Development & Advocacy Committee
Sophie Hussey
Trustee and Development & Advocacy Commitee
Sophie is a Development Consultant currently working with the Women’s Prize Trust (the charity behind the Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction), the Royal College of Art and SportsAid. Sophie focuses particularly on philanthropy to support emerging artists into sustainable creative careers, having worked at new writing venues Royal Court Theatre and Bush Theatre, the conservatoires Royal College of Music and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, as well as the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. In 2024, she completed her MA in Philanthropic Studies at the Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent.
Kate Rosser-Frost
Trustee and Development & Advocacy Commitee
Kate has worked for over 20 years with multiple organisations across the visual arts, cultural education, and heritage sectors, specialising in stakeholder engagement, partnerships, and brand strategy. At the helm of DACS’ communications and engagement strategy, she leads a team driving media, marketing, digital, and public affairs activity including managing the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Visual Arts & Artists, and commissioning the UK’s most comprehensive research into artists’ earnings since 2014 with the University of Glasgow. A Trustee of Outside In, Kate champions equity and sustainability for artists through advocacy and campaigns. Her previous roles span The British Academy, London Museum, MOLA, and PR agencies in London and Shanghai.
Lydia R. Figes
Development & Advocacy Commitee
Lydia R. Figes is a writer, editor and curator based in London. She started her career in commercial art galleries before working in the public art sector, as Content Editor for Art UK followed by Curator of Digital at the Contemporary Art Society.
As an arts journalist, her creative, non-fiction writing and interviews with artists have appearedin Apollo, ArtReview, Guardian, Dazed, AnOther Magazine, Plinth, Elephant, Elle, i-D, British Journal of Photography, The London Magazine, A Rabbit’s Foot, TANK, The Critic, and Little White Lies amongst others.
In 2025, her first book Survival Notes: Life Lessons from Contemporary Artists was published by Thames & Hudson. She has studied at UCL, Courtauld and Cambridge University.