Board

Karen Alexander

Karen is currently a senior tutor in the Royal College of Art's Curating Contemporary Art department with responsibility for the work-based pathway (Inspire). Prior to that she worked as a film curator and freelance consultant on film exhibition and distribution. She has contributed to several books on film including British Cinema of the 90s (1997), Women and Film: Sight & Sound Reader (1999), and If Looks Could Kill (2008). From 1998 until 2006 she worked at the British Film Institute, with responsibility for the strategic marketing of BFI Distribution and Archive cinema releases.

Paul Bennun

Paul is co-owner and a Chief Creative Officer of Somethin' Else, the content design and creation company based in London. He has been a game designer, entertainment producer and broadcaster and artistic collaborator. Somethin' Else is a digital content producer which is also the largest radio independent, a TV entertainment indie and a major interactive content producer, interactive broadcasting such as Bafta Awards, Sony Radio Academy Awards and the GSM Association Awards. A trustee of also of Longplayer Trust, he co-authored the British Government's recent report on the future of digital music, and has collaborated with practitioners including John Berger, Theatre de Complicite and Rotozaza. Paul also presents science, technology and usability programmes for the BBC.

Brian Boylan

Brian has been involved in contemporary art for more than thirty years, as a collector, as a director of Nigel Greenwood gallery, one of Londons leading galleries in the seventies and eighties, as a member of Whitechapel Gallery Board and Tate Modern Council and as a professional advisor to Tate, the V&A Museum and the Southbank Centre in London, the New Museum and Whitney in New York, and AMOMA in Qatar. Brian is Chairman of Wolff Olins, a specialist consultancy which advises both businesses and cultural institutions on how to make the most of their brands.

Stephanie Camu

Stephanie is currently overseeing the realisation of a major commission in St Paul’s Cathedral for the artist Bill Viola and his partner and collaborator Kira Perov with whom Camu has worked for over a decade. She has spent the past twelve years with Haunch of Venison and Blain|Southern galleries working closely with artists, organising and curating a diverse range of exhibitions and running myriad projects. Before moving into the arts, Stephanie worked in the television industry for the news and current affairs networks CNN and CNBC in London.

Jeremy Deller, Chair 2015

Jeremy is a celebrated British artist who makes politically and socially charged performance works. He was born in London and studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Deller was winner of the Turner Prize in 2004 for his installation Memory Bucket (2003) a documentary about Crawford, Texas the hometown of George W. Bush and the siege in nearby Waco. He is best known for his historical reenactment of a violent British labour clash, his Artangel project The Battle of Orgreave (2001). He represented Britain at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Ayelet Elstein

Ayelet is the Director of BFAMI, the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel, a London based philanthropic art organisation with an international network of supporters and a strong link to prominent collectors and patrons of the arts worldwide. The key focus of the BFAMI fundraising endeavours is support of the educational programmes and acquisitions for the art museums in Israel. Ayelet previously had a successful career in the Enterprise Software business with roles spanning from technical to sales management delivering business growth in particular with large multinational corporations. She is an emerging collector and an avid supporter of contemporary dance.

Judith Greer

Currently Associate Director of International Programmes for the UAE based Sharjah Art Foundation, Judith previously worked as International Director at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Along with her husband Richard she has been a collector and art patron since the late eighties and in 2006 co-authored Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector's Handbook. She lectures internationally on the topics of collecting and arts patronage and was a juror for the 2007 Max Mara Prize for Women Artists and, in 2009, on the jury for the Dubai-based Sheikha Manal Foundation Prize for young Emirati artists.

Harry Handelsman

Harry is CEO of Manhattan Loft Corporation. In the twenty-two years since he started the company he has taken it from niche outfit to major player on the London property scene. Harry’s passion for architecture has seen him work with some of the world’s leading talent and in 2012 he was made an honorary RIBA fellow in recognition of the work he has undertaken to promote great architecture. This honour reflects Manhattan Loft Corporation’s ethos to create outstanding buildings that leave lasting legacies for the communities living in and around them. Harry is also an avid and knowledgeable collector of modern art and is proud of his continued involvement with Artangel.

Daniel McClean

Daniel is a consultant for legal advisors HowardKennedyFsi, specialising in art and cultural property law for clients such as Arts Council England, Tate and Gagosian Gallery. He also writes a regular column for ArtReview on art legal issues, teaches art law at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and is an independent curator and writer. He was the commissioning editor of Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture (2002) and The Trials of Art (2007) and co-wrote Commissioning Contemporary Art: A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists with Louisa Buck in 2012.

Tony Phillips

Tony is Commissioning Editor for Arts Programming at BBC Radio 4 and is also a Commissioning Editor at the BBC World Service. He joined the BBC as a production trainee in radio and for almost twenty years produced a wide range of features and documentaries. Tony has also been the series producer of the BBC Reith Lectures. He is the commissioner of the award-winning Listening Project for BBC Radio 4. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated from the University of East Anglia in American History and American Literature.

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila is the author of six novels, including A God in Every Stone and Burnt Shadows, which has been translated into more than twenty languages and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Three of her other novels (In the City by the Sea, Kartography, Broken Verses) have received awards from the Pakistan Academy of Letters. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, she grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.