CCA Board
Jean Cameron
Chair
Jean Cameron is an internationally respected freelance cultural leader, producer and facilitator based in Glasgow. She has enjoyed a thirty-year professional relationship with CCA, which began in 1993 when she worked on the opening public performance of the new organisation, managing the front-of-house team. During her role as a producer of Glasgow International, she was based in CCA and worked with Francis McKee on the delivery of the festival. Most recently, in 2021, she produced a series of events entitled Feminist Exchanges for Climate Justice at CCA for the Feminist Exchange Network during COP26.
She is currently the Executive Producer for the Edinburgh International Cultural Summit, a role that builds on her track record of delivering significant cultural relations programmes with partners including the Ukrainian Institute, the British Embassy Rome and British Council. She is a Trustee of National Theatre of Scotland, where she has an active role as the Sustainability advocate on the Board and is a member of the Risk and Audit Committee.
In the late ‘90s, she was a cultural tenant at CCA whilst working for New Moves International, from which she moved into a role as Dance and Performance Programmer at CCA, at a time when CCA was operating from the McLellan Galleries. She has helped shape the Scottish cultural calendar through her work on the likes of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme and as Producer for Scotland’s presentation at the Venice Biennale. As Project Director for Paisley 2021, she led her hometown’s bid in the UK City of Culture competition.
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Andrew Bell
Vice-Chair
Andrew works within financial control and management accounting. He started his career in banking operations before gaining an accountancy degree with distinction from Glasgow Caledonian University. He is an ACCA qualified accountant and has worked across a wide range of sectors including banking, transport and criminal justice.
He brings experience of financial control, technical accounting, financial strategy and governance to his role on the CCA board. Andrew has a keen interest in contemporary art, music, film and making the arts accessible for all.
Lesley Davidson
Lesley is the Co-Director of the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock. Prior to this she was the General Manager of Glasgow Citizens Theatre and was with the Company for nearly twenty years. Lesley leads on programming, events, H&S, environmental sustainability, Operations and the day to day running of the business. She has more than 30 years’ experience in theatre, hospitality and the operations industry and has held senior management positions within the arts for the past 15 years.
Lesley started her theatrical career as an actress and was one of the founding members of the Arches Theatre Company.
Roddy Hunter
Roddy Hunter is a Glasgow-born and based artist, educator, curator and writer who works mainly in performance, conceptual, and new media art. A recognised art educator with over 25 years experience, he is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He has held teaching and leadership roles in several UK universities, including at the Universities of Huddersfield, Cumbria, and Middlesex and currently at The Glasgow School of Art. He regularly contributes internationally to the academic and artistic community as a subject expert, external examiner, peer reviewer, and doctoral supervisor. He has held sector-leading roles, including as a former trustee of CHEAD (Council for Higher Education in Art & Design) and has a track record of developing partnerships between higher education and the arts and culture sector.
He has a PhD in Curating New Media Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee and an MA Contemporary Arts from Nottingham Trent University. His research often takes critical, historiographical, or philosophical approaches to site and location, networks and archives through artistic and curatorial practice and writing. He is interested in how social and technological infrastructures influence the formation of worldviews and how countercultural strategies of circumvention or navigation can resist homogenous cultural production.
As someone for whom the experience of the Third Eye Centre programme of the early 1990s was both formative and pivotal, he is delighted to contribute to the future sustainability of the CCA as a Trustee by supporting the organisation's local, national and international reach and impact.
Louise Norris
Louise is a solicitor and Partner at Lindsays LLP specialising in all aspects of Commercial Property. She has experience acting for a wide range of clients including investors, commercial developers, landlords, tenants, SME’s, Charity clients, lenders and public sector clients. Prior to that Louise spent ten years specialising in property law in the USA.
Most recently she was chair of Norton Park SCIO, a charity providing affordable office and conference space to 20 plus third sector organisations and is currently the secretary of the Women in Property Central Scotland Board, which supports the professional growth of women within property related fields.
