Mark Davy

Founder

Mark Davy set up Futurecity in 2001 to respond to the burgeoning interest in culture and regeneration. Under his stewardship the agency now has over 30 clients in the property industry and around 100 live projects, including cultural planning supporting the regeneration of towns and cities; cultural programmes designed to provide real identity for brownfield sites; and ambitious public art and creative industry programmes.

Michael Petry

Associate Curator & Advisor

Dr Michael Petry is an American artist, curator and author who has lived in London since 1981. He is a Doctor in Arts and the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) London and Curator of the Royal Academy Schools Gallery.  His books include  Installation in the New Millennium (2003), and The Art of Not Making: The New Artist Artisan Relationship (2012) for Thames & Hudson and Hidden Histories. In 2010 he became the first Artist in Residence at Sir John Soane’s Museum, exhibiting two bodies of work, published as Smoke & Mirrors(2011). He will have a one man show The Touch of the Oracle at the Palm Springs Art Museum in March 2012 and Thames & Hudson will distribute the new monograph on his work.

Colin Ledwith

Director, Strategy

Colin works with the potency of culture in the public realm to enrich experience and engagement with the built environment. Primarily developing public realm cultural strategy, he helps clients understand how real creative places work, and addresses change in place as a positive and inclusive community process.

Nicky Petto

Project Manager

Nicky manages the delivery of embedded art commissions, festivals, events and meanwhile projects in the public realm.  She also contributes to the research and development of new cultural strategies and public art delivery plans.

Colin Tweedy, LVO, OBE

Chairman

Colin Tweedy has been Chief Executive of Arts & Business since 1983. He is Chairman of CEREC (Comité Européen pour le Rapprochement de l’Economie et de la Culture). Colin is a Trustee of the Headlong Theatre, the Mariinsky Theatre Trust, the Serpentine Gallery and The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts. He is also a director of The Ideas Foundation, a Council member of the National Musicians Symphony Orchestra and a Governor of the University for the Creative Arts.

He was elected a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute (2002) and was awarded Hollis Sponsorship Personality of the Year (2003).  Colin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). In 2000 he received an OBE for services to business partnerships with the arts in The Queen’s Birthday Honours and became A Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2003.

Colin Tweedy was born in 1953 and has a Master of Arts from St Catherine’s College Oxford.  He was Manager of the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead 1976-78; Corporate Finance Officer, Guinness Mahon Merchant Bank 1978-80 and Assistant Director, Streets Financial Public Relations 1980-83.  He has been a Freeman of the City of London since 1978.

Andy Robinson

Head of Cambridge Office

Andy creates and leads a diverse portfolio of placemaking programmes in Cambridge, successfully integrating client and local authority aspirations with the city’s wider vision for innovation and growth. He transforms strategic thinking into deliverable programmes of public art commissions and cultural partnerships, building and integrating new communities across the city.

Lucy Tyler

Director of Public Realm

Lucy manages the development and delivery of Futurecity’s public realm art commissions and cultural partnerships in London and the UK. Working with national and international contemporary artists to render Futurecity’s strategic placemaking approach into deliverable programmes, she promotes partnerships between the private sector and cultural institutions in order to animate and populate the built environment.