Who We Are
We are a collective of advocates, practitioners, and changemakers reimagining mental healthcare environments.
Founding Story
Artist Tim A Shaw MBE and Curator Niamh White MBE founded Hospital Rooms after a close friend was admitted to a mental health hospital. On visiting her, they were shocked to find the hospital environment was cold and clinical at a time when she was so vulnerable.
In 2016, Dr Emma Whicher gave them the opportunity to run their first project at the Phoenix Unit, a rehabilitation unit for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. They commissioned Nick Knight, Gavin Turk, and Assemble, among other world-class artists, to work with patients and staff to create site-specific artwork for the ward. The project received national press attention and Hospital Rooms has been inundated with requests for projects ever since.
Over the past decade, we’ve installed 222 artworks across 32 national projects, comissioning 360 artists across 65 wards and welcoming more than 5,000 participants into 1,462 creative workshops. Combining 197 indoor works and 25 outdoor works, we’ve installed approximately 10,781 m2 of artwork – the equivalent of three Tate Modern Turbine Halls!
Tim Shaw (MBE)
Co-Founder
Tim is a tall man with brown hair and eyes. He lives in London, grew up in Kent and had Welsh, Scottish and Pakistani grandparents. He has Tourettes Syndrome so has some frequent facial and body tics. His pronouns are he/him.
Tim started the charity with Niamh. He raises funds for the projects and works with the different teams on how to deliver their projects. Tim is an artist and makes installations, light sculptures and paintings. He started his career in the arts as an Art Technician and ran his own art installation company for 10 years. With Niamh, outside of Hospital Rooms, he runs an art prize for exceptional emerging artists. He authored a book called Draw & Be Happy. He eats a Mars Ice Cream every day.
Niamh White (MBE)
Co-Founder
Niamh (Pronounced Neve) is a medium height white woman with light brown hair. Her pronouns are she/her. She was born in Dublin, raised in Cornwall and now lives in London.
Niamh does something different every day but mostly loves dreaming up the future of Hospital Rooms. She builds projects, generates funding, monitors our impact and plans for the long term. Niamh is a curator who began her career on the front desk at Hauser & Wirth, worked for Nick Knight at SHOWstudio and has undertaken a variety of independent projects. She has always been fascinated by the ways in which the arts can drive social change. Niamh likes essay collections – a recent favourite is All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson. She likes getting blown around on the Cornish coast.
Meet Our Core Team
Alison Acampora
Managing Director
Louis Caseley
Project Curator
Louis is a medium-height white man with brown curly hair, his pronouns are he/him. He was born and raised in London.
As participation lead, Louis supports on running projects with a key focus on engagement and accessibility for service users and artists. Louis has worked with Hospital Rooms since 2019 having previously worked as an arts facilitator, art technician and illustrator in various settings. Louis’ favourite artist is Mike Kelley and he likes shopping on eBay.
Naomi Credé
Production Lead
Naomi is medium height with short brown hair. She was born and raised in South London. Her pronouns are she/her.
As Production Lead, Naomi manages all technical aspects of our work, from NHS mental health hospital installations to fundraising events, ensuring seamless execution across diverse environments.
Naomi joined Hospital Rooms in 2025, bringing over a decade of experience at the intersection of art, architecture, and education. She has produced research symposiums, multidisciplinary projects, exhibitions, and installations across Europe.
Naomi is also an artist working primarily with sound and text.
Phoebe Eustance
Research Consultant
Phoebe is a medium-height white non-binary person with short blonde/brown curly hair, their pronouns are they/them. They live in Peckham. As a Research Consultant, Phoebe supports the Head of Impact on a freelance basis conducting in-person qualitative and arts-based research within projects.
Phoebe has worked with Hospital Rooms since 2019 in project curation and research. Their work with Hospital Rooms has greatly influenced their PhD research, which they are currently doing at Birmingham School of Art with a full scholarship. Phoebe recently met their icon, queer theorist Judith Butler, who gave them a word of advice about pronouns: “language is a living thing” <3.
Christopher Gerhardt
Project Curator
Mariam Haddad
Production Assistant
Mattie Hartley
Senior Project Curator
Mattie (She/Her) is a medium height white woman with shoulder length blonde hair, her pronouns are she/her. She was born in West London, grew up in West Yorkshire and moved back to London after graduating.
As a Project Curator, Mattie is responsible for running our projects, working with artists, NHS Trusts, service users and community partners. Mattie took a wiggly route into the arts after studying English at university. She first worked in cultural programming and commercial partnerships, then in the delivery of partnerships (account management) within art galleries, before joining Hospital Rooms in April 2022.
Aroug Hassan
Marketing Coordinator
Aroug (she/her) is a short-statured brown woman who wears a hijab. She was born and raised in East London. She enjoys combining her graphic design skills with her south-asian heritage, to showcase interesting and exciting ideas and is eager to dive deeper into the world of social media and marketing.
Aroug has always had an interest in design for purpose and is excited to be a part of the Hospital Rooms team. Aroug is known for being a hobby collector. For her, a new week means a new hobby!
Zarina Kazi
Operations Assistant
Zarina is a short-statured brown woman with dark brown hair. She was born and raised in North West London. Zarina brings valuable experience, having tried out a range of roles since graduating – working as a gallery assistant, studio coordinator, and events coordinator across galleries, design showrooms, and architecture studios. She holds a degree in Anthropology (Political Science) from Brunel University London, where her thesis focused on an ethnographic study of the sexual and marital expectations of Pakistani women in London.
Passionate about anthropology and community impact, Zarina has also worked as a teaching assistant with SEN children in primary schools. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring the arts and deeply loves singing and songwriting.
Roisin Mennell
Marketing & Communications Manager
Roisin is a medium-height white woman with brown hair, her pronouns are she/her. She was born and raised in North Yorkshire.
Roisin joined Hospital Rooms in 2024 as the Marketing and Communications Manager, bringing with her a wealth of experience from the charity sector, fashion industry, and a women’s health startup brand. Now, she passionately aids Hospital Rooms in communicating all the remarkable work they undertake—to anyone who will listen, and even to those who won’t. When she’s not immersed in the world of design and marketing, you’ll likely find her watching Drag Race or gallivanting on a hilltop in the Lake District.
Siphiwe Mnguni
Senior Public Programmes Curator
Siphiwe is a tall Black Woman with short pixie – cut black hair. Her pronouns are she/her. She was born and raised in South – East London to Zimbabwean parents.
As Public Programmes Curator, Siphiwe is responsible for sharing the Hospital Rooms mission and thinking with local, national and international audiences. Through the developing, coordination and delivering of year round events, talks, public exhibitions and our Digital Art School platform, her mission is to reach as many people with care and creativity whilst building practices of inclusion through our unique lens. Siphiwe is a practicing artist and has worked across artist management, set design and photography before finding her home at Hospital Rooms. Siphiwe lists painters Picasso, Karl Appel and Ellen Gallagher as a few of her favourite visual artists.
