Meet the Artswork team

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Meet our wonderful staff who make the work we do as a charity possible.

Lesley Wood (She/They)

Lead Trainer/Consultant & Learning Development and Quality Manager
Lesley delivers innovative training programs that enhance professional development, and promote creativity, and inclusivity.
Collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, Lesley identifies with industry training needs, creating accessible learning experiences, and upholding quality in all initiatives. Lesley also provides consultation and support for organisations and individuals working across the creative, cultural and heritage sectors.
Leanne Livermore (She/Her)

Marketing & Events Assistant
Leanne joined the Artswork team in April 2023 as a Creative Producer Apprentice, graduating in July 2024 with a Level 3 Events Assistant Standard. She has utilised the skills she developed during the apprenticeship to settle into her current role of Marketing & Events Assistant within the Communications Team.
Leanne has a BA Hons in Fine Art and is a strong advocate for accessibility, particularly focusing on how we can make arts, culture and events accessible to all.
Karen Pamplin Browne (She/Her)

Data, Evaluation and Impact Manager
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Karen supports Artswork with evaluation methods and strategies, and understanding and demonstrating of our impact. Karen has spent 30+ years working in the art, heritage and education sectors with a focus on the evaluation of participatory arts and placemaking projects. She has qualifications in Graphic Arts, Art Education and Arts Management with experience teaching art, drama and photography in secondary and special needs schools.
Judith Carrie (She/Her)

Portsmouth Creative Skills Programme Manager
Judith's varied career has always focused on children and young people.
Inclusive practice, authentic participation of young people, and the fundamental right of all children and young people to play and be creative have been central themes of her work.
Jane Mitchell (She/Her)

Careers Trainer
Jane is responsible for providing and supporting meaningful work based opportunities within cultural organisations.
Jane has always worked in training and development, as well as mentoring and assessing young people within the workplace to support successful outcomes.
Harriet Carr (She/Her)

Sales & Marketing Officer
Harriet joined Artswork in May 2023. Her background is in arts education, working for a number of years in the learning team at Aspex Portsmouth and instructing with Top Banana Circus CIC. Alongside this she achieved apprenticeship qualifications in Community Arts Administration and Events as an Artswork Apprentice.
Donna Vose

Head of Budgets, Contracts & Policy
Donna joined Artswork in 2012 and is responsible for financial and contractual management and operational policies and processes. With a background in performing arts (stage manager, venue manager), she has worked extensively in arts administration and management.

Prior to Artswork, she created 1mile² – an international arts and ecology programme involving 13,500 people across 8 countries. The programme included interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and environmental scientists, new commissions, social action research, public art projects and was part of an AHRC funded Connected Communities research programme.
Beccy East (She/Her)

Placemaking Creative Producer for Arun & West Sussex
Beccy supports young people in Arun & West Sussex, alongside a wide range of partners including the District Council, to devise and deliver a whole host of creative projects for their communities including events, art pieces, gardens, pop-up exhibitions, murals and more.
Beccy also facilitates Arun Youth Council and Artswork's brilliant Youth Board.
Annabel Cook (She/Her)

Deputy Chief Executive
Annabel joined Artswork in 2019 and is currently the Deputy CEO. Her career began as a professional actor before transitioning into arts development at both borough and county council levels. Moving to the South Coast she then worked as an Arts Centre Director.
Annabel is passionate about the impact creativity can have on lives and regularly comes up with some truly left field ideas – of which about 1% are workable. In her Senior Leadership MBA, her dissertation looked at how creativity affects workplace dynamics and how employers can maximise this impact.