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

Ranveer Bassey is a Vice President in the Real Estate team at Strategic Value Partners (SVP) and will join Forma's Board in the position of Treasurer. He comes to the charity with extensive experience in investment underwriting, financial modelling and risk management and will particularly focus on advising and supporting the Executive Team on the strategic growth of the charity. Prior to SVP, Ranveer worked at Rothschild & Co as an Assistant Director in the Real Estate M&A and Debt Advisory team and at Barclays as an AVP across various teams. At Barclays, Ranveer also spent one year in the Public Sector & Charities team where he had the opportunity to work with some of the largest charities in the UK on optimising their financial operations and liquidity management. He has also worked with the Social Mobility Foundation as a mentor and on expanding their corporate partnerships.

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.

Jack Charlesworth is Director, Sales and Commercial Development, at Edel Assanti. With a background in arts fundraising and cultural strategy, Jack was previously Associate Director of Outset Contemporary Art Fund. For seven years he led the operations of the charity, overseeing transformative grant giving alongside the patrons’ programme of international events. Jack began his career within public institutions including Nottingham Contemporary and The Royal Collection, and has since managed creative partnerships and events for corporate clients including UBS, Coutts, NatWest, Tiffany & Co. and Conde Nast. He has been a contributor to Cause4’s ‘Ethical Fundraising Enquiry’ (2022), the British Council’s ‘Arts Philanthropy in the Philippines’ study (2021-22), and further sits on the Development Committee of South London Gallery, UK.

Eva Langret is Director of Frieze London. Prior to this, she was a Director at Tiwani Contemporary and held positions at The Delfina Foundation, The Wapping Project and 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning. She currently serves as a member of the Chisenhale Council.

Laura Parker is Deputy Director at V&A East. She was previously Managing Director at Studio Voltaire where she focused specifically on strategic business planning, trading, fundraising and additionally acted as the project manager for the £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.

Lucia Pietroiusti (chair) is Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London. As a curator, programmer and organisational strategist, she works at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, often outside of the exhibition space. Ecologies at Serpentine is a holistic initiative and purpose-led department aimed at embedding environmental responsibility throughout the organisation’s infrastructure, operations, networks and programming. Pietroiusti was the founder of Serpentine’s General Ecology project, and the curator of Sun & Sea (Lithuanian Pavilion, 2019 Venice Biennale and ongoing tour). Together with Filipa Ramos, she is the curator of Songs for the Changing Seasons (Vienna Climate Biennale, 2024); Persones Persons (8th Biennale Gherdeïna, 2022) and The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (research, festival, podcast and publication series). Pietroiusti is also a curator of Sites of… Practice (E-WERK Luckenwalde, 2024), Back to Earth (Serpentine, 2020-22), and Infinite Ecologies Marathon (2023-24). Recent publications include More-than-Human (with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier) and Microhabitable (with Fernando García-Dory).

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.

Alys Williams is an art consultant with an international focus on experimentation, innovation, and sustainability. Known for discovering and nurturing exceptional talent in contemporary arts, she advises and collaborates with artists, galleries, institutions, corporate collections and private collectors. She founded and directed the contemporary art gallery VITRINE (2010–2024), which operated in London and Basel. Her expertise include installation, sculpture, and performance, with experience collaborating with urban developers, architects, and public funders on gallery spaces and outdoor sculptures. Alys frequently participates in panel discussions and has lectured at UK and Swiss universities. She served on the Board of Trustees for the Swiss Cultural Fund UK (2020–2024) and co-founded Performance Exchange, a platform for performance art in commercial galleries (2019–2022). Her essay on VITRINE is featured in the Tinguely Museum's 'Fresh Window' exhibition catalogue (2024). She holds a 'Future of Sustainable Business' certificate from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.


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

Ranveer Bassey is a Vice President in the Real Estate team at Strategic Value Partners (SVP) and will join Forma's Board in the position of Treasurer. He comes to the charity with extensive experience in investment underwriting, financial modelling and risk management and will particularly focus on advising and supporting the Executive Team on the strategic growth of the charity. Prior to SVP, Ranveer worked at Rothschild & Co as an Assistant Director in the Real Estate M&A and Debt Advisory team and at Barclays as an AVP across various teams. At Barclays, Ranveer also spent one year in the Public Sector & Charities team where he had the opportunity to work with some of the largest charities in the UK on optimising their financial operations and liquidity management. He has also worked with the Social Mobility Foundation as a mentor and on expanding their corporate partnerships.

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.

Jack Charlesworth is Director, Sales and Commercial Development, at Edel Assanti. With a background in arts fundraising and cultural strategy, Jack was previously Associate Director of Outset Contemporary Art Fund. For seven years he led the operations of the charity, overseeing transformative grant giving alongside the patrons’ programme of international events. Jack began his career within public institutions including Nottingham Contemporary and The Royal Collection, and has since managed creative partnerships and events for corporate clients including UBS, Coutts, NatWest, Tiffany & Co. and Conde Nast. He has been a contributor to Cause4’s ‘Ethical Fundraising Enquiry’ (2022), the British Council’s ‘Arts Philanthropy in the Philippines’ study (2021-22), and further sits on the Development Committee of South London Gallery, UK.

Eva Langret is Director of Frieze London. Prior to this, she was a Director at Tiwani Contemporary and held positions at The Delfina Foundation, The Wapping Project and 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning. She currently serves as a member of the Chisenhale Council.

Laura Parker is Deputy Director at V&A East. She was previously Managing Director at Studio Voltaire where she focused specifically on strategic business planning, trading, fundraising and additionally acted as the project manager for the £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.

Lucia Pietroiusti (chair) is Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London. As a curator, programmer and organisational strategist, she works at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, often outside of the exhibition space. Ecologies at Serpentine is a holistic initiative and purpose-led department aimed at embedding environmental responsibility throughout the organisation’s infrastructure, operations, networks and programming. Pietroiusti was the founder of Serpentine’s General Ecology project, and the curator of Sun & Sea (Lithuanian Pavilion, 2019 Venice Biennale and ongoing tour). Together with Filipa Ramos, she is the curator of Songs for the Changing Seasons (Vienna Climate Biennale, 2024); Persones Persons (8th Biennale Gherdeïna, 2022) and The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (research, festival, podcast and publication series). Pietroiusti is also a curator of Sites of… Practice (E-WERK Luckenwalde, 2024), Back to Earth (Serpentine, 2020-22), and Infinite Ecologies Marathon (2023-24). Recent publications include More-than-Human (with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier) and Microhabitable (with Fernando García-Dory).

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.

Alys Williams is an art consultant with an international focus on experimentation, innovation, and sustainability. Known for discovering and nurturing exceptional talent in contemporary arts, she advises and collaborates with artists, galleries, institutions, corporate collections and private collectors. She founded and directed the contemporary art gallery VITRINE (2010–2024), which operated in London and Basel. Her expertise include installation, sculpture, and performance, with experience collaborating with urban developers, architects, and public funders on gallery spaces and outdoor sculptures. Alys frequently participates in panel discussions and has lectured at UK and Swiss universities. She served on the Board of Trustees for the Swiss Cultural Fund UK (2020–2024) and co-founded Performance Exchange, a platform for performance art in commercial galleries (2019–2022). Her essay on VITRINE is featured in the Tinguely Museum's 'Fresh Window' exhibition catalogue (2024). She holds a 'Future of Sustainable Business' certificate from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.


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.