Danny Quinn

Danny established the Black Sheep Collective with Georgia Tillery (www.blacksheepcollective.co.uk/).

Black Sheep is a social enterprise working in arts and culture undertaking performance-based work and participatory community arts projects. They train new and emerging artists and provide opportunities for real experience in the creative industries working alongside professionals in both the corporate realm and the public realm as well as devising their own projects. They run a coffee shop and gallery called Bar Bar Black Sheep that generates revenue for the organisation, which has been established as a Community Interest Company (CIC). Black Sheep is based in Milton Keynes.

Danny has had broad and varied experience before setting up Black Sheep – by the time he was 30 he had had 34 different jobs across many sectors. Ten years were spent in the professional creative industries in London working in film, television and radio, with roles in research, post-production and pre-production. On moving back to Milton Keynes he felt that there was a lack of opportunities to engage in creative industries for people like himself who had graduated from creative courses.

He describes this breadth of experience as really valuable to establishing and running his venture – together with being able to play poker.