ABScraft

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Having spent the last eighteen years in Wirral making creative things happen, I am delighted to join with the group steering the Borough of Culture for 2024 from the community, voluntary and faith perspective. I am a contemporary craftsperson and my own creative practice has spanned 3 decades and three different countries since leaving Edinburgh College of Art in 1990. The motivation behind my work comes from being the child of post war parents, Scottish thriftiness and an avid watcher of Blue Peter!

In the last few years, I have been involved closely with community arts projects (Welly Road Gets the Boot in, Eco Art Project Shaftesbury, Art on Wirral, With These Hands, Williamson and Priory Friends) and with arts administration in Wirral – working with the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum as press officer and the Culture Team at Wirral Council as partnership and participation officer during the Liverpool City Region Borough of Culture in 2022 and most recently heavily involved with two community projects – Saving Ron’s Place and Wirral MakeFest.

I am delighted to take on this voluntary role as I have very fond memories of working with the Culture team of Wirral Council 2018-2020.