I’ve been leading multi-disciplined creative teams for 10+ years, setting goals and communicating visions in a large matrix organisation. Always looking for creative opportunities as well as setting objectives and priorities, I'm an open leader who believes in connecting people, simplicity, and that the best content comes from the most content people. I'm driven by keeping the team
machine working whilst looking after the individuals within it.
I'm passionate not only about great creative execution, but also in finding and creating the simplest processes possible to make this happen. At the BBC I created a huge network of colleagues across all disciplines - from commissioning, through production, marketing and communications. I take great pride in weaving disciplines together to be a creative enabler and conduit so that everyone's happy working together to get the best out of each other. I’m always striving to create working relationships that focus on positivity and joined-up thinking. For me, the simplest
way of doing things is usually the smartest, and also the way that ensures happy people working collaboratively in an unencumbered way. It's also the most efficient, and gets the best value out of any project.
Sport is my passion outside of work, having played competitive tennis as a junior, and I'm a keen road cyclist, taking part in Europe-wide events to try to pretend that I'm not as old as I am. I'm also a
performing and composing musician, and can occasionally be seen appearing in the odd commercial as an 'actor'. Carl's casserole anyone?
Projects
- TAKE ON A DAYAfter being featured in local newspapers, and on BBC radio and television last year, the Take One a Day photography exhibition is back, bigger and bolder, at Lincoln’s stunning Usher Gallery this summer for two months. From 13 July 2024, an expanded collection of images by Louth photographer Paul Gutherson will be shown. These photographs tell a personal mental health story and encourage us to notice the beauty in the everyday. They will be accompanied by a film, six-foot-high portraits and the
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Projects credited in
- Comic Relief, RND 2023 Talent ShootAsset gathering shoot with photographer Jake Turney, capturing various celebrities who support Red Nose Day 2023 by wearing the new Red Nose and Mr Men merchandise, the nose was designed by Sir Jony Ive and is now available on Amazon, the new home of the Red Nose! All Mr Men Merchandise available at TK Maxx.
- That Peter Crouch PodcastTo mark the return of That Peter Crouch Podcast for Series 3, we helped Peter Crouch to prank his beloved wife, Abbey Clancy, into believing that he had got a tattoo of himself doing his iconic goal celebration – ‘The Robot’… The film sees the footballer sitting in a tattoo parlour as he video calls Abbey, to let her know. Unsurprisingly, she wasn’t best pleased.
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Work history
Photography and Visuals LeadComic Relief
London, United KingdomFull Time
Creative Director - PhotographyBBC Creative
London, United KingdomFull Time
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Education
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BA in English Literature and Classical StudiesUniversity of Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom