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WYSING ARTS CENTRE, Fox Road, (near) Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2TX

T. 01954 718 881 E. info@wysingartscentre.org Admission is Free. Open : Mon - Sun 12-5pm (every day) during exhibitions. Wysing is closed during Bank Holidays. The Centre is Open during exhibitions and events only. All other studio and facilities access is by appointment. Please check before travelling any distance. Please contact us in advance of your visit if you have any access enquiries or special needs.

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Staff

  • Annie Bacon
  • Development Manager
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  • Annie Bacon joined Wysing in July 2008. She has worked in the international contemporary visual arts since 2004, working firstly as Media Relations Manager for the Singapore Tyler Print Institute for three years where she significantly increased the international profile of the institute and worked with a wide range of leading international artists on an innovative artist residency programme. On return to the UK in 2007 she joined Artes Mundi, the biennial Wales International Visual Art Prize, as Communications Manager for the 2008 prize and exhibition at National Museum Cardiff. Prior to working in the visual arts, she spent 15 years as a Communications Manager in the IT industry including six years at Microsoft UK where she managed major campaigns and initiated and managed the highly successful sponsorship of the NSPCC. Annie grew up near Cambridge and then studied English and Visual Art, specialising in printmaking, at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Annie also serves as Wysing’s Deputy Director.
  • Richard de Cordova
  • Technical Manager (start date 1 April 2010)
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  • Edward Greenacre
  • Press Officer (part-time, Mon-Weds)
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  • Lotte Juul Petersen
  • Artists and Programmes Curator
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  • Lotte Juul Petersen has been working within contemporary art since 2000. She has a background in art history and cultural studies with a focus on contemporary art and curating and was educated in France, England and Denmark. In 2007-08 she took part by invitation in an international curatorial platform arranged by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange. From 2004-05 Lotte worked at Kirkhoff Contemporary, curating its Reading Room and Gallery shows with Danish and international artists. From 2005-2006 she worked as a curator at CPH KUNSTHAL in collaboration with Jacob Fabricius and at the same time she was part of the curatorial team at Malmo Konsthall, Sweden. From 2007-2008 she elaborated the residency and artistic programs at the Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen. At the same time she was employed as curator at the Fynen Art Academy. Her curatorial interest lie in alternative institutional strategies for art production and supporting experimental and emerging artists and has worked with artists Adrian Piper, Simon Starling, Olafur Eliasson, Ann Lislegaard, Pia Ronicke, Johanna Billing, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Asli Cavusoglu, A Kassen, What is to be done?, Luca Frei, Pilvi Takkala and many more. She has published articles in catalogues and in magazines including N.Paradoxa, Revolver, SUM – Magazine for Contemporary Art and Periskop Journal for Art History, Copenhagen University Press. She has also been awarded with residencies in Istanbul, Helsinki, Berlin and Cuba and recently curated Urban Pedestals in Copenhagen & Helsinki in 2007-2008.
  • Sue Lowe
  • Project Co-ordinator
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  • Sue Lowe started working at Wysing in December 2008 having previously been a volunteer for Wysing in 2003. Sue worked as a Graphic Designer for several years on a freelance basis and as a partner of K3 Graphic Design before returning to education in 2000 to study for a degree in Art History. After graduating from Anglia Ruskin University Sue joined the Cambridge Arts Theatre where she worked as Artistic Co-ordinator supporting the Chief Executive, she was a key member of the in-house production team and provided support to many other roles at the theatre. Sue maintains a keen interest in all genres of art.
  • Donna Lynas
  • Director
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  • Donna has been Director of Wysing Arts Centre since April 2005 and was instrumental in delivering the organisation’s £1.7 million capital development project, which opened in January 2008. Previously she had been Curator at the South London Gallery for six years and where she curated a large number of exhibitions and projects including with artists AK Dolven, Christian Boltanski, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen and Keith Tyson, plus many group exhibitions. In 1999 she established the gallery’s influential SLG Live Art programme which at its most ambitious presented a durational performance of One Million Years by On Kawara - involving a series of 16 people performing a live work in a glass box in Trafalgar Square continuously for 7 days and nights. At SLG she was one of three senior members of staff who saw the organisation through a period of rapid expansion and growth. From 1995 – 1999 Donna was Touring Exhibitions Organiser and then Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford. Prior to that she studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and then had her own studio based practice for five years, in Dundee and Reading.
  • Helen Robinson
  • Marketing Manager (Currently on Maternity Leave)
  • Louise Thirlwall
  • Operations Director
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  • Louise Thirlwall joined Wysing in April 2009. She previously worked at London Print Studio as Operations Manager. Following a Lottery Funded Capital Development Project she was part of the team that developed LPS into a thriving artists’ resource recognised locally, nationally and internationally. Louise was responsible for managing staff and building, and a busy programme of projects, exhibitions, events and courses. Prior to working in the voluntary sector Louise worked as Office Manager at Flowers East Gallery, London. Louise trained in Fine Art Printmaking at University of Sunderland and has more recently completed courses in Gallery Education and Arts Management.
  • Sarah Wells
  • Finance
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  • Sarah Wells has worked as a freelance Finance Manager within the cultural sector since 2003. Her clients have ranged from film production companies such as Zentropa, Denmark and Sigma Films to arts organisations such as NVA Organisation and the Hidden Gardens. During a period of ten years in Glasgow she was also specialist advisor to the Cultural Enterprise Office, Glasgow and ran workshops on financial and business planning. She also managed the early phase of the Film City Glasgow development - a major new film production and post-production facility and continues on the board of directors. From 1996 – 2002 she was Executive Director of the Arches, Glasgow, a large scale multi-arts venue and was instrumental in driving a £4m capital redevelopment which transformed the space and facilities. Prior to that she managed the arts facilities of Croydon Clocktower and was General Manager of the Ritzy Cinema London. Her project management experience was developed during three years at Weston Williamson Architects London and three years at Watford Council as a Strategy Officer. Sarah graduated from Manchester University in 1986.