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About Us

The Stuart Croft Foundation was established by the family and friends of the artist after his death in 2015 and was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation by the Charity Commission (September 2015, registered charity no 1163676).

The Foundation’s mission is to make accessible the legacy and archive of artist-filmmaker Stuart Croft, to exhibit his moving-image works, and to provide grants for new moving-image productions, research, publications and exhibitions.

Our trustees

Emma Bennett

Emma Bennett is a Welsh artist, based in London, UK. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the UK, USA and Europe, and she has work in prominent private collections. In 2023 she won the Solo Contemporary Artist Award at the British Art Fair.  Emma met Stuart on the MA programme at Chelsea College of Art and Design (1997-98) and worked on several of his films. She is a founding trustee and co-chair of the Stuart Croft Foundation.

Steven Eastwood

Steven Eastwood is an artist-filmmaker working in both cinema and gallery. His most recent feature The Stimming Pool (2024) was co-created with The Neurocultures Collective and premiered at CPH:DOX, before a world festivals tour. His second feature ISLAND premiered at IFFR 2018 and had a UK theatrical release that year. His first feature Buried Land (2010) was officially selected for Tribeca, Moscow, Mumbai film festivals. Multiscreen exhibitions include STIM CINEMA (2023); The Interval and the Instant (2017); The Hiss of the Blow (2009). He has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions including Wellcome Trust, BFI, Film London FLAMIN, Arts Council, AHRC. His documentary Those Who Are Jesus (2001) was nominated for a Grierson Award. He holds a PhD from UCL The Slade and is Professor of Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London.

Gillian Fox

Gillian Fox is a curator based in London, UK. Trained in Fine Art practice and History of Artists Film, she has been Assistant Curator at Hayward Gallery Touring since 2013. Prior to this, she curated an international series of live-art and time-based media events staged in alternative venues in London, New York and Lisbon, was Exhibition Organiser for Aperture Foundation's international touring programme and in 2016-17 was visual art programmer for 'Nordic Matters'. In 2017 she curated the Pavilion of Humanity, a collateral event of the Venice Biennale. She lectures on fine art, curating and photography courses across the UK. In 2016 Gillian was selected for the Clore Leadership programme and launched her independent art consultancy, advising clients on commissioning artists and work for built environment. In 2020 she will curate the first solo show of Norwegian artist Vanessa Baird in the UK, opening at Glasgow Women’s Library and Drawing Room, London.

Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones is a visual artist working with photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally including solo shows at Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2023), Maureen Paley, London (2021), and Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis (2019); and group exhibitions including at Brooklyn Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate, London; and The National Gallery, London. Her work is held within numerous high profile public collections across the globe. A monograph on her work was published by Violette Editions in October 2013. She is a Professor of Photographic Practice at The Royal College of Art. Jones is represented by Maureen Paley London, and Anton Kern Gallery, New York.

Sue Jones

Sue Jones is an independent curator and writer. She became Director of Whitstable Biennale in 2005, building an international profile for the festival, with its final edition staged in 2022.  She has 25 years of experience working very closely with early career artists on their first major commission.  She was previously Curator and then Director of Chisenhale Gallery in London between 1990-2000.  She is invited to curate internationally, most recently co-curating ‘Points of Departure’ for the inaugural Estuary Festival in 2016.  Sue worked with Stuart on a number of projects in the 1990s at Chisenhale Gallery.

Gilane Tawadros

Gilane Tawadros is the Director of the Whitechapel Gallery. She was formerly Chief Executive of DACS and Co-Director of the Art360 Foundation. She was the founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) in London. She has written extensively on contemporary art and curated a number of international exhibitions. She has worked with and advised a number of leading international cultural organisations including Tate, Hayward Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, International Foundation Manifesta, Venice Biennial and Forum for African Arts. She is Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation, Trustee of the Stuart Croft Foundation and Member of the Advisory Committee for the Yale Center for British Art. Her anthology The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

Gary Thomas

Gary Thomas produces and curates artists’ film and animation. He is co-founder and director of Animate Projects. He previously worked at Arts Council England as Head of Moving Image, where he led on policy development for arts distribution and implemented strategic initiatives for artists’ moving image archive and commissioning, including collaborations with the BFI and UK Film Council, and in the Film team at the British Council. He has been Chair of LUX and is currently also a trustee of National Dance Company Wales and UK Young Artists. He has made several short films in collaboration with artist Tim Shore.

Previous Trustees

The foundation wishes to thank previous trustees for their generous commitment and invaluable contributions: Ben Croft, Mike Croft, John Gill, Keira Greene, Anna Lucas, Sean Sparke, and Neil Zakiewicz.

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