VICKY CAPLIN Vicky’s career has spanned the entertainment industry in London and Los Angeles. She produced music videos, arts and current affairs TV, for among others, Island Records, the FT, and the BBC. She coordinated sponsorship for arts festivals and has curated exhibitions programmes with a particular specialism in the work of emerging female artists. She is a qualified psychotherapist, and worked in an NHS at a mental health clinic in Portobello in the 1990’s. Vicky is on the advisory board of KCAW, bringing curatorial and sponsorship experience, and is an arts consultant to private and corporate collectors. She is a trustee of The Sixteen Trust, a charity which provides arts mentorship to young people through exhibition curation experience, in the real world, and at VOMA, the world’s first online museum. She was a founding trustee for the community mediation charity Centre for Peaceful Solutions. In 2020 she collaborated with KCAW, Damian Rayne and Maya Sanbar on the multi-media Open Doors exhibition, which featured films, photography, paintings and sculptures by artists based in the Kensington and Chelsea borough. A passionate believer in the role the arts play in education and mental health, for KCAW 2021, in conjunction with Muse Gallery, Vicky helped develop the festival’s inaugural internship programme, iF which acts as a gateway to professional development and opportunities for arts graduates. She is the grand niece of the Polish portraitist Alfred Wolmark (featured this month) who was closely involved in the early years of Ben Uri Gallery&Museum, and whose portraits of Warsaw, rabbinical life are held in museums world-wide, including Tate. Vicky says: “Having lived in the Portobello area for much of my life, it is fascinating to witness the re-emergence of the arts scene in and around the area. It was so sad when many artists had to give up living and working here as the cost of property started to make it out of reach, but in recent years, many new galleries and artist’s studio have returned offering opportunities to both artists and art lovers alike. At the Kensington and Chelsea Art Week we have devoted our love and support to making the borough among the most lively and exciting in London, and welcome new and existing audiences to appreciate all there is to admire.” www.thesixteen.org www.voma.space www.instagram.com/if_award/ www.kcaw.co.uk www.centreforpeacefulsolutions.org
photo: Marcus Valance
