Hive: Introducing Facilitators

Joon-Lynn Goh is a cultural organiser, working with art and infrastructure. She embraces organising as a practice in which migrant and global majority communities are protagonists of change, and where infrastructure, organisation and business are creative experiments in stewardship and worldbuilding.

Find Joon-Lynn: joonlynngoh.net

Anna Colin is an independent curator, educator, researcher, and gardener based in East Kent. Anna is practically and theoretically engaged with critical pedagogy, social practice, alternative modes of instituting, and critical and participatory landscaping.

Find Anna: annacolin.co.uk.

Jane Morrow is a visual art curator, writer, and PhD researcher with a specialism in artist development. She is interested in infrastructure for artists, working across network and production contexts, and through creating formal and informal developmental platforms for practitioners.

Find Jane: janemorrow.com

Benedetta D’Ettorre is a curator, researcher, educator and consultant. She collaborates with arts organisations and artists as a curator and producer. She is interested in researching socially-engaged arts practices, artist-led and autonomous spaces, cultural policy and sustainability by taking multi-disciplinary approaches.

Find Benedetta: Website

Melissa Burntown is a Leeds-based artist, curator and researcher, whose practice aims to challenge object ontologies and the notion of being-in-the-world from de-anthropocentric perspectives. Working in a variety of media including sculpture, print, text and video; themes of landscape, survival, and ecology often feature in her work.

Find Melissa: @melissa_burntown

Alice Chandler is an artist and postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds, working across the School of Performance and Cultural Industries (PCI) and the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies (FAHACS). Her research aims to understand the value and impacts of networks for visual artists’ careers and continuing professional development.

Find Alice: alicechandler.com

Market Gallery is a charitable artist-run organisation facilitated by a rolling committee of artist-programmers, a programme facilitator and a board based in Glasgow’s East End. It was established in 2000 and presents a varied programme of contemporary exhibitions, projects and events, having recently settled in a new space within Many Studios in the Barras.

Find Market Gallery: marketgallery.org

Chris Biddlecombe is a sculptor, a collaborator with artists from other disciplines and a maker of installations in public spaces. Alongside his own creative practice he has developed a number of research, development and networking strategies that have connected various creative communities in the UK and Europe.

Find Chris: artistsunion.scot

Kirsten Body has 20 years experience working in the visual arts sector holding production roles within galleries, public art agencies, local authorities and artist-led projects. Kirsten has a long-standing commitment to supporting emergent visual artists in Scotland and a strong interest in artist-led and self-organising practices. She is a founding member of Circus Artspace – an artist-run initiative and graduate support programme based in Inverness.

Find Kirsten: @circus_artspace

Dawn Cameron is a project manager and evaluator working primarily in the creative arts, heritage and cultural sectors. She is interested in working on projects which seek to deliver social and cultural change and is driven by an urge to understand what works, how, for whom and under what circumstances.

Find Dawn: armstrongcameron.com

Emma McDowell is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Centre for Cultural Value, Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and an Associate Consultant at The Audience Agency. Their PhD thesis, ‘From transaction to enaction: reframing theatre marketing’, explored the processes of participatory sense-making, articulation and communication of cultural value in contemporary theatre-making and marketing practice, in association with HOME, Manchester.

Find Emma: culturalvalue.org.uk

Jo Verrent believes that ‘different’ is delicious not divergent. She works in arts & culture at strategic levels embedding the belief that diversity adds texture, turning policy into real action. Jo is director of Unlimited, with a mission to commission extraordinary work from disabled artists until the whole of the cultural sector does.

Find Jo: Unlimited

Laura is Place Based Officer: North at Unlimited. Within her role, she builds and sustains relationships with organisations and cultural events in the north, sharing best practice, knowledge and signposting to all things access and inclusion. She builds relationships with local artists, ensuring they are linked into our opportunities.

Find Laura: Unlimited