People.
The GM Artist Hub team is a diverse group of arts professionals with a breadth of artist development experience:
Garfield Allen | Director of Space | Sustained Theatre Up North
creative support: theatre, live art & contemporary performance; mentoring; support for BAME creative practitioners
Lauren Banks | Head of Producing | The Old Courts
Antonia Beck | Senior Producer: Artist Development | The Lowry
creative & professional development; performance & cross-artform work; producing; touring; funding: Arts Council England
Suzanne Bell | Dramaturg & New Work Lead | Royal Exchange Theatre
creative support: new writing, dramaturgy
Tamsin Drury | Director | hÅb + Word of Warning
funding; Arts Council England; creative support: Live Art & contemporary performance
John Franklin-Johnston | Programme Manager | hÅb + Word of Warning & Freelance
mentoring; producing & admin support; creative support: Live Art & contemporary performance
Davinia Jokhi | Artist Development Producer: Theatre | HOME
creative support: theatre; producing & admin support
Jonathan McGrath | Producer | FutureEverything
fundraising; Arts Council England; digital arts practice; directing theatre; making art mined from past trauma; cross sector collaboration; organisational development
Roxy Moores | Creative Producer | Contact
producing & creative support: contemporary performance & participatory projects; working with young people, academics, frontline professionals
Zoe Pickering | Head of Programming & Big Imaginations Manager | Z-arts
self care; project management; producing & admin support; mentoring; informal chatting; creative support: work for children & families
Danielle Porter | Creative Producer | SICK! Festival
community engagement; participatory arts programmes; project management
Punam Ramchurn | Artist Development Manager | Factory International
creative support: cross-art form
Katherine Rogers | Exodus Creative Producer | Community Arts Northwest
community engagement; participatory arts programmes; project management; support for new migrant creative practitioners
Rose Sergent | Health & Science Producer | Contact
producing & creative support: health & science focussed projects cross-art form; accessibility within creative practice; early career creatives; working with young people
Zoe Watson | Contemporary Curator | The Lowry
creative support: contemporary visual arts; professional development; exhibiting & touring; mentoring
Alice Wilde | Artist Development Producer: Visual Art | HOME
creative support: visual art, artist film; producing; exhibitions & admin support
Updated 31 March 2023
Organisations.
GM Artist Hub is a joint artist development project from fifteen arts organisations across Greater Manchester:
Community Arts Northwest | @comartsnw
Factory International | @factoryintl
FutureEverything | @FuturEverything
hÅb + Word of Warning | @WarnMcr
Octagon Theatre Bolton | @octagontheatre
Oldham Coliseum Theatre | @OldhamColiseum
Royal Exchange Theatre | @rxtheatre
SICK! Festival | @SICKfestival
Sustained Theatre Up North | @stunlive
The Old Courts | @theoldcourts
Waterside Arts & Creative Industries Trafford | @WatersideArts & @CITrafford
Generously supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation | @EsmeeFairbairn
Generously supported by Greater Manchester Combined Authority | @gm_culture.
Please also see our Guiding Principles.
Updated 31 March 2023