Meet the team

Who we are

Our team of project managers, producers, artists, connectors, creatives and entrepreneurs works closely with local communities and artists to create a programme that welcomes everyone.

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.


Georgia Hardcastle

Arts Award Advisor

Georgia Hardcastle is a community artist and theatre maker based in London. In her role at Peckham Platform, Georgia designs and delivers Arts Award programmes in schools that respond to and connect with Peckham Platform’s projects, leading with curiosity and encouraging young people’s self-expression through social art.

Georgia is Co-Executive Director of Matipo Arts CIC and her creative practice focuses on collaborative process, play, personal development and ownership.

 


Trustees & Advisors

Leslie Ramos Advisor to Peckham Platform

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.


Kirsty Stober

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.


Zelie Walker-Noble

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. 


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.


Emily Druiff Advisor to Peckham Platform

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.


Artists

Meet the socially engaged artists working with our communities in Peckham

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