Claire Gulliver Email & Phone Number

Exeter, England, GB

United Kingdom

Project development and production, innovation, research, evaluation and writing in contemporary art, museums and the creative sector. Specialising in cross-sector collaboration, particularly contemporary artists and museums. Strong interest in quality and impact.

Developing and embedding The Creative Case for Diversity at the award-winning Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) in Exeter.

Providing independent assessments. I do not represent Arts Council England.

Evaluating £140k Activity Programme supporting £1.6M major capital extension.

South West England

Evaluating Muse: Makers in Museums, an Arts Council England / Heritage Lottery funded project. Commissioning eight contemporary craft makers to make new work in response to collections in small museums across Somerset and Devon.

Forest Of Dean And England

Encounters with art in unusual places.

Exeter, United Kingdom

Co-ordinating and co-writing RAMM's successful £2.4m bid for Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) investment 2018-22. Developing bids to Trusts and Foundations.

Evaluating £250,000 Arts Council-funded programme to establish a national approach to collaboration between contemporary artists and museums.

Commissioning eight artists and a film-maker to reinterpret Bideford Black pigment in a contemporary cultural context. For Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Devon.

Facilitated and shaped proposals for RAMM and Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery consortium, which successfully secured £3.1m Arts Council England funding and renewed status as one of 21 Arts Council Major Partner Museums nationally.

Exeter, United Kingdom

Unlocking the value of RAMM's collections. Winner, Collections Trust Collections Practice Award 2013 for pioneering methodology

Strategic planning, delivery and evaluation of Renaissance-funded programmes across the museum.

Media relations, campaigns, stakeholder engagement

The government's regional strategic agency for museums, libraries and archives.- Ensured that the contribution museums, libraries and archives make to the South West region was effectively communicated to stakeholders, opinion formers and decision makers:- Two peer awards for outstanding work.Initiated New Expressions - A £200k regional MLA/Arts Council.

Co-ordinated Devon's biggest ever artists' open studios event:- Achieved record level of artist sign-up, generating £25k in fee income- Initiatives for event and audience development- Introduced more emerging and diverse artists

Secured museum's longlisting for The Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year 2005.

- Project-managed service review through to completion.

Arts development lead for local authority:- Managed headlining artist's residency by Cecile Johnson Soliz during North Devon Ceramics Events 2002

The regional development agency for the arts in South West England.- Lottery surgeries- Lottery assessments- Managed regional funding schemes- Co-ordinated strategic initiatives: South West Reader Development Partnership, Artist-led Initiatives Advisory Network (ALIAS)

Ma, European Cultural Policy And Management

Marketing Placement at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham (Apr-Jun 1996)

Ba, English Literature

Activities and Societies: Full University Colours - Women's Football