Director of cSPACE is Loraine Leeson. Previously co-director and founder of The Art of Change, Loraine has worked with communities through the visual arts for nearly twenty five years, creating artworks in the public domain that project shared vision. During the late seventies her work centred on the politics of health, including posters and exhibitions for the East London Health Project and Bethnal Green Hospital Campaign. In the early eighties she co-founded and directed the Docklands Community Poster Project, spending the following decade working with the communities of London Docklands on re-development issues. In the early nineties she co-founded The Art of Change, which during the nineties developed participatory projects exploring creativity in relation to issues of social change. During this time she became increasingly interested in the opportunities for collective creativity offered by the new communications technology, which led to the founding of cSPACE in 2002.

Loraine has lectured and taught part-time over this period at colleges and universities throughout the country. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London.