Haley Moyse Fenning
Head of Impact
Haley is a white woman with (usually) tied-back auburn hair and tortoiseshell glasses. Her pronouns are she/her. She is chronically ill Disabled and was born and raised in Nottingham. As Head of Impact, Haley oversees the evaluation of our on-site projects and Digital Art School, supporting the team to measure, evidence, and demonstrate the impact of our work.
Haley began working with Hospital Rooms through a student placement scheme in 2022. She is deeply committed to creating opportunities in art for people who have been historically excluded in our field. Haley’s favourite artist is Rashid Johnson, and she gets very emotionally invested in good TV shows.
Jasmine Norton
Impact Officer
Having first joined Hospital Rooms as a Trainee, Jasmine is now an established member of the Hospital Rooms family as a Partnerships and Impact Assistant. She is passionate about community work, freedom of expression, and critical mental health perspectives.
After conducting a photography project in her final year of university, which looked at the healing perspectives of Queer People of Colour, Jasmine realised the power creativity has in stimulating important mental health discussions and intersectionality. She loves to read, listen to music, and be present with friends and family.
Freya O’Brien
Digital Art School Coordinator
Freya is a medium height white woman with shoulder length curly brown hair. She is from Worthing but now lives in London.
Freya joined Hospital Rooms on a placement year in 2022 before taking on the Digital Art School Co-ordinator role. Freya has previously worked as a Support Worker and as an Art Technician. She also makes her own art largely focused around drawing and printmaking. Freya’s favourite artist is Tacita Dean. She enjoys listening to podcasts and visiting charity shops with her friends.
Ania Patla
Head of Development
Ania is a medium-height person with blond hair, her pronouns are she/her. She is Polish-American and was born and raised in Philadelphia.
As head of partnerships, Ania works to raise funds for Hospital Rooms and seeks out exciting partnerships that help support our mission. Ania joined Hospital Rooms in 2023 and previously worked in art museums/galleries in London and in the US. Having worked in a number of museum jobs, Ania began to work in fundraising about 5 years ago. Ania’s favourite book is Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.
Richard Rawlins
Brand and Design Lead
Richard is a tall black man with black and grey hair. He was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. As Brand and Design Lead, Richard leads the Hospital Rooms visual identity, digital and print design, produces and edits video content, and oversees creative output across all channels. Richard has worked with Hospital Rooms since 2021, bringing experience as graphic designer, art director, and creative manager. He is also an artist who has shown internationally.
Tim Shaw (MBE)
Co-Founder
Tim is a tall man with brown hair and eyes. He lives in London, grew up in Kent and had Welsh, Scottish and Pakistani grandparents. He has Tourettes Syndrome so has some frequent facial and body tics. His pronouns are he/him.
Tim started the charity with Niamh. He raises funds for the projects and works with the different teams on how to deliver their projects. Tim is an artist and makes installations, light sculptures and paintings. He started his career in the arts as an Art Technician and ran his own art installation company for 10 years. With Niamh, outside of Hospital Rooms, he runs an art prize for exceptional emerging artists. He authored a book called Draw & Be Happy. He eats a Mars Ice Cream every day.
Tim Steer
Head of Curatorial
Tim is a medium build white man with light brown hair, his pronouns are he/him. He is half Swedish, born in London and grew up in Devon.
As a Senior Project Curator, Tim helps lead projects including commissioning artists, liaising with NHS Trusts and service users, as well as working with communities and partners. Tim has more than ten years experience of working in galleries, he writes for art magazines and has had a research interest in mental health for a number of years. He volunteers at Read Easy, teaching adult learners to read and enjoys cold swimming and searching for used furniture online.
Anna Testar
Senior Project Curator
Anna is a medium height white woman with longish red hair. Her pronouns are she/her. She was born and raised in London.
Anna leads on Hospital Rooms projects, working with artists, NHS staff and patients and arts and community organisations to bring art and creativity to inpatient mental health wards. Anna studied Fine Art and History of Art at university. She spent a decade working in museums and galleries before joining Hospital Rooms in August 2021. Anna’s favourite artist is Käthe Kollwitz. Having recently moved to Cornwall, she now spends all her spare time in the sea.
Niamh White (MBE)
Co-Founder
Niamh (Pronounced Neve) is a medium height white woman with light brown hair. Her pronouns are she/her. She was born in Dublin, raised in Cornwall and now lives in London.
Niamh does something different every day but mostly loves dreaming up the future of Hospital Rooms. She builds projects, generates funding, monitors our impact and plans for the long term. Niamh is a curator who began her career on the front desk at Hauser & Wirth, worked for Nick Knight at SHOWstudio and has undertaken a variety of independent projects. She has always been fascinated by the ways in which the arts can drive social change. Niamh likes essay collections – a recent favourite is All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson. She likes getting blown around on the Cornish coast.
Alison Acampora
Managing Director
Louis Caseley
Project Curator
Naomi Credé
Production Lead
Phoebe Eustance
Research Consultant
Christopher Gerhardt
Project Curator
Mariam Haddad
Production Assistant
Mattie Hartley
Senior Project Curator
Aroug Hassan
Marketing Coordinator
Zarina Kazi
Operations Assistant
Roisin Mennell
Marketing & Communications Manager
Siphiwe Mnguni
Senior Public Programmes Curator
Haley Moyse Fenning
Head of Impact
Jasmine Norton
Impact Officer
Freya O’Brien
Digital Art School Coordinator
Ania Patla
Head of Development
Richard Rawlins
Brand and Design Lead
Tim Shaw (MBE)
Co-Founder
Tim Steer
Head of Curatorial
Anna Testar
Senior Project Curator
Niamh White (MBE)
Co-Founder
Louis is a medium-height white man with brown curly hair, his pronouns are he/him. He was born and raised in London.
As participation lead, Louis supports on running projects with a key focus on engagement and accessibility for service users and artists. Louis has worked with Hospital Rooms since 2019 having previously worked as an arts facilitator, art technician and illustrator in various settings. Louis’ favourite artist is Mike Kelley and he likes shopping on eBay.
Naomi is medium height with short brown hair. She was born and raised in South London. Her pronouns are she/her.
As Production Lead, Naomi manages all technical aspects of our work, from NHS mental health hospital installations to fundraising events, ensuring seamless execution across diverse environments.
Naomi joined Hospital Rooms in 2025, bringing over a decade of experience at the intersection of art, architecture, and education. She has produced research symposiums, multidisciplinary projects, exhibitions, and installations across Europe.
Naomi is also an artist working primarily with sound and text.
Phoebe is a medium-height white non-binary person with short blonde/brown curly hair, their pronouns are they/them. They live in Peckham. As a Research Consultant, Phoebe supports the Head of Impact on a freelance basis conducting in-person qualitative and arts-based research within projects.
Phoebe has worked with Hospital Rooms since 2019 in project curation and research. Their work with Hospital Rooms has greatly influenced their PhD research, which they are currently doing at Birmingham School of Art with a full scholarship. Phoebe recently met their icon, queer theorist Judith Butler, who gave them a word of advice about pronouns: “language is a living thing” <3.
