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InSite Arts is Sam Wilkinson and Sarah Collicott

Sam Wilkinson

Director, InSite Arts

MA Museum and Gallery Management

FRSA

Sam Wilkinson is co-director of InSite Arts and previously Director of SWPA Limited. Sam has dedicated her career to working as an art consultant specialising in commissioning for non gallery based venues. Her experience has been exclusively within the delivery of site specific public art and her reputation built additionally upon curating boundary testing installations and art events which have both set precedent and created remarkable 'moments' in contemporary art. One such example is, the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail 'Lightshift' whilst an un-publicised or ticketed event it attracted over 40,000 people, by word of mouth, over a seven night run, exhibiting over 30 contemporary works in light, sound and projection. She has worked with a range of organisations and a diversity of artist working in a multitude of media.

As an advocate of best practise for art in the public realm Sam is regularly invited to speak at arts lead events, she has recently been as a board director of IXIA, the national organisation for public art, having also been its chair for 4 years. Sam has been able to recommend and influence positive changes in the support and commissioning of public art. She also acts as independent advisor to various Councils and their Arts Officers for specific events.

Sam has worked as art consultant for a range of retail and commercial developers in major UK cities including Canterbury, Exeter, Cambridge, Bristol, High Wycombe, Corby, Leicester and Portsmouth. Other clients include local authorities and organisations such as the Forestry Commission.

Sam is a Trustee of the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust.

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Sarah Collicott

Director, InSite Arts

BA History of Art and Design

FRSA

Sarah has worked extensively in various fields of the art world, first working in the commercial art work, working for Sotheby's London subsequently working for New York based art gallery, Richard Feigen Ltd, London and Monte Carlo based gallery Grob Galleries and PaceWildenstein, with galleries in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beunos Airies.

As curator and gallery manager she has exceptional management skills and knowledge of artists and artistic practise, that is highly valuable to the organisation. Those curatorial skills included curating exhibitions, for example, of work by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Georg Baselitz, Warhol/Basquiat, Robert Moskowitz, James Rosenquist and the more contemporary artists such as Andy Goldworthy and Marc Quinn. This work also involved the cataloguing and management of touring exhibitions including work from the family estates of the Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore estates.

Recent curatorial roles for InSite have included the three town temporary programme of large scale interactive media installations, where one of those works commissioned by InSite went onto win the artist the Guardian readers Young Artist award and high public acclaim. She has also lead on the commissioning in a number of city centre developments including work in Exeter, Cambridge, Corby, Walsall and Leicester.

One of Sarah's particular areas of interest is in the InSite Arts publishing arm of their activities with an aim to support the publication of text relating to debate about commissioning practices in the public realm.

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