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Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

Chris Hardie

MANAGING DIRECTOR, MARTINS THE PRINTERS

Chris was born and lives in Berwick upon Tweed. Following many years living overseas working in international manufacturing consultancy he returned to run Martins Book Printers, one of the UK’s last remaining book printer/binders producing a wide range of books for publishers and authors. He is passionate about promoting and raising creativity & innovation in the local area.

May Adadol Ingawanij

PROFESSOR OF CINEMATIC ARTS AT UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER

May Adadol Ingawanij is a writer, curator and teacher, and Professor of Cinematic Arts at University of Westminster where she co-directs the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media. She works on decentred histories and genealogies of cinematic arts; avant-garde legacies in Southeast Asia; forms of potentiality in contemporary artistic and curatorial practices; aesthetics and circulation of artists’ moving image, art and independent films in, around, and beyond Southeast Asia. Recent publications include articles on Karrabing Film Collective, Nguyen Trinh Thi, and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook. Curatorial projects include Animistic Apparatus, and Lav Diaz: Journeys. May is writing a book titled Animistic Medium: Contemporary Southeast Asian Artists Moving Image.

Luke W Moody

Luke W Moody is a creative producer and curator developing new cinema and artist’s film with LONO Studio. Previously he was Head of Film at Doc Society, co-commissioning long-form documentary and Director of Film Programming at Sheffield Doc/Fest. He co-founded and curated FRAMES of REPRESENTATION at ICA, London, defining an annual forum for film presentation in the UK that placed discussion, writing and filmmaker reception at the heart of its value system.

Laura Simpson

DIRECTOR, EDINBURGH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP

Laura Simpson is the Director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop which provides subsidised access to studios, workshop facilities and residencies for artists; alongside a programme of public courses, discursive events, community engagement and exhibitions. Partners range from Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv; TOKAS, Tokyo; Multi Cultural Family Base, Edinburgh; local primary schools; and National Network of Production Facilities.

Previously she was Programme Manager at Hospitalfield working on residencies, commissions and public events. These have included the work of artists John Smith, Andy Holden, Claire Barclay, James Rigler, Lubaina Himid and Tamara Henderson. In 2015 Hospitalfield organised Graham Fagen’s exhibition for Scotland + Venice at the Venice Biennale. Laura was involved in the Learning Programme with 27 emerging artists and students.

From 2007 – 2013 Laura was Assistant Curator at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. Laura is a Board Member for Bothy Project and part of the advisory group for Curatorial Studio in 2019 – 20. She was on the jury for the Margaret Tait Film Award (2015 – 2016) and a Board Member for Fife Contemporary Art & Craft (2010 – 2016).

Laura completed an MFA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, then was Chair of the artist-led group Generator in Dundee.

www.edinburghsculpture.org

www.laurasimpson.wordpress.com

Matt Stokes

ARTIST

Matt Stokes is an artist who has lived, studied and worked in the Northeast of England since 1993.

His practice stems from a long-term inquiry into subcultures, particularly musical ones. He is interested in the way music provides a sense of collectivity, acting as a catalyst for particular groups to form, shaping and influencing people’s lives and identities.

His works are often context-specific; he immerses himself in a setting and area of interest, through which collaborations with informal communities arise. After a process of collecting stories, information and materials related to their histories and values, Stokes produces artworks that depart from his research and take on a conceptual and aesthetic life of their own through films, installations and events.

Andy Robson

Andy is a producer, researcher and funding manager, working in partnership with screen heritage organisations and moving image archives. An alumni of UEA’s Film Archiving MA, and after interning at American Zoetrope, he co-founded the Marc Karlin Archive in 2010, bringing greater visibility to the radical filmmaker through screenings, and culminating in the publication, Marc Karlin – Look Again (2015). In 2018, as Screen Heritage Producer with the BFI Film Audience Network, he oversaw the Screen Heritage fund encouraging independent cinemas and film festivals to deliver ambitious screenings UK wide, showcasing the collections of the National and Regional Film Archives with new audiences.

Following on from his collaborative PhD with the Amber Film and Photography Collective, Andy continues to research the UK’s independent film and video workshop movement of the 1980s/90s, in particular how the workshop model of integrated practice which gave communities a voice, can be reworked today.

Currently, in collaboration with BFI Film Audience Network and BFI Film Academy, Andy supports partnership and audience building opportunities between archives, exhibitors and filmmakers.

Jonathan Weston

Jonathan Weston is Curator at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA). Previously he was Curator for Sunderland Culture’s Art Council Collection National Partners Programme and Assistant Curator at Modern Art Oxford.

He has worked in exhibition roles including for Whitechapel Gallery. As an |ndependent Curator he has worked on public contemporary art projects across Sunderland, Oxford and Essex. Curatorial interests include art in the public sphere, coastal communities in the North East, socially engaged arts practice and the intersection between art and music.

Rachel Gnagniko

Rachel Gnagniko is a Franco-Togolese cultural practitioner, management consultant, and founder of Amiokaa Associates, a consultancy specialising in anti-oppressive management, inclusive leadership, and trauma-informed approaches. With over 15 years of experience in the cultural and publicly funded sectors, she works with organisations to develop practical frameworks for equity, resilience, and systemic change.

Rachel is a board member of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and previously served on the board of the Liverpool Guild of Students. She has advised a variety of organisations, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Everyman Theatre, and Heart of Glass, helping them strengthen governance, rethink audience engagement, and embed more inclusive and sustainable practices

.A fellow of the NODE Curatorial Studies Programme and the Trauma-Informed Practice Programme at the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy, she integrates curatorial lens, neurodiversity awareness, and emotional labour insights into her work.