In the first of her series of three blogs, Sarah Preece, Executive Director at BAC and founder of Making Space, shares the value of combining her current role as Executive Director of Battersea Arts Centre with making sculpture and muses on why the futures market matters.
I am a sculptor and I work part time from my studio on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham. I am not a visual arts graduate, choosing instead, after a two-year foundation course, to train as a furniture maker. I didn’t return to investigate my interest in sculpture until seven years ago, when in the face of a potential life of unrelated, full-time work, I made the decision to eek out a day a week to make art. That day a week has now become three days a week and while it is true to say I do not earn my living from my artwork, I am now making, showing and selling on a regular basis.
For the other part of my life I am an arts manager having worked in administration and management roles in arts organisations for the past sixteen years. For two of those years I was General Manager of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, a company with a £300k annual turnover and a staff team of five, followed by seven years as Finance Director of the Royal Court Theatre overseeing a company of fifty with a turnover of £4m. I am now Executive Director at Battersea Arts Centre in South London.
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By Sarah Preece, Executive Director at BAC
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