About
Animate Projects Limited is a UK-based, not-for-profit arts organisation, developing initiatives that explore the relationship between art and animation, and the place of animation and its concepts in contemporary art practice. We offer artists a unique space to create work and develop initiatives that allow an international audience to engage with the work via broadcast, gallery, cinema and online.
Animate Projects is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by Channel 4.
Abigail Addison
Manager
Abigail is in charge of administration, and heads up marketing, merchandising and online presence. She is production co-ordinator for AnimateTV and online content. Abigail joined Animate Projects from the UK Film Council’s Strategic Development Unit, where she coordinated the Film in the Digital Age consultation and publication. Before that she worked at the Visual Arts Department, Arts Council England National Office on projects that included Turning Point and Architecture Week, and the Artists’ Moving Image Legacy and Learning initiative.
abigail@animateprojects.org
Jacqui Davies
Co-Director
Jacqui leads on the commissioning programme, supporting artists in the development, production and delivery of their work, and producing and directing the AnimateTV programme. Her extensive experience as a producer of artists’ projects includes four film works by Mark Wallinger among them Hymn (1997) and Prometheus (1999). She has also produced animated films, including The Cunning Little Vixen (2003) - a feature length animated opera for the BBC and Arte - and the Paul McCartney Music and Animation Collection for Miramax/Disney. She established and heads a programme of professional development advice surgeries for artists for Film London's Artists’ Moving Image Network.
jacqui@animateprojects.org
Gary Thomas
Co-Director
Gary leads on the distribution programme, developing new exhibition opportunities and curatorial initiatives. Previously, as Head of Moving Image at Arts Council England, he initiated the Single-Shot and Necessary Journeys projects with the BFI and the UK Film Council, and the Artists’ Moving Image Legacy and Learning programme. Consultancy includes work with the Brighton Film Festival and the Crossing Boundaries report on media centres (with Tom Fleming Associates) for the UK Film Council. He is on the advisory board of no.w.here Lab, chair of LUX, and a specialist advisor to the Scottish Arts Council. He makes films with Tim Shore, including Cabinet (second prize transmediale.07, and Burlesque (a Capture commission, in production).
gary@animateprojects.org
Advisory Board
Karen Alexander, Arts Consultant
Keith Griffiths, Film Producer, Illuminations
Caroline Smith, Administrative Director, Film Video Umbrella
Chris O'Reilly, Producer, NEXUS Productions
Benjamin Cook, Director, LUX
Adam Pugh, Director, Aurora Festival
Alison Craighead, Artist
Kirsty Ogg, Director, The Showroom
Ziba de Weck, Director, Parasol Unit
Ian White, Adjunct Curator, Whitechapel, Writer and Artist
Irene Kotlarz, Festival Director, Platform International Animation Festival