Creative Industries Group

The Creative Industries are worth £1 billion to the South West economy. There are 21,000 creative businesses in the region and 7,500 individual artists, the highest number outside London. The 90,000 people employed in the Creative Industries represent 5% of regional employment.

The Creatives Industries Group is currently undertaking a project on Arts in the SW - further details will follow shortly.

For your information you can download a report by a joint HEFCE, Arts Council and Design Council working group entitled Continuing Professional Development for Arts and Design Practitioners.

Members of the Group:

• Matt Desmier, Arts University College at Bournemouth
• Tim Middleton, Bath Spa University
• Gordon Cooper, Bournemouth University 
• tbc, Open University in the South West
• Adrian Bossey, University College Falmouth
• Adrian Emerson, University College Plymouth St Mark & St John
• Dan Hinchcliffe, University of Bath
• Martin White, University of Bristol
• Michael Wykes, University of Exeter
• Ben Calvert, University of Gloucestershire
• David Coslett, University of Plymouth
• Gill Sandford, University of the West of England