Lleucu Siencyn, has been appointed Director, Arts Development, Arts Council of Wales. She is currently Chief Executive of Literature Wales, the national company for the development of literature.

She succeeds Sian Tomos, who stepped down from the Council’s employment in September 2021.

Commenting today Phil, George, Chair, Arts Council of Wales said:

“We are delighted to have been able to appoint Lleucu to this key post with the Arts Council of Wales’s Senior Leadership team. She is passionate about the arts in all their diversity and is strongly committed to widening our engagement with communities across Wales, including the particular responsibility to develop activity in the Welsh language. Lleucu will continue Sian’s excellent previous work as a partnership builder and a strong advocate for the arts in Wales’’

Responding, Lleucu Siencyn said:

“The Arts Council of Wales’s core belief that the arts are for the benefit of all is one that chimes strongly with me. Its work and its principles are important, especially in the field of arts and health, climate emergency, widening engagement, developing a new Welsh language strategy, and its international focus. I look forward to progressing these principles for the people and communities of Wales and assist the Arts Council of Wales to deliver its mission of making the arts central to the life and well-being of the nation.”
 

Lleucu Siencyn was brought up in Talgarreg, Ceredigion and attended Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi. She read English Language and Literature at New College, Oxford and spent brief spells travelling South America. Previously, she has worked for independent television companies in Wales and was Literature Officer at the Arts Council of Wales. She went on to become Deputy CEO of Academi before becoming CEO of Literature Wales, the national company responsible for the development and promotion of literature, funded by the Arts Council of Wales.
 

END                                                                Thursday 3 February 2022

Notes to editors:

  • Lleucu will not be available for interview at this time but will consider interview requests when she starts in post during May.

For more information please contact Arts Council of Wales Press Office: 029 2044 1344/1307