Moray Art Centre redraws leadership

MORAY Art Centre has gone back to the drawing board by reorganising its leadership set-up.

The Findhorn-based centre has appointed Caroline Inckle as its new executive director in a move which aims to put artists front and centre of the organisation.

This comes as part of a refresh in how the art centre is run. It has recently welcomed five new board members onto the leadership team.

Caroline graduated from Moray School of Art in 2012 before founding Orchard Road Studios, in Forres, last year. She has exhibited widely and has been involved in running 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 space becoming a centre which places 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."

Bill Austin, board chairman, said: "The board 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 own community and visitors to Moray.

"We know the past few years have not been easy and we have some bridges to build, but we are looking forward to positively moving forward together into this new phase and working with artists and partner organisations to support the thriving arts community in Moray."

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.

For more information visit www.morayartcentre.org.

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