THE Autograph Team

Staff Trustees Ambassadors

staff

Professor Mark Sealy OBE
Director

Holly Tebbutt
Deputy Director

Bindi Vora
Senior Curator

John Bracken
Head of Finance

Mercedes Bohari Meseguer
 Finance Assistant

Jolie Hockings
Engagement Curator

Greta Hewison
Exhibitions Manager

Harriet Vickers
Events and Marketing Coordinator

Lois Olmstead
Head of Development

Livvy Murdoch
Learning and Digital Engagement Manager

Mendhi Bint Ahad
Marketing and Audience Development Manager

Adrian Eaves
General Manager

Darren van der Merwe
Operations Manager

Jaia Sowden
Team Assistant

Trustees

Autograph’s Board of Trustees is central to our success and integrity. Each trustee brings a unique perspective on our activity, and they include established artists, business leaders, lawyers and journalists

Together they have a comprehensive understanding of the legal and technical framework within which we operate and they also ensure that the right attitude and organisational culture is in place to enable the charity to put its core values into practice. Our trustees help us reach our maximum potential; they provide us with strategic leadership, and test our mission and strategy on a regular basis to help secure a strong future for our beneficiaries and for the charity. 

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Pawlet Brookes MBE, Chair
Pawlet is CEO & Artistic Director, Serendipity: A highly experienced cultural leader, lecturer and author with multi disciplinary experience in cultural policy and planning as well as production and delivery of international dance, carnival and festival arts programmes.

Candace Allen
Candace is a writer, director and screenwriter. She studied at Harvard and the New York University School of Film & Television, and went on to become the first African-American female member of the Directors Guild of America. Consequent to her campaign-long commitment to the election of Barack Obama she became a newspaper and broadcast commentator on American politics, race and culture.
Camille Beckmann
Camille is a trainee solicitor at Bristows LLP, specialising in intellectual property law. She hasexperience in multi-territorial music licensing, advising artists and artists’ estates, and a research interest in commercial art galleries. She has contributed to several publications, including ON NFTs, a TASCHEN publication on crypto art. 
Eric Collins
Eric is a technology executive who has spent a career building the value of software companies through innovative product, distribution, monetization and partnering strategies. Eric sits on the boards of various cultural institutions and companies.

John Ellis
John is a chartered accountant with significant expertise in cultural production, financial planning and management in the not-for-profit sector.

Rupert Grey
Rupert is leading solicitor in photographic law with the Intellectual Property practice Swan Turton Solicitors. Expertise in media and copyright law.

Caro Howell MBE
Caro is Director General of the Imperial War Museums. She co-chairs the Women Leaders in Museums Network, is a Trustee and Chair of the Learning & Engagement Committee of the Holburne Museum, Bath, an advisor to The Charterhouse, Two Temple Place and the Huguenot Museum, and a mentor for Arts Emergency.

Roger Malbert OBE
Roger is a writer and curator. He was until July 2018 Head of Hayward Gallery Touring at the Southbank Centre, London. He has organised and co-curated many exhibitions and written catalogue essays on artists including Tacita Dean, Michael Armitage and Omar Ba. He is the author of Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, published by Thames & Hudson, 2015.

Guy Nicholson
Guy is a Non Executive Director in the Financial Services sector, and a Councillor in LB Hackney leading on Planning, Economy and Arts & Culture. He has expertise in developing and implementing public policy, government relations and corporate development.

Jennie Ricketts
Jennie is an independent photography editor, curator, consultant and mentor to up-and-coming photographers. She is a trustee for Autograph ABP and The Martin Parr Foundation.

Tony Stevenson
Tony is Managing Director of Artangel. He has held a number of senior leadership roles in finance ICT and strategy at Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Roundhouse Young Vic Theatre, Ocean Music Trust, Almeida Theatre Company and Verso Books Ltd. He has also provided freelance finance and IT consultancy to a variety of arts, publishing and media organisations in both the charitable and commercial sectors.
Professor Carol Tulloch
Carol is a writer and curator with a specialism in dress and black identities. She has internationally acknowledged expertise in artist curation, collection interpretation and development, and publishing.
Anne Williams
Anne is an academic and former Creative Director for PhotoLab, London College of Communication. She has expertise in academic partnerships, publishing, curation, public education, participation and learning.
Gary Younge
Gary is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster; Editor at Large, The Guardian and Professor of Sociology at Manchester University. He has extensive expertise in investigative journalism, rights based issues, publishing, media and broadcasting.

ambassadors

Autograph’s ambassadors are advocates who help broaden awareness of our mission and impact. They have no influence over Autograph’s governance, programming or partnerships. Ambassadors contribute their time on a voluntary basis.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Scholar, historian, journalist and filmmaker

The Rt Hon David Lammy MP
Politician, lawyer and author

Baroness Young of Hornsey OBE
Artist, author, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster

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