What attracted you to this post? The potential to show contemporary art in National Trust for Scotland (NTS) properties across the country. I am also interested in the poet Robert Burns and the wide variety of other collections that the NTS cares for.

These include architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, painter Edward Atkinson Hornel and explorer David Livingstone. I am based at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayrshire, which is close to where I have lived for 22 years.

Qualifications BSc art education, MFA painting, MA museum studies.

Other posts From 1999 until 2014 I was the curator of contemporary art for Glasgow Museums. I was based at the Gallery of Modern Art.