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(Top L to R) Suzie Norton, Rehana Zaman, Maleka Egeonu-Roby (Not included) Ruth Catlow (Bottom L to R) Bea Freeman, Álvaro Costela Sánchez, Chloe Courtney (Not included) Lisa Middleton

Changing Faces

FACT Liverpool announces board shake-up

Arts Professional
2 min read

Creative technology institution FACT Liverpool has announced seven new trustees and its second board artist-in-residence. 

SUZIE NORTON, Founding Director of Zanna Creative, will take up chairing FACT’s Board of Trustees. Norton has over 25 years experience in the arts and cultural sector, with specific expertise in formulating national and regional creative industries strategy, organisational and board development, partnership and stakeholder management. 

Norton said she is honoured to be appointed Chair of an organisation with "a rich history and exciting future". 

"I hope that my experience built over a quarter of a century working in the UK creative industries, especially the screen industry, will provide the Board of Trustees, the wonderful team and many stakeholders with the strategic leadership to face the challenges and opportunities facing this internationally renowned and locally-loved arts organisation," she added.  

Norton replaces RACHEL HIGHAM, Chief Information Officer at Wire and Plastic Products (WPP), who chaired the board for six years.

Artist REHANA ZAMAN is FACT’s second annual board artist-in-residence. The twelve-month residency invites artists to approach governance as an art medium in its exchanges and cooperative methods. 

Zaman works with moving image and performance, whose artistic practice is centred around notions of kinship and social relations, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and disruption within hostile contexts. Their work has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. 

Norton and Zaman are joined by six other appointments to the Board of Trustees, including Artist, Curator and Co-Director of Furtherfield RUTH CATLOW, Marketing & Communications Manager of Liverpool ONE ÁLVARO COSTELA SÁNCHEZ and Executive Director of China Plate CHLOE COURTNEY. 

They are welcomed alongside MALEKA EGEONU-ROBY, Junior Project Manager of Liverpool City Region’s Race Equality Programme and Member of Merseyside Caribeean Centre, BEA FREEMAN, film director and producer and LISA MIDDLETON, Head of Marketing & Brand at National Museums Liverpool. 

“We are fortunate to have such a strong and diverse board to help drive and support FACT’s organisational culture and resilience during a time of great change, building on the exceptional work of our current trustees and previous Chair, Rachel Higham,” CEO NICOLA TRISCOTT commented.