Mattie (She/Her) is a medium height white woman with shoulder length blonde hair, her pronouns are she/her. She was born in West London, grew up in West Yorkshire and moved back to London after graduating.
As a Project Curator, Mattie is responsible for running our projects, working with artists, NHS Trusts, service users and community partners. Mattie took a wiggly route into the arts after studying English at university. She first worked in cultural programming and commercial partnerships, then in the delivery of partnerships (account management) within art galleries, before joining Hospital Rooms in April 2022.
Aroug (she/her) is a short-statured brown woman who wears a hijab. She was born and raised in East London. She enjoys combining her graphic design skills with her south-asian heritage, to showcase interesting and exciting ideas and is eager to dive deeper into the world of social media and marketing.
Aroug has always had an interest in design for purpose and is excited to be a part of the Hospital Rooms team. Aroug is known for being a hobby collector. For her, a new week means a new hobby!
Zarina is a short-statured brown woman with dark brown hair. She was born and raised in North West London. Zarina brings valuable experience, having tried out a range of roles since graduating – working as a gallery assistant, studio coordinator, and events coordinator across galleries, design showrooms, and architecture studios. She holds a degree in Anthropology (Political Science) from Brunel University London, where her thesis focused on an ethnographic study of the sexual and marital expectations of Pakistani women in London.
Passionate about anthropology and community impact, Zarina has also worked as a teaching assistant with SEN children in primary schools. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring the arts and deeply loves singing and songwriting.
Roisin is a medium-height white woman with brown hair, her pronouns are she/her. She was born and raised in North Yorkshire.
Roisin joined Hospital Rooms in 2024 as the Marketing and Communications Manager, bringing with her a wealth of experience from the charity sector, fashion industry, and a women’s health startup brand. Now, she passionately aids Hospital Rooms in communicating all the remarkable work they undertake—to anyone who will listen, and even to those who won’t. When she’s not immersed in the world of design and marketing, you’ll likely find her watching Drag Race or gallivanting on a hilltop in the Lake District.
Siphiwe is a tall Black Woman with short pixie – cut black hair. Her pronouns are she/her. She was born and raised in South – East London to Zimbabwean parents.
As Public Programmes Curator, Siphiwe is responsible for sharing the Hospital Rooms mission and thinking with local, national and international audiences. Through the developing, coordination and delivering of year round events, talks, public exhibitions and our Digital Art School platform, her mission is to reach as many people with care and creativity whilst building practices of inclusion through our unique lens. Siphiwe is a practicing artist and has worked across artist management, set design and photography before finding her home at Hospital Rooms. Siphiwe lists painters Picasso, Karl Appel and Ellen Gallagher as a few of her favourite visual artists.
Haley is a white woman with (usually) tied-back auburn hair and tortoiseshell glasses. Her pronouns are she/her. She is chronically ill Disabled and was born and raised in Nottingham. As Head of Impact, Haley oversees the evaluation of our on-site projects and Digital Art School, supporting the team to measure, evidence, and demonstrate the impact of our work.
Haley began working with Hospital Rooms through a student placement scheme in 2022. She is deeply committed to creating opportunities in art for people who have been historically excluded in our field. Haley’s favourite artist is Rashid Johnson, and she gets very emotionally invested in good TV shows.
Having first joined Hospital Rooms as a Trainee, Jasmine is now an established member of the Hospital Rooms family as a Partnerships and Impact Assistant. She is passionate about community work, freedom of expression, and critical mental health perspectives.
After conducting a photography project in her final year of university, which looked at the healing perspectives of Queer People of Colour, Jasmine realised the power creativity has in stimulating important mental health discussions and intersectionality. She loves to read, listen to music, and be present with friends and family.
Freya is a medium height white woman with shoulder length curly brown hair. She is from Worthing but now lives in London.
Freya joined Hospital Rooms on a placement year in 2022 before taking on the Digital Art School Co-ordinator role. Freya has previously worked as a Support Worker and as an Art Technician. She also makes her own art largely focused around drawing and printmaking. Freya’s favourite artist is Tacita Dean. She enjoys listening to podcasts and visiting charity shops with her friends.
Ania is a medium-height person with blond hair, her pronouns are she/her. She is Polish-American and was born and raised in Philadelphia.
As head of partnerships, Ania works to raise funds for Hospital Rooms and seeks out exciting partnerships that help support our mission. Ania joined Hospital Rooms in 2023 and previously worked in art museums/galleries in London and in the US. Having worked in a number of museum jobs, Ania began to work in fundraising about 5 years ago. Ania’s favourite book is Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.
Richard is a tall black man with black and grey hair. He was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. As Brand and Design Lead, Richard leads the Hospital Rooms visual identity, digital and print design, produces and edits video content, and oversees creative output across all channels. Richard has worked with Hospital Rooms since 2021, bringing experience as graphic designer, art director, and creative manager. He is also an artist who has shown internationally.
Tim is a tall man with brown hair and eyes. He lives in London, grew up in Kent and had Welsh, Scottish and Pakistani grandparents. He has Tourettes Syndrome so has some frequent facial and body tics. His pronouns are he/him.
Tim started the charity with Niamh. He raises funds for the projects and works with the different teams on how to deliver their projects. Tim is an artist and makes installations, light sculptures and paintings. He started his career in the arts as an Art Technician and ran his own art installation company for 10 years. With Niamh, outside of Hospital Rooms, he runs an art prize for exceptional emerging artists. He authored a book called Draw & Be Happy. He eats a Mars Ice Cream every day.
Tim is a medium build white man with light brown hair, his pronouns are he/him. He is half Swedish, born in London and grew up in Devon.
As a Senior Project Curator, Tim helps lead projects including commissioning artists, liaising with NHS Trusts and service users, as well as working with communities and partners. Tim has more than ten years experience of working in galleries, he writes for art magazines and has had a research interest in mental health for a number of years. He volunteers at Read Easy, teaching adult learners to read and enjoys cold swimming and searching for used furniture online.
Anna is a medium height white woman with longish red hair. Her pronouns are she/her. She was born and raised in London.
Anna leads on Hospital Rooms projects, working with artists, NHS staff and patients and arts and community organisations to bring art and creativity to inpatient mental health wards. Anna studied Fine Art and History of Art at university. She spent a decade working in museums and galleries before joining Hospital Rooms in August 2021. Anna’s favourite artist is Käthe Kollwitz. Having recently moved to Cornwall, she now spends all her spare time in the sea.
Niamh (Pronounced Neve) is a medium height white woman with light brown hair. Her pronouns are she/her. She was born in Dublin, raised in Cornwall and now lives in London.
Niamh does something different every day but mostly loves dreaming up the future of Hospital Rooms. She builds projects, generates funding, monitors our impact and plans for the long term. Niamh is a curator who began her career on the front desk at Hauser & Wirth, worked for Nick Knight at SHOWstudio and has undertaken a variety of independent projects. She has always been fascinated by the ways in which the arts can drive social change. Niamh likes essay collections – a recent favourite is All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K Wilkinson. She likes getting blown around on the Cornish coast.
