This led to roles as visual arts officer first in Hammersmith and then for Greater London Arts, where Alan drew up new policies for gallery development, public art and support for artists.
Between 1991 and 1993 he was senior visual arts officer at Arts Council England, charged with promoting new policies to support the professional and economic status of the artist.
Derry council's arts officer Brendan McMenamin cites an even simpler personal highlight of the year: the fact that his 17-year-old son sat out in the park with other teenagers in the sunshine this summer – something that would have been unthinkable when he was growing up in the shadow of the Troubles, when gatherings in the streets meant only riots.
Stephen Dunn, arts officer for Carlisle City Council, said: "I think the million pounds is an investment.
ART medical officer consequently did not lay emphasis on CD4 count while enrolling PLHIV on ART.
To the army officer, art is at issue, not politics, and certainly not humaneness.
"The Queen was most taken with them," said Evie Jeffreys, the arts press officer for the library, speaking of Queen Elizabeth's attendance at the exhibition's opening earlier this month.
Clare Paul, V&A's Esol (English for speakers of other languages) and arts education officer, who created the tours three years ago, gives the guides freedom to choose several objects on display that resonate and enable them to tell their story.
"It's been really difficult to pull together," said Bayliss, who spent four months organising the show with the help of Julia Devonshire, arts project officer for Ipswich Borough Council.
"Joe is just as likely to take a trip with one of our liberal arts development officers to raise money for the law school or the library or the English department as he is to make a trip to raise money for athletics," Joe Battista, the executive director of the Nittany Lion Club booster organization, said in an interview.
