Polly Brannan
Artistic Director

Having joined OSE in 2021, Polly is responsible for the organisation’s artistic vision, devising curricula across our learning programmes, delivery of the Associates programme, and curatorial projects which range from the popular free public programme to yearly commissions. Alongside her work at OSE, Polly is currently training to become a qualified Forest School Leader.

Image credit: Roy Mehta

Fiona Kingsman
Operations Director

Fiona has worked in learning and arts organisations at a local, national and international level. As part of Tate Learning in London she developed and launched the innovative Tate Exchange programme at Tate Modern. At Creative Folkestone she was the Project Director for Pioneering Places: East Kent, an ambitious programme connecting artists and communities. As their Deputy Chief Executive she was involved in strategic planning, communications, people management, the property portfolio, and community learning programmes. In her spare time Fiona is currently taking a course on Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods.

George Harding
Programme Producer

George is a Programme Producer at Open School East. As an artist & arts producer, George has specific interests in collaborative communities and DIY or alternative approaches to book-making & publishing.

Outside of Open School East, George is currently a Director of Well Projects, a gallery and publishers based in Margate, where he organises ecologically focused exhibition programmes & workshops. George also runs an independent print studio, Park Press, where he facilitates print and design projects with artists and community groups.

George was an OSE Associate in 2017.

Kat Cutler-MacKenzie
Programme Assistant and Access Support Worker

Kat is Programme Assistant and Access Support Worker at OSE. Outside OSE, she is undertaking a part-time, practice-based PhD at Royal Holloway that explores artistic approaches to art history, with a focus on pedagogic technologies and modes of communication. Kat also regularly collaborates with the visual artist Ben Caro to make analogue moving-image installations. She has exhibited her artwork at venues including The Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Tallinn, 2025), House of Hague (Lisbon, 2023), gr_und gallery (Berlin, 2023) and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (2022).