Past Employees

Since it was founded, Cape Farewell has worked with a number of key individuals to develop, build and deliver the ever ambitious programme of activity.  This section gives a bit more information about some of the people who have worked with Cape Farewell and what they are doing now...the rest have yet to respond to the email request for more info!

Rachel Edmunds

Jan 2008-June 2008

Rachel will forever be remembered (by us and those she passed on the way) for using the office roller skates to travel from/to Covent Garden one cold winter's day... 

During her time at Cape Farewell Rachel established the Project Assistant position to move beyond the challenges of filing, archiving and online postage purchasing to embracing fundraising and international development. With many US artists joining the 2008 voyage, Rachel worked to engage with US educational institutions, environmental action groups, and leaders of the sustainable/eco movement in New York. The culmination of this was a networking event in NYC in April 2008.  Rachel also worked to produce a comprehensive evaluation document of Cape Farewell's ambitious programme of arts and environment outreach to present to Arts Council England and other funding bodies.

All her experience at Cape Farewell has led Rachel to decide to further her career in arts management, with the hope to move to New York for a year in March 2009. She continues to strongly uphold Cape Farewell’s vision and works to network and find funding opportunities to support the exciting work the organisation looks to do. 

Jonny Hepburn

January 2008 - June 2008

Jonny never showed up to work without some cured meat to help him make it through the day 

Jonny worked on straightening out the media archive at Cape Farewell.  He organised all of the photography, video, audio and press that he could get his hands on. As of June 2008 we lost Jonny to British Columbia, Canada, to tree plant for the summer before in September 2008 he should, if all goes according to plan, settle into a new full time job, teaching at a school on Eleuthera, an outlying island in the Bahamas. The school is the educational branch of the Cape Eleuthera Foundation which works to support place-based education, scientific research, community leadership, and sustainable technologies in order to move toward a more livable future on the island of Eleuthera and throughout the world.

Marialaura Ghidini

July 2007 - December 2007

Our lasting memory of Marialaura?  Very strong coffee! 

Marialaura worked at Cape Farewell from July to December 2007 during the organisation and launch of the Youth and Greenland Expeditions 2007.

She provided general support to the running of Cape Farewell's daily office activities, assistance to the organisation of the Live Artic Link exhibition on show at the Southbank Centre and the Winter Season developed in collaboration with the Eden Project in Cornwall.

She is currently doing an MA in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice at Chelsea College of Art in London.

Lottie Leedham

December 2006 - May 2007 

Lottie created the most imaginative and beautiful stamp-on-envelope artworks

While at Cape Farewell Lottie helped deliver the Art & Climate Change exhibition to Hamburg and co-ordinate the first group visit to the Eden Project, however it is for her key role in the establishment of the Lunch Club that she is most proud.

Lottie is an artist and project facilitator working across areas of live art practice and contemporary performance.

Ali MacGilp

February 2006 - October 2006

Bringer of flowers, chocolates & all things that put a smile on people's faces 

Ali worked at Cape Farewell from February - October 2006. She worked on editing and distributing the book Burning Ice and was also involved in organsing various exhibitions including those at the Natural History Museum and the Liverpool Biennial.  She co-curated the event Earth, Wind and Fire at the Whitechapel in May 2007. 

Ali is an independent curator, currently engaged in a Ph.D. in Art History. She writes for EXIT Express and artvehicle.com, a website she co-founded.

Siôn Parkinson

January 2006 - September 2006

King of the long-haul van drive 

Siôn worked as part of the Cape Farewell team from January to September 2006. During this busy time he helped manage and edit the book Burning Ice and was involved in the organisation of various exhibitions, including the Natural History Museum, Newcastle Gateshead and the Liverpool Biennial.

Siôn is a singer and artist, currently undertaking an MA in Fine Art at The Slade, UCL. He is Creative Consultant to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and writes for artvehicle.com. He still rears his head in the Cape Farewell office from time to time.

Sarah McNee

Invaluable negotiator and admired number cruncher 

Sarah met the original Cape Farewell team when she worked for NESTA in 2000, and supported the organisation make the right kind of argument to get its first seed funding. After five years of knowing them from a funder’s perspective Cape Farewell was the first organisation that she worked for when she went freelance in 2005.

She currently continues to work independently on a range of activities including assessment, mentoring, business planning, research and evaluation for various organisations including Film London, Hi8us Projects, the South Bank Centre and Iniva (International Institute of Visual Arts). She is also on the board of Crying Out Loud, who produce, commission and programme dance, music and performance for audiences of all ages 

Alex Lambert

Emma Gladstone