Creative Chit Chat - Dundee

This week I'm joined by Leonie Bell, Director of V&A Dundee. She has had a fascinating career working in many high profile roles across Scotland's creative and cultural sector. We talk through her career, why she deliberately seeks out positions of responsibility, that she may not quite be equipped to deal with and why this is a real positive. From an upbringing in Newport and becoming immersed in pop culture, then a move to study in Glasgow: a city of possibilities with anarchy, artist run spaces and self-organised clubbing. We discuss the role creativity has in her career "Quite often my creative outlets have come with the people I've associated myself with. If I've got any creative skills it's that I can gather and synthesise different bits around me." Collaboration is a real constant in Leonie's career when developing teams, working with communities and delivering projects. From being Programme Director at the Lighthouse at a young age to working on cultural elements of the Olympics and Commonwealth Ga