Moray Art Centre redraws it leadership
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MORAY Art Centre has gone back to the drawing board by reorganising its leadership set-up.
The gallery on the Field of Dreams near Findhorn has appointed Caroline Inckle as its new executive director to put artists front and centre of the organisation.
The move comes as part of a refresh in how the art centre is run – it has recently welcomed five new board members.
Caroline graduated from Moray School of Art in 2012 before founding Orchard Road Studios in Forres last year. She has exhibited widely and has helped run social engagement projects and residencies. She also recently graduated with a master's degree in design innovation and collaborative creativity from Glasgow School of Art, where her focus was on developing collaborative training models to support small businesses and organisations.
Caroline said: "I am looking forward to working with our internal team as well as our friends and partners to develop a space which generates huge value for the community. I would like to see the centre place people, creativity and collaboration at its core. In addition to welcoming national and international exhibitions, I want us to be able to support local professional artists and showcase the huge amount of talent which has developed in the area over the last few years, showing that Moray is an area of rich and diverse creativity as well as an area of outstanding natural beauty."
Board chairman Bill Austin said: "We are very much looking forward to working with Caroline to deliver our vision of a thriving and vibrant centre which is a resource and inspiration for our community and visitors to Moray. The past few years have not been easy and we have some bridges to build, but we are looking forward to moving forward together into this new phase."
With autumn exhibitions and classes under way, the centre is now preparing its winter programme. It is inviting local tutors who would be interested in running future classes to step forward. Preparations are also under way for the return of the summer school in 2020, which was deemed a huge success this year.
