Climate Clock is curated and produced by international top experts

Alice Sharp

Curator of Climate Clock and Artistic Director Invisible Dust

Alice Sharp, Artistic Director and founder of Invisible Dust UK in 2009, is a curator, writer and speaker making the invisible visible, creating new international poetic thinking and raising hidden voices on the ever pressing issues of climate futures. Imaginative thinkers she has collaborated with include Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri, China Mieville, Elizabeth Price, Shezad Dawood, Jeremy Deller and Raqs Media Collective alongside leading international scientists such as Professor Alex Rogers, UK and Dr Éliane Ubalijoro, Canada. Alongside Climate Clock, Alice is currently curating ‘The Ocean’s Edge’ inspired by mother of the environmental movement Rachel Carson with Licida Vidal, Leticia Ramos and Alberta Whittle in partnership with Pivo Brazil and TBA21-Academy Spain as part of the British Council and British Council Brazil and Instituto Guimarães Rosa UK/Brazil Season 2025/26. Partners include Glasgow International, Brazil Embassy Edinburgh, Baltic, Cove Park, Sao Paulo Ocean Institute and Scottish Association for Marine Sciences

Sharp was selected for the British Council Malaysia Human Nature Delegation 2024; presentations include recent WHO panel with Mark Ruffalo, British Council ‘Circular Cultures’ Athens, Columbia University, New York; Davos 2020; the UN Development Programme Turkey; and hosting the International Association of Corporate Art Collections symposium in Madrid.

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Claudia Woolgar

International programme and producer Climate Clock

Claudia Woolgar is an experienced international programmer, producer, advisor and creative/strategic consultant with extensive international experience, most especially in the UK, The Netherlands, Ireland, Finland and Eastern Europe. She is co-founder of Brave New World Producties (BNWP) and is the artistic heart behind the organisation. Since establishing BNWP in 2019, the organisation has produced Fuerza Bruta and CARGO Shanghai-Friesland, and was the Lead Producing Partner in a 16 country Creative Europe project, ULYSSES European Odyssey, for which BNWP co-produced two projects, metamorphoSEA as part of Eleusis European Capital of Culture 2023, and Gender Matters, with Turkish film company, Yalan Dünya Films.

In her capacity as creative producer and consultant, she has worked with clients such as Oerol Festival, the Municipality of Leeuwarden and Provincial Government of Friesland and Leeuwarden 2028 (the legacy organisation after the European Capital of Culture year in 2018). In 2019 she began working with Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture, initially in an advisory capacity in the Bid Book phase, and thereafter as the producer of the key international flagship projects she programmed, Climate Clock and Underground Clash. She also came up with the vision for Leeuwarden’s UNESCO City of Literature bid, and co-wrote the winning application. She is a panel member for Creative Ireland’s Creative Climate Action fund and the Arts Council of Ireland and is on the European Capitals of Culture Experts Panel.

She worked from 2015 – 2018 as co-artistic leader and a member of the programming team for Leeuwarden-Fryslân 2018 European Capital of Culture during which she was responsible in the early stages for the public artwork project, 11Fountains. On her advice, once the artistic designs were confirmed, the project moved to the Provincial Government who were responsible for infrastructure and placement of the fountains.

Her previous positions include: international programmer for Limerick National City of Culture 2014, Artistic Director and CEO of The Source, a new arts centre in Ireland, and Director of Kilkenny Arts Festival, an international multi-arts festival. Before that Woolgar produced and toured the work of directors such as Rimas Tuminas (Lithuania), Silviu Purcarete (Romania), Lev Dodin (Russia) and Declan Donnellan (UK), and from 1994 – 1997 ran a British-Romanian theatre exchange programme, Noroc, which included managing and programming the first British theatre festival in Bucharest. She has worked in the Caucasus, training young arts managers, and is an arts journalist and theatre critic, with work published in The Spectator, The Guardian, The Times Magazine, The Economist, The European, Plays International Europe, The Stage, The Washington Times Magazine, Theatre Ireland, and The Irish Times, among others. She also reviewed for BBC Radio Ulster, Kaleidoscope, and Radio 2.

Sam Collins

Technical Consultant Climate Clock

Sam Collins is a designer, production manager and technical director who specialises in the creation and delivery of new and challenging artworks. He has worked for over 20 years on a diverse range of projects across contemporary art, exhibitions, performance and theatre, with an equally diverse range of artists, curators, directors, designers and choreographers.

Sam has a long association with Artangel, where he has been Head of Production since 2015, and with Manchester International Festival and Factory International where he has overseen numerous large scale productions, including most recently Marina Abramovic’s Balkan Erotic Epic and Yayoi Kusama’s You Me and the Balloons.