Hazel Foxon Email & Phone Number

Ware, England, United Kingdom

Co-ordination and administration support for complex art handling and sculpture installation projects, working with international commercial galleries, national art museums and private clients. Co-ordinating transport/lender logistics for UK loan exhibitions (including Turner Prize-nominated Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning at MK Gallery, Sheila Hicks: Off Grid at The Hepworth Wakefield and Jacob Epstein: Stories in Stone at Coventry Cathedral). Organising road closures, crane licences and parking suspensions, co-ordinating international travel and accommodation for installation teams, supporting a large and busy Projects department with estimating, invoicing and client paperwork. First point of contact for clients, overview of Projects team activity and wellbeing, inter-departmental communication, deputising for Head of Department.

Communications and management consultancy with a specialism in small visual arts organisations. Four years at Departure Lounge, Luton (ACE-funded contemporary art gallery) and three years as interim Marketing Manager at UHArts, University of Hertfordshire (450-seat theatre, resident orchestra, two art galleries). Other clients included Kadam Dance, The Living Memory Project, The Henry Moore Foundation and individual artists and makers. Bespoke communications strategies and press campaigns (regular national press coverage for projects), strategic planning, internal communications & team building, public relations, audience development, community engagement, profile building/branding, writing/editing copy, grant applications.

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Fixed term contract to raise profile of this ACE and council funded Suffolk-based contemporary art gallery and craft shop. Marketing, media relations, audience development, copywriting, print production, social media, e-marketing.

Hertford

Involved in all aspects of running this successful community arts centre, including exhibitions, classes, staffing, development, press & marketing and capital projects. Voluntary.

Sole press officer for NPG - single-handedly devised and delivered national press campaigns for all exhibitions, acquisitions, permanent collection, educational activities and major projects. Exhibition campaigns include: Lee Miller (2005), David Beckham (2004), David Hockney (2003), The Regency (2003), Below Stairs (2003), Mario Testino (2002), BP Portrait Award (annual). Also planning and management of celebrity/artist photocalls for new portrait acquisitions, press views for major exhibitions and managing press at VIP events. Collaborated with broadcasters on major television series and consistently generated front page, positive news, arts and feature coverage.

Co-ordinated national media campaigns for exhibitions and acquisitions at the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Launch of The Dean Gallery (March 1999, now Modern Two). Edited and produced the bi-monthly Bulletin brochure and promotional print for exhibitions, collated and reported visitor figures and answered enquiries from the public about the collections.

London, United Kingdom

Researched, wrote and distributed news stories to promote all aspects of the work of English Heritage eg historic properties, listings, major grant awards, conservation. Organised regular press calls for the unveiling of Blue Plaques throughout London.