Stephen’s work includes business and strategic planning, facilitation and work on capital schemes. Recent projects include business planning at Walthamstow Wetlands for the London Borough of Waltham Forest and feasibility studies for Dorset County Museum, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, MK Gallery and S1 Artspace in Sheffield. He has also worked with a range of local authorities, charities in the Community Development sector and organisations looking after landscapes and gardens, including the RHS and London Wildlife Trust. During 2011 he was interim Director at Free Word in London and co-curated their 2012 exhibition: Politics and Olympics. Stephen was a trustee of Chisenhale Gallery 2012-2017 and a school governor in Hackney before moving to Sheffield, where he is now based.
Before joining Counterculture, Stephen worked at the British Museum and the Whitechapel Gallery where he was Director of Strategic Development. His work at the gallery delivered a successful model partnership between a cultural organisation and its local, national, and private-sector partners, encompassing the gallery’s major expansion in 2009. He was a fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme in 2004-05 – and is now a Clore visiting lecturer. He has an MA in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art, and in History from the University of Cambridge. Stephen is the author of two books on architecture, design and society published by Phaidon Press (Art & Ideas: Art Nouveau, and Art Deco Style).