Back to Plan your Day Creative Arts GSAL Futures Conference, 2024 Session Choice #1 Panelists William Galinsky (OL90) – Artistic Director Miriam Roycroft – Cello player Cate Watkinson (OG82) – Artist Joel Levack (OL97) – Artist Creative Arts Explore various career paths in the arts and creative industries from setting up your own business to working for a global organisation. Find out what sort of roles will be available in 5 to 10 years time. Who is it for For students interested in: Drama Art Music Textiles Entrepreneurship Film and theatre English Language DT English Literature Profile of panelists William Galinksy William is an artistic director, creative producer, theatre-maker and writer. He spent a decade as a theatre director and teaching in drama schools and then a further decade at the helm of two international arts festivals – Norfolk & Norwich Festival (2011-2017) and Cork Midsummer Festival (2007-2010) – where he specialised in commissioning and producing new work across a variety of art forms. Recently, William has lead on the cultural programme for Nottingham’s European Capital of Culture bid and Citizen of Nowhere with National Theatre of Scotland, exploring art-technology-civil society. He is the founder of Galinskyworks – a cultural production company exploring the relationships between arts and culture, technology and civil society. LI profile Website Miriam Roycroft Miriam Roycroft is a renowned Irish cellist who performs internationally and is Professor of Cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. Miriam studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. Miriam has performed as soloist with the RTÉ NSO and has played many of the major concerti for cello with orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland. She has been a guest leader of the cello sections of the RTÉ CO, RTÉ NSO, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBCSSO, Sinfonia ViVa and the Northern Sinfonia and has also guest co-lead the cello sections of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBCCO. She has performed at the Manchester Midday Series, the Kilkenny Arts Week, with John O’Conor at the NCH Dublin and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and also at the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival with the American cellist, Steven Doane. Before she was invited onto the Faculty at the RIAM in 2006, Miriam played in the Orchestra of Opera North in Leeds. Her solo, chamber, orchestral and educational commitments now take her worldwide. She has given masterclasses in China, Lithuania, Poland, Finland, the USA, the UK and Ireland. Miriam is Principal Cello of Camerata Ireland with whom she has toured extensively in China, North and South America and throughout Europe. She performs regularly at festivals and concert halls in Ireland and the UK and is on the Faculty of the Apple Hill Summer Chamber Music Festival in New Hampshire, USA. LI profile Website Cate Watkinson (OG82) Dr Cate Watkinson has 30 years’ experience as an architectural glass artist, designing and fabricating architectural glass for a wide variety of applications. She trained in the traditional skills of stained glass making. Over the years she has developed the skills and knowledge gained, to bring a fresh slant to her contemporary work. She has been instrumental in developing the potential of glass in the public realm. Projects range from decorative glass panels for public and private buildings to street furniture and sculptural public art pieces. She is interested in the exploration of several interrelated themes: light, placement and processes including the relationships between glass and the environment and ways of placing glass within different settings. The work integrates new technologies with text, and imagery to produce pieces with a unique visual aesthetic and involve new ways of working with the material. Cate has gained significant knowledge and experience working with glass on a large scale in the public realm, not only in aesthetic terms but also in design of structure and durability of materials used. Cate studied 3D Design Glass and Ceramics at the University of Sunderland, followed by PhD in Architectural Glass. LI profile Website Joel Levack Joel has 23 years’ professional experience in the arts, initially as a painter of mixed-media cityscapes, before he moved to London to set up his own art gallery. Following that, he traversed into live events and festival work, before embarking on three years in the film industry. Joel is the lead host of The Soho Society Hour, broadcasting live, weekly on Soho Radio, and has also featured, as a guest, on TV’s “Landscape Artist of the Year”. LI profile Website