Kirsty Ogg
Kirsty Ogg is an independent curator, educator and consultant. Between 2013 and 2023, she was the Director of New Contemporaries, the UK’s foremost annual arts initiative offering critical support and exposure to emerging artists. Prior to that, from 2009 and 2013, Kirsty was Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London curating solo, group and historical exhibitions and commissions. As former Director of The Showroom London between 1998 and 2008, Kirsty worked with artists including Barby Asante, Kathrin Böhm, Subodh Gupta, Jim Lambie and Eva Rothschild, presenting their first solo shows in London.
Kirsty started her curatorial work in the mid-90s in Glasgow as part of the organising committee of Transmission Gallery before joining Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design. She has also independently curated a number of shows with artists including Monster Chetwynd, Karen Kilimnik, Mike Nelson, Thomas Schütte, David Shrigley and Cathy Wilkes.
Having taught extensively, she currently teaches on the MFA Curating course at Goldsmiths, University of London and is the External Examiner for Glasgow School of Art’s MLitt Curatorial Practice Contemporary Art programme. In addition, she is a member of the CVAN London Steering Group and TACO!’s Board.
Natalia Palombo
Natalia has worked across a wide range of exceptional projects and organisations in the creative industries over the last fifteen years as a curator, director and consultant, producing public programmes that place quality production, strong community values and a broad sense of culture at their heart. Natalia directed Deveron Projects between 2021-2024 and is a founding director of Many Studios, an arts organisation in Glasgow, where she also curated an international public programme, The Gallow Gate, from 2015-2021. Natalia currently works freelance and projects include Delineate, an artists book project co-produced with Tiffany Boyle and Kayus Bankole, featuring new work by Alberta Whittle, Tabita Rezaire, Swapnaa Tamhane; and Cumberland Street Station, an ambitious new capital project by Many Studios in The Gorbals, Glasgow. Natalia is also an advisor for Refugee Festival Scotland (Scottish Refugee Council).
Over the last 15 years, Natalia has worked nationally and internationally, leading inspiring art organisations in Scotland, and producing high quality programmes across the UK and internationally, addressing urgent social, cultural and political issues, with a particular focus on the wellbeing of artists, partners, audiences and teams.
She is a Founder and Director of Many Studios, an independent arts organisation in Glasgow, where she developed an international project space, The Gallow Gate, from 2015-2021. The Gallow Gate programme was formed as a platform for artists who are not as visible in Scotland and often the UK, addressing gaps in representation. Through this programme, Natalia commissioned a film by London-based artist Larry Achiampong; commissioned and edited a publication with artist Ndidi Dike with writing from Raisa Kabir, for Glasgow International; and co-curated an exhibition with artists Athi-Patra Ruga and Ayọ̀ Akínwándé for the official programme of the 13th Havana Biennial.
Natalia directed Deveron Projects, Huntly, Scotland between 2021-2024. Natalia's directorship took on the ambitious capital development of Square Deal, upgrading an empty building to state-of-the-art artist studio/accommodation and a bustling community hub in Huntly’s town centre. Her artistic programme extended residencies to work with artists from all over Scotland and around the globe for longer periods of time, enriching the local cultural landscape with new artwork, public events and knowledge exchange and creating collaborative and just conditions for artists to realise high-profile commissions.
Natalia now works freelance. Projects include Delineate, an artists book project co-produced with Tiffany Boyle and Kayus Bankole, featuring new work by Alberta Whittle, Tabita Rezaire, Swapnaa Tamhane, and others, and project development for Cumberland Street Station, an ambitious new capital project by Many Studios in The Gorbals, Glasgow. Natalia is also an advisor for Refugee Week Scotland (Scottish Refugee Council).
Paola Pasino
Paola Pasino is the principal officer for the City Centre Strategy, in the City Centre Regeneration Group at Glasgow City Council, and an URBACT Lead Expert. With a background in architecture and urban design, Paola is dedicated to human centric design and the transformation of cities into vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable urban environments. With over 15 years of experience in local government, Paola has been at the forefront of developing and implementing evidence-based strategies for urban regeneration, economic revitalization, and the pursuit of resilient and sustainable urban futures.
Paola has been a driving force behind the revitalization of city centres, particularly focusing on their recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and their transition towards net-zero emissions.
Paola's academic pursuits centre on the relationship between urban form and the quality of life. Her investigations delve deep into the nexus of health data and placemaking, shedding light on the pivotal role of urban design in shaping the well-being of communities.
