Meet The Team.
BOSI is made up of a small core team with a pool of brilliant Associates who we co-conspire with on a regular basis.
OUR CORE TEAM
Roger Hartley
Artistic Director
Roger is a celebrated public space maverick, founding the Bureau of Silly Ideas in 2002. A seasoned creator, lecturer, and leader, he influences cultural strategy and advocates for fair governance in various roles and directorships including TedX, the Fenland Cultural Strategy Steering Group and Guardians of the Arches.
Leon Barker
Creative technologist
Dr Leon Barker pursues research in robot-human interaction, machine learning, performance capture and other emerging technologies. With over a decade of extensive expertise in interaction design and creative technology development, Dr. Barker has established a track record for developing innovative and immersive mixed reality applications that cater to a wide range of domains and audiences.
Anna Gregg
Valerie Hayes
Finance
Valerie is a QBE Accountant with 30 years experience working in many industries before making a change of sector in 2012, to exclusively work within the arts. She joined BOSI in 2018. Herself an artist & artisan, in the traditional craft of upholstery and stained glass.
Nésa Depeza Njie
Events & Community Liaison Ace
Nésa is a Genetics graduate that aims to combine her interest for science and love of creativity to produce interesting, interactive and accessible events. With a strong footing in the creative industry, from DJing to dance, being able to combine these skills is why she is interning at BOSI as an events coordinator.
Jeroen van Dooren
Quartermaster
Dr. Jeroen van Dooren is an artist, writer and researcher based in London. He is an Associate Lecturer on MA Photography at London College of Communication and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art London. Specialising in contemporary notions of subjectivity, performativity and the role of the contemporary artist.
Pearl McLean Jennings
Events and Social Media Ace
Pearl produces our Club Silly events, platforming artists, developing our doorstep work and facilitating partner nights. She engages the wider community through social media content. She also sends out our silly repertoire on tour all over the country!
OUR FREELANCE TEAM
Aqiong Zhang - Performer
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Caggy Kerlogue
Associate Producer
Caggy Kerlogue is a cultural strategist with over 15 years experience in the cultural industries. Specialising in large scale works, placemaking & communities. She has supported some of the UK’s largest cultural institutions to deliver collaborative programmes with cultural legacy. Alongside working with BOSI she is the Creative Asset & Place Manager for the Creative Estuary programme.
Jack Wood
Design Engineer
Jack is a product and industrial designer with broad design interests. His practice is shaped by big-picture thinking, synthesizing varied perspectives to uncover novel solutions and innovations. An awareness of social and environmental contexts informs his design from the start.
Asher Heigham
Caitlin Strongarm
Community Keeper and Comms
Caitlin Strongarm is an artist and organiser affecting social change through projects and artworks, and empowering communities to create, collaborate and take collective action.
Martin King - Super Geek
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Brian Thunder
Comfort Fabian - Clown
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Thor McIntyre Burnie
Sound Associate
Thor is an Artist, Sound Designer and founder Director of Aswarm a collective that draws on the creative use of Sound, Digital Technology, Immersive Installation, Site-Specifics and Concept to make art, politics and play happen where it matters.
OUR BOARD
Claire Baldwin
Claire "Kiwi" Horan
Amarjit Chanion
Agamemnon Otero
David Buzz Heard
PARTNERS + SUPPORTERS
The people that help us make things happen
Arts Council England
Arts Forward
Audience Agency
Barnados
Big Oriental Squid Inc
Bio Organism Substrate Industries
Bloomsbury Festival
Boomtown
Clapham Omnibus
CPP Market Place
The Egg
Fool's Paradise
Glastonbury Festival
Hemingway Design
Heritage Lottery Fund
Outdoor Arts UK
Lambeth Council
Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust
Southside Shopping Centre
Southwark Council
Stockwell Festival
UCLIC
United Nations Board Of Significant Inspiration
Wandsworth Arts Festival
Wandsworth Council
Xtrax
SILLY FRIENDS
These are Artists and Companies that we regularly conspire / collaborate with
Thor McIntyre-Burnie / Aswarm - Transforming sites as symphony to walk within
Valentia Studios - painters, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, upholsterers, couturiers, dress makers…
Hooper and Kind Digital Design
L.E.G - visual language, light and structural design
Bicycle Ballet - A celebration of the dance that is cycling
Red Herring - playfully provocative outdoor theatre
Miraculous Theatre Company - stories, poetry and philosophy
Molly Orange - Juicy Street Theatre, Circus and Roving entertainment
NASA - An independent UK network of creative practitioners making live arts outside!,
V2 Display - Installations and big plastic things
