Dave has been Director & CEO of Cornerhouse since April 1998. Cornerhouse is Greater Manchester’s international centre for cinema and contemporary visual art where audiences, artists and filmmakers are brought together to experience and debate cultural practice and ideas through a unique programme that aims to stimulate, entertain and inform. During 2008/9 Cornerhouse presented an outstanding visual arts and film programme with 3,850 cinema screenings, 9 exhibitions in the galleries and other public spaces and 271 education events.
He took the post at Cornerhouse after having worked as Director of Arts About Manchester for over six years during which time he was also Director of Marketing for Manchester City of Drama 1994.
Internationally, he helped to establish an arts marketing consortium in Canberra, Australia during October 1994, has worked on an international cultural tourism conferences in Prague, Graz and Amsterdam and presented papers at a number of conferences on arts marketing.
Before working at AAM Dave Managed the Abraham Moss Centre Theatre in North Manchester. He is a qualified teacher and an artist and theatre producer who has worked on over 30 community productions with Greater Manchester based groups.
Dave is a Fellow of the RSA, a member of the Chartered Management Institute, BAFTA and ABTT. He is a Chair of the Millennium Quarter Development Trust (Urbis, Manchester) and Pilot Theatre Company, an advisor to AmbITion, and a Board Member of Manchester City South Partnership, the Association of Independent Film Exhibitors and North West Film Exhibitors Association.