Martel Ollerenshaw – director of Arts & Parts

Martel Ollerenshaw is a curator and creative producer. Her interests include sound, music and interdisciplinary art that has an environmental focus, and the development of creative artists at all stages of careers. She leads Arts & Parts, and curates and/or produces acclaimed pioneering and genre blurring work for a diverse array of international artists and organisations.

Active in the new and adventurous music community, between 2018 and 2022 Martel was vice president of the Europe Jazz Network (EU funded, 200 members in 37 countries), and a member of the programming committees for European Jazz Conferences in 2019 (Novara), 2021 (Tallinn) and 2022 (Sofia). She is a board member of the Australian Music Centre (peak body for Australian art music), hcmf// (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), Making Tracks (the international music exchange programme with an environmental focus), an advisor for Jerwood Arts (UK) and The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music & Performance at Monash University (Aus), and is regularly involved in funding and showcasing selection panels in the UK, Europe and Australia.