Turner Contemporary Trust
Turner Contemporary Trust
Following the appointment in July 2008 of John Kampfner as Chair of the Turner Contemporary Trust, the composition of the board of Trustees is announced as follows:
John Kampfner (Chair)
Jane Bishop, Proprietor, The Walpole Bay Hotel, Margate
Tamsin Dillon, Head, Art on the Underground
Bridget Edwards, Chief Executive, Anne Peaker Centre for The Arts in Criminal Justice
Francis Fitzgibbon QC, Specialist Criminal Practitioner
Laura Ford, Artist
Helen Hayes, Joint Managing Director of Urban Practitioners
Roly Keating, Director of Archive Content, BBC
Sir David Manning, Former British Ambassador to the United States
Shazia Mirza, Comedian
Katy Ricks, Head, Sevenoaks School
Clive Stevens, Managing Partner Reeves and Neylan Chartered Accountants
Neil Webster, Managing Director, Heart 103.1 & 102.8 and Gold Kent
David Brazier, Conservative Kent County Councillor, Sevenoaks North East
John Kampfner, Chair of Turner Contemporary, who led the recruitment process, said: "I am delighted to be joined by a remarkable team of trustees, which includes exceptional local and national figures. Each brings with them specific skills that will provide strong and professional oversight for the organisation."
He added: "The first meeting of the board will take place in Margate on November 25. The construction of the gallery will run parallel to the transfer of governance from Kent County Council to the new board. The largest and most exciting art gallery in the south east of England is about to become a reality."
Biographies
John Kampfner (Chair) was Editor of the New Statesman from 2005-2008. He was the British Society of Magazine Editors Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006.
John is currently Chief Executive of Index on Censorship as well as working on his new book, on global wealth and its challenge to democracy, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in autumn 2009. His previous books include the critically-acclaimed and best selling 'Blair's Wars'. He has presented several documentaries for the BBC. In 2002 he won the Foreign Press Association award for Film of the Year and Journalist of the Year for a two-part film on the Middle East.
He began his career as a foreign correspondent with the Daily Telegraph, first in East Berlin where he reported on the fall of the Wall and the unification of Germany, and then in Moscow at the time of the coup and the collapse of Soviet Communism. On returning to the UK in the mid-1990s, he became Chief Political Correspondent at the FT and political commentator for the BBC's Today programme.
Jane Bishop has been the Proprietor and Curator of the Walpole Bay Hotel and Museum in Cliftonville, Margate for the past 14 years. In addition to the restoration and development of the hotel and museum, Jane is passionate about the regeneration of the Isle of Thanet and Margate in particular. Jane's previous experience includes 21 years as a youth counsellor and Care Manager.
Tamsin Dillon is Head of Art on the Underground, the art programme for London Underground. Over a number of years she has commissioned and presented contemporary art exhibitions, projects and publications across a range of contexts. She has been at Art on the Underground since 2003, developing its significant reputation for the opportunities it provides for artists to make new work and for millions of Tube travellers to encounter art.
Tamsin is a London Regional Arts Council member, and also is on the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group.
Bridget Edwards' career to date has been predominantly in the arts and community sector where she has held a variety of leadership and management positions. She served three years as a Partnership Manager with Arts and Business, four years as Director of an community arts organization and a further eight yeas as Projects Manager of an inner city community cafe. She also worked for eight years in the fashion industry, in fashion buying and styling.
Francis FitzGibbon QC is a specialist criminal practitioner. He also undertakes advisory work, and has assisted the Bar Council in its response to proposed new counter-terror legislation. He sits as a part-time Immigration Judge.
Laura Ford studied at Bath Academy of Art (1978-82) and at Chelsea School of Art (1982-83). Soft fabrics, materials and found objects usually make up Ford's work, creating figures from the imagination or fantasy. They have an uncanny feel about them as if they are somehow plunged into a world of nightmare or adult struggle.
