Lee Humphreys, Regional Sales Director of JCDecaux has won a prestigious Jaguar Land Rover Cultural Champions’ Award for Arts & Business in the Midlands, UK.
Cultural Champions is an initiative pioneered by Arts & Business in 2009 to honour individuals who make great contributions to arts and heritage organisations, whether through volunteering, business advice or philanthropic generosity.
For this year’s event, Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with Arts & Business as headline sponsors. Lee will receive his award at a ceremony at the Jaguar Cars Visitor Centre in Castle Bromwich on 29th March.
Arts & Business received nominations from all over the Midlands region, each with a story to tell about the wonderful contributions that are being made to arts organisations.
Lee was nominated for the award by EC-Arts for Lee’s work on the forthcoming 48Sheet Art Project in Birmingham.
Between his job and family life, Lee made the time to negotiate for a matched funding scheme on behalf of EC-Arts for their 48Sheet Arts Project in Birmingham. He also produced maps, resources and provided strategic advice throughout.
Claire Farrell of EC-Arts says, “Without Lee’s help this project could not have happened. Lee is truly an arts and culture champion, advocate and philanthropist of the arts.”
Under the 48Sheet project, Birmingham city centre will be transformed into an urban art gallery in April. From April 2-29, 48Sheet will transform 100 billboards in Birmingham into public art, featuring local, national and international artists including world-renowned conceptual artist Xu Zhen, Madeln Company (Shanghai) and Raqs Media Collective (Delhi).