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Dateline:
5th April, 2006
ACW Review Panel Members Announced
Alun Pugh, Welsh Assembly Government Culture Minister today announced
the names of the panel that will take forward the Welsh Assembly Government’s
review of the Arts Council of Wales.
The panel, chaired by Elan Closs Stephens, CBE, former Chair of S4C,
and Professor of Communications and Creative Industries in the Department
of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
will comprise:
- Roger Lewis, Managing Director, ITV Wales;
- Paul Loveluck, CBE, President of the National Museum Wales;
- Vicky Macdonald, former Curator of the Cambrian Academy Conwy from
1993-2005;
- Professor M Wynn Thomas, Swansea, Director of the Centre for Research
into the English Literature and Language of Wales;
- Alan Watkin, Chief Leisure, Libraries and Culture Officer Wrexham
County Council.
Alun Pugh said, “I am confident that this panel of experienced
and distinguished individuals will all bring a wealth and diversity
of experience of the arts in Wales and further afield to this review.
I look forward to receiving their recommendations before Christmas”.
Elan Closs Stephens said, “I want to focus on what’s important,
the way forward for the arts in Wales. The review will be an ongoing
and thorough, public discussion which will involve both the Arts Council,
its clients and more widely, everyone interested in the wellbeing of
creative excellence and endeavour.
“I see this review as a national conversation in Wales about how
we fund the arts. We are a nation of extremely creative individuals,
performers and artists and I’m sure there are a lot of people who
will want to contribute to this review. I would urge everyone to do
so.”
The panel will start to work immediately on reviewing published evidence
and will meet formally for the first time on 27 April.
Between them the members of the panel have experience of all art forms.
Elan Closs Stphens is Professor of Communications and Creative Industries
in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University
of Wales, Aberystwyth where she has been in turn Lecturer, Senior
Lecturer, Director and Head of Department since 1975. Her academic
interests are Welsh Theatre, Television Drama in the UK and Media
Policy. She served two terms as chair of S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru,
the Welsh language fourth TV channel). She has served on the Council
of the National Library of Wales, has been a member and Vice-Chair
of the statutory Welsh Language Board and Chair of Chwarae Teg, a
company promoting the economic development of women. She is currently
Chair of the British Council in Wales and a member of the CRE in Wales.
Roger Lewis is Chair of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and a Director
of the Liverpool Culture Company as well as being a Board member of
the Wales Millennium Centre. He also sits on the London circle of
the WNO. He is deputy chair of Boosey and Hawkes, the world’s
largest classical music publisher. He is an Honorary member of the
Royal College of Music and a Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of
Music. He has been a producer at Capital Radio and then the BBC where
he became Head of Music at Radio 1. He worked for EMI Records as a
Managing Director of the classical Division and then President of
Decca Record Company at Polygram and worldwide President of the Decca
Record Company. Immediately prior to joining ITV, he was Managing
Director and Programme Controller of Classic FM and a main board director
of its parent company, GWR group plc for six years.
Paul E Loveluck has been the President of the Drama Association of
Wales and Chair of the Welsh Chamber Orchestra. He is a former Chief
Executive of both the Wales Tourist Board and the Countryside Council
of Wales.
Vicky Macdonald was Curator of the Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy
from 1993-2005, having previously owned her own art gallery. She was
a member of the Arts Council of Wales Local Government Consultative
group in 1995, sat on the ACW North Wales Area Committee in 2001,
was re-appointed in 2003 and this was extended in 2006. Since 2002
she has been on the ACW advisors panel and is chair of the Clwyd Fine
Arts Trust. She is a Councillor on Conwy Town Council, and Chair of
the ‘Business Group’ in Conwy.
Professor M Wynn Thomas is Director of CREW (the Centre for Research
into the English Literature and Language of Wales), University of
Wales Swansea and is a specialist in American poetry and in the two
literatures of modern Wales. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is
currently Chair of the Welsh Books Council and has held visiting professorships
at Harvard and at Tubingen He was Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council's
Literature Committee for five years, and has acted as Chairman of
the Welsh Academy of writers, Yr Academi Gymreig, becoming a Fellow
of the Academy in 2000.
Alan Watkin was formally the Deputy Director of the Clwyd Library
and Information Service. He is a member of the CyMal advisory Board
and is Wales representative on the Board of M.L.A - the Museums, Libraries
and Archives Council. In addition he is a member of the advisory panel
of Gwaith Cymru, a member of the executive committee of Niace Dysgu
Cymru, an UK Board member of LLUK sector skill council and Chair of
its Wales panel. Former roles have included membership and chair of
the Library and Information Services Council for Wales, membership
of the ACW N. Wales regional committee and of the N. Wales Sportslot
regional panel.
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