ixia

STAFF

Chief Executive - Jonathan Banks
Research and Development Officer - Melissa Page

CONSULTANTS

ixia works with a range of consultants who have relevant specialist knowledge to deliver its projects.

THINK TANK

The Think Tank helps ixia generate new thinking about public art through debate and contributes to the development of our projects. It consists of individuals from the following groups:

- Arts Sector: Including artists, curators, public art consultants, writers, etc.
- Public Sector: Including Homes and Communities Agency, CABE, local authorities, etc.
- Private Sector: Including investors, developers, etc.
- Consultants: Including architects, urban designers, planners, environmentalists, etc.
- Academics: Including art theorists, philosophers, social scientists, etc.
- Commentators: Including think tanks, journalists, relevant networks and organisations, etc.

Our research projects are also supported by advisory groups to ensure their content is accurate, up-to-date and relevant to the realities of delivering public art programmes and commissions.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dave Beech - Vice Chair
Dave Beech is an artist, writer and critic working in the public sphere. He is a critic and feature writer for Art Monthly. He is part of the Freee art collective and is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Michael Chambers
Michael Chambers is a public affairs consultant undertaking work principally within the property industry. He is an Associate Director at the British Property Federation and is the Secretary of the Property Industry Alliance which brings together the prinicpal representative bodies in the property industry. He worked for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for many years as Head of the Policy Unit and Director of Public Affairs.

Michael DaCosta
Michael DaCosta has worked within the creative industries for over seventeen years. He is a global marketing strategist normally working with emerging cultural trends. His work connects creativity and commerciality.

Ian Dove - Chair
Ian Dove QC is a silk at No5 Chambers in Birmingham. His professional practice as a barrister is based in planning and public law work for both private and public sector clients. Ian holds a number of appointments: a part-time Immigration Judge; a Recorder of the Crown and County Court; a Deputy High Court Judge; Deputy Head of Chambers at No 5 Chambers and a Village Green Inspector. Planning Magazine’s Annual Legal Survey positioned him as one of the top ten planning silks in their 2009 Legal Survey.

Anna Minton
Anna Minton is a writer, journalist, policy researcher and consultant. In 2009, Penguin published her book Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City, which is about the privatisation and control of British cities.

Liz Smith
Liz Smith is Public Arts Officer for Southampton City Council, and is responsible for developing and commissioning integrated public art, architecture and urban design projects for the city. Liz has over 20 years experience in the programming, commissioning, management and promotion of the visual arts.

ixia was established as Public Art Forum, an unincorporated membership association, in 1987. Public Art Forum transferred to a not for profit company on the 1st April 2003 and the company changed its name to ixia in September 2004 and now has charitable status. The registered charity no is 1106457.