Fascinated with culture: excavating, making, growing it. Clore Fellow | FRSA | Head of Visitor Programming @ National Trust |Parent | IXIA Board
Joined May 2009
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Taking inspiration from the work of Priya Parker #meaningfulgathering #artofgathering youtu.be/Nggucasecto
Trustee claxon! @publicartonline seeks to expand the Board membership at a time of exciting opportunity - see link below #publicart #visualarts #planning #fairandequitable
ixia Board: Call for Trustees
Join us at a pivotal time in ixia's development.
Can your skills & talent help take our vital public art sector support work forward & shape the organisation for the future?
Deadline: 2nd April 2025.
Further Info: ixia-info.org/Call-for-Trust…
Do come and join!
Join us for a free webinar:
Helping Public Art Happen Well
Tues 19th Nov, 2-3pm
Sharing challenges & learning from place-based commissioning
to support project development
Funded by @ace_national
Further info & sign up here by 15th Nov:
tinyurl.com/daw3ddy3
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What’s being pledged for the arts in this GE?
I’ll host a discussion on Culture Hour @TimesRadio 6:30-7pm tonight w
Lord Parkinson 🟦
@ThangamDebb 🟥
@JackGamble from @_CFTA
Sir Alistair Spalding @Sadlers_Wells campaignforthearts.org/gener…
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@FinancialTimes review of my book Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain. This reviewer (@BoydTonkin ) really gets the book's approach and the spirit in which it's put out there.
Very sad news
Desperately sad news.
Museums are treasure houses of objects and knowledge, founts of inspiration for future generations, places of wonder - and research. Places that invite us to see ourselves in a deep, wide context.
Our society and culture is impoverished if we lose them.
Having spent many hours behind the scenes in this one, poring over skeletal collections at National Museum Wales, working with archaeologists there, my heart is riven by this sad news.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj7m…
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🔥 BOOK for this WEEK!
Hear about EXCITING new Public art programme Deep Time curated by @ARinaldi72 ft @olafureliasson Ryan Gander Yelena Popova Marcus Coates Roger Hiorns #Cumbria Coast Fri Sat 12th/13th APRIL 🎟 £5/FREE for #PSSAmembers FIND out HERE eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-c…
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I had fun recently giving the Octavia Hill lecture for the @nationaltrust . I talked about questions of 'dumbing down', about 'who owns the past' and why we need to argue about 'heritage'. You can watch it here, if you fancy! tiny.cc/2g4mxz
Pleased to share this...
ixia, with funding from @ace_national is supporting @BarnsleyCouncil @darlingtonbc & @sthelenscouncil with public art projects that form part of Levelling Up or Towns Fund programmes. Advisors @Beam_ArtsUK @hazelcolq & @EMMAUNDERHILL (Founder & Artistic Director @upprojects ) 1/3
“This country has a nasty and inglorious record of keeping its exploitation out of sight.”
@wMaryBeard gives her Octavia Hill lecture for the @NationalTrust addressing the question: Who owns the past?
Watch more: shorturl.at/rAMN3
National Trust: shorturl.at/dizI9
Pleased and proud to be on the organising team for the second Octavia Hill lecture for @nationaltrust - thanks @wmarybeard, a fantastic evening. How can me make “the indistinguishably grand and posh” meaningful, useful and enjoyable in people’s lives?
Just leaving a fantastic @nationaltrust Octavia Hill lecture, given by the inspiring @wmarybeard . There’s nothing like a thoughtful, provocative, disruptive, intellectually rigorous critical friend to challenge, congratulate, prick pomposity & embolden you. And she is and did.
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And so it begins … the privatisation of local government .
Be afraid, people. Once they own your town, they will own you.
This is not democracy as we know it. This is asset grabbing on a humongous scale.
And it would be the slithy Gove
#GeneralElection
Great to see these - so impactful
Do you want to see four STONKINGLY good @nationaltrust posters? Well here they are anyway. David Gentleman, who’d only just recently designed the NT’s logo, is at his best here in this early ‘70s set. You just know they’d have turned heads; the beam engine prob surprised a lot of folk who thought NT was all stately piles and heathland. Now, if you want an original they’re about as rare as hen’s teeth but that clever sod @C20thPosters has managed to find one - which is what reminded me to post them all on Twitter anyway twentiethcenturyposters.com/… (btw you’ll know about a billion of David Gentleman’s designs, including the Concorde motif at Hatton Cross tube and the murals at Charing Cross tube.)
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After just one day on “work experience” I can fully recommend volunteering for the National Trust as a room guide… or whatever! Just had a great day.
Opportunity for #publicart advisors as part of this pilot programme - please share!
ixia Opportunity:
Public Art Commissioning & Production Advice
We are seeking 3 public art advisors for an @ace_national funded Public Art Support Pilot, to advise selected local authority project teams in the North of England. Apply by noon 8/1/24
ixia-info.org/
Great to be able to announce this!
ixia is pleased to be delivering an @ace_national funded Public Art Support Pilot providing additional expertise for public art projects that form part of place-based development programmes in the North of England. More here ixia-info.org/