Ray McKenzie – Chair PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture
Ray worked for more than thirty years at Glasgow School of Art, first as a Senior Lecturer in Art History, later as a part-time Research Fellow and Honorary Professor. Relevant publications include Dangerous Ground: Sculpture in the City (1999, co-edited with Andrew Guest), The Flower and the Green Leaf: Glasgow School of Art in the time of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2009), and three volumes in the Public Sculpture of Britain series: Glasgow (2002) and Edinburgh (vol. 1 The Old Town and South Edinburgh; vol. 2 The New Town, Leith and Outer Suburbs, 2018).Jolyon Drury – PSSA Marsh Awards Consultant
Jolyon is Custodian of the Drury Collections. He has been involved with many publications and exhibitions relating to his father, the artist and printmaker Paul Drury (1903–1987) and his grandfather, the sculptor, Alfred Drury RA (1856–1944). He was on the selection committee of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA)'s Marsh Awards 2009-2010 and chaired the PMSA Marsh Awards from 2011 until 2017.
Valerie Ferguson – PSSA Marsh Awards Administrator
Valerie has had a life-long interest in all aspects of the arts and is currently a tour guide and new recruit mentor at Chelsea Physic Garden and Ham House. Previous to her work as a theatre producer Valerie ran her own PR consultancy in London, then became an editor in a large publishing company, focusing on cookery and gardening books. She has had considerable administrative experience running her own businesses and as Chair of the Friends of the Museum of East Asian Art and five years on the Friends’ Committee of the Holburne Museum in Bath.
Joanna Barnes
PSSA Co-Chair, see Trustees.
Guy Braithwaite
After completing a history degree and a training course at Sotheby’s, Guy began his career in the auction industry in London. He then moved into buildings conservation and has worked in this field for over 25 years, in roles at English Heritage, Historic England and the Heritage Lottery Fund. He now works as a Church Buildings Officer for the Church Buildings Council, the national advisory body for Church of England churches and their furnishings and churchyards. He advises on all aspects of the heritage of historic churches, including architectural sculpture, monuments and memorials from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. Guy has been a member of the Marsh Awards Judging Panel since 2012, with a particular focus on the conservation award. This role has taken him all over the country to see a wonderful range of new sculpture and fountains and conservation projects on historic works.
Dr Robert Burstow
Robert is an art historian based at the University of Derby, where he is Associate Professor of History and Theory of Art. Alongside his work as a lecturer, doctoral supervisor and leader of postgraduate research in Arts, he is an author and independent curator. As a specialist in the history and theory of mid-20th century British sculpture, he has presented papers at national and international academic conferences, published essays and reviews in academic books and journals, and curated exhibitions at the Royal Festival Hall and Henry Moore Institute. He is currently researching the public sculpture of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire for the PSSA’s Public Sculpture of Britain series.
Jacquiline Creswell
Jacquiline has a wealth of experience in curating exhibitions, particularly in the realm of cathedrals and public spaces. From 2009 to 2022, as Visual Arts Advisor and Curator, she played a key role in forming Salisbury Cathedral’s innovative arts programme. She was a consultant Curator at Chichester Cathedral (2016 - 2022,) and at Canary Wharf (2020- 2021). She was also a selector and curator for Wells Art Contemporary, and more recently was Director. She currently serves as a freelance Visual Art Advisor and Consultant Curator for the Association of English Cathedrals. Jacquiline is a Trustee and Project Curator for Art+ Christianity, focusing on the intersection of art and faith. She is working on her first book, Curating Contemporary Art in Cathedrals, aimed at providing valuable insights for those interested in exhibiting art in these unique settings.
Rebecca Farley
Rebecca Farley is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, where her research interests focus on the intersections between public art, contemporary art, and heritage practice. Before joining academia, Rebecca worked as a freelance public art consultant with Grit&Pearl and Inspire Northumberland, and as Commissions Officer at Arts Council England North East. Previously she also worked as an artists’ professional development advisor and editor with AN The Artists Information Company. Rebecca joined the Marsh Awards panel in 2023.
Kenny Hunter – 2026 Guest Judge
Kenny studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art between 1983 and 1987, he then went on to study sculpture at the British School in Athens in 1990. Since then he has exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad including solo exhibitions at Arnolfini (Bristol), Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh), Aberdeen Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, CCA, and Tramway (both in Glasgow). Kenny has also created a number of high profile, public commissioned works including; Citizen Firefighter, 2001, outside Glasgow’s Central Station and Youth with Split Apple, 2005, at Kings College, Aberdeen. In London he has created three major public works iGoat, 2010 in Spitalfields, Blackbird (the persistence of vision) for Leicester Square, 2016 and The Southwark Memorial to War and Reconciliation, 2018. In Edinburgh in 2022 he was commissioned to create a Covid memorial at the Royal College of Surgeons, entitled Your Next Breath, for which he received the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in 2023.