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Public Art Support Pilot webinar (2024)
Public Art Support Pilot (2024)
Public Art & Placemaking keynote for CLOA (2023)
Diversity & Inclusion in the Public Art Sector Event Review (2023)
Board Members
Survey Archive (2011-2018)
Survey and Forums Report (2022)
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ixia Board welcomes new board members
ixia is pleased to announce that following an open recruitment process, we have expanded our board and welcome seven new members. We are joined by Full Board Members Penelope Sexton, Dr Javeria Khadija Shah, and Dr Tamsin Silvey, and Associate Board Members Olivia Bailey, Rayvenn D’Clark, Dr Rebecca Farley, and Marie-France Kittler.
This expands the Board’s expertise and capacity at an exciting time as ixia continues to build back its programme to support public art practice and the sector that makes it happen.
Penelope Sexton is the newly appointed Collections Interpretation Manager at St Paul’s Cathedral, where she leads on interpretation, public engagement and the arts programme. With over two decades of experience in curating, commissioning, and delivering collaborative creative projects, Penny’s work connects history with the present through contemporary artistic responses. From 2021 to 2025, she served as Senior Creative Programme Manager at English Heritage.
Dr. Javeria Khadija Shah is an interdisciplinary academic, writer, and cultural strategist with over two decades of leadership across higher education, social justice, and the arts. She is Associate Director at the Centre for Inclusive Pedagogy and Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she has shaped institutional policy and strategy to embed equity at scale. She is the founder of SUFIYANATM, a women-led movement devoted to healing, legacy, and systems change through spiritually rooted arts, cultural practice, and social innovation.
Dr Tamsin Silvey is Cultural Programme Curator at Historic England and has worked for over 18 years in arts and heritage organisations, specialising in developing inclusive public engagement programmes in partnership with national and local cultural organisations. Since joining Historic England in 2015, she has worked on public art projects, that connect people with place across the country.
Olivia Bailey is a freelance cultural producer with a focus on participatory and audience led models. She has curated public programmes for independent and national organisations including the Design Museum, Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Museums Greenwich. She is currently a DAAD Museums Lab Fellow.
Rayvenn D’Clark MA, FHEA, MRSS is a digital sculptor, writer-researcher and curator whose practice interrogates the complexities of race, representation, and digital hybridity within contemporary art. With an internationally recognised creative practice, her work blends cutting-edge digital technologies with traditional sculptural techniques, centring nuanced representations of Black anatomy and identity in both speculative and historical contexts.
Dr Rebecca Farley is a freelance Consultant and an Associate Researcher in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University. Her practice and academic research explores the intersections between heritage and contemporary art, with a particular focus on commissioning and public art production. She has over twenty-five years’ experience of working in academia and across the arts and heritage sectors.
Marie-France Kittler is a curator, commissioner and cultural producer. She supports artists to work in the public realm, devising audience-led projects which generate greater access to the arts and instill a sense of community, belonging and wellbeing. Most recently she has been responsible for award-winning commissions, partnerships and creative delivery of capital arts and user engagement programmes at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Our new members join the existing Board: Tom Freshwater (Chair), Cathy Newbury, Suzanne Heath, Dr Katy Beinart (Board Members) and Susie Gray (Former Board Chair, Co-Opted Board Member; current Project Manager) and Odette Chalaby (Current Associate Board Member).
To be kept informed of ixia’s development please drop us a line and we will add you to the mailing list.
ixia Board welcomes new board members
ixia is pleased to announce that following an open recruitment process, we have expanded our board and welcome seven new members. We are joined by Full Board Members Penelope Sexton, Dr Javeria Khadija Shah, and Dr Tamsin Silvey, and Associate Board Members Olivia Bailey, Rayvenn D’Clark, Dr Rebecca Farley, and Marie-France Kittler.
This expands the Board’s expertise and capacity at an exciting time as ixia continues to build back its programme to support public art practice and the sector that makes it happen.
Penelope Sexton is the newly appointed Collections Interpretation Manager at St Paul’s Cathedral, where she leads on interpretation, public engagement and the arts programme. With over two decades of experience in curating, commissioning, and delivering collaborative creative projects, Penny’s work connects history with the present through contemporary artistic responses. From 2021 to 2025, she served as Senior Creative Programme Manager at English Heritage.
Dr. Javeria Khadija Shah is an interdisciplinary academic, writer, and cultural strategist with over two decades of leadership across higher education, social justice, and the arts. She is Associate Director at the Centre for Inclusive Pedagogy and Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she has shaped institutional policy and strategy to embed equity at scale. She is the founder of SUFIYANATM, a women-led movement devoted to healing, legacy, and systems change through spiritually rooted arts, cultural practice, and social innovation.
Dr Tamsin Silvey is Cultural Programme Curator at Historic England and has worked for over 18 years in arts and heritage organisations, specialising in developing inclusive public engagement programmes in partnership with national and local cultural organisations. Since joining Historic England in 2015, she has worked on public art projects, that connect people with place across the country.
Olivia Bailey is a freelance cultural producer with a focus on participatory and audience led models. She has curated public programmes for independent and national organisations including the Design Museum, Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Museums Greenwich. She is currently a DAAD Museums Lab Fellow.
Rayvenn D’Clark MA, FHEA, MRSS is a digital sculptor, writer-researcher and curator whose practice interrogates the complexities of race, representation, and digital hybridity within contemporary art. With an internationally recognised creative practice, her work blends cutting-edge digital technologies with traditional sculptural techniques, centring nuanced representations of Black anatomy and identity in both speculative and historical contexts.
Dr Rebecca Farley is a freelance Consultant and an Associate Researcher in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University. Her practice and academic research explores the intersections between heritage and contemporary art, with a particular focus on commissioning and public art production. She has over twenty-five years’ experience of working in academia and across the arts and heritage sectors.
Marie-France Kittler is a curator, commissioner and cultural producer. She supports artists to work in the public realm, devising audience-led projects which generate greater access to the arts and instill a sense of community, belonging and wellbeing. Most recently she has been responsible for award-winning commissions, partnerships and creative delivery of capital arts and user engagement programmes at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Our new members join the existing Board: Tom Freshwater (Chair), Cathy Newbury, Suzanne Heath, Dr Katy Beinart (Board Members) and Susie Gray (Former Board Chair, Co-Opted Board Member; current Project Manager) and Odette Chalaby (Current Associate Board Member).
To be kept informed of ixia’s development please drop us a line and we will add you to the mailing list.
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