British Ceramics Biennial announces a brand unusual Ingenious Director

The British British ceramics Biennial (BCB) is ecstatic to deliver the appointment of Clare Wooden as its unusual Ingenious Director and CEO. After three years as Chief Executive of Re-Diagram Heritage, a national charity that supports communities throughout the regeneration of their historical structures, basically based totally mostly at Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Clare will be half of BCB in August forward of the seventh model of its pageant, which opens in the city on 11 September.

As smartly her ride working on the heart of Stoke-on-Trent’s artistic heritage, Clare brings to the organisation spacious info of the wider cultural sector, having worked at organisations at the side of MK Gallery, the Royal West of England Academy and with Stockholm’s museums and cultural organisations. All the map through her time at Re-Diagram Heritage, Clare worked closely on the marketing and marketing campaign to reinstate bell founding to the smartly-known Whitechapel Bell Foundry living and has been instrumental in the transformation of a terrace of frail pottery workers’ properties in Stoke-on-Trent to possess a brand unusual heritage attraction, studio and workshop complex, a publicly accessible archive provider and a personnel centre.

On her appointment Clare Wooden feedback:

“The rich heritage of the Potteries and the work of leading up-to-the-minute artists offers perfect inspiration for encouraging other folks to discuss, ride and possess with clay. It is some distance an proper honour to construct upon Barney Hare Duke’s innovating work and I depend on being fragment of the British British ceramics Biennial personnel to invent both the pageant and the 365 days-round programme of job all over Stoke-on-Trent. I am very proud to be becoming a member of the kind of worthy and pioneering organisation.”

Alison Wedgwood, Chair of the Trustees of the British British ceramics Biennial feedback:

‘Clare’s important ride of leading cultural and artistic organisations, most fair no longer too lengthy ago at one among Stoke-on-Trent’s most iconic heritage websites, intended that she straight understood the ambitions and ethos of BCB. We are very great staring at for working with her to construct on BCB’s success and make a selection the organisation into unusual, thrilling instructions.’

As fragment of her fair, Clare will work alongside BCB Executive Director, Iain Cartwright to invent the the organisation’s plot for the following 5 years, as well to rising the BCB 365 days-round artistic programme, and the programme for the 2023 BCB pageant.