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A successful arts leader and cultural entrepreneur, Graham has successfully founded two new arts organisations in the UK over the last 20 years and has worked as a arts curator and public art consultant;

From 2006-16 he developed Poet in the City as a successful ‘mixed funding’ model combining corporate sponsorship, earned income and grant funding and achieved its selection as a National Portfolio Organisation by Arts Council England in 2010;

From 2014-22 Graham developed the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation, a dynamic cross-arts organisation inspired by the French poets, commissioning new work (including original music, theatre shows, and fine art), building relationships with partners all over Europe, and developing an innovative new investment model for the arts;

As a public art consultant Graham delivered Pope’s Urn in 2015, a major piece of public art inspired by poetry, and wrote the official essay of support for the Farrell Review, calling for a new approach to the commissioning of public art;