Rebecca Heald is Director of New Contemporaries, the annual exhibition of work by new and recent UK fine art graduates. She has previously worked across curatorial and education departments at Sadie Coles HQ, Tate Britain, and the Hayward Gallery. Before working in galleries she was Arts and Features Editor at telegraph.co.uk and has published widely on contemporary art. She is currently on the advisory board for The Island, an itinerant non-profit organisation that develops curatorial projects in dialogue with international partners. In the run-up to the 2010 UK election she worked with leading artists to make posters encouraging people to debate key issues and vote.
