Team

Irene Kernan is responsible for leading organisational strategy and plans, and for providing leadership for the sector and team to champion Scottish contemporary craft. Irene oversees our programme and operations to ensure we meet our aims and reports directly to the Board.

Stacey Hunter joins the team in December as Craft Scotland’s Creative Director. This new role has been designed to shape high profile, ambitious public events which will connect makers with audiences, and raise the profile of contemporary craft across Scotland and internationally.      

Elaine Findlay ensures the smooth operation of the office and manages digital systems, supporting the delivery of key programmes and helping maintain compliance across the organisation.

Gill Ramsay maintains our financial records and supports the production of the financial reports for the team, Board and funders.  

Ilaria Casini delivers our successful Learning and Engagement programme which includes skills development and mentoring for individuals, sector learning programmes, talks and conferences and national partnership projects. 

Kate Livingstone helps deliver vibrant marketing and PR campaigns, promoting our programme and Scotland’s contemporary craft sector to national and international audiences.  

Kelsey Johnston creates vibrant marketing campaigns to reach existing and new audiences to widen Craft Scotland’s audience for our programme of activity.