As Director of Arts I have the huge privilege of heading up a team of fantastic individuals delivering a range of programmes; Creative Partnerships, Find Your Talent, Arts in Education and Arts in the Community

We are committed to facilitating a wide range of cultural opportunities from the very young to our most senior citizens.

I am proud of what we offer and the strong links we have across North & South Tyneside. 
 

I am responsible for curating an innovative, inspiring and challenging programme of contemporary visual art exhibitions in the Sandford Goudie Gallery and creating opportunities for regional artists and practitioners to showcase their work in Fusion Galleries at The Customs House. For the main Gallery, I seek to develop a wide range of exhibitions with regional, national and international artists and arts organizations, where appropriate to illustrate the breadth and balance of contemporary fine art practice, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, new media and installation art. 

I also devise and deliver a range of Gallery Education projects throughout the year, inspired by and linked to key exhibitions. Resulting work is often shown in the Fusion Galleries as well as work by emerging artists from the region.

I am interested all things creative, I love the arts in general and enjoy music and theatre events as well as contemporary visual art

As a Cultural Development Officer, I am responsible for a range of work including Creative Partnerships and Arts in the Community programmes at The Customs House.

My portfolio includes The Silver Customs Singers, a singing group for people over the age of fifty, delivering cultural activities for and with the BME Community in South Tyneside as part of Opening Cultural Doors Programme, and Creative Partnerships across North & South Tyneside.  

 As Cultural Development Officer at The Customs House I work on the Creative Partnerships programme across North & South Tyneside which involves working with schools, their Creative Agents and Creative Practitioners.

I also have responsibility to manage Youth Dance England's North & South Tyneside programme which involves providing opportunities for children and young people across both boroughs to take part in all forms of Dance and organise  performance opportunities. Part of this work is managing The Custom House's break-dance group Custom Breaks, which is for young people aged 11 and upwards.

I enjoy exploring different creative influences and in my spare time I am interested in musical theatre, film (but not horror!), reading contemporary fiction, live literature, comedy and travel.

I am one of four Cultural Development Officers based in the Cultural Development Team. My particular area of responsibility is delivering an ‘Arts in Schools’ programme for North and South Tyneside, alongside cupport for Creative Partnerships in North & South Tyneside. I also manage The Customs House Youth Theatre, which is proving to be really successful and exciting.

Myinterests are drama, film, new media, literature (poetry, theatre and reading) and all aspects of creative thinking and learning. 

 

I am responsible for delivering Find Your Talent in South Tyneside, as well as activities at the Customs House including teaching Customs Breaks, a young people's break-dance class at the venue.

My interests include Bboying (breakdance), music, film, graffiti, subculture studies, travelling, tattoos, piercing, and ninja’s. 

 

I am the Find Your Talent Delivery Officer for North Tyneside; I work throughout schools, the extended schools service and a broad range of community groups and regional and national cultural organisations to help to deliver five hours of cultural activities per week for children and young people.

I have a background in Art and Literature, and try to keep up to date with current exhibitions and events across the region.

I am the Coordinator of the Find Your Talent programme for North and South Tyneside. Find Your Talent is a pilot project to offer all children and young people between the ages of 0 – 19 five hours of cultural and creative activity every week. Starting in Jarrow and Seaton Burn schools on 2009, we have now extended the programme and will continue to over the next year to offer activity all over the region.

Keep your eyes open for events and courses near you, in art, popular culture, music, street and urban arts and much much more.

When I am not here at The Customs House I do textile arts and have just taken up the ukelele.