Dundee Contemporary Arts adds leading critic and video games founder to board

NANCY DURRANT, KIRSTY GIBSON, ADAM LOCKHART, TOM MILLER and KATE V ROBERTSON will all join the board of Dundee Contemporary Arts, attending their first meeting later this month.

A journalist and broadcaster, Durrant was formerly the culture editor of the Evening Standard and, before that, spent 16 years as an arts writer, critic, and editor at the Times. She is a co-host of the London Theatre Review podcast and hosts the Art Distilled events series at the National Gallery.

Gibson, meanwhile, is a founder member of Dundee-based UK Games Talent and Finance CIC and has extensive experience working in video games development.

Working internationally as a researcher, curator, media archivist, and expert in the preservation, presentation, and re-activation of time-based and media-based art, Lockhart is a lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice at University of Dundee.

DC Thomson’s chief transformation officer, Miller, is a media, publishing, and communications executive, who has also worked with brands including British ELLE.

Robertson, meanwhile, is an artist who has had solo exhibitions at venues including DCA, Talbot Rice Gallery, and Galerie Feinkost in Berlin. She is the co-founder of Sculpture Placement Group and co-runs several circular economy initiatives, including Circular Arts Network and Arts Resource Management Scotland.

STEVE GRIMMOND, chair of DCA, said he was “delighted” with the appointment of the new cohort. “Their skills across a range of subjects will help my fellow trustees and I continue to steer DCA as it works towards ambitious plans for the future, and I look forward to welcoming them to their first meeting later this month,” he said.