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Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road, (near) Bourn
Cambridge CB23 2TX

T. 01954 718 881
E. info@wysingartscentre.org
Admission is Free.
Open : Mon - Sun 12-5pm during Exhibitions

The Centre is Open during exhibitions and events only. All other studio and facilities
access is by appointment, please call during office hours to arrange a visit. Please check before travelling any distance.

Please contact us in advance of your visit if you have any access enquiries or special needs.

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Wysing Arts Centre is closed for the Season from Wednesday 24 December to Monday 5th January 2009 inclusive.

Our Wysing office only re-opens Monday 5 January - Mon-Fri office hours.

Our new gallery exhibition Wysing Arts Contemporary: ANIMATED launches Saturday 17 January at 4pm. The Exhibition runs from Sunday 18th January - Sunday 1 March inclusive - the Gallery is open every day from 12-5pm - admission is FREE.


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Staff

  • Annie Bacon
  • Development Manager
  • 01954 717 106
  • Annie Bacon joined Wysing in July 2008. She has worked in the international contemporary visual arts since 2004, working firstly as Media Relations Manager for the Singapore Tyler Print Institute for three years where she significantly increased the international profile of the institute and worked with a wide range of leading international artists on an innovative artist residency programme. On return to the UK in 2007 she joined Artes Mundi, the biennial Wales International Visual Art Prize, as Communications Manager for the 2008 prize and exhibition at National Museum Cardiff. Prior to working in the visual arts, she spent 15 years as a Communications Manager in the IT industry including six years at Microsoft UK where she managed major campaigns and initiated and managed the highly successful sponsorship of the NSPCC. Annie grew up near Cambridge and then studied English and Visual Art, specialising in printmaking, at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Annie also serves as Wysing’s Deputy Director.
  • Andrew Crawford-White
  • Site & Technical Manager
  • 01954 717 104
  • Andrew Crawford-White started working at Wysing in March 2007 as a gallery technician. Andrew studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts and after graduation worked as a project manager overseeing renovations to cob and stone buildings. He continued to work in the building trade, becoming a foreman for a specialist lime and cob company, and a carpenter/fitter. In 2006 he travelled to New Zealand and worked on Wellington University Hospital building returning to Cambridge in 2007 to work in schools as a teaching assistant. He has always continued to work creatively and still exhibits his work locally and nationally as well as delivering workshops to adults.
  • Lotte Juul Petersen
  • Artists and Programmes Curator
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  • Lotte Juul Petersen has been working within contemporary art since 2000. She has a background in art history and cultural studies with a focus on contemporary art and curating and was educated in France, England and Denmark. In 2007-08 she took part by invitation in an international curatorial platform arranged by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange. From 2004-05 Lotte worked at Kirkhoff Contemporary, curating its Reading Room and Gallery shows with Danish and international artists. From 2005-2006 she worked as a curator at CPH KUNSTHAL in collaboration with Jacob Fabricius and at the same time she was part of the curatorial team at Malmo Konsthall, Sweden. From 2007-2008 she elaborated the residency and artistic programs at the Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen. At the same time she was employed as curator at the Fynen Art Academy. Her curatorial interest lie in alternative institutional strategies for art production and supporting experimental and emerging artists and has worked with artists Adrian Piper, Simon Starling, Olafur Eliasson, Ann Lislegaard, Pia Ronicke, Johanna Billing, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Asli Cavusoglu, A Kassen, What is to be done?, Luca Frei, Pilvi Takkala and many more. She has published articles in catalogues and in magazines including N.Paradoxa, Revolver, SUM – Magazine for Contemporary Art and Periskop Journal for Art History, Copenhagen University Press. She has also been awarded with residencies in Istanbul, Helsinki, Berlin and Cuba and recently curated Urban Pedestals in Copenhagen & Helsinki in 2007-2008.
  • Sue Lowe
  • Receptionist
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  • Donna Lynas
  • Director
  • 01954 717 102
  • Donna has been Director of Wysing Arts Centre since April 2005 and was instrumental in delivering the organisation’s £1.7 million capital development project, which opened in January 2008. Previously she had been Curator at the South London Gallery for six years and where she curated a large number of exhibitions and projects including with artists AK Dolven, Christian Boltanski, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen and Keith Tyson, plus many group exhibitions. In 1999 she established the gallery’s influential SLG Live Art programme which at its most ambitious presented a durational performance of One Million Years by On Kawara - involving a series of 16 people performing a live work in a glass box in Trafalgar Square continuously for 7 days and nights. At SLG she was one of three senior members of staff who saw the organisation through a period of rapid expansion and growth. From 1995 – 1999 Donna was Touring Exhibitions Organiser and then Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford. Prior to that she studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and then had her own studio based practice for five years, in Dundee and Reading.
  • Helen Robinson
  • Marketing & Communications Manager
  • 01954 717 108
  • Helen Robinson joined Wysing in September 2006. She has worked in the contemporary arts since 1994, including at Kirklees Local Authority and Huddersfield Art Gallery. In 1998 she set up her own commercial art gallery, Bruton Gallery in Leeds, under the auspices of which she also organised touring exhibitions and events across the UK and overseas, attending art fairs in New York and Paris. In 2005 she relocated to Cambridge and worked initially in London, as Collections Manager at University College London, which included among other works the Slade School of Art Collection. Now firmly based in Cambridge she focuses her energies on networking in the arts and in the local communities in and around Wysing
  • Tim Shuker -Yates
  • Education and Outreach Co-ordinator
  • 01954 717 103
  • Tim Shuker-Yates started working at Wysing in December 2008 as part of its new development plans. He has previously worked within the fields of art and education for the last 9 years. In 2001 he worked for the Carnival Collective, a carnival arts charity based in Brighton that was involved with the Youth Music Pilot and was a significant provider for the Brighton festival In 2002 he moved to the Middle East where he worked for Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre in its endeavor to become the established community arts venue for the city. More recently he worked for over 2 years at Arts Council England, East office within the education team. Tim has also worked in University settings including the American University of Sharjah, University of East Anglia and DeMontfort University in Leicester. He has worked with many arts and education organisations on a freelance basis, including Creative Partnerships and the Artsmark award team.