Our Staff and Trustees

Trustees 

Matthew Slotover (Chair)

Matthew Slotover co-founded the contemporary art magazine frieze in 1991 and the first Frieze art fair in London in 2003. There are now three other Frieze Fairs in New York, Los Angeles and Seoul, as well as Frieze Masters in London. He stepped back from the day-to-day running of Frieze in 2020. He was Chair of the South London Gallery from 2006-2021, and currently serves on the boards of Sadlers Wells, the Arts Foundation, the Walpole Group and Murmur.

Sir Stephen Deuchar 

Stephen Deuchar has a wide background in museums, galleries and the history of British art. After completing a PhD, he became a curator at Royal Museums Greenwich and in 1998 was appointed as Founding Director of Tate Britain, overseeing the establishment and first decade of the gallery’s revised role as a centre for historic and contemporary British art. He organized the Turner Prize annually and chaired its jury in 2008 and 2009. From 2010-20 he was Director of Art Fund, the national charity for art, where he re-cast its national role and impact through the introduction of the National Art Pass and a significant increase in fundraising and grant-giving.

He is also a Trustee of the British Council, and a trustee of Creative Folkestone. He lives in Westwell, Kent.

Lucy Edematie

Lucy Edematie is a freelance writer and curator who works with museums, artists, community groups and arts organisations in the UK and internationally. A former editor of the Margate Mercury, Lucy began her career in education where she witnessed first-hand the ability of the arts to transform lives. Lucy is drawn to projects that seek to address inequality, challenge injustice and benefit communities. She has served as a trustee at Age UK Thanet and was Co-Chair of the Trustee Board at arts charity Power of Women.

Peter Hawkes 

Peter Hawkes has lived and worked in Kent throughout a long career in Law. He qualified as a solicitor in 1981 with Furley Page LLP, a Kent-based regional law firm. Peter was appointed Senior Partner of the firm in 2001 and continued in that role until his retirement in April 2021.

Peter’s professional practice focused on dispute resolution, and he is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Peter advised a wide range of commercial clients in both the private and public sector, including not-for-profit organisations.

Peter has had a long-standing involvement in supporting the arts and has encouraged business engagement in this sector amongst his many contacts and clients.

Yasmin Khan 

Yasmin Khan is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Tate where she leads a cross-organisational approach to embed strategic and tactical change. She worked as a senior BBC News journalist for over two decades, in editorial roles on regional, national and international news programmes. Yasmin also led some of the BBC’s most well-known culture change initiatives including BBC 50:50 The Equality Project and BBC Global Women in News. Yasmin chairs the Nominations Subcommittee and believes that art, culture and creative spaces should be accessible to all.

Keith Valentine 

Keith Valentine has a lifelong passion for the visual arts. With roots in the east end of London and a home in Broadstairs, he joined Turner Contemporary with a strong sense of the relationship between art and social progress. Keith has the Freedom of the City of London and is a Director of the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Registered blind, Keith is supported by Guide Dog Dotty.

Nick Maynard 

Nick Maynard is a Chartered Accountant and strategist who has worked with museums and galleries for over 15 years. Nick qualified with KPMG within the audit practice, before working at the Government Banking Service, the British Museum and as Director of Finance & Resources at Art Fund. In 2019 Nick founded We Are Practice, an accounting and advisory agency that supports emerging business in the creative industries.

Sarah Briggs

Sarah Briggs has over 25 years’ experience working in the artworld across museums and galleries, auction houses and more recently as Senior Marketing Director at Hauser & Wirth.

She is passionate about audiences, diversity and inclusion and worked at Tate for 13 years, across both Tate Britain and Tate Modern, developing audience-focused marketing ​strategies. In her current role, she leads a marketing team across fourteen locations who communicate exhibitions, artists’ projects, learning and event programmes and work with over ninety artists and estates represented by Hauser & Wirth. ​

Sarah is a mentor for Art Market Mentors and has served on the board of the Arts Marketing Association.

Michel Driessen

Michel Driessen is an experienced transaction and restructuring advisor, working in industry and professional services. Passionate about arts, Michel has been Chairman of the EY Arts Committee for a decade working in partnership with the Tate. Previously, he was corporate advisory Board member for the V&A for a full three-year term. Michel is a regular guest lecturer at business schools and author of two business books to date.

Brian Horton

Brian Horton has over 30 years of professional experience in the Housing and Development sector and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing. He is the Director at Horton Strategic a housing, development and regeneration consultancy working independently and collaboratively to provide specialist strategic advice to clients in the public, private and third sector. Brian is a Board Member at Gravesend Churches Housing Association and ABC Property Limited, Chair of the Kent Housing Group and the Margate Town Deal Board. Before setting up Horton Strategic, Brian worked as the Strategic Housing Advisor to Kent County Council, Chief Executive of Swale Housing Association and as Head of Housing and Property at Thanet District Council.

Brian was born in Margate and still lives locally in Birchington and is a passionate advocate for the ‘Turner Effect’ on culture-led regeneration.

Susan Carey

Susan Carey is the County Councillor for Elham Valley where she was first elected in 2005. Whilst at Kent County Council she has served as Deputy Cabinet Member for Education, Deputy Cabinet Member for Finance, Cabinet Member for Customers, Communication and Performance and Cabinet Member for Environment.

Susan’s career was in international rail and she came to Kent whilst working for Eurotunnel. She’s a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and has an MBA from Ashridge Management College. Susan is a trustee of the Sir John Williams charity and the Robert Thompson Charities which she chairs.

 

Director Clarrie Wallis