IC Projects
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, 'Driftware UK' (detail). From Raising the Bar, 2008.
IC:Innovative Craft - Directors
Director: Roanne Dods
The first Jerwood event I ever went to was the private view for the Jerwood Applied Art Prize for glass. I was mesmerised by the quality and beauty of the making, by the integrity towards medium and ideas and the interplay of craft and art. I have since developed a deep fascination with makers and their making and how to bring more people to appreciate and understand their work in new and special contexts. This is what IC is about for me.
A trained lawyer, Roanne left the legal profession to undertake an MA in Dance Studies at the Laban Centre, London before becoming Artistic Director of a contemporary dance company suddenlylastsummer.
She has been Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation since 1998, during which time it has become one of the most high profile foundations concentrating on the arts in the UK. In 2004 Jerwood Charitable Foundation was presented with an Angel Award by the International Society for the Performing Arts for ‘innovative and spectacular work across the artistic spectrum in recent years’ by Sir John Tusa.
Other career highlights include:
- Vice-Chair of Scottish Ballet
- Director of the Jerwood Space
- Advisory Board Member on Rural Retreats: Ballet into 21st Century
- Member of the External Advisory Group for DCMS Understanding the Future: Museums and 21st-century Life
- Member of Advisory Committee, Cheltenham Jazz Festival
- Board Member, Sistema Scotland
- Co-director, Mission Models and Money