Hi, we're Shy Pony, a new Arts Media Management organisation and we're keen to get people talking about Bristol and its cultural impact, nationally and internationally.
So we've collated a list of the 50 most powerful movers and shakers in Bristol's cultural scene in 2009.
In true 'Top 50' tradition, we want to know who would be in your Top 50. Check out the list below and let us know if we've missed anyone off.
1. Robin Gunningham - Artist
2. John Pontin OBE - Property Developer; Under the Sky, Chair; Society of Merchant Venturers
3. Dick Penny - Watershed, Director; Bristol Old Vic, Chair; The Bristol Partnership, Chair
4. Tom Morris - Bristol Old Vic, Artistic Director
5. Dave Sproxton CBE - Aardman, Co-founder & Chairman; Encounters Film Festival, Board member
6. Caroline Norbury - South West Screen, Chief Executive
7. Dawn Primarolo MP - MP, Bristol South
8. Barbara Janke - Leader of Bristol City Council
9. George Ferguson - Architect; Ferguson Mann Architects, Chair; Society of Merchant Venturers; Demos, Trustee
10. Nick Park CBE - Aardman, Film maker
11. Tom Trevor - Arnolfini, Director
12. Andrew Kelly - Bristol Cultural Development Partnership; GWE Business West
13. John Savage CBE - South West Regional Development Agency; Society of Merchant Venturers; GWE Business West; Bristol Cultural Development Partnership
14. Helen Dunmore - Novelist; Orange Prize Winner
15. Grantley Marshall - Musician, Massive Attack
16. Robert Del Naja - Musician, Massive Attack
17. Peter Lord CBE - Aardman, Co-founder & Film maker
18. Claire Doherty - Situations, Director
19. Michele Farmer - Arts Council England, South West Council
20. Chris Humphrey - Arts Council England, Executive Director South West
21. Paul Barnett - Bristol City Council, Head of Culture
22. Jo Lanyon - Picture This, Director
23. Mariele Neudecker - Artist
24. Wood and Harrison - Artists
25. Paul O'Neill - Situations, GWR Fellowship
26. Heath Bunting - Artist
27. Geoff Barrow - Musician, Portishead
28. Derek Balmer - Royal West of England Academy, Chair
29. Eddie Chambers - Writer, Academic
30. Dee Smart - Royal West of England Academ, Director
31. Zoe Shearman - Relational, Curator
32. Nav Haq - Arnolfini, Curator
33. Simon Morrissey - Works Projects, Curator
34. Chris Coppock - Spike Island, Director
35. Marie-Anne McQuay - Spike Island, Curator
36. Emma Stenning - Bristol Old Vic, Executive Director
37. Martin Lister - Academic, UWE Bristol
38. Mark Cosgrove - Watershed, Head of Programme
39. Paul Gough - Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean, UWE Bristol
40. Gillian Fearnyough - Architecture Centre, Director
41. Alastair Snow - Arts Consultant; Arnolfini Trustee; Artist Newsletter Director
42. Craig White - White Design, Architect ; Spike Island Trustee
43. Aldo Rinaldi - Bristol City Council, Senior Public Art Officer
44. Clare Reddington - Pervasive Media Lab, Director
45. Liz Harkman - Encounters Film Festival, Managing Director
46. Chris Chalkley - Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft
47. Peninah Achieng - St Pauls Carnival, Chair
48. Andy Sheppard - Musician
49. Carolyn Hassan - Knowle West Media Centre, Director; Arts Council England, South West Council
50. Tony Robinson - Actor
