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Sharon has many years of arts development, management and co-ordination experience with specialist knowledge of film and media art networks, photographic practise and the formal education system.

She is a founder member and Director of ISIS Arts where she oversees programme development, initiates projects with a range of regional partners and manages the arts in education work in Northumberland. She represents ISIS on the Creative Partnerships Northumberland Partnership Board.

She is committed to socially engaged practise and is a successful freelance photographer best known for her work with older people and young people. She has carried out many commissions and residencies in the region and has published two books.

Clymene Christoforou develops and manages multi faceted arts projects in partnership with a range of individual artists and organisations working regionally, nationally and internationally. This work includes fundraising and managing both people and budgets.

She has worked with regional policy makers to develop arts practise and strategy and has served on a range of strategic fora including The Cultural Industries Commissions for One North East, The Northumberland Strategic Arts Forum, The Visual Arts Forum and as a recent board member for Northern Cultural Skills Partnership. Clymene is a board member of the Regional Cultural Consortium, Culture North East.

In 2007 Clymene was awarded a NESTA Cultural Leadership Fellowship, with a four month placement in Brussels at the European Forum for Arts and Heritage. Her fellowship also took her to India, China, and a number of European Countries forming the basis of a number of international collaborations.

Since 1991 Clymene has been a director and founder member of ISIS Arts, Newcastle where she is responsible for company and programme development. Clymene is vice chair of Waygood Gallery and Studios.

Carol Cooke works for the BBC as a Public Accountability Manager, is a writer and has experience of

• the media, both working for BBC and writing for print media.
• higher education and arts funding.
• project managing small and medium sized arts projects.
• managing a budget.
• serving on arts boards and committees.

A former Regional Director of the Royal Institute of Architects for the Northern Region, Claire joined One NorthEast the Regional Development Agency in 2000. Since then she has fulfilled a number of roles. Firstly as the Agency's principal expert and champion for the Culture and Creative Industries in the North East

For the past three years Claire has become increasingly focussed on championing design and in particular the potential of design to raise levels of innovation. Claire's work in these areas is very quickly establishing her within international design innovation networks

Following the announcement that the North East is to host the Design Council's first national Design Biennial in 2007. Claire has worked full time on the development, design, delivery and programme management of the Designs of the time/Dott 07 programme.

Claire is a partner in a large independent firm of chartered accountants. She has experience of managing staff, budgets and deadlines whilst meeting client expectations in a commercial environment.

Alex Craig is a solicitor with Robert Muckle LLP and sits on the board of directors of ISIS Arts. She advises on all aspects of intellectual property and information technology law. She regularly advises on protection, maintenance, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property. Alex assists organisations who are looking to engage in research and development projects or who are implementing new technologies in their business. Alex also deals with a range of contractual issues for IT suppliers and customers, including software licensing, IT procurement and maintenance and support arrangements.

Jyl has been a director at ISIS since 1995. As a visual artist she has been working as an artist enabler across schools in the region for 18 years. Within ISIS she has worked as Co-ordinator, mentor and artist on many of the Education projects.

Cecilia is a visual artist from Sweden. Before moving to the North East of England in 2005 she was based in Glasgow and Helsinki. Her work is concerned with notions of identity set against a mediated world. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, America and China. Cecilia's work is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and distributed by AV-arkki, Helsinki.

Cecilia has been working on co-ordinating the media programme at ISIS Arts since November 2007.

Margaret Clay (Margie) has been with ISIS since 2000 supporting the ISIS team as project administrator. Margaret is responsible for administrative support to all ISIS staff, which includes contracts, media training arrangements, CRB disclosure checks, database updates and maintenance and general office duties.

Margaret has been married to Steve for over 20 years and has two daughters Amielee and Catherine. In her spare time Margaret enjoys reading, listening to a variety of music and enjoys playing the fiddle and is also trying to master the Irish whistle.

Janet has been with ISIS since 2000 supporting the ISIS team in all things financial. She is responsible for the upkeep of all ISIS' accounting systems including project budgets, PAYE systems, income and expenditure, petty cash and final accounts. She also prepares financial reports for ISIS' funders including the Arts Council, Lottery, ESF, Local Authorities and Trusts.

Janet travels widely in her time off, partly as a fencer, representing Great Britain in International Veteran's Fencing Championships.

Jonathan Rust has been with ISIS Arts since 2003 and is responsible for all technical support provided to the organisation and the artists it supports.

Key roles include maintenance of all equipment, production of DVDs and other supplementary publication materials, equipment purchasing, website maintenance and general assistance for artists as part of ISIS' training, mentoring and residency schemes.

Ian Tinwell has been the ISIS Arts designer for 15+ years. He also designs for other artists and arts organisations. Some past publications include: Tangles and Starbursts (Sharon Bailey and Julia Darling / Alzheimers Society) which won the Arts Council Raymond Williams Community Publication Award 2002; Images on the run (Alan Dunn): The Kitchen Suitcase (Equal Arts); still waters run deep (Brigitte Jurack).

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