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  • 8 Jan 2016

2016 New Year’s Honours List Celebrates Leaders in Arts and Charitable Sector

Paul Hamlyn Foundation is delighted to congratulate the leaders of the arts and charity sector we have worked with over the years who have been recognised in the Queen’s 2016 New Year’s Honours List.

CBE

Professor Phyllida Barlow CBE – Royal Academician and 2007 PHF Awards for Artists recipient has been honoured for services to art. Best known for her ‘anti-monumental’ sculptures—large scale abstract works made from inexpensive everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, plywood, polystyrene and cement—Barlow has exhibited at galleries across the globe, including the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, the New Museum in New York and the Des Moines Art Centre.

Neil Jameson CBE – Founder and CEO of Citizens UK, Neil Jameson has been commended for services to community organising and social justice. With support from PHF, Citizens UK coordinates and organises communities up and down the country to act together for power, social justice and the common good.

OBE

Pim Baxter OBE – Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Baxter has been recognised for services to the arts. Having worked at the National Portrait Gallery for 18 years, Baxter feels incredibly proud of her work raising £10M for the purchase of Van Dyke’s self-portrait.

Godfrey Worsdale OBE – Godfrey Worsdale, Director of the Henry Moore Foundation and former Chief Executive of Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, has been honoured for services to the visual arts in the North East. Godfrey is a member of the steering group for the Leeds European Capital of Culture bid. He joined the judging panel of PHF’s Awards for Artists in 2008, was a selector for the British Pavilion for the 54th Venice Biennale and a judge for the 2011 Turner Prize.

MBE

Claire Doherty MBE – Founder Director of Situations and 2009 recipient of the PHF Breakthrough Award for cultural entrepreneurs, Claire Doherty has been awarded an MBE for services to the arts in the South West. Since 2002, she has developed Situations to become one of the country’s foremost producers of the arts outside conventional venues, producing compelling and imaginative new forms of public art, guided by a belief in the capacity of the arts to change, enhance and inform the way we think about and interact with the world around us.

Michael McCarthy MBE and Michael Rafferty MBE – Co-artistic directors and joint founders of Music Theatre Wales, Michael McCarthy MBE and Michael Rafferty MBE have been recognised for services to music in Wales. Based in Cardiff, Music Theatre Wales tours contemporary opera across the UK and commissions and presents bold and exciting new work that touches audiences intellectually, emotionally and spiritually.

Tim Sigsworth MBE – Activist and Chief Executive of The Albert Kennedy Trust, Tim Sigsworth received an MBE for services to homeless young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. In 2015, The Albert Kennedy Trust launched the first emergency house for LGBT youth in the UK as well as the first national report on LGBT homelessness.