Board of Trustees
Amie Corry
Chair of Trustees
Amie (she/they) is a writer, editor and arts communications strategist. She writes on contemporary art for titles such as the Times Literary Supplement and Burlington Contemporary. She oversaw Damien Hirst’s publications and press between 2015 and 2020 and is now Director of Do Ho Suh’s publishing projects and studio. In 2019 she co-founded an inclusive literary festival called Primadonna.
In 2014, taking inspiration from Guerrilla Girls, Amie co-produced an audit of London’s galleries with the East London Fawcett Society to establish the gender disparity between the city’s exhibited artists. Impressed by Hospital Rooms’ boundary-pushing agenda and commitment to enacting change through art, she joined the board in 2019.
Rosanna Cundall
Chair of Development Committee
Rosanna has worked in executive search within the creative industries since 2009. As a partner at Saxton Bampfylde, she advises on board level and executive appointments internationally. Rosanna has volunteered with Hospital Rooms in an informal capacity since 2019, and has Chaired the Development Committee since 2022. Rosanna is passionate about the power of arts and culture to transform lives. Having spent time in NHS mental health units caring for a friend, she has seen first-hand the importance of bringing hope and dignity to these spaces. Rosanna studied Art History and Visual Studies at Manchester University.
Tom Ewing
Tom was an investment professional at Fidelity International in London for 17 years. He researched and analysed companies in the services, biotechnology & healthcare, and oil sectors before taking on responsibility for various equity funds with a focus on investing in small and medium sized growth companies in the UK. After 8 years as an equity portfolio manager he established the role of Director of Research for the rapidly growing Multi Asset division.
Having left the City to spend more time with his young children and to pursue other interests, Tom was struck by the incredible progress and inspirational achievements of the Hospital Rooms team in its early years.
Pravin Fernando
Pravin is a barrister and practices in all areas of health law and specifically in mental capacity and coronial law (mental health and medical related deaths). Prior to becoming a barrister Pravin worked in numerous mental health settings.
Pravin said, “I am absolutely thrilled to be appointed as a Trustee of Hospital Rooms and be part of this amazing charity. They do such important and enriching work. When I see some of the places that they have transformed I am simply spellbound.”
Adeola Gay
Adeola Gay is a London-based writer and currently holds the position of Curatorial Manager at Artsy. She is also the creative mind behind The Other Art Girl, an independent blog launched in 2020 to explore feminist art history and visual culture.
Before her role as a Graduate Trainee at Sotheby’s, Adeola pursued her studies in Culture, Criticism, and Curation, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Central Saint Martins. She further holds a Diploma in Communicative Chinese from SOAS, University of London. Passionate about amplifying the voices of underrepresented artists, Adeola is dedicated to making art more accessible to marginalised communities.
Lakshnie Hettihewa
Lakshnie Hettihewe is an integrative psychotherapist and anti-oppressive facilitator with NHS, private, and systems-level governance experience, Lakshnie leads innovation and partnerships at the charity brap, fostering collaboration and shared learning.
Anton Hinel
Anton Hinel is vice President of Frontier AI Research at American Express, with over 12 years’ experience in data science and a focus on solving complex problems through ethical, evidence-based approaches.
Katharine Lazenby
Katharine is an expert by experience, drawing on lived experience of mental illness, psychiatric care and inpatient hospitalisation in a variety of roles. She is an Organisational Development Practitioner at East London NHS Foundation Trust. Katharine also delivers mental health training to health and social care staff across North East London. She sits on the board of directors for the Design in Mental Health Network.
Katherine said, “Hospital Rooms not only transforms buildings, it transforms people. I have been fortunate enough to experience this first hand; my contact with the charity as a patient in 2016 altered the course of my life and I have been a passionate advocate for the organisation ever since. So it really is an honour to join Hospital Rooms as a Trustee, to support the charity to achieve its vision and continue its growth and evolution.”
Sikelela Owen
Visual artist working across painting, drawing and print, depicting friends, family and people of interest. Upcoming exhibitions include Kristin Hjellegjerde (West Palm Beach, 2026), Tiwani Contemporaries (London), Taymour Grahne (Dubai) and Michele Barbati Gallery (Venice).
Emma Wadey
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Nursing Officer at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, and former National Deputy Director for Mental Health Nursing at NHS England.
Neil Wenman
Neil Wenman is the Global Creative Director & Partner at Hauser & Wirth, based in London. He has worked on numerous international projects over the past 13 years and collaborated closely with many artists.
He is on several committees including the development committee of South London Gallery, London; the board of The Roberts Institute of Art, London; and a Trustee of Performa in New York. He has a PhD in architectural design from the Bartlett School, UCL and four post graduate Master degrees.
James Willington
James Willington is the International Group Finance Director at Gagosian. Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980. In forty years Gagosian has evolved into a global network with seventeen exhibition spaces across ten cities. Gagosian’s vibrant contemporary programme and unparalleled historical exhibitions feature the work of leading and legendary artists. James joined Gagosian in 2007 and is based in London at their gallery on Britannia Street. James focuses on the financial and fiscal management of the European and Asian galleries. Prior to joining Gagosian, James trained and worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
James is a member of the networking platform, PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market), and an associate of the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales). He is a guest lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and regular speaker at industry events. He has a BA degree in Latin and an MA degree in Roman Myth and History.
Amie Corry
Chair of Trustees
Rosanna Cundall
Chair of Development Committee
Tom Ewing
Pravin Fernando
Adeola Gay
Lakshnie Hettihewa
Anton Hinel
Katharine Lazenby
Sikelela Owen
Emma Wadey
Neil Wenman
James Willington
Amie (she/they) is a writer, editor and arts communications strategist. She writes on contemporary art for titles such as the Times Literary Supplement and Burlington Contemporary. She oversaw Damien Hirst’s publications and press between 2015 and 2020 and is now Director of Do Ho Suh’s publishing projects and studio. In 2019 she co-founded an inclusive literary festival called Primadonna.
In 2014, taking inspiration from Guerrilla Girls, Amie co-produced an audit of London’s galleries with the East London Fawcett Society to establish the gender disparity between the city’s exhibited artists. Impressed by Hospital Rooms’ boundary-pushing agenda and commitment to enacting change through art, she joined the board in 2019.
Rosanna has worked in executive search within the creative industries since 2009. As a partner at Saxton Bampfylde, she advises on board level and executive appointments internationally. Rosanna has volunteered with Hospital Rooms in an informal capacity since 2019, and has Chaired the Development Committee since 2022. Rosanna is passionate about the power of arts and culture to transform lives. Having spent time in NHS mental health units caring for a friend, she has seen first-hand the importance of bringing hope and dignity to these spaces. Rosanna studied Art History and Visual Studies at Manchester University.
Tom was an investment professional at Fidelity International in London for 17 years. He researched and analysed companies in the services, biotechnology & healthcare, and oil sectors before taking on responsibility for various equity funds with a focus on investing in small and medium sized growth companies in the UK. After 8 years as an equity portfolio manager he established the role of Director of Research for the rapidly growing Multi Asset division.
