Forma

Team

Lottie Gomes
Curatorial Assistant
lg@forma.org.uk

Caroline Heron
Managing Director
ch@forma.org.uk

Jenny O’Neill
Publishing & Communications Manager
jon@forma.org.uk

Chris Rawcliffe
Artistic Director
cr@forma.org.uk

Antonia Shaw
Head of Programmes
as@forma.org.uk

Laurie Storey
Studios Manager
ls@forma.org.uk

Karoly Tendl
Assistant Manager of Presse Books
tt@forma.org.uk


Trustees

Yves Blais works at the Creative Land Trust, which secures and protects affordable studio space for artists in perpetuity in London. He previously worked as a workspace consultant for social enterprise WorkWild, and at Outset Contemporary Art Fund initiating Studiomakers, an initiative that brokers artist studio space on new and existing property developments. In addition, he curated fig-futures, an innovative collecting scheme for public galleries and a series of 16 week-long exhibitions at 4 venues around the UK. He has 12 years’ experience as a producer and curator across both public and commercial galleries. Yves has been a trustee at Forma since 2019.

Anders Hemmingsen (Chair) has served as a trustee for Forma since 2015 and was appointed Chair in January 2019. He was part of the core team that has overseen the reinvention of Forma and the appointment of Chris Rawcliffe as Artistic Director. Anders comes from the world of finance, and currently serves as Managing Director and head of European real estate at Strategic Value Partners, a private equity firm.

Laura Parker is Managing Director at Studio Voltaire where she focuses specifically on strategic business planning, trading, fundraising and additionally acts as the project manager for the current £2.8m redevelopment project of the gallery and artist studios. Over the past 10 years she has worked at a senior level at numerous organisations within the charitable arts sector in London and Liverpool including Chisenhale Gallery, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, Open Eye Gallery and The Bluecoat.

Chris Sharp is Contemporary Music Programmer at the Barbican in London. He spent the first part of his career working for independent labels, including Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet and XL Recordings, becoming Managing Director of 4AD in 2000. Chris swapped recorded music for live concerts when he moved to the Barbican in 2008; the first show he worked on was Drifting And Tilting, a multi-artist performance of music by Scott Walker. Since then, he has programmed hundreds of events, with a particular focus on new commissions, creative collaborations, and cross-genre work. Having worked with Forma on various projects (including Superposition by Ryoji Ikeda, The Miners’ Hymns by Johann Johannsson and The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars) over the years, he joined the board of trustees at the end of 2016.

Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy. In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss, and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. Her speculations are performed in audio-visual, immersive environments. Himali Singh Soin is a long-time collaborator of Forma's since the Frieze Artist Award commission in 2019.

Funders and Supporters
Forma is a registered charity. We are an Arts Council England funded National Portfolio Organisation and we raise the majority of our additional funding on a project-by-project basis. If you are interested in supporting Forma, please contact Caroline Heron at ch@forma.org.uk.

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Team

Lottie Gomes
Curatorial Assistant
lg@forma.org.uk

Caroline Heron
Managing Director
ch@forma.org.uk

Jenny O’Neill
Publishing & Communications Manager
jon@forma.org.uk

Chris Rawcliffe
Artistic Director
cr@forma.org.uk

Antonia Shaw
Head of Programmes
as@forma.org.uk

Laurie Storey
Studios Manager
ls@forma.org.uk

Karoly Tendl
Assistant Manager of Presse Books
tt@forma.org.uk


Trustees

Yves Blais works at the Creative Land Trust, which secures and protects affordable studio space for artists in perpetuity in London. He previously worked as a workspace consultant for social enterprise WorkWild, and at Outset Contemporary Art Fund initiating Studiomakers, an initiative that brokers artist studio space on new and existing property developments. In addition, he curated fig-futures, an innovative collecting scheme for public galleries and a series of 16 week-long exhibitions at 4 venues around the UK. He has 12 years’ experience as a producer and curator across both public and commercial galleries. Yves has been a trustee at Forma since 2019.

Anders Hemmingsen (Chair) has served as a trustee for Forma since 2015 and was appointed Chair in January 2019. He was part of the core team that has overseen the reinvention of Forma and the appointment of Chris Rawcliffe as Artistic Director. Anders comes from the world of finance, and currently serves as Managing Director and head of European real estate at Strategic Value Partners, a private equity firm.

Laura Parker is Managing Director at Studio Voltaire where she focuses specifically on strategic business planning, trading, fundraising and additionally acts as the project manager for the current £2.8m redevelopment project of the gallery and artist studios. Over the past 10 years she has worked at a senior level at numerous organisations within the charitable arts sector in London and Liverpool including Chisenhale Gallery, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, Open Eye Gallery and The Bluecoat.

Chris Sharp is Contemporary Music Programmer at the Barbican in London. He spent the first part of his career working for independent labels, including Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet and XL Recordings, becoming Managing Director of 4AD in 2000. Chris swapped recorded music for live concerts when he moved to the Barbican in 2008; the first show he worked on was Drifting And Tilting, a multi-artist performance of music by Scott Walker. Since then, he has programmed hundreds of events, with a particular focus on new commissions, creative collaborations, and cross-genre work. Having worked with Forma on various projects (including Superposition by Ryoji Ikeda, The Miners’ Hymns by Johann Johannsson and The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars) over the years, he joined the board of trustees at the end of 2016.

Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy. In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss, and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. Her speculations are performed in audio-visual, immersive environments. Himali Singh Soin is a long-time collaborator of Forma's since the Frieze Artist Award commission in 2019.

Funders and Supporters
Forma is a registered charity. We are an Arts Council England funded National Portfolio Organisation and we raise the majority of our additional funding on a project-by-project basis. If you are interested in supporting Forma, please contact Caroline Heron at ch@forma.org.uk.