CCANW was established as a legal entity in January 2001. It was set up to:

• Achieve the unique ambitions of the project with its artistic and educational programme, as developed during the earlier studies.

• Continue, with other partners, to work closely with established and emerging artists on pilot projects, organising exhibitions, talks and symposia to further inform its development and raise the project's profile internationally.

• Make grant applications and raise partnership funding to create a building for the Centre, commission artists and equip the Centre.

• Secure revenue and project funding to establish the Centre and appoint staff to realise its vision and ensure the widest public involvement.

The Centre is run by Trustees with professional staff supported by a specialist advisory board.

Trustees

Peter Young (chair) is a retired solicitor and former board member of South West Arts. As Chief Executive of Teignbridge District Council he was intimately involved in the restoration of derelict Grade 1 Forde House in Newton Abbot as the civic HQ.

Philippa Warin (secretary) is Executive Director of Culture South West. She was founder director of the regional arts and disability agency, founder and chair of Devon Arts in Schools, school governor and director of Exeter College.

Professor Jem Southam is a landscape photographer, shortlisted in 2001 For the Citibank Award, teaching at the School of Arts and Design, University of Plymouth in Exeter. His work has been exhibited and published widely and is in important public collections.

Charlotte Rathbone is a principal of the Rathbone Partnership, a landscape architectural practice based in Modbury. She studied Geography at Cambridge and Landscape Design at Sheffield and is a member of the Landscape Institute. In addition to many projects in the region, she has worked on parks in Hong Kong and land reclamation.

Professor Adrian Gale trained at the Architectural Association, worked for Mies van der Rohe and Erno Goldfinger, becoming Head of Plymouth School of Architecture, Chairman of RIBA Design Awards Panel, and Head of the Prince of Wales's School of Architecture.

Phil Collins is area manager of Devon for English Nature. He was previously as partner in an environmental design consultancy specialising in sustainable landscape and building design and historic building restoration and originally Keeper of Natural Sciences at St Albans Museum.

Officers

Clive Adams (director) is a curator with a particular interest in the work of artists which engages with nature. He started his career at Arnolfini, Bristol in the Seventies, and his exhibitions have covered a period from C18th to the present day. The most recent are 'The Impossible View?' at The Lowry (winner of the Museums and Heritage Award for the best UK temporary exhibition of 2003) and 'The Art of White' at the Lowry until 17 April 2006.

Chris Lewis (project coordinator) is a musician and photographer and, since completing a Ph.D. at King's College London, gained experience in marketing and fundraising working for charities and arts organisations both in London and the South West.

Johanna Korndorfer (education/community coordinator) has over 10 years' experience working on arts, environmental play and Steiner-based education projects for children, young people and families. 

The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World is a registered limited company no.4141506 and a registered charity no.1092019