JEAN Cameron, the former director of the Paisley 2021 City of Culture bid, is to be the new president of the Paisley Art Institute (PAI).
She will be the fourth female president of the organisation since it was established in 1876.
Ms Cameron takes over from the outgoing president, David Sutton, who has held the post for three years.
A new committee has been elected which includes the appointment of two visual artists – Caroline Gormley and Alastair Strachan - as Vice Presidents.
Ms Cameron said: “Paisley Art Institute was established in 1876 for the purpose of the ‘encouragement and promotion of art’.
"As 2018 draws to a close, we enter an unprecedented period of transition due to the closure of Paisley Museum until 2022.
"This ambitious reimagining of the home of Paisley Art Institute’s annual exhibition offers us a timely opportunity to consider our own focus and to reflect on the role that PAI – established back in the 1800s - can play in the 21st century.
"I look forward to working with the PAI membership and our partners to ensure that Paisley Art Institute is as prepared, relevant and ambitious as possible to play a vital role in the Paisley Museum Re-Imagined project and the continued cultural regeneration of Paisley."
Cameron, who is from Paisley, is a creative producer and cultural consultant who has had a 30-year career in the arts.
Ms Cameron led the international strand of Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme and produced Scotland’s national presentation at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
She joined the Board of Directors at National Theatre of Scotland in September 2018 and was a judge for the Paisley Art Institute Annual Open Exhibitions in 2016 and 2017, during which she sponsored four ‘Paisley 2021’ awards for artists.
www.paisleyartinstitute.com
THE PLATFORM venue in Easterhouse, Glasgow, is to stage a Christmas concert featuring Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Sound of Yell, and Wolf.
It will take place on 19 December.
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra is a large improvising ensemble of around 20 musicians from eclectic backgrounds including free improvisation, jazz, classical, folk, pop, experimental music and performance art.
To date they have released six CDs.
Sound of Yell is a project led by Stevie Jones, theatre and film sound designer/composer and prolific collaborator with Arab Strap, Alasdair Roberts and El Hombre Trajeado among many others.
On this occasion, Mr Jones will perform an immersive instrumental solo set using acoustic steel string guitar, tapes, electronics and Moog.
Wolf is the solo project from Kim Moore, former member of indie pop band Zoey Van Goey.
www.platform-online.co.uk
BRAE Editions are to launch The Tiny Talent: Selected Poems by Joan Ure at the CCA in Glasgow on 12 December.
Co-edited by Richie McCaffery and Alistair Peebles, with a foreword by Alasdair Gray, it was published in November by Brae Editions of Orkney.
It will feature readings by Jan McDonald and Richie McCaffery, and takes place in her centenary year.
The publishers say: "Unfairly neglected since her death in 1978, playwright and poet Joan Ure is the fourth and certainly the least well-known of the remarkable and varied group of Scottish literary centenarians celebrated in 2018—the others being WS Graham of Greenock, Muriel Spark of Edinburgh and Margaret Tait of Kirkwall."
Ure's two collections of plays are out of print, and this is the first occasion on which her poetry has appeared between its own covers.
Alasdair Gray, a friend and long-standing supporter is expected to attend the event, as are several others who knew her well.
Publication has been supported with a grant from Creative Scotland.
http://www.cca-glasgow.com
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