Claire Doherty

Doherty was curator of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and FACT in Liverpool before becoming the founder director in 2002 of Situations,{{cite web|url=http://www.situations.org.uk/about/|publisher= Situations| title=About| access-date=18 February 2019}} Bristol-based international arts commissioning and producing organisation. Situations' projects over a 15-year period included Theaster Gates' first UK public project Sanctum in Bristol;{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/30/theaster-gates-sanctum-situations-a-month-open-mike-fun-bristol|title=552 hours of surprises: artist brings open-mic mayhem to Bristol|last=Searle|first=Adrian|date=2015-10-30|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-02-17|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} Philip Hoare's The Tale, a multi-site, cross-artform site-specific project in Torbay;{{Cite web |title=The Tale |url=https://www.situations.org.uk/projects/the-tale/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Situations |language=en}} and One Day Sculpture across five cities in New Zealand.{{Cite journal|url=https://frieze.com/article/one-day-sculpture|title= One Day Sculpture|last=Delany|first=Max|date=16 June 2009|issue= 124|journal=Frieze|access-date=19 February 2019}}

She was Director of Arnolfini, centre for contemporary arts, in Bristol, England, from 2017–18. Doherty led the organisation through an 18-month transition following the loss of its Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) status, which occurred before Doherty's arrival in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/blog/arnolfini-announce-appointment-of-situations2019-claire-doherty-as-new-director-of-arnolfini-from-1st-august-2017-1|title=Arnolfini announce appointment of Situations' Claire Doherty as new Director of Arnolfini from 1st August 2017|publisher=Arnolfini|access-date=15 March 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bristol247.com/culture/art/arnolfini-subsidiary-charity-uwe-bristol/|title=Arnolfini to become subsidiary charity of UWE Bristol|date=2019-01-28|website=Bristol 24/7|language=en|access-date=2019-02-17}} The transformation included Arnolfini's most successful exhibition until then – Grayson Perry's The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jan/01/bristols-once-troubled-arnolfini-gallery-starts-to-pull-in-the-crowds|title=Bristol's once troubled Arnolfini gallery starts to pull in the crowds|last=Brown|first=Mark |date=1 January 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-02-17 }} – and the Imagine New Rules campaign to reimagine a 21st-century arts organisation.{{cite web |title=Imagine New Rules |url=https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/programme/image-new-rules |publisher=Arnolfini |access-date=18 February 2019}} Doherty's cross-artform programme at Arnolfini during the transition period included: Eclipse Theatre's Black Men Walking,{{Cite news |last=Minamore |first=Bridget |date=2018-01-23 |title=Black Men Walking: a hilly hike through 500 years of black British history |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jan/23/black-men-walking-royal-exchange-manchester-testament |access-date=2024-02-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} In Between Time's We are Warriors,{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Helen |date=2018-11-26 |title=We Are Warriors |url=https://inbetweentime.co.uk/we-are-warriors/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=In Between Time |language=en}} Black Girl Convention,{{Cite web |title=Black Girl Convention |url=https://www.blackgirlconvention.com/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Black Girl Convention |language=en-US}} Don't Tell Your Mother{{Cite web |title=PARTY {{!}} Don't Tell Your Mother |url=https://arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/party-dont-tell-your-mother/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Arnolfini |language=en-GB}} and Creative Youth Network.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-27 |title=Creative Youth Network |url=https://www.creativeyouthnetwork.org.uk/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Creative Youth Network |language=en}} Doherty also oversaw the establishment of Now or Never, youth-led creative studio{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} and two Inspiring Women in the Arts mentoring events in Bristol.{{cite web| publisher=Arnolfini|url=https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/pressforprogress-inspiring-women|title=#PressForProgress Inspiring Women| access-date=19 February 2019 }}

Doherty was a Trustee of Artes Mundi, Cardiff, the international biennial art exhibition and prize.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}

She was Creative Director and Executive Director of GALWAD, for the National Theatre Wales.{{cite web |title=Festival UK* 2022 |url=https://www.nationaltheatrewales.org/festival-uk-2022/ |website=National Theatre Wales |access-date=4 March 2021 |date=16 November 2020}}

In 2009, Doherty was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award for Outstanding Cultural Entrepreneurs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.phf.org.uk/case-studies/claire-doherty/|publisher=Paul Hamlyn Foundation|title=Case Study: Claire Doherty |access-date=19 February 2019}}

In 2015 Doherty was appointed MBE 'For services to the Arts in South West England'.{{cite web|title=Situations Director Claire Doherty awarded MBE in New Year Honours|url=http://www.situations.org.uk/claire-doherty-director-mbe/|publisher=Situations|access-date=15 March 2018}}{{cite news|title=Ms Claire DOHERTY|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2454449|access-date=15 March 2018|work=London Gazette|issue=61450|date=31 December 2015}}

In 2018 the Bristol Post included her in its list of "The 100 most influential women in the West [of England]".{{cite news|title=The 100 most influential women in the West|url=https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/who-wests-most-influential-woman-1309449|access-date=15 March 2018|work=Bristol Post|date=8 March 2018}}

• {{Cite book|title=Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art Now|last=Doherty|first=Claire|publisher=Art/Books|year=2015|isbn=9781908970176|location=London}}
• {{Cite book|title=Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation|last=Doherty|first=Claire|publisher=Black Dog Publishing Ltd|year=2004|isbn=1904772064|location=London}}
• {{Cite book|title=Situation|last=Doherty|first=Claire|publisher=Whitechapel Gallery|year=2009|isbn=978-0854881734|location=London}}

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