Arts Council England has appointed its first director with a dedicated remit to champion and support freelancers across the arts.
Yasmin Khan takes up the newly-created role of director, London and individual practitioners in September with a brief to "help strategically enable creative freelancers across all art forms and regions".
She will oversee all of ACE’s work, policy and funding processes relating to freelancers working in all forms of art across the country.
Khan has previously worked for cultural institutions such as the Science Museum and the British Library and in collaboration with the Barbican, the Francis Crick Institute and the Wellcome Trust.
She is the founding director of consultancy Covalent Creatives and co-produced a pilot Curatorial Diversity leadership initiative for UK museums and galleries as a consultant for the Art Fund.
Her appointment at ACE comes amid calls for a ‘freelancers commissioner’ to represent the interests of self-employed creatives, including pay and working conditions, a position that has been backed in a report from the cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
