Kate has worked in the cultural sector for over 40 years, as a Festival Director, theatre practitioner and on regional, national and international policy and funding programmes. Her freelance work has included Arts Adviser to the Baring Foundation and evaluations of several national initiatives such as Creative People and Places. Kate’s 2016 Fellowship took her to Japan to explore how arts and creativity can involve communities in active planning and 'place making'. In particular, she researched arts programmes which achieve inter-generational collaboration and ways of communities working creatively together to address their futures in times of significant change. Kate joined our Advisory Council in 2016.

Paul is a writer and curator of the visual arts. Over the past thirty years his institutional roles have included Director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation; Director of the Sainsbury Centre; Director and President of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C, and Head of Research at the V&A Museum. He has taught at a number of institutions, including the Royal College of Art, and Camberwell College of Art, has lectured internationally, and published numerous books on art, design and the crafts. Paul joined our Advisory Council in 2016.

Kerry is CEO of Kaleidoscope, an arts organisation based in Northern Ireland. Kerry’s 2014 Fellowship focused on creative ageing and he travelled to the USA to work with organisations delivering arts programmes for older people. Inspired by what he learned Kerry created “Imagine Arts” a multi-artform learning programme for older people. In 2016 Kerry was awarded an MBE for services to older people and the arts. During the COVID pandemic, Kaleidoscope provided over 100 hours of free online arts classes for older people across the UK. Kerry works as a consultant helping to shape major cultural capital projects throughout the UK.