Viviana Checchia will leave her role as director of Void in Derry on April 21 to become director of Metal in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

She started at Void in May 2023 and has led the organisation for three years. During this time, she and her team developed a practice called social permaculture in Derry.

Checchia described her new position as a chance to advance citizen-led methods and apply her curatorial social-permaculture approach at Metal. She expressed enthusiasm about joining Metal's creative team across its three locations to expand art's social impact.

Susie Thornberry, artistic director and CEO of Metal, welcomed Checchia for her experience in socially-engaged art and collaboration with communities and groups.

Metal's programmes focus on community connection, climate and nature, and social justice to promote change through art and creativity.