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As founder of the multi-platform agency The Nest, Stuart specialises in the delivery of web, social media, mobile & video solutions for the creative industries. His clients include Sydney Festival, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Opera Australia, Sydney Writers Festival, MONA, Tropfest, SBS and more.
Prior to moving to Australia, Stuart worked for many years as an arts marketing professional in the UK, driving digital innovations for British arts organisations. He developed the inaugural web site for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995, delivered an online series of international collaborative projects in his role as Head of Marketing for London?s Royal Court Theatre and established sites for the Old Vic Theatre, Bush Theatre, Siobhan Davies Dance Company and London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since moving to Australia in 2003, Stuart has been a founding member of a succession of creative organisations – helping to establish Sydney’s FBi Radio (and managing the station for over three years); devising the framework for the Creative Sydney festival and acting as the inaugural Executive Producer in 2009; and more recently, founding the experimental music platform, New Weird Australia.
Stuart is the editor of the blog The Shared Experience which celebrates art and creativity – in all its facets – and looks at how we use technology to enhance, extend and share our experiences.
His work has been praised by both The Guardian Newspaper and MTV Music Television, winning a MTV Europe Award for his online work with Goldfrapp in 2004.