Staff
Brian Maina
NLHF Project Manager
Brian Maina is a British-Kenyan curator, creative producer, and artist based in London. With a purposeful focus on making art, history, and ideas accessible, Brian supports artists across various disciplines in creating contemporary works that challenge, reconcile, or reframe histories, striving for a more equitable future for all.
Levi Naidu-Mitchell
Head of Learning and Community Engagement
Levi Naidu-Mitchell is an interdisciplinary artist, currently based in London. Her practice centres around the Carnivalesque, its dynamism as an artistic medium and the plethora of ways it can be translated as a tool for positive, vibrant elevation. Workshop facilitation, collaboration, community, site specific and socially engaged projects are all fundamental to her creations and she deems it essential to work intergenerationally, always considering the living archive, ancestry and the legacies that we produce through our art.
Elsa Farmer
NLHF Trainee Producer
Elsa Farmer is a visual artist and designer based in London. Her interest lies in design’s critical role in transforming the community, specifically through communication, translation and engaged projects. Considering these themes, she questions the ethics of emerging technology and its impacts.
Alongside her studies in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, she is completing a diploma in Apple Development at the Creative Coding Institute.
Karin Kihlberg
Executive Director
As Director at Peckham Platform, Karin Kihlberg leads the organisation’s strategic vision and fosters collaboration and innovation. She ensures that Peckham Platform’s mission and values are embedded in its activities, creating a supportive and forward-thinking environment for staff, artists, and stakeholders.
With over 20 years of experience in the visual arts, Karin has worked as a Director, Visual Artist, Producer, Researcher, and Lecturer, focusing on the intersection of art, pedagogy, and collaboration. Her artistic practice, under the collaborative duo Kihlberg & Henry, includes exhibitions at leading venues such as ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, and Camden Art Centre, alongside major moving image commissions and internationally distributed publications.
Karin is a founding member of Grand Union in Birmingham and the Springhill Institute, an international residency programme pivotal to Birmingham’s contemporary art scene in mid 2000s. She holds advanced degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Linköping University, and has lectured at institutions including the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins.
Trustees & Advisors
Beloved Elizabeth Adonai
Interim Chair
Beloved has a decade of experience developing creative/artistic projects for heritage museums and visual arts galleries, leading and developing successful public/engagement programmes for diverse audiences, schools, universities, colleges, families, young people and many more. Her central practices include curation, public and engagement programming and developing pathways for people and artists to gain access and/or employment to arts and heritage. Beloved is an arts and heritage consultant for the Cymru Government and artist support manager for Artes Mundi in Wales. Beloved’s background also includes music, radio hosting, and serving as a trustee for the Museums Association.
Zelie Walker-Noble
Trustee
Peckham native Zelie Walker-Noble is an independent art advisor working with collectors around the world. With over 15 years’ experience in the art industry, she previously worked at an international art advisory in London, a contemporary art gallery in Hong Kong, and for more than a decade at global auction house Christie’s, based between its European and Asian headquarters. A specialist in client strategy and the global art market, Zelie has helped drive ongoing client engagement with large-scale high-profile events and charity fundraisers. She has also curated initiatives tailored to cultivating individual relationships. As Trustee, Zelie will bring her in-depth knowledge and extensive networks to guide and support the fundraising and capital projects for Peckham Platform. She is a patron of non-profit arts organisations in Hong Kong and London, and is passionate about giving back to the communities of her home town, Peckham. Zelie studied Fine Art at Leeds University and York University, Toronto.
Phil Allison
Trustee
Phil Allison is CEO/Founder of Cultureshock, the arts and culture content agency. He was previously publisher of Tate and Blueprint magazines before launching Cultureshock with Tim Marlow in 2003. Since then, he has published over 400 titles (magazines, books and catalogues) with many cultural institutions. He has overseen the launch of major identities,
websites and films for organisations including The British Council, the V&A, Sothebys and the Sainsbury Centre. He has produced a number of TV series, most recently Sky Arts Late. He is a local resident who believes in access to art for everyone.
Leslie Ramos
Advisor
Leslie Ramos is a leading specialist in philanthropy and development within the arts, having advised philanthropists, collectors, and institutions around the world for over a decade. Her background spans roles at Royal Academy of Arts, Christie’s, The Art Newspaper, Teatro La Fenice, and Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Additionally, she serves in voluntary capacities at Delfina Foundation, Artangel and Peckham Platform, and lectures on philanthropy and museum studies. Leslie is the author of Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take, published by Lund Humphries, 2023.
Tobi Kyeremateng FRSA
Trustee
Tobi Kyeremateng FRSA is a multi-award-winning multidisciplinary producer and writer from south London. Working across liveness, film, and community-centred programmes, Tobi has worked with organisations such as AFROPUNK, Institute of Contemporary Art, National Theatre, No Signal, Roundhouse, Royal Court Theatre, Tate Modern, and more, and has had work featured on BBC, NOWNESS, FACT Magazine, Complex, Screen Dance International Festival, The Vinyl Factory and 180 The Strand. Tobi has written for media outlets including gal-dem, The Independent, The Voice and LOVE Magazine and has written and co-directed audio commissioned by the ICA & BBC.
Emily Druiff
Advisor and Founder
Emily Druiff is Peckham Platform’s founding Director, leading the organisation for its first decade as it achieved Arts Council England National Portfolio Status and established its commitment to social practice. Emily continues to have a close relationship with Peckham Platform as an advisor alongside her independent work as a social arts researcher, consultant and coach.
Kirsty Stober
Advisor
Kirsty Stober is a Youth Platform alumna who worked as a producer in the first-ever Festival of Audacity and on the programme for Chinese New Year at Birmingham’s Hippodrome. She runs independent events geared towards showcasing Black entrepreneurs in Birmingham. Kirsty has worked in communications since graduating in PR, media, and events and now works with us as a PR specialist.