Diane Howse is an artist, curator and producer with extensive experience of developing a wide range of projects across the cultural spectrum.
She studied fine art at Exeter College of Art and after graduating began her professional career in 1979 when she was the first person to be employed at the then newly opened Spacex Gallery in Exeter. Her role at this artist led gallery began a career of not only working with galleries and exhibitions, but also of working with new spaces.
A few years later she became Gallery Manager at Watershed in Bristol, a radically new organisation in a vast dockside warehouse, described as “Britain’s first media centre”. Although now known as a cinema, at the time Watershed also had an enormous open gallery space where the internal walls were rearranged and rebuilt for each new exhibition. She was responsible for the development and design of exhibitions there including the reconfiguration of the architectural space.
