About Us
Our Team
Staff
Artistic Director and CEO
Dr Errol Francis
Errol was appointed CEO of Culture& in 2016. He has substantial experience of community engagement around mental health and the arts with minority groups and was formerly Joint Programme Lead at the Sainsbury Centre of Mental Health and Programme Manager at the Department of Health Race for Health programme. He was programme manager at Arts Council England, Inspire Curatorial Fellowship Programme; Head of Arts at the Mental Health Foundation and artistic director of the highly acclaimed Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014, Acting Out Nottingham 2015 and Hysteria 2017-2018 public engagement programmes. He is currently director of the curatorial group PS/Y and Visiting Professor at the University of West London. Errol was awarded his PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, where his research focused on postcolonial artistic responses to museums. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of West London in 2017.
Finance & Operations Manager
Kate Sarley
Kate was born in Baghdad Iraq and raised in East London, her traditional Arab name is Innam Catherine bint Suhail bin Mohammed bin Salih al-Hashemi.
She trained in Technical Theatre and Stage Management at RADA before studying Arts Admin at Birkbeck College, University of London. Kate then spent over ten successful years as a Stage Manager for the RSC, Unicorn Kids Theatre and in the West End.
Having move into administration Kate worked for English Heritage, Soho Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Stratford East, before undertaking senior management contracts with Colchester Arts Centre, Talawa Theatre Company, Oval House, Daily Life Ltd, Jacksons Lane, Discover Centre for Children, Eastern Angles, Shape East Architectural Centre and Hoxton Hall. Current clients include Culture&, Hans de Krester Associates and tiata fahodzi.
Kate is the proud mother of two amazing young adults and a couple of cats
Programme Coordinator
Sam joined Culture& in 2017 with a BA Hons Degree from the University of York in History. While completing his degree Sam worked on a number of projects with Eastside Community Heritage, from audio transcription and design, to a pop-up Lottery Funded exhibition ‘Saving the Queens: Queens Market’, featuring oral histories of contemporary and past stallholders at Queens Market, Upton Park.Sam has experience in admin, planning and coordination, organising and supporting a number of Culture& events including New Museum School Graduations and Sharing Days, and the ‘Imagination Café’ in collaboration with the University of West London, which toured Great Britain in 2018 and was on show at MOSTYN Gallery – Llandudno, Menier Gallery – Southwark, and the City Art Centre – Edinburgh. Sam is dedicated to ensuring the smooth running of all day-to-day operations, projects and events; to the benefit of advancing diverse arts, and heritage.
Archives & Digital Media Trainee
Eno Inwang
Eno works to catalogue over 30 years’ worth of material from Culture&’s archive, held at London Metropolitan Archives. In addition, Eno assists in curating events and programmes using the archive material as a focus. In 2018, Eno graduated from the University of Manchester in History of Art with an interest in Abstraction, Occultism, and the European Avant Garde of the 20th Century. In a quest to find the links between sentiments of the Avant Garde and Music he found himself specialising in Afrofuturism and Hauntology with both theories concerned with time, the social & political constructs we live in today as a result of our collective past and creating new narratives by using different reference points in history.
Lead Assessor and Course Tutor, New Museum School
Jenny Pistella
Locum Lead Assessor and Course Tutor, New Museum School
Dana Goodburn-Brown
Dana is a dual professional with a Studio Arts & Art History foundation followed by Conservation training and a Master of Science (MSc) focused in Sustainable Heritage from UCL Bartlett. She is an accredited Archaeological Conservator; Director of a social enterprise (AMTeC Heritage Science CIC); and a BIIAB qualified Work-Based Learning Assessor with nearly 40 years’ experience in the heritage sector – working at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Museum of London, and many other small museums.
Dana has extensive experience in Community Volunteer Training & Management and public engagement with conservation, through her award-winning partnership project ‘Anglo-Saxon CSI: Sittingbourne’ (a conservation lab located in a shopping centre – IIC Keck Award 2012). Dana was a conservator and experimental archaeologist for Time Team and several other television programmes; she is particularly keen on investigating materials, the ways things are made and passing this knowledge on to younger generations. Dana has hosted several ICON and other interns in her business and also enjoys her work tutoring and assessing work-based learners for the Victoria and Albert Museum and Culture& learning programmes.
Internal Quality Assurer, New Museum School
Jill Notley
Strategic Development Manager
Ann Jones
Board of Trustees
Caroline Monaghan-Fox
Jean Stevens
Lyn Gilpin
