Cut and Paste
Sally Moir
2007
Sally Moir graduated from Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, in 2002, with a BA Hons in Fine Art, then got her Masters of Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2004. She is an independent curator and co-coordinator of many site-specific visual arts/design programmes for non-commercial and commercial gallery spaces, as well as the business community of the North East of Scotland.
Moving back to the North East of Scotland in 2004, Sally became aware of a need for an agency that could support and develop the work of local creative practitioners, and in 2007 started her own curatorial agency, Smart Consultants. Her curatorial investigation Cut and Paste has been implemented throughout Aberdeenshire, at BP Exploration, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University, the Robert Gordon University, the Foyer Restaurant & Gallery and elsewhere. In 2007 she worked with the Past Present Future Craft Practice team at Dundee University to bring to Dundee one of Scotland’s largest craft conferences, New Craft – Future Voices. She was lead curator for the exhibition Future Voices: Celebrating Diversity, which sat alongside the conference, documenting 27 international leading craft practitioners’ and their research projects.
After being selected for a Spark Plug Curators Award in 2007, Sally has developed further related projects for the workplace, the latest being The Creative Art House. This houses five entrepreneurs working within the creative industries. The projects aim is to engage their practice into the workplace through a variety of curated projects thus selling their creativity to the wider business community.
