Rosie Cooper (she/her), Director
Amy Jones, (they/she), Curator
Ruth Dorber (she/her), Assistant Curator
Michaela D'Agati (she/her), Young People's Programme Coordinator
Gabby Gilmore (she/her), Resource and Enterprise Co-ordinator
Fiona Colvile (she/her), Programme and Operations Assistant
Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner (she/her), Digital Producer
Brendan Cavaciuti (he/him), Site and Environmental Futures Manager
Natasha Ruwona (she/her), Syllabus Coordinator
Lottie Poulet (she/her), Housekeeper and Caretaker
Annette Sime (she/her), Finance Manager

Click below for individual staff biographies.

Staff details

As a registered charity, Wysing is governed by a Board of Trustees: 

Louise Benson, Trustee

Louise is Director of Digital at ArtReview. A writer and editor based in London, she was formerly the deputy editor at Elephant magazine, where she led critical conversations on the intersection of the arts with race, sex, class and gender. From 2014 to 2017 she was the editor-in-chief of POSTmatter, and has previously worked at both Monocle and Vice. She is also the co-founder of Scenic Views, an interiors magazine that explores overlooked design histories.

Xiyao Chen, Trustee

Xiyao is an architect, artist and educator, focusing on the artistic, social and cultural possibilities in rural spaces. They have professional architectural experience in designing new museum and public spaces for the V&A East, Sadler’s Wells Theatre and Museum of London. They are looking forward to contributing their expertise to the long-term environmental site strategies and sustainable transitions at Wysing.

Mary Jane Edwards, Trustee

Mary Jane is Director of The Arts Foundation. She has a background in social and visual arts, holding senior roles in public arts institutions. She is interested in connecting the practices of art and ecology, and founded an independent creative studio, focused on art-led social, cultural and environmental development, recently collaborating with Greenpeace UK.

Ciara Fitzgibbon, Trustee

Ciara is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) with 14 years experience working in various roles in Real Estate Finance in Australia and the UK, most recently as a Fund Controller. She trained in audit practice in Dublin, Ireland and studied at University College Cork.

Rummana Naqvi Ladak, Trustee

Rummana is Head of Individual Giving at National Portrait Gallery. Prior to this she was Development Manager, Major Gifts at The National Gallery and Individual Development Manager at Whitechapel Gallery where, in 2012, she launched the gallery’s young patrons group First Futures and worked on its endowment Future Fund.

Harold Offeh, Trustee

Harold is an artist whose work encompasses performance, social practice, video and photography. He studied at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. He has shown widely both in the UK and abroad.

Adam Peavoy, Trustee 

Adam is a director at Makower Architects, London, an Academician with the Academy of Urbanism and a former chair of the Cambridge Association of Architects. He is a practicing Architect and Urban designer, working on large and small scale projects across the UK and internationally.  He has strong interests in community-led urban proposals, in regenerative design thinking and in how to enable community space provision in modern urban developments.

Celia Willoughby, Trustee

Celia has been working in sustainability and environmental science for seven years, and will be using her expertise in the field to help with Wysing’s environmental strategy. She also co-founded the monthly queer performance night Club Urania in collaboration with Wysing Arts Centre and Cambridge Junction, and chairs the new Cambridge-based queer-led arts collective HESTIA.

Laura Wright, Chair

Laura Wright is the CEO of The Postal Museum, an interactive, family-friendly museum which receives funding from Arts Council England. She was previously CEO of Tate Enterprises Ltd, focusing on retail, publishing, brand licensing and product development. She is a trustee for the Association of Cultural Enterprises and the International Association of Transport and Communication Museums.

For trustee enquiries, email info@wysingartscentre.org