SIT BOARD
Lizzi Walton Artistic Director / project Manager
Artistic director, Lizzi Walton formed SIT and has been a key strategic player in the development of the organisation. She has built the organisation and the annual festival to its present position of being a nationally recognised organisation with a reputation for excellence, ambition and innovation, representing textiles and related contemporary applied arts.
Lizzi has over 30 years experience working in the arts and with arts administration and project management. She has run her own business, in retail specialising in British Contemporary Arts and Crafts and 4 years direct experience in owning & running a Gallery exhibiting Contemporary Art and Applied Crafts. She has taught in secondary schools running the art departments. A short spell working with socially excluded young people in Gloucestershire. Following teaching she moved to London where she worked with a team organising and running the extensive Arts programme for the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for 10 years.
Sarah Jane Condie (Executive Board)
Sarah has a dynamic and creative background with experience in textile and fashion design, social and trend forecasting alongside considerable experience in product and brand marketing. Her passion is connecting communities, whether large or small, with the creative arts. She is founder of ‘artattheheart’, a biennial Children's Arts Festival, which connects children, retailers and the community through arts based projects.
Education: MA Applied Imagination Central St. Martins; BSc. (Hons) Textile Design Huddersfield University; Epsom College of Art.
Liz Cooper (Executive Board)
Liz Cooper is a contemporary craft curator whose practice is grounded in art textiles and who strives to place inspirational work in front of diverse audiences. She works part-time for The National Centre for Craft & Design (NCCD) in Sleaford managing their touring exhibitions, and from September 2013 will assume a similar role for sister organisation Design Factory. Freelance exhibition projects are both as an independent and for Upper Street Events, who present the annual Knitting & Stitching Shows.
Forthcoming projects include: a textiles exhibition for Pump House Gallery in 2014 and Tapestry for NCCD in 2015.
Liz has also been a selector for the British Tapestry Group in 2011 and the Third Riga Biennial of Textile and Fibre Art in 2010.
Frances Day (Executive Board)
Frances has worked as an IT Consultant, and also as a publisher of fiction. She has always had a passionate interest in contemporary arts, particularly textiles (as a practitioner in a small way) and photography. Frances works with the successful ACP wearable art event and is a member of the local Embroiderers’ Guild. She brings a wide knowledge and experience of the arts to the organisation.
Julian Day (Executive Board)
Julian Day is a creative and versatile exhibition and events Director, a commercially minded development professional with experience of working in both the public and private sectors. He has a passion for visual arts, specifically textiles and the theatre. Recently, he has been responsible for sponsorship and the programming of all the galleries associated with 'The Knitting and Stitching shows', in the UK and Ireland. Prior to the acquisition of 'twistedthread' (trading as Creative exhibitions) by Upper Street events last year he was a senior member of the management team also responsible for developing partnerships with textile artists and with major museums and galleries for specific exhibitions.
Previously to this, Julian was working at the award winning art gallery Compton Verney in development, where I successfully launched the patron’s scheme and opened up the venue for corporate events and private functions thereby substantially improving revenues on an annual basis. He has extensive knowledge of events promotion and audience development but also particular experience with funding applications working with individuals and major arts funding organisations.
James Showers (Executive Board)
James is a local businessman and entrepreneur and a passionate supporter of SIT.
Roy Wallis (Executive Board)
Roy’s background is in Marketing & Sales. He has been a Director of organisations based in the B2B sector and runs his own Marketing & Business Development Company. For 6 years he acted as Deputy Chairman and Mentor of The Prince’s Trust, Bristol. Roy’s interests are painting, music, golf, photography and Arsenal. He has recently edited two books.
Nigel Morgan (Advisory Board)
Nigel Morgan advises arts and educational organisations on development. He is a composer and works at the heart of contemporary concert music in the UK. His current work of some 90 compositions includes many commissioned works in orchestral, chamber, vocal and digital media categories.
Nigel has recently developed a second career in woven textiles, particularly tapestry, studied at Bradford College, attended workshops with Sue Lawty and Fiona Hutchinson and is fascinated in the connection of textiles and music.
Chrissie Freeth (Advisory Board)
Chrissie Freeth is a handloom weaver working on a vintage four-shaft counterbalance floor loom. She enjoys the technical demands of weaving as well as creative process and as an archaeologist is fascinated by its legacy, influenced by the muted colours and strong textures of the Yorkshire landscape, its industrial heritage, archaeological and historical textiles, and the work of the early twentieth-century weavers who pioneered the resurgence of handloom weaving. She is committed to the promotion and preservation of traditional textile crafts.
Michelle Hendy – Bookkeeper
Stella Jensen – Accounts
Mel Rodicq – picture & digital manager
PATRONS:
Mary La Trobe- Bateman OBE
Margaret Benton
Lulu Guinness OBE
Professor Simon Olding
Linda Brassington
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The Advisory Board advise and enhance the work of the SIT Board. |
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