Tim Harris
Arts and Culture Consultancy For the last 7 years I have traded as a freelance consultant and project manager, and before that I was Head of Arts at Nottinghamshire County Council, heading a team of up to 25 people. Most recently, I have worked with independent arts organisations, local authorities, artist networks, and the voluntary sector - in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Humberside, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Experience My experience includes arts and health, evaluation, project management, strategic planning and organisational development for the independent arts sector. I also undertake Business Planning, Economic Impact analyses and Fundraising, specialising in developing innovative areas of business for new and emerging arts groups. I have well over 20 years experience as a senior arts executive and have managed arts buildings, rural and market town touring, participatory arts teams, special commissions and festivals. I have wide experience of Governance issues and training for voluntary sector Boards of management, and I have served on a number of Boards over the years, where I have had responsibility for funding negotiatiions, setting up sub-groups, recruiting new skills and guiding organisational revisioning. I have Chaired an ACE RFO since 2005. |
2012 - A FULL YEAR! I continue to be CEO of Mainstream Partnership, working to reposition and sustain this regional training organisation. From April, Xceptional Productions and I are "Delivering a Masterpiece", a 12-month HLF-funded engagement project in a rural part of Suffolk where the likes of Constable, Gainsborough and other artists lived and were inspired by the landscape. After "Igniting Ambition", the Lincolnshire Cultural Olympiad programme of 12 commissions in 2011, the cultural solutions team are producing GOLDEN FABLES 2012, a new song-cycle with contributions from Ian McMillan, Gillian Clarke, Liz Lochhead, Colin Macfarlane, Choir Invisible, Gabriel Prokoviev and Tim Dalling - watch this space! I will be co-managing a new public realm sculpture commissioned for the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham. Email me if you want the commssion details - closing date 2.3.12. Working with Hanby and Barrett on their research into a community drama on the Luddite history of Ashfield... and with Vamos Theatre on their funding needs for their national mask theatre tour of stories from Alzheimers patients. It promises to be an exciting and stretching year - which is how we like it! |
