Juliette is a creative learning/arts professional based in Bannau Brycheiniog, Wales, working across the UK. She has twenty five years experience of freelance working in the cultural sector focused on increasing opportunities for people to engage with art and artists, with a passion for projects that bring people together around a new idea to enable creative agency.
She is currently leads the learning & engagement programme at national arts charity Photoworks where she established an award-winning, artist-led participatory photography programme for children, young people and diverse audiences, contributing to the achievements and development of this National Portfolio Organisation including programming nearly half of the 2016 Brighton Photo Biennial with work by young people. This helped Photoworks attain an ‘outstanding’ rating for diversity, recognising it’s work with marginalised groups and hard to reach children and young people, and setting up the national Photography Champions programme developing new networks and communities for photography across England.
Juliette is also founding co director of Corridor, an organisation connecting artists, people and places through lens based participatory projects that include the Art Box programme, which delivered thousands of high quality art boxes to the most vulnerable people (including young people) in prison settings experiencing acute mental health challenges, loneliness and isolation during and after lockdown, and Days of Wonder, a three year programme comprising artist commissions, youth engagement and major exhibitions celebrating the magic of early filmmaking in response to the film collections of Brighton and Hove and Shoreham by Sea.
A trained artist and Art teacher Juliette is the recipient of the Marsh Award for Excellence in Gallery Education, part of the Extend Leadership Alumni, an editorial advisory board member for the Engage Journal and Trustee of Ffotogallery in Cardiff.