C.A.P TRUSTEES
Lucy Kennedy (Chair)
Lucy Kennedy has over 20 years of experience in the cultural, creative industries and education sectors. Lucy took on the role of Chief Executive of the Sorrell Foundation and The Saturday Club Trust in November 2018 and is leading the strategic expansion of the National Saturday Club programme to increase access to this transformational creative education opportunity for young people nationally.
Previously, Lucy spent nine years at the cultural consultancy Futurecity where, as Managing Director she led the organisation’s international offices in London, Boston and Sydney.From 2017 to 2018, Lucy was Executive Director of Research Centres at the Royal College of Art, leading the establishment of the Intelligent Mobility Research Centre and the Burberry Material Research Centre.
Lucy holds a number of non-executive and voluntary positions including Chair of the Board of Trustees at Chisenhale Art Place, as well as being a member of the Steering Group and Advisory Board of the APPG for Arts, Craft and Design in Education, the Cultural Learning Alliance’s Advisory Panel, the Digital Poverty Alliance, STEM Learning Advisory Committee, and FRSA.
Isabelle Hancock
Isabelle is Deputy Director of the South London Gallery (SLG), where she leads the organisation’s operations, visitor services, finance and human resources departments. Her role also encompasses strategic business planning and fundraising, particularly managing the gallery’s relationship with core funders, Arts Council England and Southwark Council. Based between Camberwell and Peckham, the SLG has a reputation for its ground-breaking programme of contemporary art exhibitions and events and award winning education projects for children, young people and adults.
Prior to the SLG, Isabelle was the Deputy Director of Chisenhale Gallery for 12 years from 2009 to 2021. She has also previously worked in the design sector as Showroom Manager at furniture design company Vitra. Isabelle studied BA Fine Art (Sculpture) at Camberwell College of Art and has an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Sian Harding
Sian retired in 2022. She was Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology at Imperial College London, where she worked to develop new therapies for heart failure since 1980. She has pioneered advances in Broken Heart Syndrome and in the use of gene therapy and tissue engineering with stem cells for cardiac repair. She has been Director of the British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiac Regeneration and Lead for Cardiovascular in the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.
Sian has extensive Board and Committee experience, having Chaired College committees on Ethics and Governance and spent 6 years on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She has been on multiple Grant awarding panels including those for the BHF, MRC and UKRI and she was Campus Director for Imperial Hammersmith and White City Campus.
Her interest in the art/science connection led Sian to a collaboration with the Chisenhale artists. This was successful in producing several exhibitions and has developed her care for the future of CAP. Sian has a number of other artistic interests and Chairs the Imperial Artworks Committee. She has also a strong track record of public/patient engagement and outreach, both for the clinical and the art-science areas
Sarah Musgrove
Michael Reagan
Nadine Mahoney