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Artist in Residence
Royal Institution, London
Tess studied at Chelsea College of Art, and graduated from Goldsmiths College, London, with a BA Hons in Fine Art. She has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe, and has twice been selected for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. Her portraits can be found in permanent collections in London and at Oxford University. In 2006, Tess became a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and in 2009, she began a period as the Artist in Residence at the Royal Institution London.
Tess's major solo exhibition of 50 portraits 'Women of Substance' was sponsored by first direct. It was launched at the Mall Galleries, London, in February 2008 and was followed by a national tour. This exhibition featured high-profile women such as Jenni Murray, Carol Vorderman, Stella Rimington and Shami Chakrabarti.
Between 2008 and 2010 Women of Substance portraits were displayed at The Women of the Year Lunch london,Citigroup, Goldman Sachs. Barclay's Wealth and at the WEB conference held at the Barbican, sponsored by Deutsche Bank.
Alongside the exhibition a book was published which included a biography of all the women and 8 revealing questions that they answered... one of which was.... "what has been your biggest obstacle that you have faced?"... to which Stella Rimington, previously chief of Mi5 responded "Men"!
Tess is currently involved in painting portraits of a selection of scientists for an exhibition with the Royal Institution, London... "Drawn to Science". This will be launched at the Royal Institution London and tour nationally to many accessible venues, including schools.
www.tessbarnes.com/biography/
Executive Director
InterCulture (UK) Ltd
Ruth is the founding Director of InterCulture, created in 2000, a unique agency created to support innovative, enterprising solutions designed to break down cultural barriers in the creative industries.
Ruth began her career as an Archaeologist for the York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research, and became Operational Manager and later Head of the ARC.
She has served as a Director and Trustee for a wide range of organisations over the last 20 years such as the North Yorkshire Probation Board, The Institute of Field Archaeologists, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts, English Heritage and is a trustee for the Duke of York's Community Initiative and the Joseph Rowntree Trust 'Leading Change' steering group.
Since 2000 Ruth, has delivered national and international collaborations and educational and regeneration partnerships through the work of InterCulture. She has developed and delivered a wide range of innovative heritage projects, conference and creative programmes. Specialist areas include, the heritage, arts, museums and archaeology sectors and developing innovative networks with the creative industries to create partnerships and cross boundaries in race and equality issues with targeted audiences.
Ruth has served as a Magistrate for the York Bench, North Yorkshire for 10 years and has 15 years experience serving as a Judicial Member for the Employment Tribunals for England and Wales serving Leeds. She is a member of the Commonwealth Magistrates' and Judges' Association.
Ruth is developing The Middleton Railway programme with the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies and the Connecting Enterprising Women programme has been developed with the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, as an Honorary Research Fellow.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of UNESCO World Heritage and a member of ICOMOS the International Council for Monuments and Sites.
Angela started her working career as a Registered General Nurse in 1981 in Dorset and went on to train as a Social Worker in 1985.
Since qualifying in 1987 she has worked in Calderdale as a Child Care Social Worker and as a Probation Officer, and for the last 13 years she has worked in the voluntary and community sector.
Her first role in the sector, as a seconded Probation Officer, was to set up a specialist Domestic Violence Support Service in Calderdale, and for the past 9 years, Angela has worked for WomenCentre and is now the Joint CEO of Women Centre Ltd.
WomenCentre is the largest Women's Centre in the United Kingdom and has received national awards for it's work with Women Offenders by demonstrating the value of women centres as resources through the model of one stop shop provision.
Women Centre has been an influential partner with the Ministry of Justice to further develop this work across the country.
In 2007 WomenCentre were chosen as one of 12 national pilots to work with Adults Facing Chronic Social Exclusion and this has involved Angela's role extending to working with collaborative partners at a national level and attending meetings with Government Ministers. This work has been evaluated by MATRIX and the University of Huddersfield and in particular has highlighted the value of an approach of this nature around the safeguarding of women and children.
Angela also sits on the National Advisory Group to the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board.
Angela was the lead for WomenCentre on the Big Lottery Reaching Communities successful 'Reaching Out' Project.
Angela's day-to-day work includes partnership working at both operational and strategic levels across Calderdale and Kirklees, with regional and national partners and her particular areas of expertise are in the fields of Domestic Abuse and the Children and Young People's agendas.
Apart from her work at WomenCentre Angela has been a trustee of several local charities including the Calderdale Domestic Violence Forum and the Calderdale Community Forum and in her representational role for the VCS Angela currently attends the Calderdale Children's Trust Executive and the Calderdale Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Safeguarding Boards.
Angela is passionate about the work of WomenCentre and recognises the influence it has on wider partners at all levels in the support of some of the most vulnerable and marginalised women and their children.
