UK New Artists would like to thank the wonderful Trustees that have worked with us over the years and helped to shape the organisation.
PREVIOUS TRUSTEES
Sally Doughty
Sally is Principal Lecturer in Dance and Programme Leader for MA Performance Practices at De Montfort University, Leicester. Her research specialism is improvisation and she has published, performed and taught internationally. She is a co-founder of Quick Shifts, the improvisation performance collective based in the East Midlands.
Nick Slater
Nick Slater is Director of Arts at Loughborough University where he is responsible for the public facing arts programme. A key strand of this is Radar, a commissioning programme that engages with academic research. He was previously Visual Arts Officer at Arts Council West Midlands and has also worked as Exhibitions Co-ordinator for Quad, Derby and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Will Davies
Will is a careers consultant at Loughborough University working with students in the School of Arts, English & Drama and the Design School. Prior to joining the team at Loughborough, he worked at IdeasTap, East 15 Acting School, National Student Drama Festival, Spotlight and as a casting director working on such films as The Descent and Severance. Will has also written feature film scripts and is a member of the UK Young Artists board. UK Young Artists is an exciting cross discipline arts festival that takes place in the East Midlands.
Terry Shave
Terry has an extensive track record as an artist and arts educator. Born in Suffolk, he now exhibits regularly both in the UK and abroad. He has won prizes in the John Moores painting exhibition in Liverpool and the Unilever Award in London. He has also curated exhibitions that explore drawing, museum collections and contemporary painting in the UK. He is represented in The National Collection with work in museums and the Arts Council Collection.
Terry is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. He has initiated and developed a significant range of arts projects both nationally and abroad. These particularly focus on location specific intervention work that attempts to use art to explore socio-political and historical interpretations of sites. He was a founder member of UK Young Artists. He is an active supporter of artist led galleries and studios and is a board member and advisor to Backlit in Nottingham and AirSpace in Stoke-on-Trent.
Rob Brannen
Chair of Trustees
Rob Brannen is Head of the School of Arts at De Montfort University. The School contains programmes in Arts & Festivals Management, Dance, Drama, Fine Art, Foundation Art & Design, Photography & Video and Performing Arts.
Rob has published, presented papers and led workshops in the areas of pedagogy and performance, new theatre writing and the politics of arts funding.
Rob is a Teacher Fellow of De Montfort University, holds a National Teaching Fellowship award for individual excellence in teaching and is Vice-President of the International University Theatre Association.
Laura McCafferty
Laura McCafferty uses text, drawing, textile and performance to set up tensions between the trivial and serious. Obsessively gathering images of incidental peculiarities from the ordinary and popular culture, then constructing realities from these varied sources. Creating spaces that sit poised on the threshold of narrative that subtly mess with what’s expected. Currently exploring themes of repetition, permutation and multiplicity.
Laura is one of the first Alumni from UKYA. She was selected in 2008 to present her work with us at the International Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean in Bari, Italy.
Laura holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University and a BA in Decorative Arts from Nottingham Trent University, where she now teaches on the Fine Art, Decorative Art and Fashion and Textiles degrees.
Huw Davies
Huw Davies is Professor of Lens Media at the University of Derby and Visiting Professor at HBU/UCLAN in Baoding, China. As a filmmaker, photographer and curator his work has included commissions for many national and international agencies and broadcasters including; Arts Council England, Scottish Screen, BBC, Discovery Channel, Arte and Canal +, as well as being screened at international film festivals in over twenty-five countries. Huw has an active involvement in a number of arts and cultural organizations he has previously sat on the boards of QUAD and Derby Theatre, and is currently a trustee of UK Young Artists, Artcore and FORMAT International Photography Festival Steering Group. In 2004 he founded the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, based in England’s most northerly town. He was its Artistic Director until 2008 and is currently Chair of its Board of Trustees.
Gary Thomas
Gary is co-founder and director of Animate Projects, curating and producing projects at the intersection of film, animation and art. He also works as a Film Programme Manager at the British Council, the UK’s cultural relations organisation. He leads on film for East Asia and China and he is the Film team’s specialist on animation, experimental moving image, and cross art form practice. He coordinates the advocacy group Animation Alliance UK; he’s a trustee of the National Dance Company of Wales and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Amanda Briggs-Goode
In the role as Head of Department for Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design at Nottingham Trent University, Amanda provides subject leadership and management for a busy and creative department
Prior to becoming Head of Department for Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design in 2013, Amanda was Principle Lecturer in Textile Design and led on the Chartered Society of Designers accreditation. While in this role she published the key text book Printed Textile Design with Lawrence King Publishers. Amanda has also maintained research interests and for the past ten years has worked with the lace archive which is held within the school and she leads the lace heritage research group.
She co-organised a season of city wide events called Lace:Here:Now in 2013 which included exhibitions, film showings, lace making, an academic symposium and lectures across the main cultural venues in Nottingham, later co-editing a book of the same name. In 2018 she has curated an exhibition ‘Lace Unarchived’ which includes work from the NTU archive and from designers, artists and manufacturers of Nottingham Lace. She has published and exhibited widely on lace and heritage related issues.
Sonia Chandaria Tillu
Sonia is a qualified chartered accountant (ACA) and holds a degree in Human Sciences (BA & MA Hons) from the University of Oxford. She began her career in Real Estate Corporate Tax at Deloitte, a ‘Big 4’ accounting firm and is presently Chief Financial Officer (part time) of the Pelton Group where she oversees the finances of a portfolio of UK based IT service businesses. Her experience includes developing financial controls/processes, as well as financial management, planning & analysis for small to medium sized businesses.
Sonia is also an award winning Kathak dancer and Artistic Director of Sona Lisa Dance Company. The company is based in Birmingham and uses classical and contemporary Kathak to create performance and participatory work that is artistically unique, surprising and challenging for multicultural and multigenerational audiences.