Project Advisory Panel
All Stage 2 applications to PROJECT - engaging artists in the built environment will be assessed by the PROJECT Advisory Panel comprising representatives from the funding partners and the arts, design, planning, community regeneration, development, housing, health and education sectors across the UK.
Eric Reynolds (chair)
Eric Reynolds is a developer and manager of waterside projects since
1974 including Camden Lock, Leeds Canal Basin, Merton Abbey Mills, Gabriel’s
Wharf and currently Trinity Buoy Wharf where a new centre for arts and
creative enterprises is being created at the location of London’s
only lighthouse. He is Chairman of Leaside Regeneration Ltd; a renovator
of listed and underused buildings, many of railways and wharfs; a developer
of techniques for low-cost, practical and economically viable reuse
of structures and materials; and founding managing director of the London
Waterbus Company.
Carole-Anne Davies
Carole-Anne Davies was formerly Director of CBAT: The Arts & Regeneration
Agency, specialising in regeneration projects. Combining a career in
art history and the visual arts, complemented by an interest in architecture
and design, with practical knowledge of the built environment, she has
worked with architects, artists, design teams, communities and individuals,
on major infrastructure development and regeneration projects in the
private and public sectors. She took up post as founding Chief Executive
of the Design Commission for Wales in April 2003.
Graham Fagen
Graham Fagen was born in Glasgow in 1966. He studied at Glasgow School
of Art (1984-88) and the Kent Institute of Art where he gained a MA
in Art and Architecture (1990). In 2004 his work is included in exhibitions
at Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was commissioned
by the Imperial War Museum to be war artist and visited troops in Kosovo.
In 2001 he was commissioned by the Royston Road Parks Project in Glasgow
to work with landscape architects Loci Design and artist Toby Paterson
on Spire Park and Molendinar Park. During his residency he developed
Tree Planting (17) Royston and Molendinar Trees and Where the Heart
Is, a rose for the north east of Glasgow.
Emma Larkinson
Emma Larkinson is Director of Public Art Forum, the national agency
for the promotion of excellence in public art practice. It supports
a network for public art development underpinned by research and debate
and a commitment to create the best opportunities for artists in the
public realm. She worked with Public Art Commissions Agency in the 1990’s
and developed broad experience of working with public and private sector
clients within the West Midlands and across the UK. In 1997 she became
Public Art Officer at West Midlands Arts and developed the organisation’s
architecture policy. This policy was instrumental in establishing new
partnerships between the Arts Council and the regional RIBA and resulted
in the creation of MADE the architecture centre for the West Midlands.
Gráinne McClean
Gráinne McClean is Curator of PLACE, the Built Environment Centre
for Northern Ireland. She commenced in post in July 2004.
She has a degree in Environmental Planning (1995) and a post-graduate
diploma in Town and Country Planning (1996), both from Queen's University
of Belfast. Since then, she has worked in a range of community-based
partnership projects to address issues of physical, social and economic
regeneration, employability, health and community capacity-building.
She has also worked as a development plan consultant in the Northern
Ireland Planning Service (Department of the Environment). With
PLACE, she is working to support greater public awareness of and engagement
with the built environment and to encourage organisations in all sectors
to work together to create a better quality built environment across
Northern Ireland. She is also an active participant in activities
of the UK Architecture Centre Network.
Anna Minton
Anna Minton is a writer and journalist. Formerly a reporter on the Financial
Times she is a regular contributor and columnist for The Guardian. She
is the author of a number of publications for think tanks and policy
organisations which have made a significant contribution to the communities
debate. ‘Building Balanced Communities: The US and UK compared’,
published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), focussed
on increasing polarisation in post-industrial societies and highlighted
the growing phenomenon of gated communities, alongside ghettoes of social
exclusion. This was followed by ‘Northern Soul’, a joint
publication for the think-tank Demos and the RICS, which looked at cultural
regeneration in Newcastle and Gateshead. She is on a number of committees
for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and is currently working on a publication
about the privatisation of cities.
Jonathan Davis
Jonathan Davis is Acting Director of Learning and Development at CABE
where he has responsibility for CABE's Education, Skills and Regional
Development programmes. Jonathan joined CABE as Head of Regions in 2003
following a year at the London School of Economics, where he gained
an MSc in Regional and Urban Planning Studies. Before entering the LSE,
Jonathan was at John Thompson & Partners, the London based urban
design, community planning and architecture practice of which he was
a founding director. Whilst in practice as an architect and urban designer,
Jonathan gained many years experience working in regeneration projects,
housing estate renewal schemes and master planning of residential/mixed
use projects for both private and public sector clients. Jonathan has
worked on projects in Britain, France, Ireland, the Czech Republic and
Iceland.
Emma Peters
Emma Peters is a town planner by profession. As head of planning for
the London Borough of Lewisham from the mid 1990’s she worked
on a number of key development projects to renew town centres in Deptford
and Lewisham. She took a personal lead on the redevelopment of Creekside
for creative uses and championed the transformation of the area through
the sale of a former waste transfer depot to Laban in 1999, facilitating
the development of the Stirling Prize winning dance centre within a
new creative enterprise zone. As Head of Development in Lewisham from
1999 she worked on the proposals for the transformation of Lewisham
Town Centre through a new public transport interchange, mixed use development
and creation of a new park and leisure centre; and with riverside site
owners and the Richard Rogers Partnership on a masterplan for the regeneration
of Deptford Riverside. As the newly appointed Corporate Director of
Development and Renewal at Tower Hamlets Council she will continue to
promote regeneration and sustainable communities in the Thames Gateway.
Pauline Scott-Garrett
Pauline Scott-Garrett is Project Director Chatham, Medway Council and
Acting Chief Executive, Medway Renaissance Partnership. She is an experienced
project director in urban regeneration and cultural planning with more
than 15 years experience in the public sector. Most recently, her work
has focussed on significant masterplanning studies and large-scale regeneration
projects and development. She joined Medway Council in 2002 where she
is leading the regeneration of Chatham Centre and Waterfront within
Medway Waterfront, an outstanding linear riverside city centre in the
heart of the Thames Gateway. As Director of Arts at Southern Arts between
1992 and 1996 she was responsible for leading regional arts policy in
Southern England. In Milton Keynes, she led an urban renaissance agenda
and integrated economic, learning, social and cultural regeneration
linked to planning and the development arena by establishing the first
local authority integrated cultural planning team in the UK.
Richard Wilkinson
Richard Wilkinson is Head of New Partners at Arts & Business. Arts
& Business New Partners is an investment programme to promote the
development of new, sustainable, mutually beneficial partnerships between
business and the arts. In short, we want to help business try something
new with the arts. Since the programme's inception in 2000, Arts &
Business has invested over £10m of public money in over 1,250
projects across the country where arts organisations and businesses
have been working together. This money has leveraged over £24
m from the private sector in cash and in-kind sponsorship.