Development Officer
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust,
West Yorkshire Racial Justice Programme
Maureen started her career as a secondary school teacher in Guyana. Since moving to the UK in 1980, she worked for many years as a Management Training & Development Officer in Bradford LEA and in 1996 was seconded to co-ordinate The West Yorkshire Black Governors Support Service before taking up my current position with The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust in 1999. As Development Officer, in West Yorkshire, Maureen plays an active and positive role in enabling racially disadvantaged groups to strengthen their capacity. Maureen is also involved in a number of community based activities and voluntary organisations in West Yorkshire. Her key areas of interest are tackling race discrimination, underachievement in education and promoting employment rights.
Maureen is also a school governor for a secondary school in Bradford.
www.jrct.org.uk
Chief Executive
Leeds Community Foundation
Sally-Anne Greenfield is the founding Chief Executive of the Leeds Community Foundation, the city's largest independent grant-maker which, in the past four years, has given out £12 million in grants, primarily to groups based in Leeds.
The role of the Foundation is to work with the private and public sector to help channel financial resources to support local community initiatives. They have developed a high degree of expert knowledge and understanding of how the voluntary and community sector works in Leeds and are recognised as experts in providing advice on philanthropy.
Sally-Anne has a degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and has 22 years experience of working in the voluntary sector, initially as a fundraiser for hospital-based appeals before setting up her own consultancy business. She was appointed the Chief Executive of the Leeds Community Foundation in late 2004 with her first task being to establish the Foundation.
www.leedscommunityfoundation.org.uk
CEO
The Haven
Pam recently left the Ministry of Defence after a 30 year career working either as a civil servant, part-time Royal Naval Reserve Officer or a regular Royal Naval Officer. During her time as a civil servant she was Head of Regional Communications for Defence; Director of Armed Forces Day and most recently member of a Task force set up by Prime Minister David Cameron to rebuild the Military Covenant.
Pam has a strong background in event management and was awarded the OBE for 'inspiring leadership and professionalism' as Director of Communications for Trafalgar 200 (International celebrations of the Bicentennial anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005). Previously she was PR Director for the International Festival of the Seas in 2001.
In her civilian career Pam was Marketing, PR and Fundraising Director for the Cutty Sark Tall Ships race in 2002 and during the 1990's she worked freelance as a Marketing and PR Director. She was Fundraising Director for Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland in the early 1990's and between that and her full time naval service she worked in industry in sales, marketing and event management.
She has always had an interest in complementary therapies and is absolutely delighted to be able to join The Haven. This summer Pam walked the Inca trail to Macchu Picchu for Breast Cancer Charity Walk the Walk.
Equality and Diversity Consultant
Formerly a teacher of English and Drama in Leeds Education Authority, Yvie has been promoting diversity and equality for over 30 years, in both a personal and a professional capacity. She has been instrumental in the setting up of various initiatives in York, including the York Racial Equality Network in the early 1990's, and has been involved in trades union work, PTAs, school governing, mentoring and work with older people.
Her freelance work on equality encouraged and supported a wide range of public and third sector organisations. She also has experience of projects aimed at enabling men and women to develop their confidence and find new directions at varying stages of their lives.
She established the Equality and Diversity Office at the University of York in 1998, where she was its Director until 2010. Her own 'new direction' now includes (semi-)retirement and re-focussing on her writing.
Regional Employment Judge
Christine Lee was born in Wigan, Lancashire in 1953. She came to Leeds University to study Law in 1971 and in 1975 was articled with a firm of Leeds solicitors. She remained there practising family and employment law until 1987, when she 'turned to crime', prosecuting in neighbouring Bradford, and handling variously Youth, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse matters. She was appointed a part time Chairman of Industrial Tribunals (as they then were) in 1997, and sat in Leeds whilst continuing to prosecute, until being appointed as a full time Salaried Chairman (now known as Employment Judge) in 2002. In addition she is a Chairman of the Reserve Forces Appeal Tribunal and the Reinstatement Committee. She was appointed as Regional Employment Judge for Leeds in November 2010, and is currently also the President of the Council of Employment Judges. Christine is married with two children, both currently at University.
Deputy Head of the School of Fine Art,
History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
Dr Abigail Harrison Moore is the Deputy Head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, where she is also programme director for the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies and deputy director of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage and the Centre for Collaborative Heritage Research. Her books include (with Dorothy Rowe) Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1550-2000, (2006), and Fraud, Fakery and False Business; Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case', which will be published by Continuum later this year.
