Who Works Here
Honor is a curator from New Zealand who has a particular interest in artistic uses of technologies. Prior to joining Lighthouse, Honor was guest curator of transmediale, the international festival of art and digital culture in Berlin. From 2004-2008, she was director of the AV Festival, the UK’s largest biennial of electronic art, moving image and music. She commissioned new work by Anthony McCall, Ryoji Ikeda, Chris Watson, Michael Nyman, Marko Peljhan, Marcus Coates, Gina Czarnecki and many others, and programmed exhibitions, concerts, screenings and events involving over 300 artists.
She was the first curator of webcasting for Tate (2000-2003), where she also curated events and concerts on art and technology at Tate Modern. She has also worked for Radio One and Artspace in New Zealand, the Australian Network for Art and Technology in Australia, and as a freelance curator on exhibitions and events around the world. Her artistic practice is produced under the name r a d i o q u a l i a together with collaborator, Adam Hyde. One of their main projects is Radio Astronomy, a radio station broadcasting sounds from space. Honor has lectured widely including at LIFT in Geneva, the European Space Agency, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, California Institute of the Arts and the American Film Institute.
You can watch her TED talk here.
As the Operations Director of Lighthouse, Miriam is responsible for the organisation’s financial and general management, business development and venue operations. She is an experienced arts and business manager, with a particular interest in cultural venue operations and event production. Before joining Lighthouse in 2007, she had a three year management role at the Gardner Arts Centre, a contemporary art gallery and performance venue in Brighton. Prior to her career as an arts manager, she was a practicing artist, and worked as a freelance musician and arranger, performing at live events and collaborating on a range of projects and recordings. Miriam is a Fine Art graduate, and has also gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Sussex.
Jamie is a curator and professional in arts development, he has worked as visual arts officer for the Arts Council in London, Yorkshire and the South East, and has supported artists’ development through a number of roles, including as Digital Arts Programmer at Showroom, Sheffield.
He has been guest curator at Lovebytes International Digital Arts Festival, and is co-director and founder of moving image platform, videoclub. In his role as Programme Curator at Lighthouse, he is responsible for developing the commissioning programme, exhibitions and contextual events, as well as the professional development programme for artists. He is a Fine Art graduate, and has an MA in Arts and Cultural Management from the University of Sussex.
Emily has worked in film for over 11 years. Before joining Lighthouse in 2006, she worked in production for six years, accumulating credits on 30+ feature films starring some of cinema’s best-known names including Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Penelope Cruz, Christopher Walken and Michael Caine.
Working mainly on international co-productions, her role as Assistant to the Producers and Head of Business Affairs led to strong working relationships with producers, financiers, sales and distribution companies, media lawyers and talent agents from around the globe.
As Programme Producer at Lighthouse, Emily is responsible for running a number of large-scale projects including the prestigious Guiding Lights programme which has created 88 mentorships between emerging film talent and some of the most successful industry professionals in the UK. Emily was also recently responsible for managing and acting as Executive Producer on a short film production scheme run in partnership with BBC Film Network. Four films were produced through the scheme, with one, Turning, receiving a Best Short Film BAFTA nomination. A second film, Wish 143, was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Live Action Short. She has also produced three other shorts and provided advice and support on countless others.
Emma joined Lighthouse in 2005 as Administrator. She is the first point of contact at Lighthouse for all general & venue hire enquiries. A typical day for Emma involves co-ordinating room hires, making sure the office & building runs smoothly and providing support to the Lighthouse team.
Emma is also an expert doodler with a degree in Illustration, in her spare time you can find her creating photoshop wonderlands, going for country strolls, jumping around in moshpits and being obsessive about her two cats.
Roberta joined Lighthouse in March 2011. She is a recent graduate with a degree in Photography from the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Her role at Lighthouse involves assisting with events and exhibitions and overseeing volunteers. In September 2011, Roberta co-ordinated Brighton Digital Festival. She is currently working as the coordinator for BFI Shorts 2012.
Roberta has put her photographic talents to excellent use at Lighthouse, and has taken many photographs – including the staff portraits – for us.
Iyke joined Lighthouse in June 2011, straight after graduating at Sussex University. As Communications Intern, Iyke assists with all of our Communications activities, with support and mentoring from our Communications Consultant.