Having left the City to spend more time with his young children and to pursue other interests, Tom was struck by the incredible progress and inspirational achievements of the Hospital Rooms team in its early years.
Pravin is a barrister and practices in all areas of health law and specifically in mental capacity and coronial law (mental health and medical related deaths). Prior to becoming a barrister Pravin worked in numerous mental health settings.
Pravin said, “I am absolutely thrilled to be appointed as a Trustee of Hospital Rooms and be part of this amazing charity. They do such important and enriching work. When I see some of the places that they have transformed I am simply spellbound.”
Adeola Gay is a London-based writer and currently holds the position of Curatorial Manager at Artsy. She is also the creative mind behind The Other Art Girl, an independent blog launched in 2020 to explore feminist art history and visual culture.
Before her role as a Graduate Trainee at Sotheby’s, Adeola pursued her studies in Culture, Criticism, and Curation, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Central Saint Martins. She further holds a Diploma in Communicative Chinese from SOAS, University of London. Passionate about amplifying the voices of underrepresented artists, Adeola is dedicated to making art more accessible to marginalised communities.
Lakshnie Hettihewe is an integrative psychotherapist and anti-oppressive facilitator with NHS, private, and systems-level governance experience, Lakshnie leads innovation and partnerships at the charity brap, fostering collaboration and shared learning.
Anton Hinel is vice President of Frontier AI Research at American Express, with over 12 years’ experience in data science and a focus on solving complex problems through ethical, evidence-based approaches.
Katharine is an expert by experience, drawing on lived experience of mental illness, psychiatric care and inpatient hospitalisation in a variety of roles. She is an Organisational Development Practitioner at East London NHS Foundation Trust. Katharine also delivers mental health training to health and social care staff across North East London. She sits on the board of directors for the Design in Mental Health Network.
Katherine said, “Hospital Rooms not only transforms buildings, it transforms people. I have been fortunate enough to experience this first hand; my contact with the charity as a patient in 2016 altered the course of my life and I have been a passionate advocate for the organisation ever since. So it really is an honour to join Hospital Rooms as a Trustee, to support the charity to achieve its vision and continue its growth and evolution.”
Visual artist working across painting, drawing and print, depicting friends, family and people of interest. Upcoming exhibitions include Kristin Hjellegjerde (West Palm Beach, 2026), Tiwani Contemporaries (London), Taymour Grahne (Dubai) and Michele Barbati Gallery (Venice).
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Nursing Officer at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, and former National Deputy Director for Mental Health Nursing at NHS England.
Neil Wenman is the Global Creative Director & Partner at Hauser & Wirth, based in London. He has worked on numerous international projects over the past 13 years and collaborated closely with many artists.
He is on several committees including the development committee of South London Gallery, London; the board of The Roberts Institute of Art, London; and a Trustee of Performa in New York. He has a PhD in architectural design from the Bartlett School, UCL and four post graduate Master degrees.
James Willington is the International Group Finance Director at Gagosian. Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980. In forty years Gagosian has evolved into a global network with seventeen exhibition spaces across ten cities. Gagosian’s vibrant contemporary programme and unparalleled historical exhibitions feature the work of leading and legendary artists. James joined Gagosian in 2007 and is based in London at their gallery on Britannia Street. James focuses on the financial and fiscal management of the European and Asian galleries. Prior to joining Gagosian, James trained and worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
James is a member of the networking platform, PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market), and an associate of the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales). He is a guest lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and regular speaker at industry events. He has a BA degree in Latin and an MA degree in Roman Myth and History.
10 Year Committee
Dr Hana Abu-Hassan
Dr Hana is a GP with over a decade of experience working across primary care, urgent care, and the NHS. She trained at the University of Jordan before undertaking clinical placements at Cornell’s New York Presbyterian Hospital and Yale New Haven Hospital, and has been based in the UK since completing her GP training in 2012.
Her work has always sat at the intersection of medicine and humanity. Alongside her clinical practice, Hana specialises in global mental health and humanitarian medicine, working with refugees, torture survivors, and marginalised communities, and consulting for international NGOs in these fields. She is a published researcher, has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed works, and teaches and mentors the next generation of doctors through her roles at Imperial College NHS Trust and as a voluntary assistant professor at the University of California San Diego.
She is currently training in functional medicine with a focus on longevity, and brings a genuinely holistic lens to her patients, treating the whole person and not just the presenting condition.
Hana is proud to support Hospital Rooms as it marks its tenth anniversary. The belief that the spaces in which people receive care profoundly affect how they heal is something she knows to be true from years at the bedside, and she is passionate about championing this work.
Outside of medicine, she finds joy in art, travel, and her family, and believes, like Hospital Rooms, that beauty and humanity belong in every space where people are vulnerable.
Carmel Allen
Carmel Allen is a cultural and commercial leader with extensive experience across the arts, design, retail, and the creative industries. She has held senior executive roles at some of the UK’s most significant cultural institutions, including Tate, where she was Managing Director of Tate Galleries and CEO of Tate Enterprises, overseeing commercial, visitor-facing and public programmes across four sites.
Her career began in journalism and publishing at the Financial Times, How To Spend It, and Condé Nast titles including Vogue and Tatler, before moving into design and retail leadership. She has held senior roles at Heal’s, The Conran Shop and Linley, where she developed innovative programmes connecting craft, design and audiences, including The Modern Craft Market and the Linley Summer School of Fine Furniture, now part of King’s Foundation.
Alongside her executive career, Carmel holds a number of non-executive and advisory positions. She is a board member of Heal’s, a trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation, and works in an advisory capacity with organisations including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Messums, Compton Verney and the Museum of Fashion & Textiles. Across her work, she has consistently focused on building sustainable cultural enterprise models that balance artistic integrity, commercial resilience and social impact.
In 2003, during her own daughter’s treatment for neuroblastoma she co-founded the Kiss It Better appeal with Great Ormond Street Hospital and Estee Lauder Companies to support research into childhood cancers. As a member of the 10 Year Fundraising Committee, she is passionate about championing ambitious artistic work in mental health settings and supporting the charity’s next phase of growth and impact.
Kerry Bishop
Kerry Bishop is a cultural leader specialising in organisational strategy, design, and transformation. She has extensive experience across all aspects of leadership, from shaping strategy and leading growth to managing crises and delivering complex projects.
Kerry served as Chief Operating Officer at Frieze, leading international operations, launching Frieze Los Angeles and supporting its acquisition by Endeavor. As Executive Director of the ICA, she led the organisation through significant change, including crisis leadership during COVID. She later served as Interim-CEO of Hospital Rooms.
In 2022, Kerry founded Know Your Place. Her consultancy clients include the National Portrait Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, The Wick and Frith Street Gallery. She is also co-owner of an independent pub in Margate, The Shakespeare and Chair of Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Enterprise Board.
