Board of Trustees

Marc Boothe

Marc Boothe is Founder and Managing Director of B3 Media - an award winning media arts agency - which has produced a broad slate of innovative projects across film, internet, mobile phone and visual arts.

He was producer of the highly acclaimed feature film 'Bullet Boy' directed by Saul Dibb, for which he was nominated Best British Producer by the London Film Critics Circle.
Marc is developing a feature film project 'The Amazing Labours of Arthur Glass' with writer-director Robert Samuels for Film Four in 2008.
Marc is a recipient of a NESTA Fellowship Award (National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts).

Catherine David

Catherine David studied Linguistics and History of Art at the Université de la Sorbonne and Ecole du Louvre in Paris.

From 1982 to 1990 she was Curator at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and from 1990 to 1994 she was Curator at Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, both in Paris, where she organized several monographs and group exhibitions including: 'Lothar Baumgarten; Passages de L’Image'; 'Stan Douglas:Monodramas and Television Spots'; 'Marcel Broodthaers; Helio Oiticica; Robert Gober'; 'Jeff Wall and Chantal Ackerman: D’Est', among others.

From 1994 to 1997 David served as Artistic Director for documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and from 1998 on is Director of the long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations produced by Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona. In 2000 she organized The State of Things for Kunst Werke, Berlin. Between 2002 and 2004 David was Director of the Witte de With Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 2005-2006 she was fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin In 2007 she organized a monograph exhibition of Bahman Jalali at Tàpies Fondation in Barcelona and the interdisciplinary event: Di/Visions: Culture and Politics of the Middle East at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In 2008 she received the Bard Award for curatorial excellence. In 2009 she was curator of the ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage) pavilion at Venice Biennal.

In March 2011 She organized Hassan Sharif’s exhibition 'Experiments & Objects 1979-2011' at the ADACH Exhibition hall in Abu Dhabi and launched the first monographic publication of the artist in Venice Biennale 2011.

Amanda Jones

Amanda Jones has worked in arts management for over 20 years specialising in communications, including media relations and advocacy.

Her early CV includes PR work at Derby Playhouse and Birmingham Hippodrome (1983-86). These preceded thirteen years at the Royal Opera House (1986-99) as Head of Press for The Royal Ballet and, subsequently, the ROH. She was a member of the ROH senior management team (1998-99) before joining the Barbican Centre as Director of Media and Public Relations (2000-05).

From May to December 2005, she undertook an Arts Council England funded Fellowship at Rambert Dance Company. This was followed by two years (January 2006 to February 2008) as Programme Director, Arts & Heritage at the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

She is currently Director of External Relations at the Crafts Council.

Henry Meyric Hughes

Henry Meyric Hughes is a freelance curator, consultant and writer on art. He is General Co-ordinator of Council of Europe Exhibitions and Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris. He was a co-founder of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art (2003), Manifesta and President of the Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1996-2007.

From 1968-92 he worked for the British Council in Germany, Peru, France and Italy, ending up as Director of Visiting Arts (1994-96) and Director of Visual Arts (1986-92). He was the British Commissioner for the Venice Biennale and the São Paulo Bienal, 1986-92 (Richard Hamilton, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor …). He was then Director of the Hayward Gallery, including National Touring Exhibitions and the Arts Council Collection, from 1992-96. Exhibitions incl. Art and Power: ‘Europe under the Dictators 1930-1945’, ‘The Spirit of Romanticism in German Art, 1790-1990 and the British Art Show 4.

His recent projects include curating a survey exhibition, 'Blast to Freeze: British Art in the Twentieth Century' for Wolfsburg and Toulouse (2002-03); the Cypriot Pavilion (Nikos Charalambidis) at the 2003 Venice Biennale; a touring exhibition of contemporary art in Norway for Oslo (2005-06); and ‘No Borders, Just N.E.W.S.’, a touring exhibition of young European artists, 2008. He is currently co-curating the XXX Council of Europe exhibition, ‘Critique and Crisis: Art in Europe since 1945’ for Berlin, Cracow, Tallinn and Milan (2012-2013). Recent publications include ‘AICA in the Age of Globalisation’ (AICA Press, 2010) and ‘African Contemporary Art: Critical Concerns / Art Contemporain Africain: Regards Critiques’ (AICA Press, 2011, co-ed.).