Laura is a writer, blogger and a campaigner for equality. Passionate about politics and feminism, she has written for the Guardian's Comment is Free and has her own feminist blog called the Delilah blog (http://delilah-mj.blogspot.com). She is President of the award-winning Camden Speakers Club, part of the national Association of Speakers Clubs (ASC), which provides a platform for people to practise the skills of speaking in public. Laura founded an events programme with external speakers, with the aim of inspiring people and encouraging debate; the latest event was a day of training and discussion about women and leadership, headlined by the Shadow Junior Minister for Equality. Laura is also a fiction writer and has published short stories in literary magazines. After publishing fiction about women's rights in Africa (http://www.litro.co.uk/index.php/2009/04/23/majuto), Laura was inspired to join Womankind to work as part of the speakers' network. Laura also advises on strategy and communications for the Fabian Women's Network, which aims to achieve social and political change. She has a doctorate in neuroscience and works as a communications professional in the public sector in London.
Artistic Director / CEO
Kala Sangam
Geetha's educational life began at a convent in Chennai run by the Presentation order, Ireland. She qualified in medicine from the Madras University, Chennai and obtained a post graduation in Chemical Pathology and a PhD for her work on Trace Elements and Cancer.
Her working career started in the Madras Port Trust Hospital, Chennai and continued as a Consultant Chemical Pathologist for the University of Science, Malaysia for 10 years. Moving to UK as a Consultant in Guy's Hospital, London and later at Hull Royal Infirmary, she worked in Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology.
Her career in the arts began when she was in school when she trained in classical Indian dance and music leading to a post graduation (Vidvat) specialised in mime, expression and choreographic techniques. Geetha taught and performed classical Indian dance and music in India, Malaysia and now continues this work in UK.
During her stay in Malaysia, Geetha worked with children with learning disabilities and Autism, when she got interested in using arts in the variety of health problems and in the area of disabilities.
On moving to Hull Royal Infirmary, Geetha and her husband, Dr Shripati Upadhyaya, Consultant Clinical Psychologist felt that there was a great lacuna in the field of health / disability and south Asian arts. This initiated the formation of Kala Sangam, (kala = arts; Sangam = a meeting point) a south Asian arts - culture and heritage company with a mission of 'bringing people together through south Asian and collaborative arts'. Based in Bradford, Kala Sangam works regionally, nationally and internationally and is acclaimed for its innovative, high quality, inclusive cross collaborative work.
Being in full time employment with the NHS, Geetha worked for Kala Sangam as a teacher / performer in a voluntary capacity until the company's growth and demands needed a full time artistic director. This was a turn in Geetha's life when she had to quit a full time medical job to become the Artistic Director/ CEO of Kala Sangam.
Kala Sangam is now working towards establishing a centre of excellence for international collaborative arts and heritage at the grade II listed heritage building, St. Peters House, which will become a pride for Bradford and beyond.
Geetha and her husband also founded 'SACAR' for people with Autism, and MANAS - Mind, body care trust in Bradford and Sanjeevani Health Care Trust for autistic children in India.
Geetha is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art and is a Director on the Board of Arts and Business, Arts Council of England, MANAS - Mind, Body Care trust and is the Vice Chair National Diabesity Forum.
She has served on the Boards of West Yorkshire Learning Skills Council, Connexions, National network for arts in health, Asian Business Development Network and was nominated and short-listed for Asian woman of the year in 2002 and awarded a Doctorate of Letters by the Bradford University for her contribution to the arts and communities.
Sassoon Senior Creative Director
After five years in hairdressing, Gareth was training others but still felt that he had so much more to learn. His friends that worked for Sassoon seemed to be so passionate about hair and had a constant thirst for knowledge. He knew this was what he wanted from his career and in 1994 he joined Sassoon as a Varderer. Based in Leeds, Gareth is now a Senior Creative Director, having been a guest in all Sassoon UK Schools and Academies, teaching Diploma, Salon Creatives, Academy Courses and participating in Sassoon premier course, The International Masters.
Gareth finds inspiration in all kinds of design - from the eclectic eye of Nicolas Ghesquiere, the timeless elegance of Alber Elbaz, the thought process of Tom Dixon, the sensual curves of Eames furniture to the austere geometry of Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe. From childhood, he has been inspired by aesthetics, surrounded by his parents abstract paintings, which gave him an eye for perspective and balance; one which he has utilised within his work. Gareth's now collecting modern and future classics by Ibride or Claire Norcross to inspire his daughter in later years.
Spending time with his wife, daughter and two Birman cats is how Gareth relaxes. He has an enthusiasm for cooking Mediterranean and South East Asian food and enjoys staying in boutique hotels in Italian Cities and backpacking around the Greek Islands.
Having worked globally for Sassoon in Australia, Japan, Scandinavia, Russia, Spain, Italy and France, and presented closer to home at Salon International and The Fellowship Masterclasses in Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle, Gareth is clearly passionate about education. His goal is to inspire and be inspired. He believes that every time you take part in a show the mutual desire to create an exceptional event, brings the best out in the whole team, with each team member's vision for hair being absorbed into your repertoire, moving you closer to the unachievable goal of total knowledge.
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