Kate Bryan
Kate Bryan is a curator, writer and arts broadcaster. Since 2016 she has overseen the global art collection for the creative private member club, Soho House which numbers 11,000 works on permanent display across 18 countries. She is passionate about making art accessible and in 2025 published How to Art with David Shrigley, her third book aimed at demystifying art. Since 2013 she has written and presented television programmes for BBC and Sky Arts and for over a decade was a Judge on the beloved shows Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year.
Janine Catalano
Janine is an independent culture sector consultant and strategist, supporting institutions and individuals with philanthropy and fundraising, partnerships, and planning. She has worked across development and stakeholder engagement in the arts for nearly two decades, having held positions at Whitechapel Gallery, the Courtauld, the Royal Academy of Arts, City & Guilds of London Art School and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She also serves as a Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary and on the Advisory Board of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from New York and based in London, Janine completed a BA at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she developed a particular interest in the intersection between art and food.
Janine is committed to bringing art into public spaces, and has a deep-rooted interest in mental health provision. She feels privileged to have been on the Hospital Rooms Development Committee since 2022, and is happy to continue to bring these beliefs together by serving on the Hospital Rooms 10th Anniversary Committee.
John Cavanagh
During his 25-year career, John Cavanagh enjoyed establishing and leading a variety of successful businesses for financial services companies in New York and London. Acting as a financing and capital markets specialist, he advised a broad range of corporations, financial institutions, and government entities. Along with currently serving as the board treasurer for a London-based contemporary arts
organisation, John is a non-executive director of a global infrastructure, transportation, and environmental consulting firm. He has been a supporter and patron of Hospital Rooms since 2022.
Amie Corry
Chair of Trustees
Amie (she/they) is a writer, editor and arts communications strategist. She writes on contemporary art for titles such as the Times Literary Supplement and Burlington Contemporary. She oversaw Damien Hirst’s publications and press between 2015 and 2020 and is now Director of Do Ho Suh’s publishing projects and studio. In 2019 she co-founded an inclusive literary festival called Primadonna.
In 2014, taking inspiration from Guerrilla Girls, Amie co-produced an audit of London’s galleries with the East London Fawcett Society to establish the gender disparity between the city’s exhibited artists. Impressed by Hospital Rooms’ boundary-pushing agenda and commitment to enacting change through art, she joined the board in 2019.
Rosanna Cundall
Chair of Development Committee
Rosanna has worked in executive search within the creative industries since 2009. As a partner at Saxton Bampfylde, she advises on board level and executive appointments internationally. Rosanna has volunteered with Hospital Rooms in an informal capacity since 2019, and has Chaired the Development Committee since 2022. Rosanna is passionate about the power of arts and culture to transform lives. Having spent time in NHS mental health units caring for a friend, she has seen first-hand the importance of bringing hope and dignity to these spaces. Rosanna studied Art History and Visual Studies at Manchester University.
Giles Deacon
Giles Deacon is a London-based fashion designer, Creative Director, and illustrator known for his distinctive fusion of fashion, fine art and theatre.
Renowned for his masterfully crafted pieces, Giles works exclusively with Britian’s finest mills, weavers and makers creating designs that celebrate the country’s long-standing traditions of artistry and craftsmanship.
His work is worn and collected by private clients, red carpets figures and royalty alike, with designs held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Since 2023, Giles has served as Creative Director for the British sporting heritage house James Purdey & Sons, united craftsmanship, material integrity, innovation and British excellence.
A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Giles received the British Fashion Designer of the Year award in 2007 and continues to lecture and mentor at leading institutions including Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.
He actively supports and collaborates with a number of charities including Hospital Rooms, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Shelter, Save the Children and Comic Relief.
David Field
David Field is a strategist and consultant with more than 20 years’ experience of working with cultural organisations and a focus on bespoke, high-level and long-term communications support for creative businesses. His clients include art fairs, brands, commercial galleries and publishing houses in the UK, Europe, the Gulf and Asia.
In 2025 David founded Creative Freedoms Collective, a global membership organisation focused on creating connection, community and opportunities for those working independently in the creative industries, including entrepreneurs, freelancers and the freelance-curious.
Adeola Gay
Adeola Gay is a London-based writer and currently holds the position of Curatorial Manager at Artsy. She is also the creative mind behind The Other Art Girl, an independent blog launched in 2020 to explore feminist art history and visual culture.
Before her role as a Graduate Trainee at Sotheby’s, Adeola pursued her studies in Culture, Criticism, and Curation, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Central Saint Martins. She further holds a Diploma in Communicative Chinese from SOAS, University of London. Passionate about amplifying the voices of underrepresented artists, Adeola is dedicated to making art more accessible to marginalised communities.
Rachel Kent
Charlotte Maxwell
Charlotte is Chief of Staff at White Cube, where she has worked for the past eight years. Based in London, her role centres around people, culture and how the organisation grows – from supporting teams across the gallery to shaping internal communications and recently launching White Cube’s new internship programme.
Alongside her work in the art world, Charlotte is an integrative psychotherapist, having just graduated from Regent’s University, London. She runs a private practice, seeing clients alongside her role at the gallery, and is deeply interested in how relationships, creativity and environments shape mental health and wellbeing.
Charlotte also holds an MA in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh. Passionate about the meeting point between art and mental health, she is really excited to be joining Hospital Rooms’ 10 Year Committee.
James Norton
James Norton is an award-nominated British actor whose work spans television, film, and theatre. He is widely known for his performances in acclaimed series such as Happy Valley, Grantchester, War & Peace, and McMafia, and has appeared in a range of feature films and major stage productions in the UK. A graduate of the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he has received critical recognition for a body of work spanning major television dramas and stage productions.
Péjú Oshin
From 2022 to 2025, Péjú held the role of Associate Director at Gagosian gallery, where she played an important role in expanding curatorial and public facing initiatives as well as advising clients and making sales. In 2018 to 2022, Péjú served as Curator of Young People’s Programmes at Tate, where she developed large-scale national and international initiatives that reached new and diverse audiences across Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She previously served as Chair of Trustees at Peckham Platform, leading the organisation through a period of strategic renewal and expansion.
With a foundation in Architecture and Design, Péjú brings a spatial and structural intelligence to her curatorial work. She holds a PgCert in Academic Practice from the University of the Arts London, is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), and has lectured across Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Art, and other leading universities.
As a writer, Péjú has contributed essays and interviews for institutions and publications including Gagosian Quarterly, Financial Times HTSI, and Serpentine Galleries, with her texts reaching a readership of more than half a million worldwide. Her debut book, Between Words & Space (2021), blends poetry and prose to explore the relationship between language, form, and identity.
Beyond exhibitions and writing, Péjú is a sought-after speaker and mentor, having chaired and delivered talks for the BBC, Financial Times Weekend Festival, Google, Byredo, and Cheltenham Literature Festival, among others. She has served as a judge for awards and initiatives including ING Discerning Eye (2023), JW Anderson × AWITA (2022), Huxley-Parlour’s fourbythree (2021), and The Other Art Fair (2021) — further demonstrating her influence in shaping cultural discourse.
