of long occupation, to Mr Gale and his family. The ex-docker had nothing else to feel so bloody-minded about. Even his surname seemed to allude, punningly, to the night of the Great Storm, the 16th October 1987, an event hijacked by the Parks Committee. The storm was the perfect front for strategic refurbishment, the sealing off of the Victoria Park Lido - as a car park (with no access to the grassland). Mr Gale became the wind of rage incarnate. He was more than ready to busk as a performance artist, to display his own handpainted banner: THIS IS MY HOME, I LIVE HERE. A tautology that was all too soon to be confounded.