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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to instruct Arts Council England to retreat from the impresario role it has recently chosen and reinstate artists as key decision makers within the organisation. More details
Submitted by Jonathan Holloway – Deadline to sign up by: 16 June 2009 – Signatures: 27
More details from petition creator
Arts Council England has recently abandoned the “arm’s length policy” and is now shaping the artistic landscape according to fashion and its own “strategic objectives”. As a precursor to this it abolished artist peer panels and monitoring, and officers are now answerable only to themselves. We urge the government to take a firm hand on this issue. We want to see a reassertion of respect for the artist and a perspective that assumes the practitioner to be at the centre of artistic process in all disciplines. We want to see peer panels and monitoring reinstated as soon as is practically possible.
Current signatories
Jonathan Holloway, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Louise Fullerton
- Sarah Vernon
- Graeme Rose
- Peter Cox
- Xavier Leret
- Marie Lane
- Eric Lane
- Tina Barnes
- Ruth Mulandi
- Juri Evald Gabriel
- Ralf Higgins
- Jordan Whyte
- Liz Leyshon
- Richard Osborne
- Alastair Boag
- Kathryn Francis
- David Duchin
- Peter Kerrigan
- paul matosic
- Edward Kemp
- John Walton
- deborah sawane
- Jamie Griffiths
- Matt Burlington
- Jill Lamede
- TIM EVANS