Recognised for her impact and leadership, Péjú was shortlisted for Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Arts & Culture) and named one of AWITA’s Fifteen Rising Stars (2021). She currently serves as Associate Director at Gagosian, Trustee of the Yinka Ilori Foundation, Trustee of Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Associate Patron of The Photographers’ Gallery, and a member of the Art Fund Curatorial Diversity Steering Group.
Her career reflects a consistent ability to deliver projects of cultural, critical, and commercial value — making her a trusted collaborator for institutions and brands seeking to engage audiences with depth, authenticity, and style.
Charlene Prempeh
Charlene Prempeh is the founder of A Vibe Called Tech, a creative agency and art consultancy that is dedicated to approaching creativity through an intersectional lens. Charlene is also a Financial Times HTSI columnist and contributing editor who writes about design, travel, and culture.
After studying PPE at Oxford University, she began a career in marketing and worked at some of the UK’s most prominent media platforms and art institutions, including the BBC, The Guardian, and Frieze. More recently, she launched A Vibe Called Tech to encourage a culturally diverse lens in design, technology, arts, and culture by spearheading partnerships, events, research, and workshops across London and through her journalism and consultancy work.
Charlene currently consults for the Royal Academy of Arts, is a Non-Executive Director on the Tate Enterprise board, a trustee for Contemporary Arts Society and Turner Contemporary and Committee Chair for Frieze Connect.
Charlene’s debut book, Now You See Me: 100 Years of Black Design, was published in October 2023 and she is curating her first institutional exhibition at London Design Museum in November 2026.
Neil Wenman
Neil Wenman is the Global Creative Director & Partner at Hauser & Wirth, based in London. He has worked on numerous international projects over the past 13 years and collaborated closely with many artists.
He is on several committees including the development committee of South London Gallery, London; the board of The Roberts Institute of Art, London; and a Trustee of Performa in New York. He has a PhD in architectural design from the Bartlett School, UCL and four post graduate Master degrees.
Dr Hana Abu-Hassan
Carmel Allen
Kerry Bishop
Kate Bryan
Janine Catalano
John Cavanagh
Amie Corry
Chair of Trustees
Rosanna Cundall
Chair of Development Committee
Giles Deacon
David Field
Adeola Gay
Rachel Kent
Charlotte Maxwell
James Norton
Péjú Oshin
Charlene Prempeh
Neil Wenman
Dr Hana is a GP with over a decade of experience working across primary care, urgent care, and the NHS. She trained at the University of Jordan before undertaking clinical placements at Cornell’s New York Presbyterian Hospital and Yale New Haven Hospital, and has been based in the UK since completing her GP training in 2012.
Her work has always sat at the intersection of medicine and humanity. Alongside her clinical practice, Hana specialises in global mental health and humanitarian medicine, working with refugees, torture survivors, and marginalised communities, and consulting for international NGOs in these fields. She is a published researcher, has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed works, and teaches and mentors the next generation of doctors through her roles at Imperial College NHS Trust and as a voluntary assistant professor at the University of California San Diego.
She is currently training in functional medicine with a focus on longevity, and brings a genuinely holistic lens to her patients, treating the whole person and not just the presenting condition.
Hana is proud to support Hospital Rooms as it marks its tenth anniversary. The belief that the spaces in which people receive care profoundly affect how they heal is something she knows to be true from years at the bedside, and she is passionate about championing this work.
Outside of medicine, she finds joy in art, travel, and her family, and believes, like Hospital Rooms, that beauty and humanity belong in every space where people are vulnerable.
Carmel Allen is a cultural and commercial leader with extensive experience across the arts, design, retail, and the creative industries. She has held senior executive roles at some of the UK’s most significant cultural institutions, including Tate, where she was Managing Director of Tate Galleries and CEO of Tate Enterprises, overseeing commercial, visitor-facing and public programmes across four sites.
Her career began in journalism and publishing at the Financial Times, How To Spend It, and Condé Nast titles including Vogue and Tatler, before moving into design and retail leadership. She has held senior roles at Heal’s, The Conran Shop and Linley, where she developed innovative programmes connecting craft, design and audiences, including The Modern Craft Market and the Linley Summer School of Fine Furniture, now part of King’s Foundation.
Alongside her executive career, Carmel holds a number of non-executive and advisory positions. She is a board member of Heal’s, a trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation, and works in an advisory capacity with organisations including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Messums, Compton Verney and the Museum of Fashion & Textiles. Across her work, she has consistently focused on building sustainable cultural enterprise models that balance artistic integrity, commercial resilience and social impact.
In 2003, during her own daughter’s treatment for neuroblastoma she co-founded the Kiss It Better appeal with Great Ormond Street Hospital and Estee Lauder Companies to support research into childhood cancers. As a member of the 10 Year Fundraising Committee, she is passionate about championing ambitious artistic work in mental health settings and supporting the charity’s next phase of growth and impact.
Kerry Bishop is a cultural leader specialising in organisational strategy, design, and transformation. She has extensive experience across all aspects of leadership, from shaping strategy and leading growth to managing crises and delivering complex projects.
Kerry served as Chief Operating Officer at Frieze, leading international operations, launching Frieze Los Angeles and supporting its acquisition by Endeavor. As Executive Director of the ICA, she led the organisation through significant change, including crisis leadership during COVID. She later served as Interim-CEO of Hospital Rooms.
In 2022, Kerry founded Know Your Place. Her consultancy clients include the National Portrait Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, The Wick and Frith Street Gallery. She is also co-owner of an independent pub in Margate, The Shakespeare and Chair of Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Enterprise Board.
Kate Bryan is a curator, writer and arts broadcaster. Since 2016 she has overseen the global art collection for the creative private member club, Soho House which numbers 11,000 works on permanent display across 18 countries. She is passionate about making art accessible and in 2025 published How to Art with David Shrigley, her third book aimed at demystifying art. Since 2013 she has written and presented television programmes for BBC and Sky Arts and for over a decade was a Judge on the beloved shows Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year.
Janine is an independent culture sector consultant and strategist, supporting institutions and individuals with philanthropy and fundraising, partnerships, and planning. She has worked across development and stakeholder engagement in the arts for nearly two decades, having held positions at Whitechapel Gallery, the Courtauld, the Royal Academy of Arts, City & Guilds of London Art School and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She also serves as a Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary and on the Advisory Board of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from New York and based in London, Janine completed a BA at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she developed a particular interest in the intersection between art and food.
Janine is committed to bringing art into public spaces, and has a deep-rooted interest in mental health provision. She feels privileged to have been on the Hospital Rooms Development Committee since 2022, and is happy to continue to bring these beliefs together by serving on the Hospital Rooms 10th Anniversary Committee.
During his 25-year career, John Cavanagh enjoyed establishing and leading a variety of successful businesses for financial services companies in New York and London. Acting as a financing and capital markets specialist, he advised a broad range of corporations, financial institutions, and government entities. Along with currently serving as the board treasurer for a London-based contemporary arts
organisation, John is a non-executive director of a global infrastructure, transportation, and environmental consulting firm. He has been a supporter and patron of Hospital Rooms since 2022.
