EMARAN Team
Steering Group
EMARAN has a voluntary steering group of dedicated members. These are:
Isabel Jones, Salamanda Tandem, Nottinghamshire.
Nicki Gardner
Nikki-Kate Heyes, CEO, soundLINCS
artsNK Elaine Knight, Performing Arts Manager
Elaine Knight, Performing Arts Manager for artsNK in Sleaford has 25 years experience of developing arts in rural areas. Elaine is particularly interested in enabling others, giving them the opportunity to develop their skills, their passion and their potential through the performing arts. Thousands of people of all ages have taken part in projects in North Kesteven which are still talked about today, 20 years on.
artsNK Nick Jones, Visual Arts Manager
Nick Jones, the Visual Arts Manager for artsNK, based at the Hub in Sleaford, has been working in Lincolnshire for over 25 years, developing considerable experience and a passion for arts in Rural areas through hundreds of participatory projects and artist commissions. Nick has recently completed a sound sculpture for BBC radio Lincolnshire as the regions Arts Council Made in Britain project. He has designed countless pieces around North Kesteven such as the Sleaford Street furniture and the Branston Light sculpture as well as produced pieces like the Dorrington Demons water and carved wood sculpture.
Sue Stewart, Director, Write2B Ltd, Northamptonshire
Sue Stewart is a literature consultant and lives in rural Northamptonshire. Her background is as a poet, creative writing tutor and Arts Council England Literature Officer. She founded Write2B Ltd in 2002 and has managed several national reading campaigns, as well as undertaking research, strategy development and advocacy report writing for Arts Council England New Audiences. Further details on www.write2b.co.uk. In January 2010 she founded Field Day Arts CIC (community interest company) with Abigail Campbell to promote arts and cultural events in rural SW Northamptonshire.
Susan Smith , Director, Wash Arts (also representing Derbyshire Arts Partnership)
Stella Couloutbanis , Freelance arts manager and consultant, Nottinghamshire
Stella has a track record of delivering good quality art projects and with over 20 years of arts management experience, coaching, development and leadership.
She is a dedicated art professional with a particular passion for working with contemporary visual artist, performers and crafts people. At present she is working at the Richard Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester as the Acting Visual Arts Manager and have been delivering the arts programme for the centre as well as project managing the annual Sculpture exhibition. In addition, she is also the project manager for a public artwork for Opals, Nottingham and a mentor for the Nottinghamshire Creative, Nottinghamshire County Council. Recent projects include mentoring artists at Nottingham Trent University, curator for Journeys4makers (Nottingham Creative, NCC), Artists Beds flower bed project with Erewash Borough Council, project manager for MoMu exhibition at Nottingham Trent University and Researcher for Market Harborough Borough Council.
Rebecca Lee, Freelance arts consultant,Nottinghamshire
Rebecca Lee is an arts consultant for local and national projects, practitioner with Creative Partnerships and a musician. She has delivered sound workshops for pupils and teachers in schools and galleries as well as managing educational dance projects at regional dance agency, Dance4. As a consultant, she has managed the evaluation of two national projects for Engage, the national association of gallery education, and undertaken project management for the organisational development agency Cultivate. She has also managed the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival and independent site-specific music productions with her own ensemble. She comes from Lincolnshire and is now based in Nottingham.
Administration: Jo Turpin , Business Management Administrator, artsNK.
Dave Everitt - web developer
Dave is a fine artist who works with technology, currently a visiting researcher at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University and former recipient of Arts Council England funding.
He enjoyed experimenting with innovative human-computer interaction at the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios (formerly at Loughborough University).
Under his partnership Eco Consulting, he managed the project planning, material gathering, design and construction of this website.
Apart from a passion for art-technology, his interests are: emerging technology, web access and standards, information design and architecture, and programming culture. He can write (and teaches) (X)HTML and CSS standing on his head. He also writes songs and sings.