Iyke’s main focus is to connect with our audiences through our website, social media sites, marketing, press and PR activities. Prior to joining Lighthouse, he served as the International Student Development Officer at Sussex University, where he was responsible for ensuring that international students were well represented within the student union through cultural events such as Skill Swap and the Black History Month showcase.
He was also assistant director of the Afro-Caribbean society, helping to coordinate events like Culture-fest and Mini-fest, which are some of the biggest events in the academic calendar. Iyke is keen to pursue a career in the arts sector, and is passionate about dance. He has joined Lighthouse as part of the Permeate Programme.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Our Board of Trustees is a voluntary body which has legal responsibility for the overall governance and management of Lighthouse. Its members bring a wide range of skills and knowledge to the organisation.
Anthony Lilley (Chair, appointed June 2009)
Anthony Lilley (OBE) is a BAFTA and Peabody Award winning interactive media producer. He is Chief Executive of Magic Lantern Productions, an interactive media production company specialising in content for broadband and multiplatform media. He was Executive Producer and co-creator of Channel 4’s FourDocs.
Anthony also works extensively in media policy, currently as a Member of the Ofcom Content Board, as well as having advised government departments including DCMS and DCSF. He advises Arts Council England as their Digital Media Associate, and is a member of the Board of the English National Opera.
In 2008, he was News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the University of Oxford and holds a Visiting Professorship at Bournemouth University. He has written for the Financial Times, Broadcast Magazine, the Guardian and many other journals and newspapers.
Anthony was awarded the OBE for services to media and creative industries in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2008. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Sue Gollifer (appointed January 2006)
Sue is a Principal Lecturer in Fine Art in the School of Arts and Communication in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton and the Course Leader of the MA in Digital Media Arts and the MA in Printmaking and Professional Practice. She is an early pioneer as a computer artist and her work can be seen in the Digital Art Museum DAM. Her primary research is on ‘the impact of new technology within the practice of Fine Art’ and she has presented a number of evaluative and analytical papers on this subject at major international conferences.
She is on a number of National and International Committees, including a Director of DACS, the UK Design and Artists Copyright Society and Vice Chair of CADE, Computers in Art and Design Education. In 2004 she was selected as the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair 2004, the first European to be selected for this prestigious role. She is also the Curator of ArCade, the UK Open International Biennale of Electronic Fine Art Prints 1997 – 2007.
Antony Gostyn (appointed September 2010)
Antony is a solicitor with many years of experience working in film, television and the cultural sector. He is one of the founding partners of Swan Turton. Prior to this, he was a partner at The Simkins Partnership for ten years, having spent several years in the legal department of the EMI Group and two years as the Business Affairs Manager of THORN EMI Video, before returning to private practice.
Antony is the author of the 1991, 1998 and 1999 editions of the PACT Model Contracts, which are widely used by television production companies. Antony was for many years a member of the PACT Finance Committee and was on the Board of the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) for five years, before standing down at the end of 2009.
Zoë Harley (appointed March 2010)
Zoë Harley from Boutique Communications is a Communications Consultant with over twelve years’ experience in public relations and marketing. She has worked with a number of high profile clients including spearheading campaigns for O2, Channel 4, Adobe Systems, and Nottinghill Carnival. Throughout her career she has worked within digital, as well as for business and lifestyle brands, and now works predominantly with charities and social enterprises.
Ken Smith (appointed June 2004)
Ken is a financially orientated senior executive with seven years of UK FTSE (250) main board experience, a founder director and divisional MD of UK airline with £500 million turnover. He is former President of an international airline association based in Brussels now with non-executive and consultancy roles within the aviation sector. He is a member of the Arts and Business Board Bank and Mentoring Scheme. Ken is completing his doctoral research in strategic management as part of a DBA at Kingston Business School and has a passionate interest in the contribution of the Arts to the development of strategic exploration within companies.
Martin Trickey (appointed February 2009)
Martin is currently the commissioning executive at the BBC responsible for online, red button and mobile content in Entertainment and Comedy. He has been in new media production for over 10 years winning a number of awards including a BAFTA for Celebdaq in 1994. He left the BBC for three years to help start the UK’s first professional TV channel Teachers TV as Director of Digital services, but returned in 2007.
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