She was included in the British Art Show 5, 2000, and represented Wales in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Solo shows include Camden Arts Centre; Arnolfini, Bristol, the Royal Scottish Academy and Turner Contemporary, Margate, touring to the Economist Plaza in 2007. Her work is represented in many public collections including the Government Art Collection and Tate.
Helen Hayes is Joint Managing Director of Urban Practitioners, a consultancy practice specialising in planning, urban design and urban regeneration. Helen has expertise in the regeneration of coastal towns and was a Specialist Adviser to the Communities and Local Government Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry on Coastal Towns in 2006 and has written on the role of the historic environment in the regeneration of coastal towns on behalf of English Heritage. Helen is currently Project Director for the Sustainable Cities project which Urban Practitioners is developing in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Helen divides her time her time living in London and Margate.
Roly Keating became Controller of BBC TWO in June 2004, overseeing a range of memorable programmes including Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, The Choir, Extras, Rain In My Heart, Dragons' Den, Coast, Tribe and Springwatch. BBC TWO was named as Broadcast Channel of the Year in 2007.
After joining the BBC as a General Trainee in 1983 Roly made documentaries for Omnibus, Bookmark and Arena and was Editor of The Late Show and Bookmark.
Roly moved to become Head of Programming for UKTV on its launch in 1997, and in 1999 he was made BBC Controller of Digital Channels. He then became Controller of BBC FOUR, leading the channel's launch in March 2002.
In 2003 he was seconded for six months to act as joint leader of the BBC's Charter Review project. From October 2007 to May 2008 he took on additional responsibility as Acting Controller, BBC ONE.
In November this year, Roly left his role at BBC TWO to take up his new appointment as the BBC's first Director of Archive Content.
Sir David Manning GCMG CVO is one of the country's leading, and most influential diplomats of the past decade. He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1972. He served in Warsaw, New Delhi, Paris and Moscow. From 1994-5 he was Head of Policy Planning; from 1995-8 Ambassador to Israel; and from 1998-2000 he was Deputy Under Secretary of State for Defence and Intelligence and a member of the Foreign Office Board. He was the UK Permanent Representative at NATO (Brussels) from 2000-2001 before returning to London as Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat (2001-2003). He was then Ambassador to the United States for four years from 2003-2007.
Sir David is a Non-Executive Director of the Lloyds TSB Group, and of the BG Group.
Shazia Mirza is an award winning British Asian stand up Comedian. She works all over the world and has toured the US, Sweden, Denmark, France Holland and Germany. In November 2008, Shazia will become the first British comedian to appear in Pakistan.
Shazia won Columnist of the Year (Consumer Magazines) in the PPA Magazines 2008 Awards for editorial and publishing excellence for her column in The New Statesman.
Katy Ricks joined Sevenoaks School as Head in September 2002. The school achieved the accolade of The Sunday Times Independent Seconday School of the Year for 2007-08 in their survey of Britain's Best 2,000 schools.
She had been Deputy Head (Academic) at Highgate School since September 1997. She was Head of English for five years at St Edward's School, Oxford, and also taught at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Latymer Upper School, and St Paul's Girls' School.
Katy Ricks attended Camden School for Girls before winning First Class Honours in English at Balliol College, Oxford.
Clive Stevens qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1980 and in 1989 became a partner in Reeves+Neylan, the largest accountancy practice in Kent. He was promoted to Managing Partner of the firm in 1995 at the age of 39 with the responsibility for managing the firm's growth and strategic direction.
Clive is also a founding director of the Association of Profit Advisers Ltd, a company established in 1997 to develop and promote profit-enhancing consultancy systems to the accounting profession.
Clive is also Chairman of Kreston International, a worldwide association of independent accounting and business advisory firms.
Neil Webster is Managing Director of Heart 103.1 and 102.8 and Gold Kent Radio stations based in Whitstable. Heart Kent is the County's largest radio station and reaches nearly 500,000 listeners each month.
John Kampfner