Fiona Kearney, Director of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University
College Cork (UCC) has been awarded the Jerome Hynes Fellowship on
the UK based Clore Leadership Programme, an initiative of the Clore
Duffield Foundation to strengthen leadership across the arts. The
Fellowship is valued in the region of €71,000 and funded by the Arts
Council of Ireland in memory of Jerome Hynes, Deputy Chair of the Arts
Council and Chief Executive of Wexford Festival Opera. It is the
highest award the Arts Council offers to an individual.
The 2006/7 Fellows were announced on Monday 19 June by the Director of
the Clore Leadership Programme, the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, and
its patron, Dame Vivien Duffield, at a Conference on Culture and
Creative Enterprise at the City University's Cass Business School in
London.
The Clore Leadership Programme aims to help to train and develop a new
generation of leaders in the arts in the UK. Fellows have been selected
annually, since 2004, from the cultural sector and beyond, to undertake
an individually tailored programme of tuition, research, mentoring and
secondment designed to develop their leadership skills, knowledge and
experience.
The only Irish fellow on the 2006/7 programme, Fiona Kearney said "I am
very honoured to receive the Jerome Hynes Fellowship and I am
tremendously excited about the opportunities it presents both for me
personally, and for the Glucksman gallery over the next two years. The
Arts Council's support of the Fellowship recognises the value of
cultural leadership in the development of the arts, and I look forward
to using my experiences on the Clore programme to better serve the
visual arts, and the cultural sector in Ireland."
Further information on Clore Leadership Programme at
www.cloreleadership.org
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