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T e Arts, Fashion & Design


Althea Efunshile


Chief Operating Offi cer, Arts Planning and Investment, Arts Council England


Althea is responsible for the day-to-day running of the national development agency for the arts across the country. As chief operating officer she is effectively the number two in the Arts Council that funds many of the UK’s arts organisations. She is responsible for corporate planning at and for the development and implementation of the national Arts Council Investment Strategy. The Arts Council is now responsible for libraries, museums and music hubs and Althea also leads on its funding relationship with 695 national portfolio arts organisations, a network of 122 music hubs across the country and 16 major partner museums services. Prior to joining the Arts Council, Althea was a director of the Department for Education’s Children and Young People’s Unit, a chief education officer who ran a Local Education Authority and also a secondary school teacher. Althea remains passionate about young people, and she leads on the Arts Council’s work on children and young people and cultural education, as well as on delivery of one the Arts Council’s main goals, which is for ‘every child and young person’ to have ‘the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts’.


Aicha McKenzie


Founder, AMCK Management, AMCK Models


Aicha’s work was all over the London Olympics, choreographing more than 400 dancers across a variety of events. through the company she founded just fi ve years ago, AMCK Dance – Europe’s largest dance agency. She also runs AMCK Models, the only exclusively male model agency in London. As the years roll on, the question to ask Aicha is not who has she worked with, but who hasn’t she? Her client list is long and impressive and includes: Beyonce, Shakira, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ricky Martin, Pharrell Williams and Robbie Williams. Aicha, a former British and Commonwealth gymnastics champion and dancer has choreographed the MTV Europe music awards, her models have been signed to a major Prada campaign and her dancers backed Rihanna at the Brit awards. AMCK supplied and cast the dancers for the musical NINE, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Dame Judi Dench. Commercially AMCK have worked with Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Byblos, Levi’s, Lee, Wrangler, Adidas and Nike, among others and as if that wasn’t enough, the company also represents makeup and hair artists, stylists, as well as stage and lighting designers.


Marc Hare Shoe designer


‘It’s about the memories of my Jamaican uncles, stopping the whole room dead with their style.” Marc Hare, founder of one of the country’s hippest and fastest growing brands in men’s footwear, his eponymous label, Mr Hare, is talking about the defi ning feature of the shoes he makes. T e concept for his brand was born in July 2008 when he was at a pretty low ebb: he had dislocated a knee, his marriage was on the rocks and he’d lost his job in marketing. He was in a bar in Spain and, for some reason, noticed what the guy sitting next to him had on his feet and, liking the shoes, decided to tweek and replicate them. To do so he went to the legendary Italian designer Siliano Salvadori, who had made his name with Bally. A couple of months later the fi rst samples were ready and his business was born. Mr Hare shoes are priced from about £400 and the collection is stocked in Harrods, Selfridges, Liberty’s and Harvey Nichols and sold in Europe, the US, South-East Asia and Moscow. Marc has just opened his own outlet in Mayfair and his customers include Tinie Tempah, Amir Khan and Robert Downey Jnr. His trademark is to name the various designs aſt er icons of music, show business and the arts, hence the T elonius Monk shoe; the Sir Coxone and King Tubby’s lace-ups and the Spector boots.


Steve McQueen Artist/director


Steve is one of Britain’s most respected and successful fi lm-makers. Four years ago he won two major awards for his debut feature fi lm Hunger. Based on the last six weeks in the life of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, the fi lm scooped the Camera d’Or in Cannes and T e Carl Foreman Special Achievement Award for fi rst-time writers/ directors at the BAFTA’s. Until then Steve had been known more as a lens-based artist than as a movie-maker. In 2011 he released his second major fi lm, Shame, a candid portrayal of the life of a sex addict, starring Michael Fassbender. Again, the fi lm was internationally acclaimed, while at the same time, because of its subject matter, it was mired in controversy. Steve’s art work has been shown in museums around the world and acquired by big institutions. He won T e Turner Prize in 1999 and has received an ICA Futures Award and an Imperial War Museum Artist Award. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale art exhibition and his project Queen and Country, for which he collaborated with more than 160 bereaved families, aims to commemorate service personnel killed in Iraq with their own postage stamps. T e work toured the UK between 2007 and 2010. He considers the work unfi nished until the Royal Mail actually issues the stamps.


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