Chris has lived in West Dorset for over twenty years. He works in intellectual property law, craniosacral therapy and has an interest in growing and conservation.
He has recently retired as Chair of Bridport Film Society, and remains on the team that produces Bridport’s From Page to Screen film festival, the UK’s only festival of screen adaptation.
Chris loves the vital, free-spirited and entrepreneurial culture of Bridport and West Dorset and aspires to see the Arts Centre at the community heart of our vibrant arts and cultural scene.
Rowan’s pronouns are she/they. A passionate activist for accessibility and inclusion, Rowan is a founder of DT4Equality; an intersectional organisation for young people in the Weymouth area. They are a director of Bridge The Gap Facilitators where they put their legal experience to use, as well as their discipline in the arts.
Rowan is a creative herself under RPH Productions. She writes music, poetry, and plays and performs this all often online. Rowan came to BAC with a drive for artistic inclusion, something which she also builds as a trustee of Activate Performing Arts.
Bridport is Geoffrey’s wife’s hometown and he have been visiting for over twenty years. They finally moved here permanently five years ago, and love living in such a vibrant and welcoming place.
He has over twenty years’ experience in charity governance, regulation, finance, and strategic development and is really looking forward to applying this experience to the development of the Arts Centre.
He applied to be a Trustee to share his skills and experience, and to help the development of the Arts Centre which is a real asset to the town and wider community. As a trustee he looks forward to using his professional skills to enhance the Arts Centre and ensure its ongoing future development.
Louise lives in Beaminster where she and her husband Andrew have put down roots after living in Los Angeles for over a decade.
Louise is a Film Industry professional fresh from a career holding senior executive roles in the Hollywood studio system. She ran the research divisions at Disney and then Sony, working with audiences to help filmmakers hone their films in the edit, and then strategising the best possible marketing campaigns for hundreds of name-recognition movies from low-budget indies to record-grossing blockbusters. She currently works as a freelance consultant in the entertainment, education and charity sectors.
Having grown up in Cornwall, West Dorset satisfies Louise’s craving for community, the coast and beautiful surroundings. She is delighted to be a Trustee of BAC, and looks forward to doing what she can to enhance the life and vibrancy of the Arts in Bridport.
Since graduating from the Shakespeare Institute, Tamsin has worked in communications, marketing and fundraising across the arts, culture and charity sectors.
Having grown up in West Dorset, Tamsin has seen the importance of the arts in local communities. It was this experience combined with her interest in creativity and culture which motivated her to join the Board at Bridport Arts Centre.
Tamsin is committed to championing equality, diversity and inclusion in all the work she does.
Growing up in Cornwall but now happily resident in West Dorset, Alison had already visited Bridport and its many events several times a year… for over 20 years!
A chartered member of her professional body, Alison runs her own human resources consultancy with particular expertise in the public and third sectors. Already a BAC events volunteer, she hopes to add further value as a Trustee, using her professional skills and expertise.
A voracious reader, Alison has a particular interest in creative writing and dance, and looks forward to helping BAC achieve an ever wider and diverse local audience. She is also pro-bono specialist advisor to a large local hospice organisation.
Jayne has been visiting Bridport since childhood as her parents had a caravan at Seatown. She has always loved the cultural artistic vibe in Bridport and currently she is in the protracted process of moving to West Bay and is very excited to join the Board of Trustees. Originally she trained to be a drama teacher, but quickly jumped ship and for twenty years was a journalist and theatre critic. A fanatical theatre-goer and music fan, she also has an interest in ceramics ,as her father was a potter.
Over her lengthy career, she has been involved in marketing, communications, PR, wine education and for a number of years worked as a guest lecturer on cruise ships.
Honor is an independent curator with over 20 years’ experience in exhibition-making, collections and commissioning contemporary art. She has a particular specialism in working with contemporary artists and interdisciplinary curating. From 2012-21 she was exhibitions curator at Wellcome Collection where she curated large thematic exhibitions, including Milk: Health, Politics, Power (2023), Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic (2019) and Making Nature (2016). Over the course of her career, Honor has worked at a variety of institutions including the Freud Museum London, Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Council and the British Film Institute.
As a regular visitor to Bridport Arts Centre for many years, she is delighted to now be supporting their work, with a particular interest in the Allsop Gallery.
Richard has lived in Bridport and London for many years. As a businessman he has run a number of companies and in the last 20 years he has been a trustee with various charities, focussing on education, health and the arts. He is currently Chair of British Youth Opera and is passionate about musical performance.
Richard loves the vibrancy of the Bridport arts community and believes that the Arts Centre can be a jewel in the crown. It has the potential to touch the lives of many more people in Bridport and beyond, and this is an exciting challenge.
