Katie Daley-Yates - Producer

Katie Daley-Yates is an independent visual art producer specialising in commissioning public art. She began her career at Situations, Bristol where as part of a small creative team she commissioned a ground-breaking programme of public artworks, which set out to challenge the notion of what public at could be and effect change within cultural policy. Now based in Southampton Katie works with local arts organisations and artists to commission public artworks and support a range of creative programmes. www.hostproductions.org.uk

Headshot credit: Max McClure

Yvon Bonenfant - Artistic Director

Yvon Bonenfant began experimenting with the voice on stage in his early 20s. At the time, he collaborated with Geraldine Morita (link to Mile Zero Dance) in a choreographically-led stage company. Since then, he studied experimental theatre and music, extended voice technique, bel canto singing and installation art, many somatics trainings including body psychotherapy training, and has had artworks, presentations and talks take place in 14 countries. Located in Europe since 2002, he has made touring shows, installations, published and spoken widely, often in collaboration. Increasingly, these teams include scientists and engineers. He holds academic appointments at University College Cork (Ireland) and the University of Winchester (link to UCC academic profile). He has been a Laureate of the Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Large Arts Awards. Two years ago, he gave long-form keynotes at both the British Voice Association Voice Clinics Forum (the key UK voice medicine conference) and at the Imaginate (Edinburgh) Children’s Festival to producing delegates. For his academic profile see this page.

Mary Paterson - Evaluator

Mary Paterson is a writer, producer and arts evaluator who works with interdisciplinary arts. She is the co-author, with Elizabeth Lynch and Rajni Shah, of Dear Stranger: I Love You (Live Art Development Agency and Lancaster University Press, 2013), on experimental forms of art evaluation. Mary has been Chair of the Board of the theatre company Extant since 2018. marypaterson.wordpress.com