Our South Kensington headquarters is managed by a team of specialists who bring together a wide range of valuable skills and experience.
Dr Stephen Deuchar
Director
Dr Stephen Deuchar joined the Art Fund in January 2010 having previously served as the founding Director of Tate Britain since 1998. In his first months, Stephen oversaw the successful £3.3million campaign to save the Staffordshire Hoard – the largest Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever found. Major commissions such as Peter Randall-Page’s Walking the Dog Antony Gormley’s 6 Times were also unveiled. Under his directorship, the Art Fund has contributed to several major acquisitions including the joint collection of recent Middle Eastern Photography for the V&A and British Museum and the archive of writer Mervyn Peake for the British Library.
He continues to lead and develop the Art Fund’s programme, which currently includes sponsorship of the Art Fund Prize, the UK tour of ARTIST ROOMS, Art Fund Collect, and the regional collecting initiative Art Fund International.
During his time at Tate, Stephen Deuchar worked closely with the Art Fund on a number of fundraising fronts, including the campaign to secure Rubens’s Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling, towards which the Art Fund contributed £600,000. He also took a central role in the Art Fund’s successful campaign to acquire Turner’s Blue Rigi for Tate Britain in 2007.
Prior to working at Tate he spent 12 years as a curator and exhibitions director at the National Maritime Museum. Educated at the universities of Southampton, London and Yale, Stephen Deuchar has a strong interest in contemporary art and is a specialist in 18th-century British art.
His publications include Sporting art in eighteenth-century England: a social and political history (Yale University Press, 1988).
Stephen Deuchar was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, 2010.
Andrew Macdonald
Deputy Director
After graduating from Cambridge University, Andrew Macdonald began his career working on the BBC’s Newsnight and Panorama. As Senior Foreign Editor at Channel 4 News, he was in charge of the programme’s international coverage for 10 years before becoming a freelance film producer making current affairs documentaries for both the BBC and Channel 4.
He joined the Art Fund in 2006 as Deputy Director, responsible for grant-giving, communications and marketing. The following year, Andrew devised the Art Fund’s highly successful, pioneering ‘Buy a Brushstroke’ campaign to save JMW Turner’s Blue Rigi for the nation, and played a key role in the successful campaign to save Dumfries House in Ayrshire. He has been responsible for a number of new initiatives at the Art Fund, including the sponsorship of the Art Fund prize for museums and galleries, involvement in Channel 4’s Big Art Project, and the campaign to realise Steve McQueen’s vision for his Queen and Country work honouring UK servicemen and women killed in Iraq.
He is currently implementing the Art Fund’s sponsored and ambitious UK-wide tour of ARTIST ROOMS, and the ground-breaking £5 million Art Fund International initiative that is encouraging UK museums and galleries to build outstanding collections of international contemporary art.
Sarah Philp
Head of Programmes
Sarah joined the Grants team at the Art Fund in 2006, and was appointed Head of Programmes in 2010. The Head of Programmes is a new role that oversees existing charitable programmes, including grant giving for acquisitions and support for projects such as ARTIST ROOMS and the Art Fund Prize, and helps to create and deliver new projects to further the Art Fund’s strategic objectives.
Prior to working at the Art Fund, Sarah was the Development Officer for the Charleston Trust, and has also worked in the recording and television industries. Sarah has an MA in the History of Art and is currently studying part-time for a PhD in contemporary art history at Central Saint Martin’s. She also sits on the Steering Committee for the Permanent Gallery.
Amy Ross
Director of Development
Amy joined the Art Fund in 2010 from the Young Vic theatre where she had been Development Director since 2007.
With experience of fundraising across a spectrum of cultural organisations including Kew Gardens and the Zoological Society of London, Amy’s role is to lead the development team in securing donations, sponsorships, grants and legacies from a wide range of supporters nationally and internationally.
As well as raising funds for our grant-making for acquisitions, the development team seeks support for our special programmes and appeals by creating partnerships with companies, trusts and foundations and individual donors.
Quintilla Wikeley
Head of Communications
Quintilla has several years' experience in press and public relations within the arts and charity sectors.
Before arriving at the Art Fund, she worked for 4 years as a publicist with Dvora Lewis Public Relations, whose clients included the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor/pianist Daniel Barenboim. Several projects took her to work all over the UK as well as internationally - in Switzerland and Japan.
Her role is to lead the communications team in relaying to the wider public the work of the Art Fund through many communications channels, including the magazine - Art Quarterly, the website, press, digital and social media. The team plays a central role communicating fundraising appeals and campaigns, as seen recently with the Staffordshire Hoard appeal that raised £3.3 million in 10 weeks - just under a million of that through members of the public.
Sally Wrampling
Head of Policy and Strategy
Sally is charged with producing the Art Fund’s strategy 2011-14 and overseeing its implementation.
Since joining the Art Fund she has also been responsible for developing our policy on key issues, from museums selling artworks to government funding cuts; plus our public affairs and advocacy work, including our campaign to secure a tax incentive for lifetime gifts of art. She has co-ordinated several campaigns to save artworks, including the Macclesfield Psalter for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most recently the Staffordshire Hoard for museums in the West Midlands.
Sally studied British Politics and started her career as a researcher in the House of Commons, before joining the consultancy Bell Pottinger. She spent several years at a consumer watchdog before joining the Art Fund in 2004. Outside work, she is an experienced genealogist.
Carolyn Young
Director of Marketing and Membership
Carolyn was previously Head of Membership at the British Museum before joining the Art Fund in 2009.
She has 15 years experience in the charity sector, including 8 years at The National Trust responsible for Membership Marketing and National Appeals. While at the Trust, she worked on the Save Tyntesfield Campaign, which raised more than £8 million from the public in six weeks. In addition, she has managed Donor and Supporter Marketing at Samaritans, and spent time Agency-side as an Account Director, working on fundraising projects for UNICEF, Mind, Save the Children, Care International and Action for Children.
As well as being responsible for marketing and membership, her team also manages our Patrons and appeals programme, commercial and affinity partnerships, database and supporter management through our out-sourced supplier and the Art Fund’s mail-order range.
