Gosh is it that time of year again!
We are proud to announce Bristol's Top 50 Art and Culture Power List 2010.
Seventeen new entries, quite a few going up and quite a few going down! (2009 positions are in brackets).
And golly, 2010 has been busy for us at the Shy Pony stable. Business has taken off like a wild stallion!
We're sad to say (though tremendously happy for her, of course!) that Charlotte has moved on to pastures new. She's taken up a post promoting 'Sporting Bodies' the Olympics 2012 British Sporting Heroes Waxworks Tour (coming to the Arnolfini in March 2012).
A warm welcome to Jo Spurjohn who has just joined us from a stellar career in publishing. A digital whizzo, Jo has already blazed a trail overseeing our IT guys, who have helped on this year's list. Jo tells us they've taken every bit of text ever written about our top 50 and fed it into their powerful processors before calculating the results.
And the darling of Bristol's cultural elite this year is...(drum roll)...IAN HOLLOWAY. And by a blue glass mile in fact! Jo tells us that Ian's on the ball media magic and poise have placed him head and shoulders above the rest. But you decide - as always.
bestest
Suzie x :)
1. (new) Ian Holloway - Bristolian and Manager of Blackpool Football Club.
2. (5) Dave Sproxton CBE - Aardman, Co-founder & Chairman; Encounters Film Festival, Board member: Arts Council England, South West Council.
3. (-) Dick Penny - Watershed, Director; Bristol Old Vic, Chair; The Bristol Partnership, Chair.
4. (2) John Pontin OBE - Property Developer; Under the Sky, Chair; Society of Merchant Venturers.
5. (4) Tom Morris & Emma Stenning - Bristol Old Vic, Artistic Director; Bristol Old Vic, Executive Director.
6. (9) George Ferguson - Architect; Ferguson Mann Architects, Chair; Society of Merchant Venturers; Demos, Trustee.
7. (new) Cllr Simon Cook - Deputy Leader of Lib Dems, Bristol City Council; Bristol Cultural Development Partnership; Bristol Old Vic, Company Director.
8. (39) Paul Gough - Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean, UWE Bristol.
9. (1) Robin Gunningham - Artist.
10. (44) Clare Reddington - Pervasive Media Lab, Director.
11. (new) Joe Spurgeon - Venue What's On Magazine, Editor.
12. (new) Phil Gibby - Arts Council England, Executive Director South West.
13. (11) Tom Trevor - Arnolfini, Director.
14. (new) Martin Connolly - Property Developer, Connolly & Callaghan.
15. (new) Oli Wells & Jamie Pike - Co-exist, Directors.
16. (12) Andrew Kelly - Bristol Cultural Development Partnership; GWE Business West
17. (43) Aldo Rinaldi - Bristol City Council, Senior Public Art Officer.
18. (new) Stephen Hilton - Connecting Bristol, Bristol City Council.
19. (23) Mariele Neudecker - Artist.
20. (17) Peter Lord CBE - Aardman, Co-founder & Film maker.
21. (-) Paul Barnett - Bristol City Council, Head of Culture.
22. (10) Nick Park CBE - Aardman, Film maker.
23. (new) Jane Willis - Willis Newson, Director.
24. (46) Chris Chalkley - Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft
25. (26) Heath Bunting - Artist.
26. (27) Geoff Barrow - Musician, Portishead
27. (31) Zoe Shearman - Relational, Curator.
28. (38) Mark Cosgrove - Watershed, Head of Programme.
29. (new) Claire Spencer-Cook - Brief Encounters Film Festival, Director; BBC Film Network; onedotzero.
30. (new) Helen Cole & Alex Bradley - Inbetween Time, Director.
31. (new) DJ Derek - DJ.
32. (-) Nav Haq - Arnolfini, Curator.
33. (35) Marie-Anne McQuay - Spike Island, Curator.
34. (18) Claire Doherty - Situations, Director.
35. (new) Motorboy - Artist, Curator.
36. (25) Paul O'Neill - Curator, Writer.
37. (new) Ralph Hoyte - Poet, Writer, Artist.
38. (19) Michele Farmer - Arts Council England, South West Council.
39. (37) Martin Lister - Academic, UWE Bristol
40. (8) Barbara Janke - Leader of Bristol City Council
41. (30) Dee Smart - Royal West of England Academy, Director.
42. (new) Nema El-Nahas - Arts Council England, Relationship Manager, Digital & Creative Economy.
43. (6) Caroline Norbury - South West Screen, Chief Executive.
44. (new) Lisa Panting - Picture This, Director.
45. (24) Wood and Harrison - Artists.
46. (new) Jan Winter - Circomedia, Director.
47. (40) Gillian Fearnyough - Architecture Centre, Director.
48. (14) Helen Dunmore - Novelist; Orange Prize Winner.
49. (new) Helen Legg - Spike Island, Director.
50. (33) Simon Morrissey - Works Projects, Curator.