He has acted as an adviser to UNESCO and the Council of Europe and is a Board member of Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, the Archives del la critique d’art, Rennes, Arnolfini, Bristol and Matts, London. He was appointed Officer des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1997 and awarded the Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2002.

Marc Nahum

Marc Nahum works in the Venture Capital & Private Equity sector and brings his invaluable expertise to Iniva's Board.

Nima Poovaya-Smith

Nima Poovaya-Smith is Director of Alchemy, a cultural enterprise company whose central concern is cultural confluence - the movement of cultures across and within national boundaries and the productive transformations resulting from these interactions.
Recent projects initiated by Alchemy include Pillars of Light: Exploring Muslim Cultures (2006-07), Connect: People, Place, Imagination, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, (2008) involving the revisioning and redisplay of Bradford's Permanent Collections and Freedom and Culture: The Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Slave Trade (2007) in partnership with Baroness Lola Young of Cultural Brokers.

Previous posts include Head of Special Projects at the National Media Museum, Bradford; Director of Arts at Arts Council, Yorkshire and Senior Keeper, International Arts at Bradford Art Galleries and Museums where Poovaya-Smith was responsible for building up its significant international collections of Fine and Decorative Arts. She is member of Council of the University of Leeds and a Trustee of the Beecroft Bequest. She has written and lectured extensively on the arts.

Zineb Sedira

Zineb Sedira is an artist and recipient of the Chevalier des Ordres des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) awarded by the French Ministry of Culture.

Sedira was born in Paris to Algerian parents and came to London to study art. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Central St Martin's School of Art (1995) and the Slade School of Art (1997), followed by a research fellowship at the Royal College of Art (1998-2003).

Sedira’s work is in a number of important collections, and has been exhibited widely, including the Venice Biennale in 2001, ICP Triennial, NY in 2003, the British Art Show 06 and in 2010, at the Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar .

Her first UK solo show ‘Telling stories with differences’ at the Cornerhouse, Manchester followed by Saphir at The Photographer’s Gallery in 2006, The John Hansard Gallery, in 2009 and in 2010 Musée d’Art Contemporain in Marseilles and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Her photographs and video works use the intimate perspective of her own experience to frame questions about the intersections of Eastern and Western culture and identity.

(Represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour)

Yinka Shonibare

Over the past decade British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, MBE, has explored colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. Using a wide range of media, from painting and sculpture through to photography and film, Shonibare is well known for examining the construction of identity, and the tangled economic and political relationship between Africa and Europe.

Describing himself as a 'post-colonial' hybrid, Shonibare mines Western art history and literature to question the meaning of cultural and national definitions.
Born in London, he moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Central Saint Martins College and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA. Internationally acclaimed and a Turner Prize nominee in 2004, he has exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in leading museums worldwide. He has recently been selected for the 2010 Fourth Plinth commission, the UK's most prestigious public art commission, in Trafalgar Square, London.

Jane Sillis

Jane Sillis is Director of engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, and has over two decades of experience working in the visual arts principally with audiences new to galleries and mainstream culture.

Jane was Head of Community Education at Whitechapel Gallery (1994-99) and Education Officer at Ikon Gallery (1986–99); she was a consultant for Look Ahead Housing and Care (1999–2005) developing an arts programme for vulnerable people and worked with a wide range of clients including Tate Modern, the National Gallery, the Clore Duffield Foundation, British Council, DCSF and Turner Contemporary. Jane has been Vice Chair of engage (1998–2005) and a board member for Chisenhale Gallery, London. She is a trustee of the intergenerational arts organisation Magic Me.

Jane has a Masters in Contemporary Cultural Theory from the University of Birmingham and a Post Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration from the City University.