Welcome, once again, to Bristol's Top 50 Art and Culture Power List - 2011.
Things have not being going too swimmingly at Shy Pony, with this years arts cuts we've seen quite a drop in our client list. No more lunchtime pedicures or after work cocktails, but still, as Daddy says, change and adapt. So we've expanded our client base to include psychics, ex-Big Brother contestants and Jimmy Saville's love child.
Not that you want to hear about our Shy Pony whoas! So, to the list..
Its been quite a balancing act in Bristol, with poor old 'fini being out-gunned again by the clever boys and girls over the bridge. I'm sure you've all noticed one side of Pero's bridge has a massive uplift, while the other seems to be slowly sinking into the marsh. They must be putting too much art on the walls.
Our lovely friends at the Arts Council have mustered up something called National Portfolio Organisations - it does have a ring to it though? Specially when you say we're an NPO darling! But what about when you put NPO with MBE - heh presto, the fruit machine pours out money. And that's why the yummy Dick Penny is at Number One.
The fabbo, and previously unfunded indy outfit, The Cube, have pulled in some big ACE bucks this year and so they hand on the indy baton to the entrepreneur, Mr Chris Chalkley - a true marketing genius with the cunning of Tesco in the disguise of an urban warrior.
Meanwhile Dick's shed team were awarded the second highest Grant for the Arts nationally, with only the Olympics topping them! Not bad for a cafe with a nice cinema attached. Come on Tom, do your homework.
Some notable newbies to the list this year include Jaswinder Singh, Director of the Asian Arts Agency; Matthew Austin and Kate Yedigaroff, Directors of Mayfest; Ali Robertson, Director of The Tobacco Factory Theatre; and Jude Merrill, Director of Travelling Light Theatre Company. All in all it's been an uplifty kind of year for Bristol.
To top it all off, welcome to: Prof Jon Dovey of UWE Bristol (pulling in £6 million ARHC funding for some Knowledge Transfer, which is learning and stuff); and businessman Mike Bennett (who according to his Wikipedia entry, earns £70,000 per year as Bristol City Council's Place Making Director - we're not sure what that means exactly, but it sounds pretty cooool).
And 'big up', as my manicurist says, to Inbetween Time, who were awarded one of those NPO thingys - so more money for their artists. Hurray!
And just to say, if you're looking for someone to blow your horn for you, do drop us a line at Shy Pony!
bestest
Suzie x ; )
Transfer Making Inter-marketing Assistant
1. (3) Dick Penny MBE - Watershed, Director; Bristol Old Vic, Chair.
2. (10) Clare Reddington - Pervasive Media Lab, Director.
3. (42) Nema El-Nahas - Arts Council England, Relationship Manager, Digital & Creative Economy.
4. (-) John Pontin OBE - Property Developer; Under the Sky, Chair; Society of Merchant Venturers.
5. (30) Helen Cole & Alex Bradley - Inbetween Time, Director.
6. (-) George Ferguson - Architect; Ferguson Mann Architects, Chair; Society of Merchant Venturers; Demos, Trustee.
7. (-) Cllr Simon Cook - Deputy Leader of Lib Dems, Bristol City Council; Bristol Cultural Development Partnership; Bristol Old Vic, Company Director.
8. (9) Robin Gunningham - Artist.
9. (31) DJ Derek - DJ.
10. (12) Phil Gibby - Arts Council England, Executive Director South West.
11. (5) Tom Morris & Emma Stenning - Bristol Old Vic, Artistic Director; Bristol Old Vic, Executive Director.
12. (18) Stephen Hilton - Connecting Bristol, Bristol City Council.
13. (17) Aldo Rinaldi - Bristol City Council, Senior Public Art Officer.
14. (new) Jaswinder Singh – Asian Arts Agency, Director
15. (-) Oli Wells & Jamie Pike - Co-exist, Directors.
16. (36) Paul O'Neill - Curator, Writer.
17. (13) Tom Trevor - Arnolfini, Director.
18. (new) Ali Robertson – Tobacco Factory Theatre, Director
19. (2) Dave Sproxton CBE - Aardman, Co-founder & Chairman; Encounters Film Festival, Board member: Arts Council England, South West Council.
20. (22) Nick Park CBE - Aardman, Film maker.
21. (14) Martin Connolly - Property Developer, Connolly & Callaghan.
22. (20) Peter Lord CBE - Aardman, Co-founder & Film maker.
23. (new) Graeme Hogg, The Cube
24. (28) Mark Cosgrove - Watershed, Head of Programme
25. (25) Heath Bunting - Artist.
26. (new) Adrian Utley - Musician, Portishead
27. (-) Zoe Shearman - Relational, Curator.
28. (new) Matthew Austin and Kate Yedigaroff – Mayfest, Artistic Directors
29. (16) Andrew Kelly - Bristol Creative Projects, and Bristol Festival of Ideas, Director; GWE Business West
30. (19) Mariele Neudecker - Artist.
31. (new) Jude Merrill – Travelling Light Theatre Company, Director
32. (46) Jan Winter - Circomedia, Director.
33. (-) Marie-Anne McQuay - Spike Island, Curator.
34. (-) Claire Doherty - Situations, Director.
35. (new) Rebecca Gibbs – St Pauls Carnival, Chair
36. (45) Nav Haq - Arnolfini, Curator.
37. (29) Claire Spencer-Cook - Encounters Film Festival, Director; BBC Film Network; onedotzero.
38. (new) Mike Bennett – Bristol City Council, Place Making Director
39. (new) Prof Jon Dovey- Academic, UWE Bristol
40. (24) Chris Chalkley - Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft
41. (new) Caroline Hassan – Knowle West Media Centre, Director
42. (returning) Liz Harkman – Encounters Festival, Managing Director
43. (new) Trystan Hawkins - Royal West of England Academy, Director.
44. (49) Helen Legg - Spike Island, Director.
45. (37) Jane Willis - Willis Newson, Director.
46. (new) Prof Robert Bickers, Academic, University of Bristol
47. (new) Ruth Essex – Bristol City Council, Neighbourhood Arts Team
48. (new) Luke Jerram, Artist
49. (47) Gillian Fearnyough - Architecture Centre, Director.
50. (8) Paul Gough - Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean, UWE Bristol.
