Clark Durnion graduated from Heriot Watt University Galashiels Campus with a degree in Woven Textile Design. He went on to work at Edinburgh Tapestry (Dovecot Studios) as a rug designer and maker, and completed a Masters in Multimedia Design at Napier University.

He runs his own business in the property development and construction industry and is completing a Napier University qualification as an Architectural Technologist.

Clark supports social enterprise and the creative sector in the Scottish Borders, and would like to see the Scottish Borders regenerated as a tourist destination and creative makers’ hub.

Susan has enjoyed a varied working life and interests. She graduated with a BA Hons in Medieval Studies from the University of Manchester and then worked in the Netherlands for 7 years in publishing for Time Life and Elsevier Science publishers before moving to Scotland in 1990.

She worked as Export Manager for T C Farries in Dumfries and developed new markets in Japan and the Far East before moving into Economic Development with Dumfries & Galloway Council. She was the creator of Gaelforce in 1997, a cross art form festival across Dumfries & Galloway, which grew to be the largest community arts festival in Scotland. She was the creative producer for Burns Light in 2009, the Creative Mackintosh Festival 2012 – 2014, the first YES ( Yarrow Ettrick Selkirk) Festival and the 2017 Borders Heritage Festival.

She served on the Dumfries & Galloway Local Action Group for the Leader programme 2007 – 2011 and was a trustee of the Booth Scotland, an early pioneer of online and digital ticketing. She is enthusiastic about the potential for cultural tourism in the South of Scotland and has been actively involved in strategic development and fundraising to support such initiatives.

She has been a volunteer trustee for Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival 1997 – 2004 and 2008-11 and Alchemy Film and Arts 2014 -2019 and is currently a trustee of the Saltire Trust and an elected member of the Saltire Society Council and Executive Board.

Caroline is Director of Creative for the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and works with the Scottish creative and cultural industries to innovate with academia. She developed the EFI plan for developing data-driven innovation within the creative industries and works closely with flagship project – Creative Informatics Cluster www.creativeinformatics.org.

Prior to working with the University she was Director of Film, TV, Music, Creative Industries, Skills & Innovation for Creative Scotland, and prior to that she was Director, Scotland & Northern Ireland for the new sector skills association, Creative & Cultural Skills.

Her early creative life included ballet and rhythmic gymnastics, fashion, singing in bands for over 30 years, and photography, becoming a professional photographer in 1999.

She serves on the Board of Architecture & Design Scotland, and for five years has served in a voluntary capacity as Strategic Director and Presenter of the MOVE Summit, Scotland’s Animation and VFX Gathering.

Bridget Khursheed is an information design, content and elearning specialist with extensive experience in agile software documentation development. She is currently Global Head of Documentation at the fintech KAL GmbH. She has qualifications from the University of Oxford in both English and Computing and has recently completed the GCHQ-accredited MSc in Advanced Security and Digital Forensics from Edinburgh Napier University. Bridget pioneered online information use in two key areas in the UK: developing the original intranets at companies including Eurostar and John Laing and for government departments. She also project managed, co-developed and tutored on the University of Oxford's first online undergraduate course for credit. Bridget is both geek and poet: her collection The Last Days of Petrol is available from Shearsman Books. She has been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize and the inaugural Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship, and is a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in poetry.

Coordinator of Writing Fragments, part of the wider Fragments project (a partnership between Historic Scotland and the Hawick Heritage Hub supported with funding from Creative Scotland); participating Creative Practitioner in Bimblebox Art Project, Queensland, Australia; commissions include Scottish Poetry Library Vision 2020 video poem & MacArts New Work. Volunteer roles include Director Of Marketing and Communications Scottish Orienteering Association 2020-2021 and WOC 2024 World Orienteering Championships Bulletin Author 2020 to present.

Artist (studio www.ingepanneels.com) and current Research Fellow Creative Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University. She has worked with leading architects on many public arts projects across the UK (Lloyds TSB, BT, NHS, Museum of Liverpool, local authorities…) and has exhibited internationally.

She is a current Trustee Edinburgh Tool Library (2020-now), former Creative Artist Business Network (CABN) Advocate for Craft (2011_2014), chair Applied Art Scotland (2012-2014), Specialist Advisor Craft Scottish Arts Council (2006-2010), Secretary Scottish Artist Union (2002).

Inge, originally from Belgium, trained at Edinburgh College of Art (BA(Hons) and Masters in Design and has a PhD in Visual Culture from Northumbria University. She taught for many years at the Artist Designer Maker course at National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland. She moved her creative business to the Scottish Borders in 2004 to a purpose-built glass studio. She is parent to kids who attend Selkirk High School.

Mark Timmins MA St Martins RSA YDI

Current: Practicing photographer, moving image
​creator and textile designer Co-founder of award winning “Works+” young people’s employability SCIO, based in the Scottish Borders.

Director of Scottish Borders Chamber of Commerce, Director of Scottish Borders Social Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, Board member of Alchemy Film and Art

Steering Committee, Member of Craft Scotland “MAKE Learn” craft education initiative.

Previously: Head of Fashion and Head of Knitting and Knitwear at Heriot-Watt University School of Textiles and Design Director of “Creative Coathanger” Community Festival of Art and Design. Parent of young person who attended Galashiels Academy.

Jules is a writer and multimedia creative originally from Hawick, currently Artist in Residence with Alchemy Film & Arts. Her plays have won Edinburgh Festival Fringe Firsts and she is under commission to the Lyceum Theatre for a play about women’s rugby. As Associate Playwright for Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland, she ran a Borders-wide playwriting programme and is an inaugural member of Borders Pub Theatre. Jules taught creative writing for 13 years with the Open University, where she co-wrote the MA Creative Writing Script strand and created teaching videos.

Jules has received a Creative Scotland Sustaining Creative Development Award and writing development support from National Theatre of Scotland. Her films have been shown at Alchemy Film Festival and she has held artist residencies at the MoKS Centre for Art as Social Practice, Estonia.

Jules performs as Rebel Cello, and is developing a sustainable business product as Resident Entrepreneur with Creative Informatics, hosted by Marchmont House. Jules has served as CABN Literature Advocate, on the Writers’ Guild Committee, and on the EU LEADER Local Action Group for the Scottish Borders.