You may well have met her because she's been much out and about the region already, but I'd like to put Catriona Taylor firmly onto writer in the storm blog. Catriona joined DGAA as Literature Development Officer just a month ago. Her working life began in Theatre in Education and then she shifted focus to become a director working for theatres including; Colway Theatre Trust, Royal Court Theatre, London, Lyceum Edinburgh and Tag Theatre Company Glasgow.
After having two children she decided to take a career break as theatre and small children were not compatible. She set up a literary business with her husband Stuart Delves. This was Bloom Reading Holidays which ran reading weeks hosted by professional writers. It was a great experience and one that was enjoyed by many people but unfortunately not one that any money could be made from!
In 2001 she realised a long-held ambition to go to Edinburgh College of Art to study drawing and painting. Since graduating she has exhibited in the Richard Demarco Skateraw Festival Exhbition and work is now held in the Richard Demarco Archive.
Catriona has had work selected for and exhibited in “Reveal – Emerging Artist” Exhbition at Edinburgh printmakers Gallery, New Faces” Leith Gallery, Edinburgh. She had a very successful Artist’s Residency at the National Library of Scotland which culminated in an exhibition “Words Out of Place” inspired by texts and writers’ manuscripts held in the Library, described by Stuart Kelly in Scotland on Sunday as a ”poignant and sotte voce display with more than a hint of Iain Hamilton Finlay about it.”
Catriona has also worked for Rowantree Theatre Company as Director & Designer on “The Journey of Jeannie Deans”, an adaptation of The Heart of Midlothian by Judy Steel
Workshop production March 2007/ Edinburgh Fringe 2007/ Borders Tour Autumn
2007.
Most recently Catriona directed "Hidden Worlds" by Stuart Delves at Oran Mor in February 2008.