Amie (she/they) is a writer, editor and arts communications strategist. She writes on contemporary art for titles such as the Times Literary Supplement and Burlington Contemporary. She oversaw Damien Hirst’s publications and press between 2015 and 2020 and is now Director of Do Ho Suh’s publishing projects and studio. In 2019 she co-founded an inclusive literary festival called Primadonna.
In 2014, taking inspiration from Guerrilla Girls, Amie co-produced an audit of London’s galleries with the East London Fawcett Society to establish the gender disparity between the city’s exhibited artists. Impressed by Hospital Rooms’ boundary-pushing agenda and commitment to enacting change through art, she joined the board in 2019.
Rosanna has worked in executive search within the creative industries since 2009. As a partner at Saxton Bampfylde, she advises on board level and executive appointments internationally. Rosanna has volunteered with Hospital Rooms in an informal capacity since 2019, and has Chaired the Development Committee since 2022. Rosanna is passionate about the power of arts and culture to transform lives. Having spent time in NHS mental health units caring for a friend, she has seen first-hand the importance of bringing hope and dignity to these spaces. Rosanna studied Art History and Visual Studies at Manchester University.
Giles Deacon is a London-based fashion designer, Creative Director, and illustrator known for his distinctive fusion of fashion, fine art and theatre.
Renowned for his masterfully crafted pieces, Giles works exclusively with Britian’s finest mills, weavers and makers creating designs that celebrate the country’s long-standing traditions of artistry and craftsmanship.
His work is worn and collected by private clients, red carpets figures and royalty alike, with designs held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Since 2023, Giles has served as Creative Director for the British sporting heritage house James Purdey & Sons, united craftsmanship, material integrity, innovation and British excellence.
A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Giles received the British Fashion Designer of the Year award in 2007 and continues to lecture and mentor at leading institutions including Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.
He actively supports and collaborates with a number of charities including Hospital Rooms, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Shelter, Save the Children and Comic Relief.
David Field is a strategist and consultant with more than 20 years’ experience of working with cultural organisations and a focus on bespoke, high-level and long-term communications support for creative businesses. His clients include art fairs, brands, commercial galleries and publishing houses in the UK, Europe, the Gulf and Asia.
In 2025 David founded Creative Freedoms Collective, a global membership organisation focused on creating connection, community and opportunities for those working independently in the creative industries, including entrepreneurs, freelancers and the freelance-curious.
Adeola Gay is a London-based writer and currently holds the position of Curatorial Manager at Artsy. She is also the creative mind behind The Other Art Girl, an independent blog launched in 2020 to explore feminist art history and visual culture.
Before her role as a Graduate Trainee at Sotheby’s, Adeola pursued her studies in Culture, Criticism, and Curation, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Central Saint Martins. She further holds a Diploma in Communicative Chinese from SOAS, University of London. Passionate about amplifying the voices of underrepresented artists, Adeola is dedicated to making art more accessible to marginalised communities.
Charlotte is Chief of Staff at White Cube, where she has worked for the past eight years. Based in London, her role centres around people, culture and how the organisation grows – from supporting teams across the gallery to shaping internal communications and recently launching White Cube’s new internship programme.
Alongside her work in the art world, Charlotte is an integrative psychotherapist, having just graduated from Regent’s University, London. She runs a private practice, seeing clients alongside her role at the gallery, and is deeply interested in how relationships, creativity and environments shape mental health and wellbeing.
Charlotte also holds an MA in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh. Passionate about the meeting point between art and mental health, she is really excited to be joining Hospital Rooms’ 10 Year Committee.
James Norton is an award-nominated British actor whose work spans television, film, and theatre. He is widely known for his performances in acclaimed series such as Happy Valley, Grantchester, War & Peace, and McMafia, and has appeared in a range of feature films and major stage productions in the UK. A graduate of the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he has received critical recognition for a body of work spanning major television dramas and stage productions.
From 2022 to 2025, Péjú held the role of Associate Director at Gagosian gallery, where she played an important role in expanding curatorial and public facing initiatives as well as advising clients and making sales. In 2018 to 2022, Péjú served as Curator of Young People’s Programmes at Tate, where she developed large-scale national and international initiatives that reached new and diverse audiences across Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She previously served as Chair of Trustees at Peckham Platform, leading the organisation through a period of strategic renewal and expansion.
With a foundation in Architecture and Design, Péjú brings a spatial and structural intelligence to her curatorial work. She holds a PgCert in Academic Practice from the University of the Arts London, is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), and has lectured across Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Art, and other leading universities.
As a writer, Péjú has contributed essays and interviews for institutions and publications including Gagosian Quarterly, Financial Times HTSI, and Serpentine Galleries, with her texts reaching a readership of more than half a million worldwide. Her debut book, Between Words & Space (2021), blends poetry and prose to explore the relationship between language, form, and identity.
Beyond exhibitions and writing, Péjú is a sought-after speaker and mentor, having chaired and delivered talks for the BBC, Financial Times Weekend Festival, Google, Byredo, and Cheltenham Literature Festival, among others. She has served as a judge for awards and initiatives including ING Discerning Eye (2023), JW Anderson × AWITA (2022), Huxley-Parlour’s fourbythree (2021), and The Other Art Fair (2021) — further demonstrating her influence in shaping cultural discourse.
Recognised for her impact and leadership, Péjú was shortlisted for Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Arts & Culture) and named one of AWITA’s Fifteen Rising Stars (2021). She currently serves as Associate Director at Gagosian, Trustee of the Yinka Ilori Foundation, Trustee of Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Associate Patron of The Photographers’ Gallery, and a member of the Art Fund Curatorial Diversity Steering Group.
Her career reflects a consistent ability to deliver projects of cultural, critical, and commercial value — making her a trusted collaborator for institutions and brands seeking to engage audiences with depth, authenticity, and style.
Charlene Prempeh is the founder of A Vibe Called Tech, a creative agency and art consultancy that is dedicated to approaching creativity through an intersectional lens. Charlene is also a Financial Times HTSI columnist and contributing editor who writes about design, travel, and culture.
After studying PPE at Oxford University, she began a career in marketing and worked at some of the UK’s most prominent media platforms and art institutions, including the BBC, The Guardian, and Frieze. More recently, she launched A Vibe Called Tech to encourage a culturally diverse lens in design, technology, arts, and culture by spearheading partnerships, events, research, and workshops across London and through her journalism and consultancy work.
Charlene currently consults for the Royal Academy of Arts, is a Non-Executive Director on the Tate Enterprise board, a trustee for Contemporary Arts Society and Turner Contemporary and Committee Chair for Frieze Connect.
Charlene’s debut book, Now You See Me: 100 Years of Black Design, was published in October 2023 and she is curating her first institutional exhibition at London Design Museum in November 2026.
Neil Wenman is the Global Creative Director & Partner at Hauser & Wirth, based in London. He has worked on numerous international projects over the past 13 years and collaborated closely with many artists.
He is on several committees including the development committee of South London Gallery, London; the board of The Roberts Institute of Art, London; and a Trustee of Performa in New York. He has a PhD in architectural design from the Bartlett School, UCL and four post graduate Master degrees.