Rachel Bradley
Associate, Curator
Rachel Bradley is a freelance curator and public art consultant working with the visual arts, public art and education sectors since 1999. Her specialities include public art and public realm commissioning; exhibition organisation; policy development; strategy writing; event design, artists’ professional development programme delivery, publishing, coordination and evaluation. She set up and organised six editions of the New Art West Midlands exhibitions (2013-2018) working in partnership with five university art schools and major galleries such as Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery on behalf of Turning Point West Midlands visual arts network. She directed the pilot external project, New Art WM – Art Market Project (2014-2016), for Birmingham City University, an initiative to develop the market for contemporary art within a region. Bradley recently evaluated the Longbridge Public Art Project (2012-2017), developed by commissions agency WERK with partners St Modwen Properties, Bournville College and Birmingham City Council. She has previously developed public art, per cent for art and heritage strategies and commissions for University of Worcester, Groundwork, mac Birmingham, Wyre Forest District Council, Shropshire Council, Castlemilk Environment Trust, Blue Lamp Business Parks, Optima Housing Association, British Waterways. Formerly Co-Director of Midwest (an artists’ professional development support agency), Bradley also co-curated the Scottish Pavilion of the 2005 Venice Biennale.
Katie Fallen
Associate Curator
An independent creative producer and curator, Katie Fallen works with artists and organisations to curate, commission and produce works of art & arts publications across numerous platforms including galleries, museums and public realm arts projects. She developed her skills as a Production Assistant for Dame Tracey Emin, overseeing her major HS1 Terrace Wires Commission, I want my time with you, at St Pancras International, 2018, following her time working as a Curatorial Project Assistant for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and at Pace Gallery, London.
Katie supported the delivery of Desert X AlUla 2024 and the commissions and pre-opening programme exhibitions for Wadi AlFann, including Oasis of Stories: Manal AlDowayan and the people of AlUla. Prior to this, Katie worked for Avant Arte, establishing and overseeing their special project and exhibition programme. Highlights include delivering the large-scale online and cross London campaign with For Freedoms in 2021, and Tschabalala Self's first public art commission Seated, Coal Drops Yard, 2022. She has commissioned numerous fine art edition collaborations, working with artists such as Larry Bell, Marguerite Humeau, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and the Lawrence Weiner Estate.
Currently, she is working at Frieze Studios as a Creative Producer, leading on the Frieze Artist Award 2024 amongst other commissions and creative projects. Earlier this year, she became a trustee of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
Cynthia Grant
Associate, Transport and Engineering
Cynthia Grant has been a transport specialist since 1973. As the Executive Director of the London Docklands Development Corporation from 1985 to 1998 she advised, managed and oversaw the design and procurement of new transport infrastructure for London’s Docklands. She has also been involved in the transport planning for other major projects, including the Millennium Dome, Battersea Power Station and Bus Priority for London.
Lee Mallett
Associate, Regeneration and Communication
Lee Mallett is a specialist in urban regeneration. He is Director of Urbik and advises on strategy and communications in the built environment. He has advised major regeneration projects such as King’s Cross, Channel 4’s The Big Town Plan for Castleford. He helped create a new regeneration delivery strategy for Swindon and authored an economic regeneration strategy for Hammersmith & Fulham. He is working on a major new 10,000 home ‘market town’ in Sussex and business plans for two new development companies for London boroughs. He has co-published and edited Planning in London magazine for 20 years and was previously Editor of Estates Times (now Property Week) and Building Design. He has an MA in urban design.
Sally Williams
Associate, Curator
Sally Williams is a visual arts consultant and researcher whose experience includes local government, arts funding, public and private sector commissioning. For ten years, as Commissions Officer at Public Art Development Trust, she project-managed many permanent and temporary commissions and since 2002 she has been part of the Public Art Team at Canary Wharf PLC working on the company’s exhibitions and commissioning programme.